For today's Bandcamp Day we present a special live recording by Lau Nau, aka Laura Naukkarinen, including several songs from her last solo album Poseidon (Beacon Sound/Fonal, 2017). Previously only available as a cdr on her tour of Japan in 2016, these 8 songs have been remastered and are available digitally and as a deluxe cassette edition of 50 copies. Singing in her native Finnish, Naukkarinen invites the listener into her engaging chambers of observation, using both guitar and keyboards to straddle the line between folk and pop, and between melancholy and a quiet radiance.
Lau Nau, a resident of the island of Kimito in Finland (where this recording was made), is one of the more interesting names in the Finnish contemporary music scene. A composer, music producer and performer whose music is imbued with a cinematic breadth of vision and an idiosyncratic, finely honed sound world. Lau Nau uses both acoustic and electronic instruments, from traditional instruments and singing voice to analog synthesizers and field recordings.
Cassette edition of 50; enclosed in letterpressed 2-color Stumptown deluxe packaging (100% recycled paper). Each cassette includes a Lau Nau sticker.
Recorded live at Röykkälä (Kimito Island, Finland) October 2016.
Remastered by Jason Powers in Portland May 2020.
All songs by Laura... Naukkarinen
except Juokse Sinä Humma (Finnish trad. / Tapio Rautavaara).
Cover art by Udi Salmiaitta / design by ACN.
First released as a Japan tour cdr 2016.
Includes unlimited streaming of Live In Röykkälä
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
supported by 22 fans who also own “Juokse sinä humma”
This hits all the buttons for me - Piano based with big-sky treatments, lots of lower register action, and that certain unsettled quality shared with the best of Budd&Eno's classics. Not that it wears intentional influences in any way by those two artists-this is a totally stand alone future classic of the genre. Thanks to the Artist's and TRS for bringing this to life and letting it go. MIKE GOODSELL
supported by 16 fans who also own “Juokse sinä humma”
Beautiful intimacy has always been something of Sontag Shogun's music, and this new record, thanks to the collaboration with Lau Nau has taken this further. It is possible that the use of lyric and vocals becoming more prominent has encouraged this sense of closeness, but simultaneously the lushous textural layering has continued to remain at the core. As such the record strikes a perfect balance of staying true to Sontag Shogun's previous form whilst also charting new territory. Nujumi
supported by 13 fans who also own “Juokse sinä humma”
Splash! Puzzling shoals pour from lips. Bubbling buoys of song tickling ears with ripples, fuzzy feels, a jacuzzi in your shell-like, an intimate sea of sound. Blissful but not becalmed. Jump in!
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