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We are absolutely pleased and fortunate to be bringing you this beautiful new collaborative effort between the much beloved Finnish electronic artist Lau Nau, and the wonderful Swedish composer and pianist Matti Bye.

Lau Nau and Matti have worked together for many years on a variety of projects. With this new album, Laura’s exceedingly delicate touch with her quietly twinkling and gently humming electronic treatments blend seamlessly with Matti’s softly echoed repetitions on the piano, leading to an overall feeling of peaceful quiet, and timeless mystery.

These 8 gently melancholic and deeply sensitive tracks are a perfect antidote to the stressful times that we all find ourselves in. Let these soothing sounds from the light filled days and nights of the far north soften your cares during these all too dark days.

TRS094 will be available in 3 distinct physical versions, as well as being available on CD and digitally with one extra track.

The Deluxe Limited Edition version in an edition of 75 unique copies comes in an absurdly over-the-top modified, heavyweight recycled chipboard jacket. On the front of each jacket is an archival printed photo on vintage scrapbook paper of a man in the mid 1960’s, plugged into a bank of electrical components that were designed at the time by my father Kennan Herrick.He was an electrical engineer, inventor, neon/kinetic artist and Tesla coil builder. Loosely attached across the bottom of the photo is an actual old printout of signal waves from some obscure measuring device, each one unique. Lau Nau & Matti Bye’s names, and the album title have been typed out on an ancient typewriter and attached to the jacket by hand. 

On the reverse side of each jacket is an assembled collage of sorts, also loosely taped and attached (so be very careful please!), of original hand written papers and diagrams, blueprints, transparencies, schematics, punch cards and artwork designs created by and belonging to Mr. Herrick. These have been somewhat modified by me with hand stamping etc as well. Inside the record jacket comes the 180gm “Icebreaker” colored vinyl in its inner black poly lined sleeve. Attached to each inner sleeve is a colorful hand printed textual picture insert with track titles and credits, and along with the record in the jacket comes a stapled bunch of 3-4 other original technical papers belonging to and written/drawn by my father. Finally…each record jacket is carefully bound with a length of copper electrical wire, and then comes in its own outer poly sleeve. 

My father was also a huge lover of music as well as of electronic “signals” in general…I think he would have no doubt appreciated this album greatly! Thanks to Laura and Matti for humoring my sentiments!

As usual no two copies of this version are alike, and the one that you receive may or may not match the copies pictured.

There is also a standard, 180gm black vinyl version in an edition of 225 copies, which come in a super heavyweight, reverse board printed jacket. There is also a CD version in an edition of 125 copies with one extra track on it. The CD comes in a beautiful, 4 panel color digipak. The design for both these versions were made from scanned, actual vintage wave form printouts, and all the text was laid out one letter at a time using antique Letraset rub on type. 

Also available digitally on our Bandcamp page.

This album will ship the week of October 12th 2020.

More Info about the deluxe packaging and Sound Clips!