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BRIGHTLY SHONE THE MOON

by Laura Cannell

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  • CD in Jewel Case featuring The Moon, Snowy Branches and liner notes by Laura Cannell
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    This Christmastide release comes in lovely packaging with words by Laura Cannell. The images were taken by Laura of snow laden branches and a full moon. Enjoy this CD and read the liner notes in your comfiest chair, or on your cosiest winter walk.

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A Christmas Tree Procession 03:32
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All Ye Faithful 04:49
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A Midnight Moonlight Clearing 04:01
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Lost in a Merry Christmas 03:30
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Tangled Among the Holly and Ivy 04:18
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Three Kings Sing in the Woods 03:25
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Bleak Midwinter 04:25
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Angels Falling from the Realms 03:28
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Shepherds Search fro Sheep at Dusk 03:46
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about

BRIGHTLY SHONE THE MOON is the 13th solo album from the UK Composer/Performer and Improviser Laura Cannell. Growing up in the marshes in rural Norfolk there is a natural leaning towards the stark landscape and nostalgia of winter’s past. In the village she grew up in carols were sung in the methodist chapel, the church, the village hall and outside people’s doors. Later on, around the piano with her sister playing the right hand and Laura on the left, the tunes were always there, but maybe not the words. This album takes some essence from the past but is firmly rooted in the present. These songs are still embedded in the season and the rural countryside but they have become their own tradition, they belong to each of us if we want them.

Christmas melodies disappear into densely packed woodland copses where half remembered carols are played on the fiddle and the merry organ, but none are what they seem. Brightly Shone the Moon is alternative Christmas music for those who love and mourn in a season where darkness is everywhere. A time when the winter sun is shy, but the moon lights our nights and encourages our strange songs, traditions and hopes for the unfurling of a new and better year.

The 9 tracks on Brightly Shone the Moon were recorded in Laura’s home studio, with duo partner André Bosman guesting on tracks 2, 7 and 8 on synths, and sampling Laura’s violin.

“The sound of ancient carols drift through a deep green winter forest. Branches are heavy with snow. Just out of sight is the sound of a strange rural village band processing over the crunchy pebbles of the churchyard and into the medieval church.

Violins and pipe organs glitch and echo, as half remembered melodies sweep towards you on a bluster of icy wind. Traces of familiar festive songs flicker around you, almost cosy but they are distant as you stand, boots in deep snow, alone.

The moon shines brightly as twinkling ice crystals land silently, softly, on your woollen sleeve. It is that time again, where joy and heartache try to exist together. Traditions come in and out of focus as the winter leaves its mark.”
Laura Cannell October 2025

‘Brightly Shone the Moon’ follows 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). Alongside albums Laura writes and release monthly music in her series ‘A Year of Lore’, and ‘A Compendium of Beasts’.

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.

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released December 5, 2025

Featuring André Bosman on tracks 2, 7 & 8 on Synths and Samples

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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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