Lawaai improvises acoustic stories, triggered by visual, architectonic and textural input. Extracting and deconstructing impressions from the outside world, they reconstruct their own sound universe that breathes and grows like a living organism.
United by a shared interest for acoustic exploration and minimalist aesthetics, the band first met in Copenhagen in 2017. After playing together twice, they recorded a debut album and decided to continue under the name ‘Lawaai’: the Dutch word for noise, and a statement against the systematic classification of sound into noise and music.
After several concerts in Denmark, the recordings got released in March 2018 in the form of a limited edition unlabeled, untitled cassette tape, accompanied by a tour through Belgium, Germany and Poland. The end of the tour was the beginning of a new record. At the Polish Radio Studios in Warsaw, Lawaai recorded new material, to be released as ‘Densities, Forces, Intensities’, in September 2019 on the Polish label Howard Records.