Laura Cannell and Lori Goldston, ‘The Deer Are Small And The Rabbits Are Big’ out on 23 August

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



“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

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.

state51 Editions:
+ Limited edition - only 50 copies available
+ Sleeves hand made, assembled and printed in the state51 Atelier
+ Vellum-style outer screen-printed with white ink
+ Beautifully textured high-density back board screen-printed in black ink

51st Edition:
+ Only one copy - super limited edition
+ Lathe cut 12" vinyl inside hand-engraved bespoke plaster casing
+ The record has been cast in bone white plaster, inspired by the stone-like church windows and arches of St Olave's Priory (Great Yarmouth), where the album was recorded
+ The bespoke case is shaped like a two-part plaster mould, as if the record has been cast inside. The case acts as both protector and creator of the record
+ Designed and hand-made by Nathan Sherwood in the state51 Atelier

CDs:
+ Limited edition CD (only 300 copies)
+ Digipack CD

















Composed, produced and performed by Laura Cannell and Lori Goldston
Mixed by Laura Cannell
Published by mutesong
Photo by Esther May Campbell
Layout / Artwork by Louise Mason
Lathe cut and engraved by Bladud Flies!