Laura Cannell
Mammothlore
Boomkat Product Review:
Ahead of a stunning duo side with occasional Nirvana and Earth’s cellist Lori Goldston, folk-classical maverick Laura Cannell continues her year of lore series with a trio of scapes for electric cello, violin and synths inspired by a 600,000 y.o. Mammoth fossil, steeped in ear-bending overtones deployed at geological drone pace
“Mammothlore shifts focus between delicate harmonics above slow droning chords played on electric cello and a ten minute meditative track on violin and synths. Delving under layers of branches and walking on soft earth, there are giant pinecones slowly crunching underfoot, the Mammoths who once walked these lands are brought back to life for a short time.
A trio of longer tracks form a dreamscape with electric cello, synths and violin. The first and third tracks being solo layered cello, and the middle track written on violin and synths and inspired by images taken inside a nearby woodland where research shows that Mammoths once roamed.
“I sat in my yellow armchair by the window in my studio, wondering where this months EP would take us. I closed my eyes and tried to quiet my head from the constant internal dialogue, images and music. As I sat I dreamed a long slow cello drone with harmonics, an ancient beast slowly moved across a landscape in my minds-eye. I opened my eyes and knew that I needed to play the cello again.”
Cannell’s string playing began on the cello around the age of 12, a few years before moving on to teach herself the fiddle. But there has always been a cello in the corner of her room, as if waiting for a special occasion to come out. It turned out that she began playing the cello the same year that an important Mammoth discovery was made in her home county of Norfolk, UK.
“For as long as I can remember there has been a giant fossilised tusk that is about 2 ft long in my parents house. They are Antique Dealers, and we lived above the shop, so it was normal to see all sorts of weird, random and rare artefacts. I’ve walked past it many times and occasionally wondered how on earth it ended up in deepest Norfolk. But on doing some research around Doggerland, before the last great climate change, it seems that Mammoths lived in this place and when I was about 12 years old I remember there was a lot of excitement about an nearly whole fossilised mammoth skeleton (85% complete) that was found in some cliffs on the Norfolk coast. The West Runton Mammoth was 600,000 years old. I even had a poster of it. Sometimes, you don’t realise that all of the parts tie together to make a magical story, a story which just needed some music to bring it back to life again.”
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Boomkat Product Review:
Ahead of a stunning duo side with occasional Nirvana and Earth’s cellist Lori Goldston, folk-classical maverick Laura Cannell continues her year of lore series with a trio of scapes for electric cello, violin and synths inspired by a 600,000 y.o. Mammoth fossil, steeped in ear-bending overtones deployed at geological drone pace
“Mammothlore shifts focus between delicate harmonics above slow droning chords played on electric cello and a ten minute meditative track on violin and synths. Delving under layers of branches and walking on soft earth, there are giant pinecones slowly crunching underfoot, the Mammoths who once walked these lands are brought back to life for a short time.
A trio of longer tracks form a dreamscape with electric cello, synths and violin. The first and third tracks being solo layered cello, and the middle track written on violin and synths and inspired by images taken inside a nearby woodland where research shows that Mammoths once roamed.
“I sat in my yellow armchair by the window in my studio, wondering where this months EP would take us. I closed my eyes and tried to quiet my head from the constant internal dialogue, images and music. As I sat I dreamed a long slow cello drone with harmonics, an ancient beast slowly moved across a landscape in my minds-eye. I opened my eyes and knew that I needed to play the cello again.”
Cannell’s string playing began on the cello around the age of 12, a few years before moving on to teach herself the fiddle. But there has always been a cello in the corner of her room, as if waiting for a special occasion to come out. It turned out that she began playing the cello the same year that an important Mammoth discovery was made in her home county of Norfolk, UK.
“For as long as I can remember there has been a giant fossilised tusk that is about 2 ft long in my parents house. They are Antique Dealers, and we lived above the shop, so it was normal to see all sorts of weird, random and rare artefacts. I’ve walked past it many times and occasionally wondered how on earth it ended up in deepest Norfolk. But on doing some research around Doggerland, before the last great climate change, it seems that Mammoths lived in this place and when I was about 12 years old I remember there was a lot of excitement about an nearly whole fossilised mammoth skeleton (85% complete) that was found in some cliffs on the Norfolk coast. The West Runton Mammoth was 600,000 years old. I even had a poster of it. Sometimes, you don’t realise that all of the parts tie together to make a magical story, a story which just needed some music to bring it back to life again.”
Boomkat Product Review:
Ahead of a stunning duo side with occasional Nirvana and Earth’s cellist Lori Goldston, folk-classical maverick Laura Cannell continues her year of lore series with a trio of scapes for electric cello, violin and synths inspired by a 600,000 y.o. Mammoth fossil, steeped in ear-bending overtones deployed at geological drone pace
“Mammothlore shifts focus between delicate harmonics above slow droning chords played on electric cello and a ten minute meditative track on violin and synths. Delving under layers of branches and walking on soft earth, there are giant pinecones slowly crunching underfoot, the Mammoths who once walked these lands are brought back to life for a short time.
A trio of longer tracks form a dreamscape with electric cello, synths and violin. The first and third tracks being solo layered cello, and the middle track written on violin and synths and inspired by images taken inside a nearby woodland where research shows that Mammoths once roamed.
“I sat in my yellow armchair by the window in my studio, wondering where this months EP would take us. I closed my eyes and tried to quiet my head from the constant internal dialogue, images and music. As I sat I dreamed a long slow cello drone with harmonics, an ancient beast slowly moved across a landscape in my minds-eye. I opened my eyes and knew that I needed to play the cello again.”
Cannell’s string playing began on the cello around the age of 12, a few years before moving on to teach herself the fiddle. But there has always been a cello in the corner of her room, as if waiting for a special occasion to come out. It turned out that she began playing the cello the same year that an important Mammoth discovery was made in her home county of Norfolk, UK.
“For as long as I can remember there has been a giant fossilised tusk that is about 2 ft long in my parents house. They are Antique Dealers, and we lived above the shop, so it was normal to see all sorts of weird, random and rare artefacts. I’ve walked past it many times and occasionally wondered how on earth it ended up in deepest Norfolk. But on doing some research around Doggerland, before the last great climate change, it seems that Mammoths lived in this place and when I was about 12 years old I remember there was a lot of excitement about an nearly whole fossilised mammoth skeleton (85% complete) that was found in some cliffs on the Norfolk coast. The West Runton Mammoth was 600,000 years old. I even had a poster of it. Sometimes, you don’t realise that all of the parts tie together to make a magical story, a story which just needed some music to bring it back to life again.”
Boomkat Product Review:
Ahead of a stunning duo side with occasional Nirvana and Earth’s cellist Lori Goldston, folk-classical maverick Laura Cannell continues her year of lore series with a trio of scapes for electric cello, violin and synths inspired by a 600,000 y.o. Mammoth fossil, steeped in ear-bending overtones deployed at geological drone pace
“Mammothlore shifts focus between delicate harmonics above slow droning chords played on electric cello and a ten minute meditative track on violin and synths. Delving under layers of branches and walking on soft earth, there are giant pinecones slowly crunching underfoot, the Mammoths who once walked these lands are brought back to life for a short time.
A trio of longer tracks form a dreamscape with electric cello, synths and violin. The first and third tracks being solo layered cello, and the middle track written on violin and synths and inspired by images taken inside a nearby woodland where research shows that Mammoths once roamed.
“I sat in my yellow armchair by the window in my studio, wondering where this months EP would take us. I closed my eyes and tried to quiet my head from the constant internal dialogue, images and music. As I sat I dreamed a long slow cello drone with harmonics, an ancient beast slowly moved across a landscape in my minds-eye. I opened my eyes and knew that I needed to play the cello again.”
Cannell’s string playing began on the cello around the age of 12, a few years before moving on to teach herself the fiddle. But there has always been a cello in the corner of her room, as if waiting for a special occasion to come out. It turned out that she began playing the cello the same year that an important Mammoth discovery was made in her home county of Norfolk, UK.
“For as long as I can remember there has been a giant fossilised tusk that is about 2 ft long in my parents house. They are Antique Dealers, and we lived above the shop, so it was normal to see all sorts of weird, random and rare artefacts. I’ve walked past it many times and occasionally wondered how on earth it ended up in deepest Norfolk. But on doing some research around Doggerland, before the last great climate change, it seems that Mammoths lived in this place and when I was about 12 years old I remember there was a lot of excitement about an nearly whole fossilised mammoth skeleton (85% complete) that was found in some cliffs on the Norfolk coast. The West Runton Mammoth was 600,000 years old. I even had a poster of it. Sometimes, you don’t realise that all of the parts tie together to make a magical story, a story which just needed some music to bring it back to life again.”
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