Edited and designed by book artist Thad Higa, It Billows Up is an art book created as a companion to the eponymous record by Sontag Shogun. Thad & Sontag asked artists to generate image and text in response to sections of the album. Thad then collaged these submissions using both digital and analogue techniques (cutting, crumpling, typewriting, drawing, etc.) similar to the processes involved in compositions of the album itself. The book’s form and materials (vellum, Japanese stab binding, risograph) also speaks to the pastiche of disparate materials that when arranged, designed, and bound together creates a landscape.
The book originated as a response to sound and grew into a meditation on listening, on hearing, on humanity and the pains and complications of existence. It is the hope for slowness, attentiveness, care for the environment one dwells in and how our created environs affect and interact with others.
This 40-page limited edition book (only 80 copies!) comes with a digital download of "It Billows Up"inscribed in the book as well as a limited edition numbering.
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Valo Siroutuu [art booklet] by Sontag Shogun x Lau Nau
$10 USD
Digital EP + Ltd. Ed. Dawn Chorus Lithograph Art Print
$29 USD
Valo Siroutuu –
Black Vinyl LP
Sontag Shogun x Lau Nau
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Valo Siroutuu –
Black Vinyl LP + Art Book
Sontag Shogun x Lau Nau
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Flutter & Scrape – CD
$10 USD
It Billows Up – 12" VINYL LP
$20 USD
Patterns For Resonant Space – 12" VINYL LP
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Floréal – C26 CASSETTE
$10 USD
"Tale" Remixed – 12" VINYL EP (Ltd. Ed. White)
$16 USD
LTFI – 10" VINYL EP (Ltd. Ed. Clear)
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The Things We Let Fall Apart / The Thunderswan –
7" VINYL EP
Sontag Shogun x Moskitoo
$10 USD
Silence Is... - TOTE BAG
$15 USD
"tale" – CD
$10 USD
2015, NYC – C50 CASSETTE
$8 USD
LTFI – C50 CASSETTE
$8 USD
3x CD BUNDLE
$25 USD
2x CD BUNDLE
$17 USD
Japan Import - 3x CD BUNDLE
$35 USD
Japan Import - 2x CD BUNDLE
$25 USD
It Billows Up – 12" VINYL LP + ART BOOK BUNDLE
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3x CASSETTE TAPE BUNDLE
$22 USD
Absent Warrior, Abandoned Battlefield – Limited Edition CD
$8 USD
Tour Posters - RISO PRINT
$10 USD
Floréal - T-SHIRT
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Kitty Swag - T-SHIRT
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Reely Greyt - T-SHIRT
$15 USD
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