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Originally released May 1st, 2024
Released exactly one year after Spring on Home Video, The Ephemeral Pond is another album of electronic music. I call it my second-and-a-halfth album, because it came out after Wizard Prison (WizPriz) but is more similar to Spring on Home Video as it is longer and lacks an overarching theme. It was my second album to be released on streaming platforms, since WizPriz was originally a Bandcamp exclusive.
An ephemeral pond is a seasonal body of water that forms in the springtime, so it seemed an apt followup to the prior year's Spring on Home Video. This album continues the legacy of that one with its vernal theme and quirky song titles. Ephemeral ponds are an important habitat for wetland creatures, such as The Giant Frog in the Jungle Dome [Who] Comes to Life to Convene with the Koi, but perhaps not the Lobsters in the Lobby and certainly not an Interstellar Dromedary. If one forms in your wheat field, you may no longer have Trigo Limpio (literally, "clean wheat").
The album cover is a botched 4x5 photo taken—or rather, not taken—with my Nagaoka 4x5, owing to an incident where I accidentally loaded two sheets of film into the developing tank at once (don't ask me how that happened). The resulting image is this abstract, blotchy thing which I scanned out of curiosity and later thought was fitting (once equipped with a green filter) for this album about a transient wetland.