Photo by Léa Taillefer
N NAO, also known as Naomie de Lorimier, is a Montréal-born and based artist. For millions of years, she has explored experimental romance by way of music, performance and video. Her compositions employ an ecofeminist approach inspired by dreams and daily rituals.
Noticed for her magical stage presence, Naomie collaborated with numerous artists including Lou-Adriane Cassidy (notably making a cameo on the celebrated Journal d’un loup-garou), Rau_Ze, Marie-Pierre Arthur, Klô Pelgag, Laurence-Anne, Joni Void, Crabe, Zouz, Jonathan Personne, Lumière, and Bon Enfant. With her project N NAO, she has opened for several artists including Klô Pelgag, Sarah Pagé, Jessica Moss, Ariane Moffatt, Patrick Watson, and Water From Your Eyes, to playing at M for Montreal, and in Paris (FR), Brussels (BE), and Berlin (DE), over the last year, following her appearances at Sled Island (Calgary, AB) and SXSW (Austin, TX) the previous year. Les Inrocks describes her concert as follows: “Between auto-tuned vocal harmonies, electroacoustic loops and ethereal ambient sounds lurking behind the machines, the musician follows in the footsteps of Jenny Hval, while also extending a bridge between [...] Portishead and Aphex Twin’s Drukqs.”
Her sophomore full-length, L’eau et les rêves (March 24th, 2023 via Mothland) re-contextualized traditional singer-songwriter music by aptly blurring the line between electronic and organic sounds. Celebrated by the public and the industry alike, the album made the Long List for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize. “The latest album from Naomie de Lorimier’s aquatic pop outfit taps into the sensation of lucid dreaming to express the grandeur of the natural world.” (FLOOD Magazine) In the Spring of 2024, N NAO returned with Miroir (April 30th, 2024 via Mothland), an EP in the form of a tryptic piece around the themes of witchcraft, secrecy, and spirals. Produced alongside Sylvain Deschamps (Klô Pelgag, Flore Laurentienne, VioleTT Pi), the mini-album was accompanied by a music video shot on film in collaboration with Léa Taillefer, which was selected for Festival Regard’s official competition in 2025.
Nouveau Langage, N NAO’s third full-length—and her second album to be long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize (2025)—was released on January 31st, 2025 via Mothland. On this 10-piece constellation, de Lorimier proposes a romantic science-fiction. Soft and ethereal, intuitive and spontaneous, experimental pop songs mutate and undergo deep metamorphosis: acoustic sources are transformed into electronic sounds, and vice-versa. Bandcamp added the long-player to their Best Albums of Winter 2025 list, also quipping: “[N NAO] strikes a metaphysical balance between acoustic instrumentation and glitchy electronics on her third studio album, with French-language lyrics that invoke the Earth and the cosmos in equal measure. Characterized by slick production and minimalist configurations, Nouveau Langage is a harmonious constellation of New Age ambience, musique concrète, synth ragas, and club influences that toe the line between grounded naturalism and the techno tessellations of a sacred geometry.”
Nouveau Langage, N NAO’s third full-length, was released on January 31st, 2025 via Mothland.
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“The lush opener, “Saison des orages,” is a nearly five-minute track whose shimmering and swelling acoustic strings captivate against elements that are more sparse. The song’s organic and moving soundscape perfectly sets up the album’s transcendent tone.”
“The latest album from Naomie de Lorimier’s aquatic pop outfit taps into the sensation of lucid dreaming to express the grandeur of the natural world.”
“ Her airy voice floats over ethereal synths ”
“With a sound that emerges from the landscape of dreams, N Nao created a sonic exploration of the hidden world that lies beneath the water’s reflection on previous album L’eau et les rêves. Like a magic trick, her music bridges the gap between the knowable and the unforeseen, aiming for a space of transcendence. ”
“[...] excels in making ethereal, delicate soundscapes defined by dreamlike pads and synths, lush echoing vocals, acoustic guitars, synthetic beats and a heavy use of loops”
“Et de révéler une facette fantastique, presque ensorcelante, de sa musique.”
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SHARED STAGE WITH
Klô Pelgag, Water From Your Eyes, Ariane Moffat, Bon Enfant, Myriam Gendron,
Marie-Pierre Arthur, Patrick Watson, Safia Nolin, Kee Avil, Sarah Pagé, Jessica Moss, Joni Void