Midwinter Processionals, by Laura Cannell

Midwinter Processionals

by Laura Cannell

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This Midwinter release comes in lovely packaging designed by Laura Cannell with a postcard of the album. The photo was taken by Laura in Dunwich Forest in Suffolk in late autumn 2023. With the smell of pine trees and the coconut scent of wild yellow gorse and pine cones crunching underfoot.

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1.	Memories of Stars 05:05	buy track
2.	Sun Processionals 03:44	buy track
3.	Follow the Moonlight til Dawn 03:52	buy track
4.	Echoes in the Cathedral 02:43	buy track
5.	The Bells of Midwinter 02:10	buy track
6.	After the Lamento di Tristano 04:55	buy track
7.	Sing We Now 04:30	buy track

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MIDWINTER PROCESSIONALS is the 8th solo album from the UK based Composer, Performer and Improviser Laura Cannell. It follows her highly acclaimed 2022 release Antiphony of the trees which was in the UK’s official Download Charts top 50 and was entirely created on recorders.

MIDWINTER PROCESSIONALS highlights a new element in Cannell’s sonic world and is performed on violin, overbowed violin, bass recorder, double recorders and synths; for the first time marrying up her love for big resonant spaces and accompanying herself with epic synths through drones, melodies and medieval harmonies.

The 7 tracks on Midwinter Processionals were recorded inside Norwich Cathedral in Norfolk, UK. The melodies were improvised on her violins and recorders before taking the recordings back to her studio in Suffolk. Standing in the centre of the Norwich Cathedral nave with the stone baffled sounds of the city outside, Laura had the 900 year old cathedral all to herself for 2 hours - just enough time to play out the ideas that had been swarming in her head and explore the immense sonorities which swirled up to the 69ft high ornate roof bosses where the beams and vaults of the ceiling meet.

“I wanted to capture the reverb from inside the cathedral and pair it with layers of synths which would evoke my imagined secular processions of midwinter. Alone in the Cathedral I stood slowly turning in the centre of the nave sending every breath and bow in different directions, the long tones bouncing off stained glass, stone walls or disappearing like a rolling sea mist through long isles and around the carved columns and into the transepts.

As with many of my recordings, I went into this without a fixed plan, to see how I felt in the moment. To play, and to trust that I have something to say and find out where the sound wants to go. Can I push through my conflicted feelings of the sacred with the epic and immensely beautiful spaces that exist because of the highly controlled doctrines that these buildings were built around. I have learned not to judge in the moment, but to push through, to keep playing and when I return home I will see what has emerged from my conversations with the space.

As the last of the autumn sun disappeared out of sight over Tombland, a darkness was cast across the centuries old stones that lay worn and marked from the thousands of processions that have taken place in the cathedral. I add my own procession, but it is for outside of this space. A procession to keep us moving forwards. I am not interested in going backwards, recreating the past or staying in one place. I want to make music that I can carry with me into new emotional landscapes and feelings.” Laura Cannell November 2023

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released December 1, 2023

Written recorded and produced by Laura Cannell in September and October 2023.
Published by Mute Song.

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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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