LAU “Live” CD

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2008 BBC Radio 2 folk award for “Best Group”!

‘”Combined sense of musical style, adventure and fun makes them one
of the most exciting new acts in recent years”. – The Telegraph

‘O’Rourke underlined the sheer quality available in this band, with
marvelous, soft toned articulation and apparently endless reserves of
musicality’. – The Scots Herald

“Lau’s ‘Lightweights & Gentlemen’ is Album of the Year” – fROOTS Magazine

Lau is a formidable union of three of the finest and most
innovative exponents of modern traditional music: Kris Drever (guitar
and vocal), Martin Green (piano accordion) and Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle).
Together, their explosive live performances have been generating a
major buzz around the UK folk circuit that has now become a world-wide
party. The summer of 2007 saw them take festivals by storm across
Europe and North-America; the Fall to Japan and Cape Breton. They
kicked off 2008 at the BBC Folk Awards where they gave what was widely
regarded as the performance of the night, went on to win BEST GROUP
award and Bob Hoskins was last seen bowing down to the band proclaiming
`I am not worthy’!

Lau are the product of a highly creative Edinburgh music scene in
which band exchange and stylistic experimentation among musicians is
almost an unspoken creed. Lau have taken a new approach to the folk
scene by writing much of their own material, creating complex and
melodic compositions which change as the emphasis shifts between their
3 instruments; moody or frantic accordion interwoven with driving
fiddle and guitar.

The album, entitled simply Live, captures the excitement of
the band’s live shows and features new material as well as many of the
tracks from their debut album Lightweights and Gentlemen.

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