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MODERN RITUALs Laura Cannell Interviewed by Folk Radio

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Screen Shot 2018-05-31 at 17.20.48Laura Cannell’s discography has continually focussed on a rootedness to nature, in particular, the sparseness of the English countryside in East Anglia.

Screen Shot 2018-05-31 at 17.25.09Yet, drawing on classical and trad folk sounds and instruments, describing herself as ‘anti-classical’, she plays using the unorthodox technique of an overbow (bow restrung around the body of the violin) to create minimal and stark timbres, her music is inherently idiosyncratic and modern in a way that belies assumptions about rural England perhaps. Read Full Interview…