In 2019, Doğu Çiçekleri – Sven Wunder’s debut – catapulted him unexpectedly to global recognition. The first release on Piano Piano Records, it was recorded with a talented team of local musicians, as well as the aid of the Swedish Arts Council, and a limited edition vinyl run rapidly became a collector’s item, circulated through Stockholm’s Record Mania on word of mouth alone. Retitled Eastern Flowers, and initially distributed by Light in the Attic for the U.S. market, it was swiftly repressed – then repressed again. As Pitchfork remarked, “it’s a testament to Wunder’s vision that he’s created something so self-contained out of such wild ingredients”.
