Category: Wax Machine

With Lau Ro’s debut solo LP arriving next month, we revisit Wax Machine’s 2023 album, a useful point of reference for the Brighton musician’s forthcoming work. Prior to stepping out under his own name, Ro was already pulling together a wide range of influences into something distinctly his own. Consider this a preview of the road ahead.

Over the course of its first side, Hermit’s Grove answers the question of what a collaboration of Pharoah Sanders, Ian Carr, and Caetano Veloso would sound like. By the time you reach this conclusion, the group launches into a stoney rendition of Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes’s “Canto de Iemanja.”