A Compendium of Beasts Volume 1
The unstoppable Laura Cannell enters the new year with the first in her latest series of monthly releases, this time taking her inspiration from animals both real and imaginary.
With the lore series finished, Cannell needed something new and while 'A Compendium of Beasts' isn't too much of a deviation, it's expectedly good stuff. Billed as a "modern day medieval bestiary in sound", the series roots through folklore to find animalistic triggers for her improvisations. On this opening volume, she examines the animals she knows best, playing a reverberating fiddle elegy to the bittern, using the recorder to capture the spirit of 'The Bridd Hremm' (or crow chick) and thinking back to the legend of the Norfolk puma - rarely seen but often mythologized. It's these more fantastical stories that seem to bring out the best in Cannell, and 'The Fox Taegl' is a magickal highlight.
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The unstoppable Laura Cannell enters the new year with the first in her latest series of monthly releases, this time taking her inspiration from animals both real and imaginary.
With the lore series finished, Cannell needed something new and while 'A Compendium of Beasts' isn't too much of a deviation, it's expectedly good stuff. Billed as a "modern day medieval bestiary in sound", the series roots through folklore to find animalistic triggers for her improvisations. On this opening volume, she examines the animals she knows best, playing a reverberating fiddle elegy to the bittern, using the recorder to capture the spirit of 'The Bridd Hremm' (or crow chick) and thinking back to the legend of the Norfolk puma - rarely seen but often mythologized. It's these more fantastical stories that seem to bring out the best in Cannell, and 'The Fox Taegl' is a magickal highlight.
The unstoppable Laura Cannell enters the new year with the first in her latest series of monthly releases, this time taking her inspiration from animals both real and imaginary.
With the lore series finished, Cannell needed something new and while 'A Compendium of Beasts' isn't too much of a deviation, it's expectedly good stuff. Billed as a "modern day medieval bestiary in sound", the series roots through folklore to find animalistic triggers for her improvisations. On this opening volume, she examines the animals she knows best, playing a reverberating fiddle elegy to the bittern, using the recorder to capture the spirit of 'The Bridd Hremm' (or crow chick) and thinking back to the legend of the Norfolk puma - rarely seen but often mythologized. It's these more fantastical stories that seem to bring out the best in Cannell, and 'The Fox Taegl' is a magickal highlight.
The unstoppable Laura Cannell enters the new year with the first in her latest series of monthly releases, this time taking her inspiration from animals both real and imaginary.
With the lore series finished, Cannell needed something new and while 'A Compendium of Beasts' isn't too much of a deviation, it's expectedly good stuff. Billed as a "modern day medieval bestiary in sound", the series roots through folklore to find animalistic triggers for her improvisations. On this opening volume, she examines the animals she knows best, playing a reverberating fiddle elegy to the bittern, using the recorder to capture the spirit of 'The Bridd Hremm' (or crow chick) and thinking back to the legend of the Norfolk puma - rarely seen but often mythologized. It's these more fantastical stories that seem to bring out the best in Cannell, and 'The Fox Taegl' is a magickal highlight.