BOW & CREAK, by Laura Cannell

BOW & CREAK

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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.

“I was inspired by the landscape of the Longplayer score, the it’s beautiful never ending image of circles and shapes, combined with the waterscape and surroundings of the lighthouse of where is is housed, it was too hard to resist interpreting in into my own musical language”.

In 2018 Laura was commissioned by one of Sound and Music’s composer-curators, Ella Finer, to respond to artist & musician Jem Finer's 1000 year long composition Longplayer. This was an invitation to compose with and through Longplayer in the experimental lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf. Conversations and visits with Jem and Ella inspired a series of new works by Laura. Some of those works were performed in the lighthouse in October 2018 for four violins and one player. Laura played live while the other parts were played on cassettes of pre-composed parts placed throughout the former Experimental Lighthouse workshop and lamp room of the victorian scientist Michael Faraday.

In a theme of slow moving music, BOW & CREAK has been slowly edging towards release since the original commission in 2018, with more to come. 

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released September 8, 2023

Thanks to Jem Finer, Ella Finer and The Longplayer Trust.

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Brawl Records UK

Brawl Records is an independent UK label est. 2005. It is run by musician Laura Cannell & a small team of magical assistants. Brawl's releases have been reviewed & featured in The Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, The Wire, The Quietus, MOJO, Songlines, Record Collector and more.
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discography

MOUNTAINLORE

Apr 2024
RIVERLORE

Mar 2024
EARTHLORE

Feb 2024
SEALORE

Jan 2024
Midwinter Processionals

Dec 2023
RAVENINGHAM SOUND WALK

Nov 2023
BOW & CREAK

Sep 2023
AMPLIFY THE PURRRSITIVE

Jul 2023
ECHOLOCATION: Resonate From Here

Jun 2023
Destruction Horizon

Apr 2023
NO SOUND IS LOST

Mar 2023
The Dovecote Sessions

Jan 2023
NEW CHRISTMAS RITUALS

Nov 2022
WE LONG TO BE HAUNTED

Sep 2022
UNLOCKING RITUALS

May 2022
Antiphony of the Trees

Mar 2022
DECEMBER SOUNDS

Dec 2021
NOVEMBER SOUNDS

Nov 2021
F E R A L - Autumn - OST to the short film by Daisy Black

Oct 2021
OCTOBER SOUNDS

Oct 2021
SEPTEMBER SOUNDS

Sep 2021
AUGUST SOUNDS

Aug 2021
JULY SOUNDS

Jul 2021
JUNE SOUNDS

Jun 2021
MAY SOUNDS

May 2021
APRIL SOUNDS

Apr 2021
March Sounds

Mar 2021
February Sounds

Feb 2021
January Sounds

Jan 2021
WINTER RITUALS EP

Dec 2020
THESE FERAL LANDS VOLUME 1

Nov 2020
Beneath Swooping Talons

Aug 2020
The Earth With Her Crowns

Jun 2020
BE ONE - The Tallest Tower

Feb 2020
SING AS THE CROW FLIES

Aug 2019
THE SKY UNTUNED

Apr 2019
Carmina Chromatico

Sep 2018
RECKONINGS

Jul 2018
HUNTER HUNTRESS HAWKER

Oct 2017
Simultaneous Flight Movement

Oct 2016
BLACK EARTH REMIXES

Jul 2014
Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth

Jul 2014
Feathered Swing of the Raven

Sep 2012
Ruminantia

Apr 2012

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