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Laura improvises on memories, on fragments of notation, stretching time, layering the thoughts and imaginings of universal life experiences. Remembering the impact that small gestures can make to another person's life, never knowing when a shared moment may re-emerge or demand to be somehow activated into sound. “The raw beauty of her melodies glimmer through prickly thickets of stark and dissonant chordal drones” THE WIRE “this music feels ancient, it also feels brutally alive, as if a giant was waking from long slumbers, about to make its way in the world” THE GUARDIAN “an essential work of modern British folk and avant-garde composition.” THE QUIETUS “wherever you happen to be listening to Cannell’s music, you are there, surrounded by trees and the music, with all its hidden intentions, emerging from within its branches.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brawl","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50413691961675,"sku":"2209528","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/laura_cannell_the_rituals_of_1c10a98b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726676192"},{"product_id":"new-christmas-rituals","title":"New Christmas Rituals","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe album features Cannell’s signature Overbow violin and Bosman’s amplified fiddle with rebec bow and bass guitar. 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Cannell calls upon an ancient Lyre that was buried in the epic landscape of the Suffolk Coastline to sound once more. She wakes it from its 14 century long slumber and coaxes It’s shrouded sounds onto her new offering. Cannell delves deep into the history of the lyre, finding a way to bring This ancient instrument back into the landscape it once lived in and into her fold of feral chamber music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 9 track album follows On from Cannell’s 2024 release The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined making the 12th century seem positively modern in terms of Music and lifestyle. Gorse flower dreams. Playing on a copy of the 7th century Sutton Hoo Lyre she takes inspiration from its fragmented remains and the evocative landscape hidden for centuries in plain sight. The staccato of a gut strung lyre-hearpe, The hunting and battle cries of crumhorns and the sense of space evoked on bass recorder present and album With ever present sea mist. 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