Lau Nau

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  • Years Active: 2000s

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Lau Nau or Laura Naukkarinen, (born 1980) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. She is also a member of free improv and psych folk bands Kiila, Päivänsäde, the Anaksimandros, Avarus, Maailma, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä formed by fellow acid folk singer-songwriters Islaja and Kuupuu.

She's credited as playing anything from "colorful juice glasses" and "witch laugh megaphone" to "beer cans". She played on the 2008 edition of the State-X New Forms Festival.

Lau Nau lives in the Finnish countryside of Kimito island with her husband and two sons.

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The Weird Sisters of Finland

By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor

Jonna Karanka, Merja Kokkonen and Laura Naukkarinen are the Macbeth-ian witches of Finland's experimental folk scene. And just as Shakespeare's crones prophesied Macbeth's fate, these magical and maudlin multi-instrumentalists sound like seers and soothsayers of a new hierarchy of music, rising from out of the nature and nurture of everyday life. Freakier than most any folk in the American underground, the trio has developed a musical syntax all their own. As soloists, they perform and record… more »