{"product_id":"2317763","title":"Lau Ro - Lau Ro - Cabana [cd] [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving spent their formative years in Sao 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. \u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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: \u003ci\u003eCabana\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed after the small wood cabin at the bottom of their garden where the album was recorded, \u003ci\u003eCabana\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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, \u003ci\u003e'where the sunshine and joy of my childhood remained untapped.'\u003c\/i\u003e Lau continues: \u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Cabana \u003c\/i\u003ereleases on vinyl LP, CD and digitally on 31st May 2024 via Far Out Recordings.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnde Eu Vou\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssim\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnsolarade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCasinha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiferente\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMidnight Blue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLugar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetamorfose\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420726972801,"sku":"2317763","price":14.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/5065007965566.jpg?v=1750620835","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2317763","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}