Juho Toivonen's third album navigates memory's fluid terrain through off-key piano, tape loops, and spectral melodies. Featuring Ramo Sinnemäki's trumpet, this Nordic ambient masterwork recalls William Basinski while exploring childhood fragments and imagined futures.

In the expanding universe of contemporary ambient music, few artists navigate the liminal spaces between memory and imagination as sensitively as Juho Toivonen (Free Tala). "Lapsikuninkaan Fanfaari" ("The Child King's Fanfare") is a profound work - simultaneously intimate and expansive - that drifts from forgotten past into uncertain present like remnants of a half-remembered dream.

The faded recollection of a melody, what music might sound like when recalled after years of experiencing silence. An invitation into a world where memory is fluid and music exists as ghostly echo of what once was or could have been. Pure Scandinavian melancholy - essential contemporary ambient.

Ltd x 500 copies with insert.