Tale

Sontag Shogun is an analog and digital electronics and piano project based in Brooklyn, New York. Their immense debut full- length album, 'Tale', compiles three years worth of composing and directed textural improvising, molded into nine concise musical statements. They have been experimenting with songform and traversing nostalgic emotional territories, quietly honing their craft alongside collaborators across disciplines such as video, film, dance, performance and poetry. Primarily making use of a grand piano, field recordings, tapeloops and digitally treated vocals, the trio has discovered a unique niche that straddles identifiable genre boundaries. Repetitions of phrases, digitally glitched-out melodies, superimposing practice takes with studio takes. Call this album modern classical, ambient, new age, Sontag prefers their own nomenclature: lullanoise. Tale was recorded whilst the three members were living in separate cities (Jesse in Busan and Seoul, Jeremy in London and Ian in Brooklyn); the resulting composite is both by design and by circumstance, a pastiche of aural geography, culture, and the subjective experiences accumulated on their respective sabbaticals. Sontag is already looking forward into the next phase of the band's existence which will include some short film score composition, a choreographic partnership and recomposing lullanoise for percussion and strings.