'Panama Shift' presents a 20-track kaleidoscopic star map inspired by "the euphoric cults, both then and now, that come and go in the vast ritual of night". Bleached keys, devotional synth and driftwood percussion align in minimalist vignettes shaded by tape hiss and field recordings of streams, waves, wind and birds. This album is dedicated to the late Japanese-born American anthropologist Yosihiko H. Sinoto, whose portrait graces the cover.