Laura Cannell and Lori Goldston - The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big - 1CD

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The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big - the new album from Laura Cannell and Lori Goldston, out on 23 August via The state51 Conspiracy

“Unique, transhistorical, and genuinely enriching. One of the best things I’ve heard in some time” - The Quietus 

"Primordially beautiful…One of the most exciting musicians around”  The Guardian (on Laura Cannell)

“Cannell’s primal sounds make the distant past seem curiously present”  The Wire

Genre: Contemporary classical, ambient, experimental, chamber, folk

In the summer of 2022 renowned cellist Lori Goldston (cellist for Nirvana, Cat Power, David Byrne) finally made it over to the UK, travelling to rural Norfolk for a long-delayed session with equally renowned musician Laura Cannell.

The resulting album, The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big was completed in just a few days. It has the ease and energy of some of the best artistic collaborations, capturing the deep resonances and sympathies in their music, which cuts across traditional and improvised playing into luminous realms for instrumental folkloric music.  

On recent albums Lori has played and recorded outdoors, and Laura's back catalogue is defined by its non-traditional recording spaces, which has included churches, lighthouses and shipping containers. For this album, they recorded in the atmospheric vaulted 14th century undercroft of St Olave's Priory in Great Yarmouth, and in the empty aisles at St Andrews church in Raveningham, Lori on cello, Laura on fiddle and singing in invocations that draw on the literal, spiritual and historical resonances of these spaces. 

Their music has been frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 6Music, NTS Radio and internationally and Lori’s recent solo album ‘Convulsions’ was added to The Quietus’ ‘Best Albums of The Year So Far in 2024’