LP release Puro Recordings, March 27, 2026. Print of 300 with silk-screened covers.
Cassette release Puro Recordings & Panama-levyt, April 18, 2026. Numbered edition with mixed-media screenprinted J-card, all unique.
1. Altered Landscape (feat. Ismaila Sané)
2. Deep Down
3. Time to Remember
4. Work
5. Play
6. Hide (Reprise)
In an era of hollow simulation, Work and Play arrives as a document of breath, wood, and skin.
Recorded between 2024 and 2025, the album finds Sami Aleksi Keinänen trading the synthesized lo-fi nostalgia of his earlier work for a sprawling, organic live sound. Anchored by the battered resonance of his father's old Landola acoustic guitar, Keinänen leads an expansive eleven-member ensemble — including mainstay Tampere jazz cats, the percussionists of the afrobeat/fusion band Maajo, and a three-piece vocal choir — through six tracks of playful rhythmic explorations.
It's a soulful testament of the power of the collective, where the loose-limbed spirit of jazz meets the rhythmic sensibilities of West African pop and the polished melodies of late-80s sophisti-pop.
2026 Puro Recordings & Panama-levyt MOFO-55
