RIVERLORE, by Laura Cannell

RIVERLORE

by Laura Cannell

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Ron Hogan This month’s Lore EP kicks off with an odd loop, but “The Sirens of Riverlore” puts us back on “familiar” ground, one of the strongest songs in the sequence to date. Still as unsettling as ever. Favorite track: The Sirens of Riverlore.

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1.	On Hollow Heels 04:21	info	buy track
2.	The Sirens of Riverlore 05:35	info	buy track
3.	We Turn Ourselves Around for You 03:29	info	buy track

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RIVERLORE is the third release in the new ‘Year of Lore’ series of 12 EPs by internationally acclaimed composer and performer Laura Cannell. Every month throughout 2024, Laura creates a new release of music to reflect real and imagined ‘Lores’.

The RIVERLORE EP holds a trio of songs which take inspiration from river banks, old work horses - when the plough was still the master, and gives the visceral feeling of air bubbling up from a watery underworld beneath the calm surface.

The violin and bass recorder echo around the river bends, disappearing in the air across flatlands, with nothing in their path except eel grass and reeds, they resonate on and on, until they get to the harbour mouth. Cannell takes anecdotes and proverbs from 18th century folklore collections, the magic of plantlore and through her music imagines and brings to life the ghosts of marsh ponies who still roam the soft watery meadows and banks.

 1. ON HOLLOW HEELS
Bass Recorder, Drum, Voice, Violin

The horses tread on the grassy banks on hollow heels.
They tread the grassy banks
We watch them go, on hollow heels
We take their shoes beneath the waves
Their trails of iron left in mud

2. THE SIRENS OF RIVERLORE - Octave Violin, Recorder & Voice
Low arpeggios on a riverbed of octave violin evoke the sirens call. Wordless they drift from stream to brook to broad, through the new cut, never still, always moving like a rolling sea mist. Sound fills every space but turns and leaves almost as soon as it arrives.

3. WE TURN OURSELVES AROUND FOR YOU - Overbowed Violin
We turn ourselves around for you. Only for love.
The tide and draw of water, through channels and rivers has long been a metaphor for life. The unavoidable ebb and flow of the human condition. The many branches and paths that connect and disconnect us. We don’t know where they all lead but we instinctually keep going. Love is the thing that makes us put in the hard work, the strength we need can be found on the river bank.

ABOUT THE THE SERIES
Riverlore follows Earthlore (February) and Sealore (January).

The stories of people and places seem to find their way in to Cannell’s music, so she leans further in to draw them out of the earth, the sea and the landscape and to give a voice to the uncanny and the unseen.

The music in RIVERLORE was created with Cannell’s signature yet unplaceable sounds, also flitting between two worlds. Her transient music often evokes both the ancient and the contemporary. In the ‘Lore’ series, her instruments of overbowed violin and an array of recorders from soprano to great bass are complimented with the addition of octave violin and ‘cello, and voice tapping into deeper resonances.

Following the release of her latest solo album ‘Midwinter Processionals’ in December 2023 Laura has recently appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 3’s ‘This Classical Life’, she was featured on BBC Radio 6Music’s Scene Sounds, was a guest on the popular folklore podcast ‘Folklands’. One of her compositions ‘The Gatherers’ was re-imagined and performed in a sold out performance at the London Coliseum in a concert curated by broadcaster Elizabeth Alker (BBC Radio 3) and the composer Max Richter. This month also saw the World Premiere of a new commission written for The Marian Consort - 8 part vocal ensemble called “For the Plants that Bind Us”. For a full biography please visit www.lauracannell.com

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released March 29, 2024

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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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