The musical duo returns to the digital stores one year after the publication of the first single No One Around, an artistic expression that collected the immediate impressions of what would turn into an epochal crisis, and a few months after the release of A Queen With No Head, the second single accompanied by a bewitching video clip in graphic animation that has garnered widespread approval from national and international magazines and radios. Five pieces proposed, of which four originals plus a tribute to one of the great masters of the musical-literary tradition of our times who most influenced the writing of mLau's lyrics: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, elegant, minimal and highly personal electro-folk interpretation of one of Bob Dylan's poetic masterpieces.
The collection is opened by Pinstripe Suit, a piece inspired by a real news story in which the unlikely is intertwined with the cynical cruelty of some aspects of the justice system often hidden from public opinion. It is the story of a young prisoner guilty of a minor crime but who, on the advice of a cellmate, in order to avoid the sentence, decides to fake madness and the diagnosis will lead him to spend about twenty years in a high security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire, falling victim to unlikely but relentless and irreversible medical diagnoses. In an imaginary dialogue between the protagonist of the story and the author of the song, the setting takes on a hellish atmosphere while the calm, the depth of judgment and the subtle irony of the fascinating demon reveal the essence and destiny of a fallen angel.
Blue Boy - Babylon Girl, a song with evocatively erotic and decadent hues, is the story of a tormented, convulsive love, destined to touch the purity of feelings only when the sacrifice of innocence marks the poetic pair of truth and beauty.
To close the circle, the two previously mentioned songs A Queen With No Head and No One Around.
The voice, lyrics and melodies of Maria Laura Ronzoni, teaming up with Massimo Marraccini's rhythmic and harmonic textures, tell of a sound, compositional, musical and literary research of undoubted artistic and cultural value, an attempt to find in beauty a creative response to the profound sense of restlessness, frustration and claustrophobic isolation, a way out of the tangle of an existential condition that sees us human beings, fragile and astonished witnesses of a surreal reality in which we find ourselves alone but inexorably linked to each other and locked up, precisely locked in.

5 - No One Around

4 - A Queen With No Head

3 - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

2 - Blu Boy - Babylon Girl

The musical duo returns to the digital stores one year after the publication of the first single No One Around, an artistic expression that collected the immediate impressions of what would turn into an epochal crisis, and a few months after the release of A Queen With No Head, the second single accompanied by a bewitching video clip in graphic animation that has garnered widespread approval from national and international magazines and radios. Five pieces proposed, of which four originals plus a tribute to one of the great masters of the musical-literary tradition of our times who most influenced the writing of mLau's lyrics: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, elegant, minimal and highly personal electro-folk interpretation of one of Bob Dylan's poetic masterpieces.
The collection is opened by Pinstripe Suit, a piece inspired by a real news story in which the unlikely is intertwined with the cynical cruelty of some aspects of the justice system often hidden from public opinion. It is the story of a young prisoner guilty of a minor crime but who, on the advice of a cellmate, in order to avoid the sentence, decides to fake madness and the diagnosis will lead him to spend about twenty years in a high security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire, falling victim to unlikely but relentless and irreversible medical diagnoses. In an imaginary dialogue between the protagonist of the story and the author of the song, the setting takes on a hellish atmosphere while the calm, the depth of judgment and the subtle irony of the fascinating demon reveal the essence and destiny of a fallen angel.
Blue Boy - Babylon Girl, a song with evocatively erotic and decadent hues, is the story of a tormented, convulsive love, destined to touch the purity of feelings only when the sacrifice of innocence marks the poetic pair of truth and beauty.
To close the circle, the two previously mentioned songs A Queen With No Head and No One Around.
The voice, lyrics and melodies of Maria Laura Ronzoni, teaming up with Massimo Marraccini's rhythmic and harmonic textures, tell of a sound, compositional, musical and literary research of undoubted artistic and cultural value, an attempt to find in beauty a creative response to the profound sense of restlessness, frustration and claustrophobic isolation, a way out of the tangle of an existential condition that sees us human beings, fragile and astonished witnesses of a surreal reality in which we find ourselves alone but inexorably linked to each other and locked up, precisely locked in.

Video clips to "Locked in" available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGNlRRBl4e8QDwGz7mr6CiA

1 - Pinstripe Suit

Lullaby for Wendla Bergmann was originally composed by Maria Laura Ronzoni for a rendition of the theatrical piece Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, a controversial work written in 1891 defined by the author himself “eine Kindertragödie” (a children's tragedy). Wendla is a 13-year-old who discovers love with a boy of her same age and becomes pregnant. Her mother, wanting to hide this shame from their social circles, ends up killing her while planning an abortion with the aid of a doctor.

mLau reworked the song adding the electronic arrangements by Massimo Marraccini. The nursery rhymes, folkish singing is echoed by a dissonant tapestry of sounds, almost martial, a choice made to visualise the contrast between the children's innocence and the violence of adults. In a Tim Burton's style, Lullaby for Wendla Bergmann is an alt-folk goth fable, as Suzanne Vega was remixed by Stereolab.

Song Credits:
Maria Laura Ronzoni: Words and Music, Vocal Arrangements -©I.M.R.O. Ireland
Massimo Marraccini: Arrangements and Production 
Recorded and Mixed at Sound Side Studio –Rome
Distributed by Distrokid

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MLau I Lullaby For Wendla Bergmann

To all our friends and to those listening and supporting the little things we play and sing. I have tried with all my goodwill to write something more cheerful and appropriate for Christmas wishes. We are afraid this is not. Wishing you a sweet, silent and peaceful Christmas ❤. 
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mLau is a musical journey by Massimo Marraccini and Maria Laura Ronzoni.
The duo from Rome are brave pioneers in creating their own visual soundscapes, mixing alternative folk and futuristic electronic, enriched by arty videos. 
 Their background is rooted in alternative folk, post-rock and trip-hop, and their attitude focuses on pure artistic expression without strict rules.  
mLau first two singles No One Around and A Queen With No Head were released in 2020, both paired with short videos in graphic animation that gained attention from national and international websites and radios, followed in 2021 by an EP entitled Locked In, featuring 4 original songs plus a tribute to one of the great masters of the musical-literary tradition of our times who most influenced the writing of mLau ‘s lyrics: Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, an elegant, minimal electro-folk interpretation of Bob Dylan‘s poetic masterpieces. 
  In mLau the voice, lyrics and melodies composed by Maria Laura Ronzoni are enriched by Massimo Marraccini‘s rhythmic and harmonic textures, through research – both musical and literary – for beauty as a creative response and a way out from an existential condition in which we’re fragile and astonished witnesses of a surreal reality. In front of it we find ourselves alone but nevertheless linked to each other and locked up, or better locked in. 
The duo performances are an audio-visual experience rather than a concert, an immersive soundscape created by mLau sounds and avant-garde visual projections.  
After releasing in November ’21 a third video clip for the song Blue Boy – Babylon Girl, mLau concentrated on writing and recording, at Sound Side Studio in Rome, their first full-length, which will include, in addition to the songs from the first EP Locked In, new unreleased songs inspired by literary figures, social themes and dialogic introspection, showing a further developing of their research for a sound in which traditional and futuristic go hand in hand.

PRESS QUOTES:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The aesthetic research and originality of the songs releases a contemporary, futuristic, almost esoteric energy.                                                                                                                                                     Il Popolo del Blues
                                                                                                                                                                       Street and route artists, to be clear, with their baggage of preparation and dedication to the details that make of every creatively crafted process a work of art. Artists who deserve attention.            
Arte Varia

A set of 5 delicious songs that are, to say the least, enchanting. They are songs that move between new age, pop, have slightly electronic elements and that manifest the growth of an aura that develops throughout each track as if the stars were opening before our eyes.  
Roadie Music

mLau roots you to the spot and highlight the diversity of their eclectic alt-folk sound. While intense and creative, each track has something deeper resting just beneath the surface and waiting for you to find it.                                       
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