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Lau perform 'Torsa' for BalconyTV Dublin
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LAU - TORSA

PRESENTED BY SAABEAH AFORO ADDO

Brilliant musicians, thrilling performers, free-thinking visionaries and all-round good chaps as well...small wonder Lau are regarded as the epicentre of the new folk boom . And they've got shelves groaning with awards, a forest's worth of ecstatic reviews and breathless plaudits from excited audiences in various outposts of the world ringing in their ears to prove it...

Indeed, the republic of Lau-land has acquired almost empirical status as a journey which started with three blokes sitting down to play a few tunes on fiddle, guitar and squeeze-box at a kitchen table in Edinburgh one day in 2004. Lau quickly burst out of the undergrowth into groundbreaking terrain. Since then Lau has not merely become one of the great success stories of the last decade -- and a barometer of the fast-changing and increasingly all-embracing face of British folk music -- it is now a by-word for an exceptionally creative community, inspiring a boldly varied and richly colourful array of offshoot bands and projects wielding daring ideas with a myriad of musical styles and unlikely collaborators. Lau's burgeoning CV now encompasses EPs with the exceptional singer songwriter Karine Polwart and electronica innovator Adem; concerts with everyone from Cream rock legend Jack Bruce to Northern Sinfonia; and an open-minded approach to recording that ranges from their own complex but eminently accessible tune-making to the startling re-working of Dear Prudence included on an all-star re-make of The Beatles' classic White Album (and the De-Luxe edition of Arc Light).

Cue more awards, triumphant tours, a proud catalogue of stomping headline festival appearances, splinter bands and a string of intriguing collaborations that we now find flavouring the new sound of Lau, as revealed on fourth album, Race The Loser. One of those collaborators, ambient electro pioneer Adem -- who worked with Lau on the Ghosts EP with its themes of social migration and refugees -- has certainly encouraged them to explore the potential of technology, resulting in Martin Green now juggling his accordion wizardry with an element of knob-twiddling.

http://www.lau-music.co.uk/

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