REPRESENTATION
NYC - DREAMLAND
MARGEAUX ELKRIEF &
CHRISTINE CARO
LA - LA MODELS
JESSE SIMON &
ANNA-KATHARINA
NYC - DREAMLAND
MARGEAUX ELKRIEF &
CHRISTINE CARO
LA - LA MODELS
JESSE SIMON &
ANNA-KATHARINA
UK/EU - FREE TRADE AGENCY
JAMES ALDERMAN
OWAIN EVANS
INDIGO SPARKE MAKES MUSIC THE WAY LIGHT MOVES THROUGH WATER ~ SLOWLY, AND WITH EVERYTHING CHANGED BY THE TIME IT REACHES YOU.
BORN IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND NOW BASED BETWEEN THE GOLDEN CANYONS OF CALIFORNIA AND A DEEPLY INTERIOR WORLD OF HER OWN MAKING, SPARKE IS A SINGER-SONGWRITER, WRITER, VISUAL ARTIST, AND MOTHER. HER NAME, DRAWN FROM DUKE ELLINGTON’S “MOOD INDIGO,” ARRIVED AS A KIND OF PREMONITION ~ MELANCHOLY, MOVEMENT, AND MUSIC INTERTWINED.
HER DEBUT ALBUM ECHO (2021), CO-PRODUCED WITH ADRIANNE LENKER (OF BIG THIEF) AND ANDREW SARLO, INTRODUCED A RARE KIND OF PRESENCE ~ ONE THAT HOLDS FRAGILITY AND FEROCITY IN THE SAME BREATH. PITCHFORK DESCRIBED THE RECORD AS “RAPT, THE SILENCES CHARGED… A DARK LITTLE STAR OF INTIMACY AND INTENSITY,” WHILE GORILLA VS. BEAR CALLED IT “ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL… IMPOSSIBLY INTIMATE AND VAST AT ONCE.”
IN 2022, SHE RELEASED HYSTERIA, PRODUCED BY AARON DESSNER (THE NATIONAL, TAYLOR SWIFT, GRACIE ABRAMS), A MORE EXPANSIVE, UNFLINCHING WORK SHAPED BY GRIEF, RUPTURE, AND SURVIVAL. PITCHFORK NAMED IT “A MAGNETIC RECORD THAT CARRIES A RARE AND REFLECTIVE POWER.” IF ECHO WAS A HELD BREATH, HYSTERIA IS THE EXHALE THAT BREAKS SOMETHING OPEN.
BEFORE EITHER RECORD, BOB BOILEN FIRST ENCOUNTERED HER AT SXSW, DRAWN IN BY A SONG TITLE ALONE: THE DAY I DROVE THE CAR AROUND THE BLOCK. HER SUBSEQUENT NPR TINY DESK CONCERT PERFORMANCE AFFIRMED THAT INSTINCT, WITH THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE NOTING HER “GORGEOUS, SUBDUED FOLK… A HAUNTED SPACIOUSNESS BRISTLING WITH HEARTBREAK.”
HER CURRENT WORK TURNS TOWARD SOMETHING BOTH MORE GROUNDED AND MORE LUMINOUS ~ MUSIC SHAPED NOT ONLY BY LONGING, BUT BY PRESENCE. ROOTED IN FOLK YET EXPANDING INTO ATMOSPHERIC, MANTRA-LIKE FORMS, HER SONGS FEEL ELEMENTAL AND LIVED-IN, CARRYING TRACES OF DEVOTION, MOTHERHOOD, AND BECOMING.
SHE IS A MAKER OF THINGS ~ SONGS, SENTENCES, IMAGES, A LIFE OF POETRY.
HER WORK MOVES THE WAY FEELING DOES: ARRIVING QUIETLY, SETTLING DEEP, AND STAYING LONG AFTER YOU EXPECTED.
BORN IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND NOW BASED BETWEEN THE GOLDEN CANYONS OF CALIFORNIA AND A DEEPLY INTERIOR WORLD OF HER OWN MAKING, SPARKE IS A SINGER-SONGWRITER, WRITER, VISUAL ARTIST, AND MOTHER. HER NAME, DRAWN FROM DUKE ELLINGTON’S “MOOD INDIGO,” ARRIVED AS A KIND OF PREMONITION ~ MELANCHOLY, MOVEMENT, AND MUSIC INTERTWINED.
HER DEBUT ALBUM ECHO (2021), CO-PRODUCED WITH ADRIANNE LENKER (OF BIG THIEF) AND ANDREW SARLO, INTRODUCED A RARE KIND OF PRESENCE ~ ONE THAT HOLDS FRAGILITY AND FEROCITY IN THE SAME BREATH. PITCHFORK DESCRIBED THE RECORD AS “RAPT, THE SILENCES CHARGED… A DARK LITTLE STAR OF INTIMACY AND INTENSITY,” WHILE GORILLA VS. BEAR CALLED IT “ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL… IMPOSSIBLY INTIMATE AND VAST AT ONCE.”
IN 2022, SHE RELEASED HYSTERIA, PRODUCED BY AARON DESSNER (THE NATIONAL, TAYLOR SWIFT, GRACIE ABRAMS), A MORE EXPANSIVE, UNFLINCHING WORK SHAPED BY GRIEF, RUPTURE, AND SURVIVAL. PITCHFORK NAMED IT “A MAGNETIC RECORD THAT CARRIES A RARE AND REFLECTIVE POWER.” IF ECHO WAS A HELD BREATH, HYSTERIA IS THE EXHALE THAT BREAKS SOMETHING OPEN.
BEFORE EITHER RECORD, BOB BOILEN FIRST ENCOUNTERED HER AT SXSW, DRAWN IN BY A SONG TITLE ALONE: THE DAY I DROVE THE CAR AROUND THE BLOCK. HER SUBSEQUENT NPR TINY DESK CONCERT PERFORMANCE AFFIRMED THAT INSTINCT, WITH THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE NOTING HER “GORGEOUS, SUBDUED FOLK… A HAUNTED SPACIOUSNESS BRISTLING WITH HEARTBREAK.”
HER CURRENT WORK TURNS TOWARD SOMETHING BOTH MORE GROUNDED AND MORE LUMINOUS ~ MUSIC SHAPED NOT ONLY BY LONGING, BUT BY PRESENCE. ROOTED IN FOLK YET EXPANDING INTO ATMOSPHERIC, MANTRA-LIKE FORMS, HER SONGS FEEL ELEMENTAL AND LIVED-IN, CARRYING TRACES OF DEVOTION, MOTHERHOOD, AND BECOMING.
SHE IS A MAKER OF THINGS ~ SONGS, SENTENCES, IMAGES, A LIFE OF POETRY.
HER WORK MOVES THE WAY FEELING DOES: ARRIVING QUIETLY, SETTLING DEEP, AND STAYING LONG AFTER YOU EXPECTED.