March Sounds, by Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis

March Sounds

by Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis

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Ron Hogan This album is a mood—I really dig how the last two tracks, especially, just sort of creep up behind you and slip into your subconscious. And by you I mean me.

tsandvy I think this is a fantastic year long project. The soulful, echoing music mixed with natural sounds and subtle voices is compelling. Favorite track: Foxglove and Heather.

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1.	Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis - Earthly Unearthly 04:38	buy track
2.	Nocturnal 02:34	buy track
3.	Foxglove and Heather 04:49	buy track
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Brawl Records is proud to present MARCH SOUNDS from UK and Ireland based musicians Laura Cannell and Kate Ellis. Featuring Cannell’s signature evocative overbowed violin and vocals alongside Ellis’s deeply expressive cello and double bass playing.

March Notes:

This month has been a time of heavy contrast, upheaval and exploration. In March Sounds,
Cannell & Ellis present music we never knew we needed. Monolithic changes appear in the the skies, the light is coming closer.

We played together live for the first time…. over the phone. Between a farmed valley in Suffolk and a shed studio near the Essex coast, so close but not allowed out of our immediate areas and restricted from meeting by invisible barriers and county borders.

Nature finds its way in, scrabbling talons remind us that everyday is important and that those who have gone before us have walked where we walk and seen the seasons change. Sometimes it feels as though all the seasons appear in one day, it is the same with our instruments.

“Meeting each other has inspired us to create new music that reflects the optimism, the change and also strangeness which has affected both of our working lives. This project is both a sonic and visual diary, and a long distance call and response capturing a moment in time.” LC & KE 2021

Sleeve Notes: (digital only)

EARTHLY UNEARTHLY
Rooted and light, our thoughts are dreams in a star speckled sky. Breathing motions in the bass and hopeful tears and dancing winds emerge from the ground.

NOCTURNAL
The real life moments have started creeping in to the music, a Little Owl caught in the chimney flue took hours to release after being stuck for a couple of days. Now it begins its day with yelping calls at dusk, and never seems to stray far from the fateful chimney. It’s scrabbling violin talons below sweeping cello wings.

3. FOXGLOVE AND HEATHER  Ancient clans, tribes and rivalling families have always existed, here they are brought to their core, the people are silent but will always be rooted in the plants around us. The plant names were gathered into a song by Laura from a collection about Plant Folklore, these plants represent the clans and the old families.
Roseroot, Deergrass, Foxglove and Heather, Ivy and Alder, and Holly forever.
Bracken, Thistle, and Lovers White Clover. Bramble and Blackthorn, And Ash Eagle Feathers

4. SHADOW DISRUPTED
This piece was created live over the phone. Having still only met once in person and never performed together, we decided to set up our recording studios and press record at the same time. This ideas and tentative listening came through as though tuning in to some distant alien radio station. A station which aired the music your were thinking, live as you imagined it. We disrupted the distance between us by finding a new way to perform together.

All tracks composed, recorded, performed & produced by Laura Cannell - Violin / Overbowed Violin / Voice & Kate Ellis - Cello.

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released March 26, 2021

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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

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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