Arkansas Freelance Composer, Author, Independent Artist
United Imaginations Workshops
Arkansas Arts Council Artist in Residence
BIOGRAPHY
Laura Botsford's music spans many genres, from folk-country to pop, rock, jazz, and cinematic soundtracks for three decades. Her blend of genres uniquely meshes in an air of ethereal ambiance that defies gravity, moving, and true to their original roots, yet expanding into innovative musical dimensions.
"I call it my musicality reality, as I love all genres from funk to R&B, jazz, country folk, and cinematic scores. My compositions reflect an ever-evolving blend of all of them. The focus of my compositions is pairing Jazz and Soul into a melting pot of groove-based sounds with crossovers of ambient and classical orchestration. "
She has continued in her music, writing three new musicals,
The Wish Sunflower, Make and Believe, and Within.
Laura began her singing and writing career in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the mid-seventies, performing with the Frank Larrabee band, Harpwind, and solo gigs.
In the early '80s, Laura moved to Arkansas, a rural town where music venues had yet to arrive. She played in private clubs, restaurants, and at private parties. With hope in her heart and a natural, singular drive to keep writing songs, she began having her singer-songwriter songs produced in Nashville. To license those songs, please visit this link.
With her home studio, Laura took to the technology in a renewed rhythmic swirl of innovative discovery and began composing instrumental albums and EPs. Her first release was Wishing Wall, followed by Prince of Peace in 2013. Aquarium Funk and Poet Streets in 2015 and 2016
The back catalog of her songs is prolific with an avant-garde
Mixology that charts new ground and paves new pipes. The Ambient voices in the ethereal scores most assuredly surprise and often transcend the listener with their unpredictable cinematic fusions.
There is an authenticity that is the real deal in her songs, misted in ethereal, dreamy ambiance, soulful in sound, yet sublimely woven in a style that is distinctly her own.
Music ~ Ep
 Aquarium Funk |
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 Remembrance |
 Poet Streets |
 Waterbrook |
 Journey of Fairy Tales |
 Prince of Peace |
 Wishing Wall |