Sarah Pagé - "Ephemeris Data"
Photo by Linus Ouellet 99.9999% of the time I'll flee from anything referred to as an "experimental harpist." Seeing the type of music we cover here at If It's Too Loud..., I don't think that would be considered unexpected. But this single from Sarah Pagé is the extremely rare exception. Sure, it's pretty harp music, but while I would find the vast and overwhelming majority to be whatever is past dull, "Ephemeris Data" is impossibly compelling. This isn't music to put on in the background while you get a massage or root canal: This demands to be heard. Harp music is definitively not my area of expertise, so I can't explain why at all. I'll let Sarah Pagé explain the song: " I wanted to create a feeling of stillness within motion with Ephemeris Data. Like looking through the passenger window of a car travelling down the highway. The trees and the landscape eventually become one and it has a hypnotic effect. I’m playing as qui...