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ARTIST
TITLE
Lyrelyrelyre
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BRAWL 059CD BRAWL 059CD
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RELEASE DATE
6/6/2025

Lyrelyrelyre is the 11th solo album from Laura Cannell, the UK based composer, performer, and improviser. Cannell calls upon an ancient Lyre that was buried in the epic landscape of the Suffolk Coastline to sound once more. She wakes it from its 14-century long slumber and coaxes. It's shrouded sounds onto her new offering. Cannell delves deep into the history of the lyre, finding a way to bring this ancient instrument back into the landscape it once lived in and into her fold of feral chamber music. This nine-track album follows on from Cannell's 2024 release The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined making the 12th century seem positively modern in terms of music and lifestyle. Gorse flower dreams. Playing on a copy of the 7th century Sutton Hoo Lyre she takes inspiration from its fragmented remains and the evocative landscape hidden for centuries in plain sight. The staccato of a gut strung lyre-hearpe, The hunting and battle cries of crumhorns and the sense of space evoked on bass recorder present and album with ever present sea mist. Shrouded sounds are emitted as Cannell delves deep into the history of the lyre, finding a way to bring this ancient instrument Into her musical fold and questioning, how many other instruments are buried beneath our feet?