Good Morning Jokers

"When it comes to a musical persona, 'modern-day Adam and Eve' isn't a bad choice. If any duo can pull it off, it's the quiescent Mi and L'au. As their lore has it, the former model Mira Romantschuk, who is Finnish, and the French soundtrack musician Laurent Leclere fell in love in Paris a few years back, then moved to a woodland cabin outside Helsinki, where for four years they lived simply, writing spare songs that do more with space and silence than with notes and words. Existing in the same universe as the neo-folker Devendra Banhart, whom Mr. Leclere befriended in the 1990's, they engage an idea of 'North' in ways that connect them with the whispery Canadian singer Julie Doiron and even Sigur Ros of Iceland. But rather than Sigur Ros's grandiose snowy expanses, the landscape these two explore is the space between them, knowable yet unknowable in its dimensions." - New York Times