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Artist
Laura Cannell
12+ albums
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about
Laura Cannell is a British composer, fiddler and recorder player. She is the founder member of the innovative folk and early duo Horses Brawl. Playing fiddle, overbowed fiddle, double recorders, sometimes percussion and other rarefied wind instruments, Cannell draws on ancient transcendental and earthly musics. Her sense of space, dynamics and working with acoustics is super sensitive. Whether solo or otherwise she explores the spaces between ancient, traditional and improvised music, often utilising a fragment from a medieval theme to her own end in a manner that embraces the apparitional, historical or the otherworldly. Her seemingly wild side, in such rarefied circles makes her involved yet emotive music really bristle and connect. Cannell’s style has evolved out of long self-taught sessions alongside dedicated training as well employing her very open approach to join the dots with contemporary music makers. Her time in the highly regarded Horses Brawl duo, as well as her Early Music church missions, has formed a musical backbone on which she can now move into new pastures. Her live music show finds her performing improvisations on ‘over-bowed’ fiddle and double-barrelled recorders creating spell-binding new interpretations and breathing new life into lost and forgotten melodies from the 5th – 14th centuries. Cannell’s exquisitely-realised solo album Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth was released in July 2014. Haunting chords move the heavy air of the church as fiddle
top songs
albums
Antiphony of the Trees
Simultaneous Flight Movement
Beneath Swooping Talons
The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined
The Earth With Her Crowns
The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big
HUNTER HUNTRESS HAWKER
THE VISIBLE LIGHT OF OTHER WORLDS
Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth
LYRELYRELYRE
The Medieval Drone Society
The Medieval Drone Society II