Lau Nau - Kuutarha & Nukkuu

Lau Nau is free spirited Finnish artist Laura Naukkarinen. Since the release of her celebrated debut full length Kuutarha on Chicago’s Locust Music in 2005, Lau Nau has enjoyed considerable recognition for her intimate & playful blend of ethnic tinged folk songs with curious & intuitive sounds conjured from familiar and exotic sound sources.

Kuutarha made many year end best of lists and achieved recognition as an “important record” (Dusted), a “tremendously powerful statement” (Brainwashed) that “begs to become many a listener’s point of fixation, source of meditation and object of adoration" (lost at sea). In their 8.0 review, Pitchfork praised lau nau’s unique combination of edginess and warmth on Kuutarha: “(Lau Nau) manages to take a million-and-one risks while keeping things subtle, understated, aesthetically intriguing and emotionally resonant". Stop Smiling magazine praised the album for its ”natural beauty, isolation and mystery” and the Chicago Reader called the album “diverse and exotic, with a dying-campfire vibe” echoing a generally held sentiment among critics and fans alike that with Kuutarha, Lau Nau had tapped into something uniquely foreign yet emotionally rich, vital and rewarding.

In May 2008, Lau Nau’s long awaited follow up, Nukkuu, sees release on Locust. A part of a continuum of sorts, Nukkuu, travels the outer pathways of sound similar to those heard on Kuutarha yet Nukkuu is unavoidably enriched by Lau Nau’s own life changes in the years between the two records. Naukkarinen became a mother and moved her family to Finland’s remote countryside and with new distance and new devotion in life, her musical world underwent its own subtle shifts. The beauty, mystery and daring of her debut are traits that run through the main veins of Nukkuu but there is an almost unavoidable sense of contentedness amidst the tide of musical abstraction that brings the listener one step closer to her interior sound world


1. "Los Mimulla Olim" – 3:53
2. "Kuula" – 4:14
3. "Pläkkikanteletar" – 4:33
4. "Tulkaa" – 5:31
5. "Puuportti Rautaportilta" – 4:09
6. "Johdatttaja Joleen" – 2:48
7. "Hunnun" – 4:38
8. "Kuljen Halki Kuutarhan" – 3:48
9. "Kivi murenee jolla kävelee " – 4:25
10. "Sammiolimnut" – 3:06



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1. "Lue Kartalta" – 4:29
2. "painovoima, valoa" – 5:00
3. "ruususuu" – 4:13
4. "rubiinilasia" – 5:04
5. "lahtolaulu" – 4:41
6. "maapahkinapuu" – 5:58
7. "Mooste" – 1:53
8. "Jouhet" – 4:30
9. "Vuoren laelle" – 4:37



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