Dreamy, heartfelt and utterly original music performed in one of Brighton’s oldest and most lovely churches was a teatime treat on Mothering Sunday.

It was a homecoming of sorts because most of Mondegreen, the debut album from this all-female Brighton/London-based collective, was recorded at Little St Peter’s on Preston Drove in August 2012.

Collectress is an experimental chamber music quartet but there are frequent collaborations with other artists and a wide array of instruments played beyond the cello and violin. Special guests Joanna Burke and Mary Hampton opened the show with some hauntingly beautiful arrangements of traditional folk songs which transported the audience back across the centuries.

There were other surprises in this intimate gig too; a saw featured among the instruments played and the space was used imaginatively, with the flautist entering down the aisle and performing from the pulpit.

Mondegreen could be the soundtrack to a film which is yet to be made but perhaps the strength of this delicate and eerie music was its ability to conjure up images and stories in the mind of the listeners.

No cinema was required, Collectress worked their magic, wove their tales, cast their musical spell and we were enchanted.