laura cannell

Laura Cannell launches her new monthly Sound Hoard series with “Echoes of a Swan Bone Flute”, out now on Brawl Records, and accompanied by a Simon Nunn film. Inspired by swan-bone flutes from the 13th–15th centuries displayed at Norwich Castle, she performs on overbow and octave violin, bass recorder and synths.

Laura Cannell’s collaborative new album ‘Echolocation’, featuring Gazelle Twin, Kathryn Tickell, Lori Goldston, Nik Colk Void, Rakhi Singh and Kate Ellis, flows with a language of positivity and experimentation…the results are both refreshing and inspiring.

February Sounds is the latest EP offering from UK and Ireland based musicians Laura Cannell and Kate Ellis and the second EP in their twelve-part series project ‘These Feral Lands – A Year Documented in Sound and Art.’

UK and Ireland based Composer/Performers Laura Cannell and Kate Ellis celebrate the rituals of winter with their new 5 track WINTER RITUALS EP.

In a new collaboration, Laura Cannell is joined by Writer & Comedian Stewart Lee, Ireland based cellist Kate Ellis, Writer & Broadcaster Jennifer Lucy Allan and Musician & Writer Polly Wright.

On her latest album, Laura Cannell seeks to reveal the sounds of the universe that humans do not hear, doing so through a theory of the music of the spheres – The world is de-reified, shown up to be as transient as the experiences we have in it.

We talk to Experimental musician Laura Cannell about her Modern Ritual project…”I now feel that I have found my place and it isn’t a fixed place, but I can bring all of my traditions, study, experience and rituals into the music, playing these pieces of wood, strings and horsehairs that haven’t changed their technology in over a thousand years.”

This week’s show has a strong leftfield and alternative feel to it. Some of the tracks are from albums released on small labels that we love: including Okraina Records, Folklore Tapes, Reverb Worship, Burst & Bloom, Cardinal Fuzz, North Western Recordings and Mega Dodo.

There is something older even than music at the heart of Cannell’s compositions. It is something inexplicable but profoundly beautiful, and it has resulted in another triumphant album.

Cannell’s weird and often eerie choice of instruments, her attention to historical and musical detail, and in particular her improvisational prowess give this remarkable and at times elemental album a personality of its own.