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June 20, 2025
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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

Tracklist:
  • 1. Sauna Motif I
  • 2. Päiväkahvit
  • 3. Afternoon springs
  • 4. Go north
  • 5. They came in through the front door (Fadi Tabbal Rework)
  • 6. Tropic movements (Amulets Rework)
  • 7. Bottles + birds
  • 8. Sauna Motif II
  • 9. The Vala River (Чудья Жени – Post-Dukes Rework)
  • 10. Badminton on the shore
  • 11. Miten aloittaa
  • 12. A pale view of dem hills (Jeremy Young Rework)
  • 13. Veden yli

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