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Laura Misch is a South-London born saxophonist, singer-songwriter, electronic producer, and field recordist.
Her forthcoming album ‘Lithic’ is informed by stone, water, lightning and wind, journeying through deep time and into the murky depths of the psyche in the dawn of a new sonic Stone Age. Emerging from a period of listening, experimenting, and sound-gathering in caves, quarries, rock pools and along coastal edges, its layered strata weave field recordings with saxophone, voice, electronics, strings, drones and percussion into a living, breathing ecosystem of sound. Inspired by deep listening practices, eco-acoustics, and geology, ‘Lithic’ considers sound as an ancient material itself, oscillating between motion and stillness, ambience and rhythm, the ancient and the contemporary.
Laura Misch’s 2024 project ‘Sample The Earth’ (included in The Guardian’s ‘Top 10 Contemporary Albums of 2024’) was an acoustic counterpart to her acclaimed debut ‘Sample The Sky’, an ode to care, connection and listening to the natural world. Her debut LP built on her self-produced EPs ‘Playground’ (2017) and ‘Lonely City’(2019), each grounded in collaboration with her South London community.
Misch’s practice extends beyond the studio; she has hosted sound walks, created ambient saxophone “cloud baths” in disused railway rooms and worked with eco-social design studio Holobiont to plant her music back into the environments that inspired it. Her live performances are immersive explorations, from intimate one-woman shows to major festival stages.
She has performed at venues including The Barbican, Berghain Kantine, Melkweg, Paradiso, Vega, the Royal Albert Hall and the Roundhouse, as well as festivals such as Rally, We Out Here, All Points East, Latitude, Womad, Eurosonic, SXSW, Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festival. Her headline show at The Barbican on Friday July 3rd, 2026 will be her most ambitious London performance to date.
Her music has been consistently supported by BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Worldwide FM and NTS. She hosted a BBC Sounds Music Life episode with Suzanne Ciani, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Line of Best Fit, The Wire, Nowness, Loud and Quiet, Crack, The Fader, Wonderland, Clash, NME and The Quietus.
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“A saxophonist, songwriter, and producer, Laura Misch has a real world-building sensibility, with the perfume-esque quality of her compositions taking on an extra-sensory quality.” - Clash Music
“Whether it is the wind-like sound of the saxophone, or the water-like synthesizers, or the earth-like beats, or the fire-like vocals, it is music that is elemental” - Northern Transmissions