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140g Crystal Clear vinyl LP packaged in front of two sturdy double-sided inserts (250gsm and 300g papers). Artwork and design by Studio Bernhardt.

Exclusive to Bandcamp, the first 85 copies include an additional 10.5 x 14.8 cm print, one of a set of four. Screen printed in Berlin by album designer Anna Bernhardt on 200g Daler-Rowney fine grain paper using light green and dark grey metallic inks. 20 random copies include two of the four prints.

The Bandcamp DL of Päiväkahvit includes a bonus 12-minute track recorded live in Portland in 2022 at the Aladdin Theater.

Digital copies of 2022 LP Valo Siroutuu are 'name your price': sontagshogun.bandcamp.com/album/valo-siroutuu-2

Includes digital pre-order of Päiväkahvit. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released. When the trio of Sontag Shogun gathered at Laura Naukkarinen's home on the Finnish island of Kimitoön in the summer of 2019, they had not the slightest inkling that the world was about to change irretrievably with the onset of a long-predicted pandemic the following year. By the time their collaborative album, Valo Siroutuu ("The Light Scatters"), was released nearly two years later, the intimate and reflective nature of the work they had created together had taken on new meaning, resonating powerfully (and quietly) with a world in which the proverbial cracks in the wall only seem to be widening. 



Päiväkahvit completes the story that began with Valo Siroutuu, featuring 9 songs from the original sessions as well as 4 interpretive reworks courtesy of Amulets, Fadi Tabbal, Post-Dukes, and Jeremy Young. Available digitally and in a one-time vinyl pressing of 300 copies, the album flows seamlessly from beginning to end, incorporating field recordings, tape, sublime vocal melodies, and a host of acoustic and electronic instruments. Richly textured and immersive, Päiväkahvit positively crackles with warmth and a sense of creative embrace.



"We invite the listener into the sauna, out to the garden and onto the trampoline, to sit by the water’s edge and to take a coffee in the waning afternoon light, and to stay as long as they like." – Jesse Perlstein

Praise for Valo Siroutuu (2022):

“Bells ring, birds tweet, children play, and all the while, the ocean laps at the corners of the music. How long can the reverie last? As long as the music plays.” – A Closer Listen (Best Ambient EOY 2022)

“One of the year’s most enchanting collaborative records.” – Foxy Digitalis

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