While the world shut down in 2020, the Von Hertzen Brothers dispersed. Bassist and keyboard player Jonne, the youngest, remained in Helsinki, frontman/middle brother Mikko went to India (his second home for many years), and guitarist Kie disappeared into the Finnish archipelago with his canoe. Locked away with webs of rock, prog, folk, electronic and pop DNA between them, they wrote music.
Fast forward some months, and Mikko found himself alone at the family cabin in Raseborg, on the southern tip of Finland. As children the Von Hertzens spent long summers here playing in untamed pine and evergreen forests, spotting elk, birds and butterflies, picking
