Dead Magic
“Dear listeners. This is the first track from my new album, Dead Magic! Me, my band and Randall Dunn spent 9 days in Copenhagen recording this record. The great pipe organ you’re hearing is a 20th century instrument located in Marmor Kirken, "The Marble Church", Copenhagen. Here is a poem for you by the Swedish writer Walter Ljungquist (1900-1974): ”Take the fate of a human being, a thin pathetic line that contours and encircles an infinite and unknown silence. It is in this very silence, in an only imagined and unknown centre, that legends are born. Alas! That is why there are no legends in our time. Our time is a time deprived of silence and secrets; in their absence no legends can grow." Please enjoy the music. Yours sincerely, Anna von Hausswolff"
Swedish singer, composer, and organist Anna Von Hausswolff delivered The Miraculous in 2015, an exercise that evolved from the Gothic pop of her earlier records towards blackened folk-metal and post-rock via a 9,000-pipe Acusticum Organ.
It's one thing to believe in magic, quite another to believe in the death of it. On Anna von Hausswolff's fourth album, her gothic, bewitched art turns toward grand doom.
'Dead Magic', the fourth album from Swedish songwriter Anna von Hausswolff, is classical-anarcho-intergalactic-drone-punk-noise at its finest.
Shining a light into the darkness is one of the oldest tasks of art in the Western tradition.