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London Barbican

Interview: Laura Cannell

Interview: Laura Cannell

I heard Laura Cannell for the first time only a couple of weeks back, while I was eagerly awaiting acoustic sets by Thurston Moore and Michael Gira at the London Barbican. Cannell’s supporting set – consisting largely of solo pieces for fiddle or double recorder – knocked me sideways; a mercurial
By Jack Chuter Apr 14, 2016
Live: Michael Gira + Thurston Moore + Laura Cannell @ London Barbican, 30/03/2016

Live: Michael Gira + Thurston Moore + Laura Cannell @ London Barbican, 30/03/2016

Laura Cannell’s music flutters and swoops across the grand open space of the Barbican concert hall. Harmonies graciously interweave; splay dramatically into separate strands; re-align like birds reclaiming flight formation; dive and rise like leaves hurdling a light wind. When playing the overbowed fiddle (which replaces the standard bow
By Jack Chuter Mar 31, 2016

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