Laki Mera fell to earth in Glasgow, arriving from outposts around Europe in 2004. Laki Mera is the sum of unique parts. Multi instrumentalist Andrea Gobbi is from Rome. Singer Laura Donnelly is a former member of the car crash that never happened - Rough Trade recording artists, God's Boyfriend. Keyboard duties are shared with Kier Long - a classically trained pianist. Percussion is supplied by Tim Harbinson who learned his trade playing with the likes of Duke Special and Juliet Turner in the fertile Belfast music scene of his youth. Then there's cellist Trevor Helliwell. Trevor's musical sensitivity stands at odds with his hard-living character. His capacity for disorder is legendary. Laki Mera stretch out conventional song structures into epic cinematic feature length soundtracks; lush, classical, percussive, melodic and emotional...<