Anna von Hausswolff

When Swedish singer/musician Anna von Hausswolff was young, her parents used to tell her stories about a place the family loved to visit. The location is seeped in a complicated history: a home, for example, to Sweden’s traditional folk music, it’s an area of outstanding natural beauty, but once provided the backdrop for a momentous uprising against the country’s king during which thousands of peasants were slaughtered, leaving its landscapes bathed in blood. It became, to her, a place of mystery, magic and terror, and, though she won’t say where it is, she still returns repeatedly, if sometimes only in her imagination. She calls the place Miraculous.

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Much of the music on The Miraculous draws from these stories and images while making excessive use of the Acusticum Pipe Organ in Piteå, Northern Sweden, whose colossal sound – with nine thousand pipes, it’s one of the biggest of its kind in the country – swells heroically throughout the album. Inaugurated in 2012, and designed by Gerard Woehl, it lends the record a unique edge, enabling moments of true drama and supplying the brooding drones and dreamy soundscapes that provide the album’s foundations. This magnificent instrument’s unusual features – built-in glockenspiel, vibraphone, celeste and percussion, as well as what von Hausswolff describes as “a screaming bird sound” produced by “pipes half covered in water” also further broadened the record’s aesthetic.

In total, five days were spent recording the majority of the album’s substance live with it and her band, Ulrik Ording (drums), Joel Fabiansson (guitar), Karl Vento (guitar) and Filip Leyman (synthesiser), also the record’s producer). Afterwards, they decamped to Gothenburg for a further month’s work, before mixing it Filip’s studio.

Tourdates
02.03.16 GER-BERLIN BERGHAIN
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/22Pcc77

03.03.16 GER-LEIPZIG WERK 2 (Halle D)
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1ORh4o1

04.03.16 CZ-PRAGUE PALAC AKROPOLIS
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1mKmeFz

05.03.16 AT-GRAZ TRIPLEDECKER @ FORUM STADTPARK
Tickets: only Box office http://www.forumstadtpark.at/

06.03.16 AT-VIENNA ARENA
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1kROZit

08.03.16 IT-PADOVA MAME
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1Sdxzew

09.03.16 IT-ROME MONK
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1M4P776

11.03.16 IT-MILANO ARCI BELLEZA
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1uxLgrW

13.03.16 GER-LUDWIGSHAFEN OFFENE WELT @ PFALZBAU
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1Zm91zh

14.03.16 GER-FREIBURG CAFE ATLANTIK
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1OTKBax

15.03.16 GER-ASCHAFFENBURG COLOS-SAAL
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1kRPeKk

18.03.16 UK-LONDON CONVERGENCE @ ST.JOHNS CHURCH ON BETHNAL GREEN Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1OQJRY5

20.03.16 UK-EDINBURGH ELECTRIC CIRCUS
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1nkEl5K

22.03.16 UK-GLASGOW GARAGE w/Refused
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1MWVRBM

23.03.16 UK-MANCHESTER ACADEMY 2 w/Refused
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1mHyhnL

24.03.16 UK-LEEDS STYLUS w/Refused
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1OTKP1s

25.03.16 UK-BRIGHTON CONCORDE 2 w/Refused
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1ZRwf2o

26.03.16 UK-BIRMINGHAM LIBRARY w/Refused
Ticketlink: http://bit.ly/1Rdhbuv

Links

http://www.annavonhausswolff.org

http://www.facebook.com/annavonhausswolff