The penultimate installment in Laura Canell's ongoing 'Year of Lore' series, 'Firelore' is a collection of improvisations made on a "slightly wonky church pipe organ".
While Cannell was researching 'Firelore', and looking into stories around fire, blacksmiths, fire thieves and fire spirits, she was simultaneously considering drone, texture and landscape, which drew her to the pipe organ. It's not a crazy leap, to be honest, considering that a blacksmith's workshop would use an air pump to power the furnace - but Cannell isn't so sure. "I can't decide if they are warming or stark," she admits. "If there is a bonfire in the middle of an icy field or if we are sitting before a woodburner together in the kitchen."
To our ears, 'Firelore' is perfect fodder for the run-up to the winter solstice. The church organ sounds are familiar, but Cannell doesn't lean on classic arrangements, instead improvising to pick out the instrument's woozy, breathy textures. And although 'Cure or Curse' sounds like sacred music slowed to a Sunn o)))-style dirge, 'The Hare Who Stole Fire' is more ancient somehow - more pagan, at the very least.
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The penultimate installment in Laura Canell's ongoing 'Year of Lore' series, 'Firelore' is a collection of improvisations made on a "slightly wonky church pipe organ".
While Cannell was researching 'Firelore', and looking into stories around fire, blacksmiths, fire thieves and fire spirits, she was simultaneously considering drone, texture and landscape, which drew her to the pipe organ. It's not a crazy leap, to be honest, considering that a blacksmith's workshop would use an air pump to power the furnace - but Cannell isn't so sure. "I can't decide if they are warming or stark," she admits. "If there is a bonfire in the middle of an icy field or if we are sitting before a woodburner together in the kitchen."
To our ears, 'Firelore' is perfect fodder for the run-up to the winter solstice. The church organ sounds are familiar, but Cannell doesn't lean on classic arrangements, instead improvising to pick out the instrument's woozy, breathy textures. And although 'Cure or Curse' sounds like sacred music slowed to a Sunn o)))-style dirge, 'The Hare Who Stole Fire' is more ancient somehow - more pagan, at the very least.
The penultimate installment in Laura Canell's ongoing 'Year of Lore' series, 'Firelore' is a collection of improvisations made on a "slightly wonky church pipe organ".
While Cannell was researching 'Firelore', and looking into stories around fire, blacksmiths, fire thieves and fire spirits, she was simultaneously considering drone, texture and landscape, which drew her to the pipe organ. It's not a crazy leap, to be honest, considering that a blacksmith's workshop would use an air pump to power the furnace - but Cannell isn't so sure. "I can't decide if they are warming or stark," she admits. "If there is a bonfire in the middle of an icy field or if we are sitting before a woodburner together in the kitchen."
To our ears, 'Firelore' is perfect fodder for the run-up to the winter solstice. The church organ sounds are familiar, but Cannell doesn't lean on classic arrangements, instead improvising to pick out the instrument's woozy, breathy textures. And although 'Cure or Curse' sounds like sacred music slowed to a Sunn o)))-style dirge, 'The Hare Who Stole Fire' is more ancient somehow - more pagan, at the very least.
The penultimate installment in Laura Canell's ongoing 'Year of Lore' series, 'Firelore' is a collection of improvisations made on a "slightly wonky church pipe organ".
While Cannell was researching 'Firelore', and looking into stories around fire, blacksmiths, fire thieves and fire spirits, she was simultaneously considering drone, texture and landscape, which drew her to the pipe organ. It's not a crazy leap, to be honest, considering that a blacksmith's workshop would use an air pump to power the furnace - but Cannell isn't so sure. "I can't decide if they are warming or stark," she admits. "If there is a bonfire in the middle of an icy field or if we are sitting before a woodburner together in the kitchen."
To our ears, 'Firelore' is perfect fodder for the run-up to the winter solstice. The church organ sounds are familiar, but Cannell doesn't lean on classic arrangements, instead improvising to pick out the instrument's woozy, breathy textures. And although 'Cure or Curse' sounds like sacred music slowed to a Sunn o)))-style dirge, 'The Hare Who Stole Fire' is more ancient somehow - more pagan, at the very least.