Laura Naukkarinen, aka Lau Nau is one of the more interesting names in the Finnish music scene – a singer-songwriter, producer and film music composer. Her songs are imbued with a cinematic breadth of vision and her idiosyncratic, finely honed soundworld builds on fragile, spectral otherness. Her fourth album ”HEM. Någonstans” (Fonal records 2015) takes us to the fleeting borderline between contemporary classical and experimental music.

Lau Nau’s first solo albums were released in the US (Locust music 2005 & 2008). She has been touring around world ever since both solo and with her band. Lau Nau has opened for Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Lee Ranaldo in Helsinki on the bands’ kind request, and played dates in New York and San Francisco, Super Deluxe in Tokyo, and Shanghai Expo in China to name a few.

The debut album, ‘Kuutarha’, won acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and Dusted, with The Wire naming the LP in their top 50 albums of 2005, and citing her Philadelphia show of that year amongst “60 concerts that shook the world”. Lau Nau’s third album ‘Valohiukkanen’ (Fonal records 2012), was nominated for a series of prestigious music prizes in Finland like the Teosto prize.

During the past years, Naukkarinen has been composing music for films, theatre, dance and sound installations. She accompanies silent films live and composes music for feature films. Her original music score for Jan Forsström’s feature film ”Princess of Egypt” was nominated for the Jussi movie prize in Finland 2014.

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F. Ampism

The solo experimental and audio-visual project of Paul Wilson, also of Brighton’s freejazz weirdo collective Bolide. He creates swirls of delay and other worldly textures through pedal and electronic manipulation, sometimes aided with projections of his own homemade collage films.

“F.Ampism is the Smerdyakov branch on the Les Baxter family tree, a branch extending into the edges of exotica, where the jungle is unmade and overgrown, 1970s bush, a different sort of rainforest than David Tudor imagined. Exotica as a function becomes unrecognizable.” – Tiny Mix Tapes

Tissø Lake

The music of Tissø Lake (aka. Ian Humberstone) falls neatly into a close knit circle of Edinburgh musicians and songwriters who have been meticulously honing their craft for a number of years, having collaborated and performed with the likes of Rob St. John and Eagleowl and is also the co-founder of the excellent Folklore Tapes. You’ll possibly hear the drawl of Bill Callahan interspersed with abstract background instrumentation via vintage tape delay and guitar. He’ll be joined by Jamie O’Connor of The Wee Rogue on Bass.