SEALORE is the first in a special new series of 12 EPs by internationally acclaimed composer and performer Laura Cannell. There will be a new release every month starting on 26th January 2024 with SEALORE (followed by Earthlore, then Riverlore).

Composed, performed and produced by Cannell SEALORE takes the listener under the sea to the disappeared world between the East Coast of England and Europe now called Doggerland. A place which was once covered in a thick layer of ice where people would hunt and forage in the centuries before the ice gradually melted to become the North Sea.

The 4 tracks on SEALORE soundtrack an imagined film, a family, with a daughter, a wild girl who whittles her practice harpoons out of wood and then deer antlers. The girl, visits us throughout the LORE series, flitting between the two worlds, the ancient land beneath the sea and the world we now live, the sounds she heard in her stone age childhood are voiced by the layered violins, cello and recorders presented here.

The music in SEALORE was created with Cannell’s signature yet unplaceable sounds, flitting between two worlds, her music often evokes both the ancient and the contemporary. In the ‘Lore’ series, her signature instruments of overbowed violin and an array of recorders from soprano to great bass are complimented with the addition of octave violin and 'cello, tapping into deeper resonances. The stories of people and places seem to find their way in to Cannell’s music, so she leans in to draw them out of the earth, the sea and the landscape and to give a voice to the uncanny and the unseen.

This space at the heart of SEALORE is now impossible and unimaginable to live in, yet still occasionally makes itself known and something special will emerge from the seabed. A harpoon carved and shaped from a red deer antler was found by Norfolk fishermen off the coast of Cromer in 1931, we don’t know who made it, but we know they were not alone when they lived there, which was up until the last great climate change at the end of the Mesolithic era.

Following the release of her latest solo album ‘Midwinter Processionals’ in December 2023 Laura has recently appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 3’s ‘This Classical Life’, she was featured on BBC Radio 6Music’s Scene Sounds, was a guest on the popular podcast ‘Folklands’ and one of her compositions ‘The Gatherers’ was re-imagined and performed at a sold out performance at the London Coliseum in a concert curated by broadcaster Elizabeth Alker and Max Richter. For a full biography please visit www.lauracannell.com