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We just got a review in Properganda Magazine...

"Horses Brawl are Norwich-based duo of Laura Cannell (fiddle, recorder, crumhorn) and guitarist Adrian Lever (Philip Thorby guests on recorder and viol on four tracks). Wild Lament is the duo's third album and is quite exquisite.

What Horses Brawl do is adapt fragments of melodies of early music and create something start and startling. An immediate comparison would be with A Hawk And A Hacksaw (male-female duo who successfully adopt East European traditional melodies) yet Horses Brawl sound nothing like AHAAHA, instead they draw on old British and French Melodies alongside referencing folk music from Bolivia, Bulgaria and long forgotten classical composers.

The result is an eerie music, quite beautiful if at times intense and rightly demanding. There's nothing twee here, none of the singer-songwriter cliches that are often pushed as 'folk' these days. Instead, Wild Lament is exactly what it says - haunted, feral music that stretches from our century back to medieval times."


We're spending some time writing and researching tunes and this week will start in earnest rehearsing our sets for our forthcoming touring throughout September and October. I can't wait! But in the mean time, there are two new pieces and at least two others which are about to go through the brawl machine. Sweden seems to be making quite an appearance at the moment, so amazing tunes keep being found.

But for today, I think I will have a croissant, let the cat out, play said tunes and perhaps go and pick up a rather nice pair of old chairs.