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Spectacular

by LAL

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1.
Be Gentle 03:14
To steal a glance Of your smile Keeps me going   Knowing I want to love you more   like the dark I am kissed By your touch feeling you All around   Be gentle with me Be gentle with me Be gentle with me Be gentle with me   Will I ever Find you More then just in my heart   Will you open to me   Will you open for me Be gentle with me Be gentle with me Be gentle with me Be gentle with me
2.
We are fine In our trembling In our fear We find moments of release Our silence holds lifetimes of Beauty and bloodshed We find moments of release To Love deeply Honestly Beyond the sorrow That sings softly With the wind They have danced in battles Moved in the chaos of lovers Kissing wounds that close and open We find moments of release
3.
Each Other 02:42
You save me each day With your presence As tiny parts of me Are destroyed Your world surround me Inspires to rejoice Awakens agony Transforming choice   I hope we can guide each other   Lost in your innocence Your smile guides me forward Though your hears broken Your spirit injured You let me touch the truth Buried inside of you That you often forget Is kind and beautiful I hope we can guide each other   Is the most wondrous of dimensions Each person so complex And torn The rips guide us towards Forgiveness As souls beam out starlight
4.
Falling from the sky Into new oceans Violets and blues   Below and all around Racing through the words To get closer to you     Slow down to catch every breath you take From the sky my want it rains And I wake   I know you fool…..   Unspoken but resonating Lifting me from doom Wanting to get to know you Doing it through False proofs Taking me away to new forms To ideas beyond my own   I know you Fool
5.
The worry in your eyes Is just as old as sound Burden and duty pulls us deeper in the ground I grow with moonlight Even though they can’t be mine Urge me to love life So I try to make you smile   My tears run down skin So I pretend its raining To feel alive again I pretend its raining   Saddened by the stress of it all Wounds opening, and closing Hearts breaking Bodies aching And healing Souls breaking   Trying to stay in tune with each other Disconnecting Trying to be good to one another Reconnecting   My tears run down skin So I pretend its raining To feel alive again I pretend its raining
6.
Spectacular 04:12
Travel through my soul And out into the sky Move into different worlds When everything is hard   I go to where I'm called Outside of myself To reach new destinations Become something else   Learning to be spectacular Without reasons We don’t need be everything To each other   And in the quiet of all the noise I find you in by breath Dreaming of better worlds create into existence   The feeling of death Is always by my side I want to be free Of all  rumours and lies So we just search and move with love Reclaiming ours We don’t need to be everything To each other     Though I have the will Ambition isn’t  mine I like am silent , still chaos mixed with fire
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I need to transform My thoughts, body, and soul…. As one changes, the other shifts Until I lose control   To give into love And be with them always Is how I hope to be Knowing I am able to vanquish The hate inside of me     reflect the past without letting it Strangle me hope for the future Allowing for possibilities   Being here In the now With you Is all i care to do

about

What does it mean to embody the politics cultivated in a community? On their 8th album SPECTACULAR, electronic duo LAL, comprised of Rosina Kazi and Nicholas Murray, have crafted a bold testimony on the arc and aftermath of relational transitions, both within ourselves and those we care for, while they’re still in motion.

Written with painstaking attention to emotional detail, the album came to life over time and across geographies — the darkness of Cowichan Bay, B.C and dawn light of their studio in the DIY space Unit 2. Written with proximal distance, Murr would send Kazi “tones,” fragments of intuitive melodies, created while experimenting with a Polyend Tracker. Early in the morning, in order to get ahead of the blaring construction in the area, Kazi would sing overtop and send recordings back, over time creating a reciprocal process of raw sentiments captured without restriction, with a collage of bass and strings layered overtop. 

The result is a project that defers generous space to the voice, splintering and ascending, while encasing it with the support of only essential sonic infrastructure — slices of experimental chamber pop, greyscale minimal techno, and shades of trip hop that’s both pillowy and dense; anthemic and exacting, in order to reproduce an emotional tug of war. It’s an approach to healing through vulnerability that has become the trademark of LAL, yet on this album turns the screw one rotation further — accounting for the bold, liminal space between the dissolution of one iteration of a relationship before the arrival into the next, with patience and care. 

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released November 24, 2023

Be Gentle

Vocals - Rosina Kazi
Viola - Vee-Kai
Synthesizer - Nicholas Murray
Piano - Jonathan Adjemian
Bass - Ian de Souza
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Mix Engineer - Jean Martin
Co-Producer Jean Martin


Moments Of Release

Vocals - Rosina Kazi
Synthesizer - Nicholas Murray
Piano - Jonathan Adjemian
Bass - Ian de Souza
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Mix Engineer - Jean Martin
Background Vocals - Rae Spoon
Background Vocals - Ladan
Co-Producer Jean Martin


Each Other

Vocals - Rosina Kazi
Viola - Vee-Kai
Synthesizer - Nicholas Murray
Piano - Jonathan Adjemian
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Mix Engineer - Jean Martin


I Know You Fool

Vocals - Rosina Kazi
Viola - Vee-Kai
Synthesizer - Nicholas Murray
Piano - Jonathan Adjemian
Bass - Ian de Souza
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Mix Engineer - Jean Martin
Co-Producer Jean Martin


I Pretend It’s Raining

Vocals - Rosina Kazi
Viola - Vee-Kai
Synthesizer - Nicholas Murray
Piano - Jonathan Adjemian
Bass - Ian de Souza
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Mix Engineer - Jean Martin


Spectacular

Vocals - Rosina Kazi
Viola - Vee-Kai
Synthesizer - Nicholas Murray
Piano - Jonathan Adjemian
Bass - Ian de Souza
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Mix Engineer - Jean Martin


The Way

Bass - Ian de Souza
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Co-Producer Jean Martin


To Give Into Love

Vocals - Rosina Kazi
Synthesizer - Nicholas Murray
Piano - Jonathan Adjemian
Bass - Ian de Souza
Producer - Nicholas Murray
Mix Engineer - Jean Martin

OAX075
Coax Records 2023.

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LAL Toronto, Ontario

For over two decades, Polaris Prize longlisted Toronto's downtempo soul saviours electronic duo LAL, comprised of Rosina Kazi and Nicholas Murray, have built a catalogue of silvery, internationally-influenced electronica that insists that the dancefloor remain a place of resistance. ... more

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