When I was a young child I have a vivid memory of running through a field with a sense of complete joy and freedom. It was as if each flower and blade of grass was singing to me and I could hear a beautiful song that existed inside the air.

When I remember this experience I don’t desire to go back to my youth, or even romanticize an innocence that I no longer carry. I simply remember a time in my life when I was consciously more connected to the Earth through listening, before the human-centric conditionings of this life set in. It is part of my life’s work to repair this connection inside of myself. I hope that the sounds inside Running in a Field of Flowers communicates at least a sliver of this essential and once passionate love affair between humanity and the Earth, despite the relationship’s current decimation.

The musical structure of Running in a Field of Flowers is symbolic of a journey taken deeper and deeper into ourselves, to a place where we can hear both the earth’s cry and the love without end that is all around and inside us and cannot be destroyed, only forgotten.

– Travis Laplante (2023)