Imbolc 2024
January 31, 2024 § Leave a comment
Lá Fhéile Bríde daoibh
I have created a piece of music and poem in honour of Imbolc, Brigid’s Day
The audio is free to download on my Cyclic Self Bandcamp page:
Laura LAIR / Winter Dreaming EP
December 22, 2023 § Leave a comment
In my work as a Sound and Energy healer, I see how intense the time between mid-December and mid-January can be for many. If we look to nature, we can see winter is a time we should be resting but often it’s party season or can be a time of commitments to others.
So I started a series of EPs that aim to encapsulate the feeling of winter and to offer an alternate to the hustle this time can bring.
May this EP, the third in my winter series, bring you a momentary pause; time to reflect and imagine a new future during the long, dark nights of winter…
Wishing you a peaceful and beauty-filled Winter Solstice and rest of 2023.
Le grá, Laura
Laura LAIR / We Call / Out Now
October 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
https://lauralair.bandcamp.com/track/we-call
This is my offering for Samhain, 2023.
Samhain is the time of year that offers us an opportunity to link back to our ancestral line in the past, to link with our future ancestors and to own our place in the Circle that every human is a part of.
May this piece support you however and wherever you live.
Le meas, Laura
Laura LAIR / We Call
October 21, 2023 § Leave a comment
Samhain 2023
I have been engaging with the Celtic calendar since I was a teen. The four cross-quarter days of Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasadh and Samhain were hugely important to my ancestors and continue to be for those of us who acknowledge them- along with the equinoxes and solstices- as a means to be in tune with our changing seasons throughout the year.
Each point on the wheel offers an opportunity to check in with what Nature is physically doing and energetically implying at that time and see how ‘as above, so below’ applies to our mind, body and emotional worlds.
Samhain has always been the most important to me, a time of year when ‘the veil is thin’ and honouring your ancestors is encouraged. A time when nature is shedding leaves, letting go and allowing decay and death to have its time as we move towards the stillness and peace of winter. Falling on the 31st of October, it is from Samhain that the tradition of Halloween has come about, and like all Celtic festivals, it begins at nightfall and goes through the night to the following day.
There’s a lot I can say about Samhain and my own connection to it but I believe I express myself best through music. Each year I make pieces for the points on the calendar and in the last few years have felt moved to share some of them on my Bandcamp. My intention being to draw attention to the seasonal shift, the cycles we all live in and as a collective seem to have forgotten we are unendingly a part of, and to honour my ancestors and lineage to which I feel a deep connection.
‘We Call’ will be available to buy and stream on https://lauralair.bandcamp.com/ on October 31st 2023.
My 2022 Releases
December 31, 2022 § Leave a comment
Wishing you a peaceful New Year, may 2023 bring you all you could wish for and more! 💚
Laura LAIR / Winter Rest EP
December 21, 2022 § Leave a comment
Written in honour of Winter Solstice 2022, may it bring a few minutes of peace and calm to your day
Helena Markos / Angels / LAIR Remix
November 25, 2022 § Leave a comment
I’m honoured to have a remix on the stunning EP ‘Integration’, by the super-talented Helena Markos
As well as writing great music, she is also the woman behind the online electronic music platform and record label Tales of Psychofonia.
The EP is the outcome of a long process that began at the onset of the 2020 pandemic…
“The EP reflects the integration process of painful parts of the self, the shadows. Its creation became a mental sanctuary and an arena for experimentation and exploration in difficult times, when words were not there.” Helena Markos
Release date: 2/12/22
1. Integration
2. Angels
3. Endlessly Submissive
4. Angels – LAIR remix
Pre-order: https://talesopsychofonialabel.bandcamp.com/album/integration-ep-helena-markos-inc-lair-remix
Temple Invisible / Laura LAIR Remix
July 1, 2022 § Leave a comment
My remix of the truly stunning track ‘Over My Feet’ by Temple Invisible is out now. They released their Chiasm EP in May on Bandcamp and now comes the Chiasm Remixes
Check out a beautifully filmed live version of the original:
And my remix: