Lau Nau is free spirited Finnish artist Laura Naukkarinen. Since the release of her celebrated debut full length Kuutarha on Chicago's Locust Music in 2005, Lau Nau has enjoyed considerable recognition for her intimate & playful blend of ethnic tinged folk songs with curious & intuitive sounds conjured from familiar and exotic sound sources.

As a live performer, Lau Nau has enjoyed opportunities to perform in a wide array of venues from small informal spots like Massachusetts's Montague Bookmill & Westers Gallery on Kemiö Island, Finland to larger spaces like Stockholm's Kulturhuset, New York's Anthology Film Archives, the Contemporary Art Centers in Glasgow, Brussels & Castelló and the Avanto festival in Helsinki. In recent years, her rare and special live shows have earned her a special place among a legion of fans. This was further cemented when a Lau Nau performance during her 2005 North American tour was counted among The Wire magazine's "60 Concerts that shook the world" in its February, 2007 issue.

Naukkarinen has been an active presence in the Finnish underground for the last decade playing in groups like Kiila, Hertta Lussu Ässä, Päivänsäde, Avarus and the Anaksimandros, organizing concerts, publishing a magazine and running a handful of small labels starting with POK and, more recently, the Peippo label.

Her musical activities spread far beyond her recorded work and permeate almost every aspect of her private and public life from her participation in multimedia events to her workshops teaching music to young children throughout Europe. 

Over the past five years, Lau Nau has participated in several spontaneously improvised live film scores to classic avant-garde films including Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera, Christensen's Haxan and Dreyer's La Passion de Joan d'Arc for the Turku Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives (New York) and Bio Rex (Helsinki) and Tromso Stumfilmdager (Norway). In 2007, the improvised score for Haxan was used as the accompanying soundtrack to the Swedish Film Institute's DVD release of this legendary film.

Her music was used in a prestigious Magnum Photo essay "No Whisper, No Sigh" alongside fellow Finnish musicians Islaja, Kuupuu and avant-garde legend John Cage in 2006. In 2008/2009, her music will appear as the backdrop to an exhibition by Japanese photographer Moriyama Daido.

Lau Nau lives with her partner, Antti Tolvi, and their young son Nuutti in the remote countryside on Kemiö island.