Distinguished as early as 2015 by Le Monde, the BBC, FiP Radio and Les Inrocks for her first album Impressions, Laura Perrudin is back with Poisons & Antidotes.Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson at Greenhouse Studio in Reykjavík (Björk, Feist, Camille, Damon Albarn…), this pop UFO flirting with electronica, neo-soul and experimental folk, relies on a unique instrument : an electric chromatic harp. Lending her voice to the sound experimentations she is so fond of, Laura creates a powerful personal universe that wonderfully materializes in her surprising live performances, where she gets to play around with the arsenal of a perfect geek (laptops, sound-effect pedals and multitrack loopers).
Laura Perrudin’s career has been both unusual and eclectic. Brought up on a diet of jazz from childhood, her classical music studies led on to both electronic and traditional music, via soul and hip-hop, through her encounters with innumerable musicians, in her native Brittany, but also in Paris and New York. Her mission is to open up the possibilities of the harp to a richer harmonic language, and it was when harp-maker Philippe Volant custom-built for her a chromatic pedal-less harp with a single row of strings. This innovative instrument has allowed her to give free rein to the sinuous harmonies of her unclassifiable compositions.