Laura Loriga new album Vever on God Unknown Records

GOD UNKNOWN RECORDS TO RELEASE MESMERISING ALBUM ‘VEVER’ BY LAURA LORIGA ON APRIL 14TH

PRE-ORDER THE VINYL HERE: 

WATCH THE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘BALMAHA’ HERE:

Laura Loriga is a singer, songwriter, composer and pianist from Bologna, who in the last ten years has developed her work between Italy and the United States. Her writing is based on piano, organ and voice, and it is often enriched by other electric and acoustic elements. The result is a series of dark and variegated compositions, whose roots belong to folk and classical tradition as well as to experimentation. 

With her previous project, Mimes of Wine, she has released three records (Apocalypse sets in - Midfinger Records / Warner Chappell, 2009, Memories for the Unseen - Urtovox Records, 2012 and La Maison Verte - Urtovox Records / Accidental Muzik, 2016), performing with her band in numerous concerts including Blue Bird Festival (Vienna), Culture Collide Festival (Los Angeles) and Klang Festival (Marche).

Laura has lived in Los Angeles and then in New York, and both cities, together with Italy, have created a superimposition of influences that have led her writing to develop in a personal direction. From more abstract and classically infused atmospheres, she has gradually moved towards a kind of increased simplicity and rawness, complemented by an ongoing research in her sound palette, currently based on organs as opposed to the acoustic piano she started writing on. Her music is variegated and enriched by an array of acoustic and electric elements (among which drones, nyckelharpa, harmonium), a series of darker ballads sometimes far from song form but invariably led by her rare and striking voice, a compelling force across all the landscapes through which it moves.

‘Vever’, the first album in her name, written in New York between 2018 and 2020, features among others the collaboration of Josh Werner, Otto Hauser, Anni Rossi and Janis Brenner. 

“All the songs were composed while living life in the city day to day, and greatly inspired by the dear people around me and the live performances I was lucky to witness in that period,” explains Laura. “My friends have always been great guides for me from the very moment I moved there, helping me to feel at home and to explore continuously, from bookshops to bars, venues, museums, people’s homes, corner shops, I am unable to tell a story about this record that isn’t strongly rooted in this daily dance (and struggle) and importantly in the human relationships that are to me half of my life. Then, from the exceptional music community that surrounded me, I have tried to learn to be light, humble, to embrace what beauty means to me and enjoy the ride while writing and playing to the fullest, wherever that might take me.”

Today, Laura has released a new video for the captivating track ‘Balmaha’, that she says was inspired by her first trip to Scotland when she visited Balmaha. “The colours, the land and the sky were very different from Brooklyn, where I lived at the time. I wanted to try and express that shifting of light and the clouds moving so quickly towards darkness, along with the atmosphere, going from joy, to peace, to an endless wait (or so it seemed to me). The sounds of multiple organs helped me to do this, and so did Ofir Ganon and Josh Werner’s interventions, which for me really brought to life the idea I had in my mind.”

Watch the video for ‘Balmaha’ HERE:

Besides Mimes of Wine, Laura has collaborated with various other artists, including band Giardini di Mirò and songwriter Jaye Bartell. In recent years, she has also contributed to the writing of a number of soundtracks for film and documentaries, including Shelter, Farewell to Heaven and Lucus a Lucendo: About Carlo Levi (both by Caucasus Factory). In addition, Laura has continued a collaboration for several years with composer Leo Z, with whom she has written a series of pieces including a soundtrack for an installation by painter Nicola Verlato for the Toronto White Night (2016), and a collaboration with producer Adam Moseley and Accidental Entertainment.

‘Vever’ is available to pre-order on vinyl from God Unknown Records at: https://godunknownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vever

Find Laura Loriga online HERE:

Tracklisting:

1. Mimi 

2. Door ajar 

3. Balmaha 

4. Citizens 

5. August bells 

6. Black rose 

7. You who speaks 

8. Passes the flame 

9. The sun rises where it rises