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HAUNTLORE

by Laura Cannell

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A Limited Edition CD (100) signed & numbered by Laura Cannell in her studio in Suffolk. Original HAUNTLORE artwork by André Bosman. Printed on FSC sustainable sourced card. Produced in the UK.

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  • Full Digital Discography

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    Get all 67 Brawl Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 60%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of A Compendium of Beasts Volumes 1 - 4, BRIGHTLY SHONE THE MOON, GODDESSES OF ICELORE, HAUNTLORE, DREAMLORE, A YEAR OF LORE SERIES 1 - All 12 EPs, THE VISIBLE LIGHT OF OTHER WORLDS, A Compendium of Beasts Volume 4, and 59 more. , and , .

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VISIONS 05:58
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APPARITIONS 06:03
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POSSESSED 03:53
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about

Laura Cannell’s ‘LORE’ series is back with HAUNTLORE which will appear on Halloween 2025. Every month Cannell writes and releases new music, Hauntlore was written and recorded as the season changed in October. The wind was picking up, the grey clouded skies shrouding the river valley town where she lives bringing a shift in her emotional musical output.

The 3 tracks of HAUNTLORE will sink you into a deep trance of ghostly visions, friendly apparitions and a journey with a possessed being.

Contemporary Halloween feels like a mix of sugar coated and horrifying images, but in HAUNTLORE we look at the ethereal and intangible. Shapes which emerge through shimmering violin lines and echo in misty synth layers, swirling and never quite landing.
Are there voices within? Can you see what I can see?

TRACK LISTING



1. VISIONS

A gas lamp burns through the night as open strings give way to otherworldly spirits, bright edgeless shapes move in and out of focus leaving shimmering trails.

2. APPARITIONS
We often think of ghosts as belonging to a time long past, they are from someone else’s history, someone else’s life, but an apparition can be someone who has only just left us. A reminder of what we have, and who is in our thoughts.

3. POSSESSED
The violin embodies so many emotions, what happens if it runs away in a direction the player isn’t expecting? The bow shuddering back and forth on just a few notes, double stops trying to unearth a story. Always digging, searching for the sound, for the message.


“With A Year Of Lore, Laura Cannell has reinforced her reputation as a master storyteller in sound, capable of rendering instrumental narratives so true to the spirit of the folkloric themes and traditions that birthed them as to almost be conjurings. What a treasure it is to have these songs in the world! Whenever they play, the veil will seem thin. While they play, there will always be the feeling of magic on the air.” THE QUIETUS (A Year of Lore Series 1)

Following on from from her 12th solo album ‘The Visible Light of Other Worlds’ (2025), and her highly acclaimed 2024 album ‘The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined’, the UK based Composer, Performer and Improviser was recently hailed as "The Radical Neo-medieval Musician Laura Cannell" by The Guardian in an interview about the influence of Hildegard of Bingen on experimental music (written by BBC Radio 3’s Jennifer Lucy Allan).

Over the past ten years Laura Cannell’s music has become synonymous with emotional sonic depictions of place, known and unknown, fragments of medieval music, whispers of folklore and of a kind of storytelling that is at once contemporary and ancient. Her music continues to evolve and evoke a strange new world between medieval-minimalism, neo-classical & ambient music.
A Year of Lore - Series 2 features new music each month which is inspired by folklore and personal experience as she re-imagines stories and ideas of ‘lore’ into her own musical language.


LAURA CANNELL BIOGRAPHY
Laura Cannell is an internationally acclaimed composer/performer whose music straddles the worlds of contemporary and ancient music. In August 2024 she released ‘The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined’, in 2025 ‘LYRELYRELYRE’ using a replica of the 7th century Sutton Hoo Lyre buried in the Suffolk King’s ship burial and her 12th solo album ‘The Visible Light of Other Worlds’ (Sept 2025) all appeared in the Official UK Album Download Charts.

Laura is regularly broadcast on the BBC, including BBC Radio 3, 4, 6Music. She has recorded a Maida Vale session, was commissioned to re-work music by William Byrd for Radio 3. She recently appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about the 12th Century composer Hildegard of Bingen. Collaborators include: writer/comedian Stewart Lee and the cellist Lori Goldston (Earth/Nirvana), Mira Calix and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Performances include: King’s Place, The British Library, Cafe Oto, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Norfolk and Norwich Festival (Artist in Residence 2024). Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Barbican, Unsound Festival Poland, Flow - Helsinki and more. Her music has appeared in Paris and London Fashion Weeks, and internationally on film & television. She played/composed on the Folk Horror film HARVEST (premiered at Venice Biennale, New York and London Film Festivals) and co-composed the soundtrack to Amazon Audible’s ‘The Woman in Black’.

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released October 31, 2025

Written, recorded, performed and produced by Laura Cannell.
Octave Violin, Overbow Violin, Bass Recorder and Synth.
Artwork by André Bosman.

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Brawl Records is an independent UK label est. 2005. It is run by musicians Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman. Brawl's releases have been reviewed & featured in The Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, The Wire, The Quietus, MOJO, Songlines, Record Collector & more. They are regularly broadcast on BBC and internationally. ... more

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