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Simultaneous Flight Movement - Laura Cannell (Brawl010)
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Release Date: 21.10.16
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Brawl Records is proud to present Simultaneous Flight Movement, Laura Cannell’s third solo release which follows her critically acclaimed Beneath Swooping Talons (F&F2015) and Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth (BRAWL2014).

Simultaneous Flight Movement features fourteen tracks and was recorded live in one take inside Southwold Lighthouse in Suffolk, UK. 

A collection of semi-composed semi-improvised pieces from the edge of England which seek to dissolve borders, move away from formal structure and to re-imagine a sonic landscape unrestricted by time or origin. With a background in medieval, traditional and experimental music, Laura explores the spaces between ancient and experimental through improvisation to create new music that is rooted in but not tethered to the past.

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Live Version of The Drowned Sacristan at Cafe Oto September 2015


The Drowned Sacristan Live At Cafe Oto

Nordhalla – Laura Cannell Fiddle Solo improvisation

This piece was improvised and recorded in one take in Covehithe church in January 2016 in preparation for the Mythos of Violins collaboration on the Suffolk coast. Covehithe church is located on the top of a fast eroding cliff  just 250 metres from the shoreline and is a small parish church within the walls of the great medieval church of St Andrew which was ruined during the Civil War.
Covehithe was known in the Domesday book as Nordhalla and is said to be haunted by a white faceless lady dressed in a traditional shroud. I played this piece while thinking about the Mythos of Violins project and how landscape and location affect the sound and outcome. It’s only ever afterwards that the story of the piece emerges, but seems to make sense. By allowing the environment in, it feels as though the haunted nature (whether real or imagined) of the place always seems to emerge through the sound – especially in instant composition or improvised performance.
This is where a sense of folklore and experimentalism come together, for me it’s the unavoidable integration of sounds and surround(ings).

Nordhalla - Laura Cannell

Simultaneous Flight Movement

Winter Saltings - Simultaneous Flight Movement RELEASE DATE: 21.10.16

Interrelation of Diverse Emotions - Simultaneous Flight Movement RELEASE DATE: 21.10.16

Three Stones - Simultaneous Flight Movement RELEASE DATE: 21.10.16

The Sudwulf - Simultaneous Flight Movement RELEASE DATE: 21.10.16

The Happiness of Both Worldes Part 1 - Simultaneous Flight Movement RELEASE DATE: 21.10.16

You Have Departed - Simultaneous Flight Movement RELEASE DATE:21.10.16

Combining traditional and medieval music elements with improvisation, including extended instrumental techniques such as the "deconstructed bow" and double recorders, the artist draws inspiration from the emotional influence of the landscape, animal calls or fragments of liturgical music in order to build a unique form of chamber music that avoids historicism and instead inhabits an imagined territory, combining contemporary and archaic elements.