Laura is currently mixing the sessions which were recorded at Snape in the Jerwood Kiln Studio at the end of her ten day Aldeburgh Artist Residency. The project has been made possible with the help of the Arts Council of England Lottery Funding, Escalator Music and Aldeburgh Music. The music will be premiered at the 2012 Aldeburgh Festival on June 15th at The Pumphouse in Aldeburgh - the performers are Laura Cannell - recorders (voiceflute and bass)
and Rhodri Davies - harps (concert pedal and lap harps). More details here.
HORSES BRAWL
The new album 'Ruminantia'is currently in production.
Official release will be April 2012. Ruminantia features new re-compositions and improvisations based on medieval, renaissance and traditional folk tunes using extended techniques and performed on recorder, fiddle, hardanger fiddle, Indian harmonium, acoustic bass guitar and acoustic guitar. More details here.
THE HARMONIOUS ASSOCIATION
A new series of concerts divised and programmed by Laura and featuring some of the UK's top baroque performers
including members of The Brook Street Band, Philip Thorby and Laura
Cannell. The inaugural concert will take place on April 20th 2012 in the 19th century Music Room at The Assembly House Norwich, Norfolk.
More details here.
I am a performer and composer based in Norfolk, UK. I run my own record label with distribution and have released four albums on it. I have toured widely throughout the UK and beyond. I explore the space between ancient, improvised and experimental music.
I live on the edge of a field backing onto a wood, and draw inspiration from my surroundings as well as medieval, baroque, cutting edge contemporary and traditional folk music. I research, play, improvise and create new music from fragments, letting an old world breath alongside a new world.
