SING AS THE CROW FLIES, by Laura Cannell & Polly Wright

SING AS THE CROW FLIES

by Laura Cannell & Polly Wright

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1.	One For The Rook One For The Crow 02:16	lyrics	buy track
One for the Rook, One for the Crow and Two for the Master.
2.	Help Me To Salt Help Me To Sorrow 03:19		buy track
3.	Sing As The Crow Flies 05:06		buy track
4.	I Was Not Born In A Wood To Be Scared By An Owl 02:12		buy track
5.	Marsh Village Psalms 02:05		buy track
6.	All I Have I Give To Thee 03:43		buy track
7.	Sing As The Crow Flies Lullaby 03:59		buy track
8.	Marshland Banshees 03:02		buy track
9.	Revoicing Hraefns People 04:55		buy track

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SING AS THE CROW FLIES is the debut vocal album by composer/performers Laura Cannell and Polly Wright. Re-voicing the voices of the lost, forgotten and hidden people who have lived, worked and loved through the centuries, through the seasons, through the air and in the Marshlands.

Sing as the Crow Flies is a set of nine vocal tracks re-voicing the rural landscape, surrounding reed beds and marshes on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Growing up either side of the River Yare, with a common love of the area, Laura Cannell & Polly Wright are musicians, composers and creators with deep roots in the marshes and traditions of this rural area. Both having different musical journeys, they discovered each others work in early 2019 through disparate connections and instagram. They met up to improvise, and a friendship and collaboration began. Giving themselves the criteria of using only their voices with no rules or structures. They laid themselves creatively bare and have embarked on a journey of instant composition with space for spontaneous improvisation and as a reaction to the formal training and institutions of their parallel early classical backgrounds.

Frustrated by the lack of women’s voices in the rural landscape writings of East Anglia and further afield the duo decided that if they can’t unearth the voices of the past they can take now as a starting point and add their own voices, the voices and experiences of living and working in rural surroundings in the 21st century, not always harking back but being present now.

The music is created through different means such as heterophonic improvisation akin to the Psalms from the Isles of Lewis, Hildegard von Bingen inspired call and responses and taking words from the 18th century ‘Norfolk Garland, A Collection of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Proverbs, Curious Customs, Ballads and Songs, of the People of Norfolk.’ Together with their own writings and wordless inventions the album is entirely improvised in this brand new collaboration.
Sing As The Crow Flies was created as a site specific sound installation for the 2019 Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, UK. It can be seen and heard between 2nd August and 8th September 2019. The installation sits around the trunk of a 30 year old Walnut Tree in a cherry orchard where five telephone handsets hang from the tree ready to be picked up by passers-by…

“There are voices at the end of this line. They are inside Raveningham Church just over 1000 metres as the crow flies from where you stand. Inside the stone walls of the 11th century church two women are moving, singing, separately and together. Every harmonic conversation is improvised, they are moving between the stone and wood, in light and shadow, calling and responding in and out of focus.

Footsteps, birds and air can be heard. These new voices are part of the rural landscape, they are using their surroundings as inspiration along with their personal musical traditions & folklore. They are finding a common tongue, their native tongue of the marshlands, two people living, working and creating here in the 21st century. Tapping into vein-like branches, links and marshes. Private voices are woken, then laid again to rest.”  

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released August 2, 2019

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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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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
Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth

Jul 2014
BLACK EARTH REMIXES

Jul 2014
Feathered Swing of the Raven

Sep 2012
Ruminantia

Apr 2012

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