| Artist |
Anna Von Hausswolff |
| Album Title: |
The Miraculous |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Indie |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
11/13/2015 |
| Label |
Pomperipossa Records |
| Catalog No |
PRCD001 |
| Bar Code No |
7 67981 15292 9 |
| Packaging |
Cardboard Gatefold |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Discovery (8:45)
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The Hope Only Of Empty Men (3:10)
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| 3.
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Pomperipossa (2:12)
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| 4.
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Come Wander With Me / Deliverance (10:49)
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| 5.
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En ensam vandrare (2:55)
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| 6.
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An Oath (3:01)
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| 7.
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Evocation (3:07)
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| 8.
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The Miraculous (9:59)
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| 9.
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Stranger (5:28)
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| Date Acquired |
01/08/2016 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
10.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry (Not the Correct Release But it's Close Enough) |
Notes |
Comes in a 4-panel Digipak with a clear tray and glossy cardboard; no booklet, no lyrics.
Recorded at Studio Acusticum
℗&© 2015 Pomperipossa Records. Under exclusive license to City Slang.
This release is subsidized by The Swedish Arts Council.
Artwork [Etchings By] – Anna von Hausswolff
Cover [Photo], Layout – Anders Nydam
Drums – Filip Leyman (tracks: 5), Ulrik Ording
Guitar – Joel Fabiansson, Karl Vento
Mastered By – Hans Olsson Brookes
Music By, Lyrics By – Anna von Hausswolff
Organ [Pipe], Synth [Synths], Vocals – Anna von Hausswolff
Recorded By, Producer, Mixed By – Filip Leyman
Synth [Synths] – Filip Leyman
Violin [Claviolin] – Daniel Ögren (tracks: 1)
Vocals – Filip Leyman (tracks: 1), Karl Vento (tracks: 1), Maria Von Hausswolff (tracks: 9)
Written-By [Come Wander With Me] – Jeff Alexander (tracks: 4), Anthony Wilson* (tracks: 4)
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Pomperipossa Records
Copyright © – Pomperipossa Records
Licensed To – City Slang
Recorded At – Studio Acusticum
Manufactured By – www.HandleWithCare.de
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – AF00709
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Analyzed: Anna von Hausswolff / The Miraculous
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -0.09 dB -10.71 dB 8:45 01-Discovery
DR8 -0.09 dB -11.83 dB 3:11 02-The Hope Only of Empty Men
DR7 -0.09 dB -9.14 dB 2:13 03-Pomperipossa
DR8 -0.09 dB -10.50 dB 10:49 04-Come Wander With Me / Deliverance
DR9 -0.09 dB -10.99 dB 2:55 05-En Ensam Vandrare
DR8 -0.09 dB -11.38 dB 3:01 06-An Oath
DR7 -0.09 dB -9.24 dB 3:08 07-Evocation
DR8 -0.10 dB -11.76 dB 9:59 08-The Miraculous
DR9 -0.10 dB -12.53 dB 5:28 09-Stranger
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR8
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 773 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek:
With The Miraculous, Swedish singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Anna von Hausswolff has delivered an album as different from 2013's celebrated Ceremony as that was from 2010's Singing From The Grave. On Ceremony, Hausswolff discovered the sonic possibilities of the cathedral organ. Her four-octave vocal range rose above compositions that wove classically tinged Gothic art pop and skeletal post-rock that touched on Sweden's gloomy operatic and folk traditions. Sometimes gentle and dreamy, and just as often moody and droning (sometimes inside the same tune), she has created an iconoclastic brand of indie music. On The Miraculous, Hausswolff doubles down on the organ. The instrument she's using here is an enormous 9,000-pipe Acusticum Organ designed by Gerard Woehl. Its vast tonal and instrumental possibilities include sounds for glockenspiel, vibraphone, celeste, percussion, and indefinable high-pitched shrieking sounds that extend the upper reaches of the Western harmonic system (these pipes are partially submerged in water). Vocally, Hausswolff moves effortlessly through her range, but she also employs guttural throat and body sounds, as well as skittering, glossolalic vocalizations (à la Diamanda Galas and Jarboe). For her, the voice becomes an integral instrument in her sound. The relatively brief, almost funereal "The Hope of Only Empty Men" has a rhythm created from the organ's swirling pulse accentuated by a kick drum and whispering cymbals with industrial noise spinning above. Her monotone singing offers an emotionally devastating lyric, but the restrained melody remains unaffected because her voice barely rises above the sonics. In contrast, "Pomperipossa" is a short, melodic, tender Gothic love song that reveals the enduring influence of Kate Bush. "Come Wander with Me" is stunning. Over nearly 11 minutes, the music moves through droned-out Gothic blues (think Desertshore-era Nico), crushing doom metal, early King Crimson-esque prog-industrial noise rock, Swedish folk, and something approaching Byzantine chant. Its nerve-cracking guitars, bashing processional drums, layered percussion, and waves of feedback are all fueled by her earth-quaking organ. Hausswolff's voice is equally extreme. It shifts wildly between alto and soprano, delivering an apocalyptic lyric when words don't suffice. This is excess-laden extreme music at its grandiose best. The ten-minute title number couldn't be more different: It begins on a brooding, sub-baritone organ drone; it very gradually lightens in color and timbre with gentle dissonances and timbral shifts. When she begins signing -- four minutes in -- treated backing vocals shade her own tender, passionate, multi-tracked performance. The cut's mood is altered from balladic to liturgical, from duskily ethereal to brightly lit, and the effect is transformative. Closer "The Stranger" is a cinematic folk-rock song; it's like a tune in a spaghetti western soundtrack produced by Lee Hazlewood with glockenspiel, harp, and cymbalom sounds crisscrossed with guitars and subdued percussion. As a composer, singer, and sound sculptor, Hausswolff is in full control on The Miraculous, balancing harshness and intimacy, heaviness and airy melancholy. It's an uncompromising view, but it's also welcoming.
GRAHAM DUFF’S EPIC BEST ALBUMS OF 2015 MEGA-POST
The sound at the core of this album is the 9,000 pipe organ in the Church of Acusticum Concert Hall of Piteå in North Sweden. Yet it shares equal importance with Von Hausswolff’s passionate multi-octave voice, ethereal electronics and glacial doom metal guitars. The centrepiece is the eleven minute epic “Come Wander With Me/Deliverance.” It starts off as an unlikely cover of a song from an episode of The Twilight Zone - although it almost sounds like Elizabeth Fraser essaying a funereal cover of The Who’s “The Rock” - before segueing into a monumental one chord riff. But this doesn’t reduce the music to brute force. Rather, like SWANS, von Hausswolff seeks transcendence through the power of forceful repetition. But there is light and optimism here too. “An Oath” is tender and uplifting and ‘Stranger’ is a sweeping Morricone-esque ballad. The Miraculous is music on a truly grand scale.
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