Sarah Pagé & Patrick Graham present Littoral States, a shifting, reciprocal project that explores affinities beyond time, place, tradition and medium. Innovators within multiple, overlapping Montreal music scenes, Pagé and Graham employ a unique array of instruments, including harp, bass koto, percussion, waterphone, hamon and electronics, to evoke abstracted textures from deep within the Anthropocene. The duo’s wordless music carries the listener through a series of heady atmospheres, balancing a sense of urgency with an open-ended reflexivity. Littoral States is rooted in a profound sense of affinity, awe and anguish for the natural world.

Over the last few weeks, we have started the process of removing our music from Spotify. 

It was not a difficult decision, the evidence continues to mount that it’s a company that doesn’t care much about music, musicians or the fragile ecosystem around us. They are an agressive player in the attention economy, without regard to the devaluation of the very thing they distribute: music. 

We put-up with their awful financial structure (which stacks the deck against small, independent artists), their generous support of right-wing media, their embrace of AI junk… and now the head of the company starts pouring his outrageous profits from these affronts into developing war toys.

We hope that the platform will be impoverished by a collective action to leave, so whether you are an artist or a subscriber, we encourage you to do the same.

Thanks to Envision Records for their support.

Littoral States

Out now on envision records

‘Littoral States’ is a shifting, reciprocal project that explores affinities beyond time, place, tradition and medium. Working in collaboration between Montréal, Morin-Heights and Brussels, musicians Sarah Pagé and Patrick Graham, along with visual artist Tamar Kasparian, chart pathways at once elusive and overlapping. Referencing a variety of natural elements and artistic traditions, ‘Littoral States’ endeavours to dissolve boundaries and foreground the incorporeal. Intimacy is defined not by presence/absence, but in knowing and unknowing: as matter etched in air.

LISTEN/ BUY

Sarah Pagé - harp, bass koto, sarangi, electronics
Patrick Graham - percussion, waterphone, hamon, Nano Garden, electronics

All music by Sarah Pagé and Patrick Graham

Recorded at Aeolu Studio and Studio Egg
Mixed by Sarah Pagé
Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering

Produced by Sarah Pagé and Patrick Graham

Artwork by Tamar Kasparian

℗ ©2025 Envision Records 

Special edition

The special edition of ‘Littoral States’ features a unique, handmade collection of prints by Belgian-based artist Tamar Kasparian. Working in close collaboration with musicians Sarah Pagé & Patrick Graham from the inception of the project, Tamar created numerous original works using her mixed media approach. The artworks have been printed on 250 gram paper. The limited edition of 70 copies was crafted by Tamar, book-binder Tatsuya Inuikawa (La Rivière Sèche) and graphic designer Mona Habibizadeh. Each copy was given an individual pencil/ ink personalization and is signed by the artist. 

"Drawing while listening to music is both object and process. Like a dance of the hands, each dynamic, each gesture has its importance. This process is a form of creation that does not place the eye at the center but the hand. There is in this procedure uncontrollability, chance, undisciplined flaws… an eventuality that leaves room for creation.

For the limited edition of Littoral States, each drawing corresponds to one of the pieces of the album and opens a door to another universe linked to the previous one. The form of the booklet, created in collaboration with Tatsuya Inuikawa's La Rivière Sèche bookbinding workshop, reflects this link between each piece by offering multiple combinations of drawings between them." - Tamar Kasparian