Numbered cassette edition of 100 enclosed in Stumptown recycled-paper packaging.
Letterpressed by Rx in Portland.
Includes DL code.
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri.
The trio known as Sontag Shogun graces us with a special mini-suite of songs featuring collaborations with Lau Nau and Ora Cogan. From the opening notes of 12-minute ‘Photographs From A Moving Car’, as Laura Naukkarinen sings wistfully over a bed of warbly piano, through the tension underpinning ‘Plaid Lines’, Floréal is an autumnal ode to dying light and receding horizons.
“Sontag Shogun songs are like environments to float through, lost in hushed wonder … The band often seems to be caught in the act of simultaneously disassembling and reassembling its own dreamed-in compositions. To tag along is to drift, to engage Sontag Shogun’s acts of reinvention.” —Pitchfork
Sontag Shogun is Ian Temple, piano; Jesse Perlstein, voice, field recordings, electronics; Jeremy Young, oscillators, tapes, music box.
Floréal is a collection of songs written and recorded all over the temporal and spatial map. “Photographs” and “Floréal” were recorded by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Laura Naukkarinen recorded her own vocals at home in Kimito, Finland. “Plaid lines” was recorded by Sontag Shogun at home in Montreal, QC and Queens, NY, and Ora Cogan’s vocals were captured on tape by Jeremy Young in Amsterdam, NL. “Lament” was recorded by John Hull in Greenwich, CT and assembled by Scott Solter in Durham, NC.
Floréal was mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios in the Hudson Valley, NY. Layout by Andrew Neerman. We’re really proud of this beautiful music that came together under strange and complicated circumstances. Thanks so much for listening.
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Sontag Shogun Floréal t-shirt.
– White ink on black Anvil t-shirt
– Made in Honduras
– Printed in NYC
– Available in S M L XL
Includes unlimited streaming of Floréal
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Splash! Puzzling shoals pour from lips. Bubbling buoys of song tickling ears with ripples, fuzzy feels, a jacuzzi in your shell-like, an intimate sea of sound. Blissful but not becalmed. Jump in!
boogiedroid
Beautiful intimacy has always been something of Sontag Shogun's music, and this new record, thanks to the collaboration with Lau Nau has taken this further. It is possible that the use of lyric and vocals becoming more prominent has encouraged this sense of closeness, but simultaneously the lushous textural layering has continued to remain at the core. As such the record strikes a perfect balance of staying true to Sontag Shogun's previous form whilst also charting new territory. nujumi
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