Witching Hour (CLaudia, 2005)

1 P. Westbourne - Dawn Chorus 12:28
2 Un Ciego - Korogi Gate 3:00
3 Lau Nau - Keskellä Yötä 7:40
4 Tim Coster - Drop Time 4:13
5 Richard Francis - Night Fields: For Johnny Osbourne 8:04
6 Felicity Ford - Midnight Kitchen 8:04
7 Paintings Of Windows - Gilgit 6:57
8 Phil Dadson* - Sleep Trio 14:59

A collection of a wide variety of approaches to Field Recording (all made at night-time); processed computer ambiences, subtle collage, free improvisation with insects singing, contact recordings of rain, silent houses, kitchen activity, exotic holidays and troubled sleeping.
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Lau Nau - Nukkuu (Locust, 2008)

Lau Nau's Kuutarha was one of the first releases from the Finnish underground to reach these shores in decent quantities, thanks to the keen ears of Chicago's Locust Music. Despite the flood of Fonal releases we've been able to get our hands on since, this second album still finds Lau Nau in a world of her own. While comparisons with the likes of Islaaja are guaranteed, Lau Nau's dishevelled songwriting comes from a more openly tuneful, traditional source. Using a variety of ramshackle acoustic instruments, from creaky old guitars to decrepit violins and tape-manipulated music boxes, Lau Nau fashions a blissfully intimate forty minutes of music. At its most simple and elegant, Nukkuu can survive almost exclusively on vocals, with the likes of 'Maapahkinapuu' deriving its entire melodic focus from a one-woman, multitracked choir, while harps and backwards-looping bells quiver and bristle in support. Embarking on a brief foray outside her acoustic comfort zone, Lau Nau lays down some acidic guitar fuzz on 'Lahtolaulu' halfway through the album, functioning as an unusually abrasive palate cleanser. It's on the quietest pieces that you really get a sense of what she does best though: album closer 'Vuoren Laelle' is a lovely, dilapidated lullaby for voice and piano that just about sums up everything that makes this consummately lo-fi, homespun music so special. Highly Recommended.

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