SJOD "Love Isn’t Supposed To Hurt" Album Release Show with special guests Haruhi Kobayashi and OMO

Date: Thursday, March 12th, 2026

Doors: 5:00PM to Venue | 7:00PM to Sanctuary

Showtime: 7:30PM

Tickets: Early Bird - $15 (+$4.57 fees, including tax)
General Admission - $20 (+$4.72 fees, including tax)

‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and box office)’ - Credit card only at door

About:

SJOD has been called the preeminent livetronica IDM dark horse of Chicago. A hardware electronic musician in the Chicago zone for the last decade, SJOD has always focused on pushing boundaries in live performance and in improv-focused electronic music. Citing influences from Sun Ra, Aphex Twin, The Grateful Dead, and Alice Coltrane, SJOD brings a cerebral approach to performing electronic music and bringing hardware electronics to life. SJOD is a cofounder of the independent Chicago record label Truth Zone Records, performs in psych-rock band Curls Ultra, and leads his own jamtronica band - SJOD’s Lot Justice - when not performing solo. Love Isn’t Supposed To Hurt is SJOD’s sophomore album and the first time his music has been pressed to vinyl. The album is an ethereal and sentimental approach to an “RnB” influenced take on vocal-focused songs centered on love, spite, and heartbreak. Love Isn't Supposed To Hurt explores themes of the cosmos and finding serenity in a chaotic world while still having the light and humorous touch that SJOD has been known for prior in his music and performances. A run of 100 12" vinyl records is now available for preorder on SJOD's Bandcamp, pressed locally in Chicago, IL at Smashed Plastic Record Pressing.

@SJODOMY (insta/x)

https://www.facebook.com/SJODOMY/ (fb)

https://sjod.neocities.org/ (website)

https://sjodmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sjodomy (bc)

https://soundcloud.com/sjod (sc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTcZtcdQTAU (live performance video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJyj2OZvW4  (the faun music video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pVWv09aJ8(cucumber smoothies music video)

About Haruhi Kobayashi:

Haruhi Kobayashi is a Chicago-based musician and sound artist. Originally from Tokyo, Haruhi began her career as a Japanese-pop singer-songwriter, releasing solo albums and composing for TV and film. Throughout her formative years in the Japanese pop industry, she became interested in the underlying social and emotional connotations and conditions of her own voice and the inextricable ties between one’s voice and their identity. She started to manipulate her voice into unidentifiable sounds, liberating it from its “human” constraints. Her recent body of work navigates the liminal space between the voice and its identity, and the simplicity and joys of songwriting with themes of tradition, love, fear, and humanity. Her work intersects experimental pop, classical composition and avant-garde songwriting through voice, bass, and electronics. She invites audiences to engage with both familiar and unexpected sonic textures.

Haruhi’s debut album ‘Maybe You Should Talk To Someone’ out January 29th via Monastral.

https://haruhikobayashi.com/ (website)

@haruhi_ (instagram)

About OMO:

OMO is an electronic hardware artist from Michigan, opening portals through sound, textures, & grooves!!! Raw & full of energy.

@omo_________omo (instagram)

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Golden Hour at Epiphany:

Stop by Epiphany for our live music series concerts, and be sure to hit Golden Hour before-hand for drinks and lite-bites! Doors open at 5pm Thursday - Saturday for Golden Hour with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials!

Come early to EXPLORE and DISCOVER your own EPIPHANY… our art galleries are open and there is free entertainment before the show!

Please note that outside food or beverages are not permitted in the venue.