Plant Music for Tea Parlours
Release Date: 01 / 02 / 2026
more-than-human future ambient
About
Plant Music for Tea Parlours is a sound project imagined at the intersections of music, science, and technology. Vocals, spoken word, field recordings, and biosonification (turning processes within organisms into music or sound) blend to form an ambient listening experience that could as easily fade to soothing background in a tea or coffeehouse as immerse the listener in a provocative sonic ecosystem. Tracks follow the cycle of a day, based on when data was recorded: beginning in an upbeat, familiar place with songs like Moroccan Mint, gradually morphing to lush dreamscapes of nighttime ecology with Migration of leaves | nyctinasty.
Plant Music for Tea Parlours is exploration — not only in the listening experience, but in the process of creation, and is entirely co-created with the more-than-human realm. From mornings meandering through the forest to late nights in the lab with electrodes attached to an assortment of houseplants and fungi, gathering biodata is an investigation of the surrounding ecology, both grounding and mind-bending.
“Working and improvising with ecology and the more-than-human is an ever evolving collaboration and I think this encapsulates the act of being in a place, existing as a living thing in relation to our environment" (Willow)
The album is released under multi-genre, environmentally and socially activated Agami Records. Proceeds from the release are directed to their Seeds of Light (SOL) Campaign, specifically the Yakum Project, to support Indigenous reforestation, regeneration, and bio-cultural revolution of forest communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Additionally, Willow and Agami has created WoL — a Spotify “artist” to represent the Web of Life that weaves together ecosystems — to credit non-human organisms and the humans, places, and objects with which we all entangle and evolve alongside. Forest Dreaming is the first song released for this initiative, and while royalties may not go directly to the forest the song was created in and with, the Yakum Project is a fitting place to start. Working with Art Now Global, Willow and Agami explore ways to not only give credit, but give back, to the organisms and Earth that co-authored the release through advocating for the rights of non-humans and ecosystems in more-than-human songcraft.
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if i learn to see
the world
i will see through eyes
that are more
than my own.
– from “Entanglement | our roots are Starlight”