Welcome to A Year of Lore, TODAY is the release of SEALORE by Laura Cannell no. 1 of 12 Limited Edition signed & numbered CD (100) + DL. SEALORE takes the listener under the sea to the disappeared world of Doggerland. A place which was once covered in a thick layer of ice where people would hunt and forage in the centuries before the ice gradually melted to become the North Sea.

The 4 tracks on SEALORE soundtrack an imagined film, a family, with a daughter, a wild girl who whittles her practice harpoons out of wood and then deer antlers.
The girl, visits us throughout the LORE series, flitting between the two worlds, the ancient land beneath the sea and the world we now live in, the sounds she heard in her stone age childhood are voiced by the layered wood, air, and tensioned strings of violins, cello and recorders all written and performed by Laura.

The music in SEALORE was created with Cannell’s signature yet unplaceable sounds, also flitting between two worlds, her transient music often evokes both the ancient and the contemporary. In the ‘Lore’ series, her signature instruments of overbowed violin and an array of recorders from soprano to great bass are complimented with the addition of octave violin and ‘cello, tapping into deeper resonances. The stories of people and places seem to find their way in to Cannell’s music, so she leans further in to draw them out of the earth, the sea and the landscape and to give a voice to the uncanny and the unseen.