RECKONINGS, by Laura Cannell & André Bosman

RECKONINGS

by Laura Cannell & André Bosman

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Gavin Hellyer Atmospheric and haunting sounds from this most sublime of duos. A good time for a collaborative effort too as both artists have solo projects in the wings for next year. Favorite track: Through the Plough the Steam Rises.

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1.	Through the Plough the Steam Rises 06:03	buy track
2.	Trails 06:27	buy track
3.	Golden Lanes at Dusk 02:38	buy track
4.	Strands 07:24	buy track
5.	Reckonings 07:11	buy track
6.	Hearth 02:40	buy track

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The first album by violin duo Laura Cannell & André Bosman.

RECKONINGS features 6 tracks that were recorded in single takes in the medieval church of St Andrew’s in Raveningham, Norfolk, UK. A small stone church at the edge of the marshes and reedbeds of East Anglia.

Echoes from Hildegard von Bingen’s 12th century monophonic songs mingle with re-animated and imagined voices of long sleeping Saxons. Calling and responding from opposite sides of the church the duo’s improvisations bring the secular back into the sacred space.

Taking a side step to delve into completely improvised music, Cannell is working with long term collaborator André Bosman for the first recorded outing of their improvising experimental violin duo. Their working method includes spontaneous composition and excursions to seldom visited rural buildings to capture their playing with no planning or shaping of the music beforehand, keeping the music vital and capturing the moment to give listeners the same experience in listening back as the performers. Never in the building for more than half an hour, Reckonings is made up of visits through the seasons with wind rattling, sun burning and snow melting.

Distortion grows from oscillating drones as strings are drawn and stretched, while the wind clatters and thuds on the ancient oak doors, trying to be part of the sound coming from within. Cannell & Bosman’s six improvisations explore two violins, two people, urgent and opposite with an arcane sense of togetherness. The sound of metal and gut-core strings invoked with horsehair bows dart within the white stone walls.

Cannell plays acoustic violin with occasional overbow and Bosman plays violin with a rebec bow and battery powered amplifier. Playing with extended techniques, distortion, feedback and space, they create a unified and untamed music of emotive otherness.

Exploratory British violinist Laura Cannell presents captivating duets with André Bosman, who previously produced her ‘Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth’ album, on a gripping session recorded live inside the 13th century stone walls of Ravingham Church in Norfolk, UK

"BOOMKAT's Review of RECKONINGS
“In wood and marsh and stone we make our reckoning”

Dispatched on Laura’s Brawl Records, ‘Reckonings’ is another prime example of her singularly experimental take on a cross section of ideas absorbed from early medieval music, traditional folk and renaissance and contemporary styles. Coupled with Bosman, she’s clearly an adept collaborator, as her previous works with Mark Fell, Sandro Mussida, Aby Vuillamy, and Rhodri Davies have proven, but we’d take this album as the strongest example of her strengths in union.

Laura plays violin with overbow and baroque bow, while André handles violin with amplifier and Rebec bow. The results are fiercely dissonant in a classic folk sense, as the two operate closely but with differences emerging in their bowing and the extra layer of disruption added by Bosman’s amplifier, which lends a wickedly coruscating bite to proceedings.

It’s definitely not your usual, pretty, cliched neo-classical work at all. There’s a snarling fire to their sound that seems to fulminate in the air, with each player bearing their fangs in a way that’s not aggressive but does connote a sort of slow, considered violence to our ears that’s much more effective than outright aggression. It feels as though they are absorbing and transmuting hundreds of years of hellish imagery and pain from the church itself into these recordings, giving a voice to lost souls."

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released July 13, 2018

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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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