LARA SOMOGYI ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, A [TIME] PATTERNED, OUT AUGUST 28TH
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE “SOJOURN"
06 MAY 2026 (TORONTO, ON) — Lara Somogyi announces her second album, a [time] patterned, out August 28th via Mercury KX, and shares the lead single/video, “sojourn.” A work rooted in contemporary classical yet reaching far beyond it, a [time] patterned is an intensely human document that reframes time not as a linear experience but as an emotional landscape.
A Juno nominee and artist who pushes the boundaries of her instrument, Somogyi approaches the harp as a vehicle for exploration rather than tradition. Having classical roots from the Royal Academy of Music and awarded an honorary Associate (ARAM) for her innovations in her field, she transverses sonic worlds. Her work spans film, television and collaborative composition, including collaborations with Bonobo, Ólafur Arnalds, the London Symphony Orchestra, and Bat For Lashes, and credits on Spike Lee’s Oscar-nominated Da 5 Bloods, Hans Zimmer’s Blue Planet II featuring Radiohead, and Ari Aster’s Eddington for A24.
Where her debut album established a distinct voice through the harp alone, a [time] patterned begins there but moves outward. Written with producer Cyrus Reynolds, the album was shaped through tape loops, delay and repetition to explore how patterns emerge, dissolve and reform. The process became both technical and deeply personal after the loss of her father, an attempt to examine how time is felt rather than measured: joy is rhythmic, grief has structure, and healing forms patterns.
The first single to be revealed from the album, “sojourn” offers the perfect entry point to the record’s world. Written for harp, strings and electronics, it opens with an extended pedal technique blurring tonality and allowing texture to lead. A melodic thread gradually emerges as the track unfolds, while granular processing fractures and reconfigures time around it, creating a sense of motion that feels fluid and alive. Beneath it, strings provide a subtle architecture, grounding the piece as it shifts from introspection toward something more open and expansive.
Reflecting on the single, Somogyi says, “sojourn opens in the in-between; in that first step forward, tracing a quiet shift toward something open and free,” Somogyi says. “It’s not a beginning, even though it was the first piece I wrote for the record. To me, it feels like an opening to the next chapter.”
Across eleven compositions, a [time] patterned unfolds as a series of sonic environments, described by Somogyi as “rooms” the listener can move through. Field recordings, including birdsong from her birthplace of Kauai, sit alongside string arrangements and textural experimentation, featuring artists Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens) and Clarice Jensen (Max Richter). Influenced in part by architectural theory and the idea of pattern as structure, each piece becomes less a narrative than a form: joy, grief, and growth expressed as evolving systems of sound.
a [time] patterned is a work of curiosity and openness, an exploration of how experience leaves its imprint, and how music can hold and reshape it. The harp remains central, but continually reimagined: stretched through pedals, prepared with objects, and layered into shifting, immersive forms. With this latest release, Somogyi expands her work into new territory, creating a record that is as much about feeling as it is about form, and one that invites the listener to inhabit time on their own terms.
Lara Somogyi will play three headline shows this August and September in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Brooklyn.
a [time] patterned Tracklist
1. fingerprints
2. sojourn
3. mirabel
4 open fields
5 elsewhere
6. overture of
7. highway nocturne 40 ft. Clarice Jensen
8. sitting circle ft. Rob Moose
9. intimacy gradient
10. holding suite
11. alloy IX
Lara Somogyi Live:
Sat. Aug. 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Live at Glass Hill
Wed. Sept. 9 – Chicago, IL @ Constellation
Fri. Sept. 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust