It’s been a busy time in the land of talking, in December I was featured on a couple of excellent BBC Radio shows and I had the pleasure of giving a live talk/podcast recording for The Norfolk Folklore Society in Norwich, and joining the wonderful actor/writers Tim Downie and Just Chubb for their Folklands podcast – Witch Country Part 2.

All the links are below so you can listen at your leisure.

BBC Radio 3 – This Classical Life with Jess Gillam – LISTEN HERE

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BBC 6Music – New Music Fix – Scene Spotlight on Brawl Records – LISTEN HERE

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Folklands Podcast – WITCH COUNTRY Part 2 – LISTEN HERE
Tim Downie and Justin Chubb with guest Laura Cannell

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Norfolk Folklore Society Podcast – Live from The Louis Marchesi in Norwich – LISTEN HERE

It’s Release Day! My new solo album MIDWINTER PROCESSIONALS is OUT NOW!

“The seasonal soundtrack we’ve been craving, ‘Midwinter Processionals’ is another studied mélange of ancient and hypermodern sounds from the peerless Laura Cannell” Boomkat Review

“Internationally acclaimed musician Laura Cannell releases a 30 minute Overbow Violin recording inspired by the 1000 year long composition Longplayer by Jem Finer (Artist, Composer and one of the founders of The Pogues). BOW & CREAK was recorded in a single take at Cannell’s Suffolk studio and the name was inspired by the corner of the Thames where the snaking tidal river meets one of London’s oldest navigational waterways in the country, Bow Creek, this is where Finer’s Longplayer has been installed since 31 December 1999, playing without repetition. 

Cannell used a snapshot of Finer’s ever changing Longplayer score to create a longform violin track. Circular bowing motions on her violin are made with a deconstructed bass viol bow to play polyphonic chords, and improvised melodic passages are re-iterated with asymmetric repetitions which are combined with ancient tune fragments and the ghosts medieval and renaissance ornamentation. Captivated by the upturned bell sounds of the Longplayer singing bowls, Cannell used fragments of structure, fragments of note shapes and the circulatory image of Jem Finer’s original score to create a mini violin response to Longplayer.” 

“The music on Echolocation is tied together by a powerful sense of landscape and place. It is meditative and thoughtful, often drifting into a dreamlike state.”
THE QUIETUS – Read the FULL REVIEW HERE 

“Created in collaboration with like minds… the results are wonderful… dive in and let this inhabit your home.”
THE WIRE Magazine JULY 2023