LAL is a Toronto-based collective of musicians representing Uganda, Bangladesh, Barbados, and India featuring vocalist Rosina Kazi, laptop musician Nicholas "Murr" Murray, and bassist Ian de Sousa. The group's sound fuses South-Asian roots, West Indian fruits, and melancholic vocals with jazz and hip hop influences, down tempo grooves, broken soul, and electro. Their song lyrics are socially conscious poetry."LAL Returns with a Passionately Political Sound, and Yuka Introduces Mighty Vocals". Torontoist, By Ryan B. Patrick
History LAL formed in 1998.">>> LAL Find Safety". NOW Toronto, by Benjamin Boles 27 April 2016 The band members, Rosina Kazi and Nicholas "Murr" Murray met while working in the record store HMV basement in the 1990's.
LAL has produced four studio albums, including Corners (2002), and Warm Belly High Power (2004), which was named the best soul album of 2004 by Exclaim!.
LAL have also performed in a variety of festivals and venues across Canada, Europe, and Pakistan. They received support from the Canada Council for the Arts for composing and recording in 2006–2007. LAL's third album is Deportation; the album featured 20 guest artists."Lal The shape-shifting Toronto group finds its focus 14 years in". Now Toronto, by Benjamin Boles 17 May 2012
LAL released the album Find Safety in 2016. LAL announced the release of a new album titled Meteors Could Come Down which released on 6 November 2020.
Discography Corners (1998) Warm Belly High Power (2002) Deportation (2008) Find Safety (2016) Meteors Could Come Down (2020) A Practice of Love (2026)
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