Lau Nau Själö – Original Soundtrack

This Lau Nau score is the sixth full original film score for Laura Naukkarinen and the second cooperation between her and Petronella. First one being the Soundtrack to The Land Without God. The pieces are one take live recordings, with some exceptions, as the human voices that are recorded afterwards and a few deliberated cuts. The electroacoustic sound world has been created by modulating the pianist Matti Bye’s playing and tape loops through her modular synthesizer. The richness and the tension of the music is born in the moment.

The sound designer of the film, Janne Laine, has created an aural copy of the island of Själö by weaving the music pieces inside a thick net of field recordings made on location. We hear how the island breathes in the night time, how the morning rises after the fog disappears, how the lamps are lit in an empty field research center that for centuries was a mental hospital for socially transgressive women.

The outcast women were kept there in detention to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the scientists now focus on the surrounding nature at the research center. The space fills up with hidden memories as the invisible archives become alive. Whose stories are remembered and whose are forgotten?

The film premiered in March 2020 at CPH:DOX where it received the Special mention prize.

LAU NAU SJÄLÖ VINYL LP – TRACKLIST:

Side-A
Decennier
Lehdossa
Ixodida
Rakas Sinä
Valemuisto

Side-B
Noctuidae
Tomma stunder
Jäätyneen meren yli
Primula veris
Ön försvinner

LAU NAU SJÄLÖ CREDITS:

Piano modulated live through a modular synthesizer with some post editing.

Laura Naukkarinen: modular synthesizer, Lyra-8, voice, additional field recordings
Matti Bye: piano, cassette tapes
Janne Laine: field recordings, monophonic analog synthesizer
Additional voices and sounds by Lotta Petronella, Anna Röllin, Lotta Mäki, Jasmin Inkinen and Katja Mäkinen
Compositions: Laura Naukkarinen and Matti Bye

Lyrics: Seppo Parkkinen, Lotta Petronella and anonymous.
Arrangements and recording: Laura Naukkarinen, Janne Laine and Matti Bye.
Production: Laura Naukkarinen

Mixing: Janne Laine
Mastering: Sami Sänpäkkilä
Graphic design: Lauri-Matti Parppei
Still photos: Maija Savolainen

Blue/white splash colour vinyl LP is a limited edition of 150 copies sold exclusively at concerts and the Fonal shop.

Cat no: FR-110LP