Laura Cannell, Lori Goldston - The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big (2024)

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 chamber folk 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.

Struck by the wildlife and the landscape: the title comes from Lori’s surprise at first encounters with small muntjac deer and enormous hares that cut across the fields on drives around the marshes and stalked them in the meadows at twilight around Raveningham.

Tracklist:
01. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - Vaulted Echoes (06:04)
02. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - Sheltered In The Undercroft (07:19)
03. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - Devil White Flowers (03:52)
04. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - Nocturnal Ancestors (02:31)
05. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - They Roamed The Summer Tundra (08:00)
06. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - Lying Beneath The Earth (02:11)
07. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - The Underground Passage To The Castle (07:11)
08. Lori Goldston, Laura Cannell - Below The Lowlands (03:32)