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Lau Ro
Cabana
Far Out Recordings
- Cat No: FARO 244LP
- 2024-07-24
Far Out Recordingsから、素晴らしい一枚。サンパウロ、出身、イタリア、イギリスに渡り活動するノンバイナリーのシンガソングライターLau Ro。、アンビエント・フォーク、トロピカリア、ボサノヴァなどを消化しながら、素晴らしいサウンド・プロダクション。イギリスの音楽こんな個性も産まれています。知らなかった。注目。
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Having spent their formative years in São Paulo Brazil, as a teenager, Lau Ro found themself uprooted from their home. Moving with their family to Europe in search of a better quality of life, their story was like that of many immigrants in the same position. Lau Ro’s parents found work in factories and cleaning jobs, for the first few years in the North of Italy and then in Brighton on England’s Southern coast. “We never managed to visit back home, so my connection to Brazil became largely made up of childhood memories and my fascination with all the 60s and 70s music I could find from there.”
In Brighton, the young non-binary singer and composer would immerse themself amongst the city's vanguard of free-thinking artists and musicians. Lau Ro formed Wax Machine whose prefigurative, psychedelic community provided a glimmer of countercultural hope amid a backdrop of national political decline. From 2020-23, Wax Machine birthed three cult-favourite albums in as many years; indebted in part to their British psychedelic forebears from progressive folk, rock and jazz yore. But the kernel of Lau’s Brazilian sound was already beginning to blossom across Wax Machine’s releases. Now, taking root deeper still, Lau Ro steps forward with their debut album: Cabana.
Named after the small wood cabin at the bottom of their garden where the album was recorded, Cabana is a deeply personal record of memory, self-discovery and imagination. Melancholy and hope combine across ten tracks of dreamy bossa, ambient folk, fuzzy tropicalia and majestic MPB. The music is swathed in masterful string arrangements and trippy electronics in equal part, while Lau Ro’s delicate, yet quietly confident voice takes acerbic aim (in both English and Portuguese) at polluted city life, while dreaming of a utopia, rich with nature and wildlife.
Like the musical equivalent of semantic drift, Lau Ro’s displacement led to the creation of another Brazil. A mythic place in Lau’s soul, as they put it, “where the sunshine and joy of my childhood remained untapped.” Lau continues: “It’s music that might sound as if it came out of a parallel universe Brazil, rather than its modern day landscape. I am nowadays rediscovering Brazil, going back as often as I can and trying to stay connected to these different parts of the world and myself.”
In Brighton, the young non-binary singer and composer would immerse themself amongst the city's vanguard of free-thinking artists and musicians. Lau Ro formed Wax Machine whose prefigurative, psychedelic community provided a glimmer of countercultural hope amid a backdrop of national political decline. From 2020-23, Wax Machine birthed three cult-favourite albums in as many years; indebted in part to their British psychedelic forebears from progressive folk, rock and jazz yore. But the kernel of Lau’s Brazilian sound was already beginning to blossom across Wax Machine’s releases. Now, taking root deeper still, Lau Ro steps forward with their debut album: Cabana.
Named after the small wood cabin at the bottom of their garden where the album was recorded, Cabana is a deeply personal record of memory, self-discovery and imagination. Melancholy and hope combine across ten tracks of dreamy bossa, ambient folk, fuzzy tropicalia and majestic MPB. The music is swathed in masterful string arrangements and trippy electronics in equal part, while Lau Ro’s delicate, yet quietly confident voice takes acerbic aim (in both English and Portuguese) at polluted city life, while dreaming of a utopia, rich with nature and wildlife.
Like the musical equivalent of semantic drift, Lau Ro’s displacement led to the creation of another Brazil. A mythic place in Lau’s soul, as they put it, “where the sunshine and joy of my childhood remained untapped.” Lau continues: “It’s music that might sound as if it came out of a parallel universe Brazil, rather than its modern day landscape. I am nowadays rediscovering Brazil, going back as often as I can and trying to stay connected to these different parts of the world and myself.”
ブライトンのサイケデリックロックバンドWax MachineのLau Roのソロアルバム。ロウファイ、変拍子、時間の感覚が自由さを感じさせるな魔法のような音で幕開けます。アレンジの質の高さ。素晴らしい才能。聴くべき価値のある一枚だと思います。(サイトウ)
以下インフィメーションより引用です。
『ブライトンでは、若いノンバイナリー・シンガーであり作曲家であるラウ・ロは、自由な発想を持つアーティストやミュージシャンが集まるこの街の先鋭たちの中に身を置くことになる。ラウ・ロはワックス・マシーンを結成し、前時代的でサイケデリックなコミュニティは、国の政治的衰退を背景に、カウンターカルチャーの希望の光をもたらした。2020年から23年にかけて、ワックス・マシーンは、プログレッシブ・フォーク、ロック、ジャズで知られるイギリスのサイケデリックな先達の影響も受けながら、カルト的な人気を誇るアルバムを3枚発表した。しかし、ラウのブラジリアン・サウンドの核は、ワックス・マシーンのリリースの中ですでに開花し始めていた。そして今、さらに深く根を張り、ラウ・ロはデビュー・アルバムで一歩を踏み出した
このアルバムがレコーディングされた庭の奥にある小さな木造小屋にちなんで名づけられた『Cabana』は、記憶、自己発見、想像力についての深く個人的な記録である。メランコリーと希望が、ドリーミーなボッサ、アンビエント・フォーク、ファジーなトロピカリア、荘厳なMPBなど10曲にわたって融合している。ラウ・ロの繊細でありながら静かな自信に満ちた歌声は、（英語とポルトガル語の両方で）汚染された都市生活を痛烈に攻撃する一方で、豊かな自然と野生動物に恵まれたユートピアを夢見る。』