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Christmas I & II

by Sunturns

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    Perfect if you've already got a copy of 2011's Christmas album.

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  • Christmas I & II LP
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    Double LP in gatefold sleeve. "Christmas" is released on vinyl for the first time, here on red vinyl, and "Christmas II" appears on white vinyl. Includes download code.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Christmas I & II via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Sunni 03:18
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Would You 04:09
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about

SUNTURNS are a Norwegian super-group devoted to Christmas, featuring members of Making Marks, Moddi, The Little Hands Of Asphalt, Monzano and Einar Stray Orchestra.

The new Sunturns album Christmas II is not a normal Christmas album. Consisting of 10 original Christmas songs and one Ramones cover, five of Oslo’s finest singers, musicians and songwriters join forces once again to portray their take on Christmas. The songs, inspired by everything from My Bloody Valentine to A-ha, sung both English and Norwegian, delves in to Christmas, combined with family fights, death, emptiness, an amateur tennis champion, expensive beer, the axial tilt, shopping malls, nostalgia and forgiveness. Shimmering guitars, snow filled piano lines, gentle strings, springy vocals and dynamic drums - all steady conducted by Sunturns’ very own Sjur Lyseid in the producer’s seat.

While 2011’s debut was full of humorous, festive charm Christmas, Christmas II is a much darker and more adult affair. The bands’ all along gravitas is clear throughout: the sound is more mature, more electric and tighter. Having written none of the songs on the first album, youngest band member Einar Stray can claim credit for half the Christmas II songs, while Ola Innset has successfully written his first Christmas songs in Norwegian.

The album was recorded in the summer of 2015 deep in the woods of Sweden in the legendary Silence Studio, with guest appearances from Ofelia and Hanna of the Einar Stray Orchestra providing string accompaniment.

Sunturns consist of Eivind Almhjell (Psyence Fiction/Monzano), Jørgen Nordby (Moddi/Making Marks),
Sjur Lyseid (The Little Hands Of Asphalt), Ola Innset (Making Marks)
and Einar Stray (Einar Stray Orchestra/Moddi).

The band christened themselves Sunturns, harking back to the pre-Christian celebrations marking the winter solstice; the point the dark Norwegian days start to fall back and give way to the light.
The seasonal band formed back in 2011, under the direction of Oslo based label Spoon Train. They immediately recorded and released their debut album Christmas to rave critics among Norwegian press, and went on tour in Norway and England to spread their somewhat different Christmas gospel. With both serious and humorous songs about many of the holiday’s backsides, the album became a hit record amongst indie fans both in Norway and abroad. The single The Sun Turns was listed on Norwegian radio station NRK P3’s official Christmas list and has been played heavily every December since. Sunturns’ come together once a year for an annual Christmas show in Oslo, and is for many a dear festive tradition.

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released December 4, 2015

CHRISTMAS

Sunturns are Eivind Almhjell, Simen Herning, Ola Innset, Sjur Lyseid, Jørgen Nordby and Einar Stray

Recorded at Six Feet Over, Oslo, Norway in 2011
Produced and mixed by Sjur Lyseid
Originally released by Spoon Train Audio in 2011
Remastered for vinyl by Sjur Lyseid at Six Feet Over in 2015

CHRISTMAS II

Sunturns are Eivind Almhjell, Ola Innset, Sjur Lyseid, Jørgen Nordby and Einar Stray
with Ofelia Ossum & Hanna Furuseth on strings
and Stian Svehagen on tambourine, backing vocals and theremin on The Axial Tilt, appears courtesy of Snertingdal Records

Recorded at Silence Studios, Koppom, Sweden in 2015
Produced by Sjur Lyseid
Mixed by Sjur Lyseid at Six Feet Over, Oslo, Norway
Mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering Studio, Boston, MA

Photographs by Jørgen Nordby, cover artwork by Paul Rains and sleeve design by Tom Ashton

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