Having just finished a second run performing in Alexander Ekman’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Royal Swedish Ballet, Anna von Hausswolff is gearing up for an extensive European tour with SWANS.
To set the mood, today we share a new video for the remarkable 11-minute doomscape opus ‘Come Wander With Me/Deliverance’, directed by Anna’s sister, Maria von Hausswolff.
Taken from 2015’s highly acclaimed album ‘The Miraculous’, ‘Come Wander With Me/Deliverance’ is a track of gargantuan scale & power. Originating as a cover of Jeff Alexander & Anthony Wilson’s track from The Twilight Zone; the song grew bigger with every live performance; eventually forming a second song around it; ‘Deliverance’. The result is a driving crusade of colossal scale.
Maria von Hausswolff gives the track even further weight with this new accompanying film, which she describes as: “An abstract dreamy tale about loneliness, about fighting against your own demons and about being strong; shot deep inside a Swedish forest.”
This year Anna von Hausswolff has already stunned audiences at a packed out Barbican for Nils Frahm’s Possibly Colliding, on tour with Refused and at St John on Bethnal Green for Convergence Festival. Now, she prepares for an extensive tour supporting SWANS across Europe, including two nights at London’s Islington Assembly Hall.
Anna’s latest album, The Miraculous (out now via City Slang), is an album steeped in history, mystery, magic and terror, drawing on tales & folklore from her homeland of Sweden, whilst making full use of the Acusticum Pipe Organ in Piteå, Northern Sweden, whose colossal sound – with 9000 pipes – swells heroically throughout. Yet, for the ferocious instrumentation, it is always Anna von Hausswolff’s incomparable voice that sits first and foremost, swooping around the organ & guitars to phenomenal effect.
Anna von Hausswolff live dates:
October
5 -Toulouse FR, Organ Festival
6 – Brussels BE, Oranjerie Botantique*
7 – Eindhoven NL, De Effenaar*
8 – Brighton UK, Concorde 2*
9 – Manchester UK, HMV Ritz*
11 – Glasgow UK, Oran Mor*
12 – Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, Northumbria University*
13 – London UK, Islington Assembly Hall*
14 – London UK, Islington Assembly Hall*
15 – Reims FR, La Cartonnerie*
17 – Hamburg DE, Kampnagel*
18 – Berlin DE, Huxleys Neue Welt*
19 – Prague CZ, Divaldo ARCHA Theatre*
21 – Budapest HU, A38 Ship*
22 – Vienna AT, Arena Big Hall*
23 – Graz AT, Orpheum Extra*
25 – Ljubljana SL, Kino Kiska Centre For Urban Culture*
26 – Zagreb HR, Lauba*
28 – Basel CH, Kaserne*
29 – Vevey CH, Rocking Chair*
30 – Bern CH, Reitschule Dachstock*
November
1 – Nantes FR, Le Grand Mix*
2 – Nimes FR, La Paloma*
4 – Torino, IT, C2C*
5 – Bologna IT, Teatro Auditorium Manzoni*
6 – Rome IT, Orion Live Club*
8 – Turcoing FR, Le Grand Mix*
9 – Paris FR, Le Trabendo*
10 – Cologne DE, Gebäude 9*
11 – Munich DE, Feierwerk*
12 – Wiesbaden DE, Kulturezentrum Schlachthof*
13 – Utrecht NL, Le Guess Who
