{"product_id":"lau-ro-cabana-cd","title":"Lau Ro - Cabana [CD]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Digipak CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: FARO244CD \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5065007965566\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 07 Jun 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Latin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHaving 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.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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: Cabana.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNamed 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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, “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.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCabana releases on vinyl LP, CD and digitally on 31st May 2024 via Far Out Recordings.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA1 Onde Eu Vou (First Single 12th April)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA2 Each Day (Third Single 31st May)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA3 Assim\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA4 Ensolarade\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA5 Casinha\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB1 Somewhere\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB2 Diferente\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB3 Midnight Blue\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB4 Lugar (Second Single 3rd May)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB5 Metamorfose\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCredits:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCompositions and arrangements by Lau Ro\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcept Cellos arranged and recorded by George Lloyd-Owen\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLau Ro - Production, vocals, guitars, drums, percussion, piano, keys, bass and flute on ‘Assim’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJamie Broughton - Trumpet and trombone\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIsobel Jones - Flute on ‘Each Day’ and ‘Lugar’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Lloyd-Owen - Cello\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNature sounds recorded by Lau Ro at Serra Da Canastra Brazil, except for rain in ‘Casinha’ recorded at the Cabin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecorded and mixed by Lau Ro at the Cabin, UK\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMastered by Caspar Sutton Jones at Gearbox Records\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhotography by Frances Joy Macgregor Mitchell\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDesign by Alessandro Renaldin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll tracks published by Far Out Music Publishing UK \/ Westbury Music LTD.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpecial thanks to Heidi Westgate, Paulo Zanin, Russ Saunders, Rex Brangwyn and Frances Joy Macgregor Mitchell - all of whom played a crucial part in the creation of this record.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FAR OUT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43481964773532,"sku":"FARO244CD","price":13.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/image004_1_94869578-e127-42e1-bf4c-dc4aab920ecc.jpg?v=1713117152","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/lau-ro-cabana-cd","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}