The Deer are Small and the Rabbits are Big

In the summer of 2022 world renowned cellist Lori Goldston (cellist for Nirvana, Cat Power, David Byrne, Black Cat Orchestra) finally made it over to the UK, travelling to rural Norfolk for a long-delayed session with equally renowned musician Laura Cannell.

The resulting album, The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big was completed in just a few days. It has the ease and energy of some of the best artistic collaborations, capturing the deep resonances and sympathies in their music, which cuts across traditional and improvised playing into luminous realms for instrumental folkloric music.  

On recent albums Lori has played and recorded outdoors, and Laura's back catalogue is defined by its non-traditional recording spaces, which has included churches, lighthouses and shipping containers. For this album, they recorded in the atmospheric vaulted 14th century undercroft of St Olave's Priory in Great Yarmouth, and in the empty aisles at St Andrews church in Raveningham, Lori on cello, Laura on fiddle and singing in invocations that draw on the literal, spiritual and historical resonances of these spaces.