Joan Mitchell made a name for herself in the art world through her large scale paintings featuring gestural, emotionally charged mark making. Working mainly as an abstract-expressionist, her paintings vibrate in her use of color and the movement of brushstrokes across the canvas. Though her paintings appear to be non-objective, as one spends time with them, a sense of depth and space, of place starts to form. “I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me,” she wrote to a friend in 1958, “and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed.”

El Prado, the new album from Portland resident Eli Goldberg’s Ann Annie project, likewise evokes memories of landscapes. Most tracks have simple titles—“the ocean” or “slow river”—while Ann Annie’s Bandcamp bio simply reads,

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