Anna von Нausswolff

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Нello All!

Залит AnnaVon_Нausswolff/(2018)_DeadMagic

Молодая шведская органистка (большой орган), которая подалась в готик/амбиент/дарк/пост-рок/кроссовер/итд. Короче говоря, чернуха-под-церковный-орган.
Она выпустила уже 3 диска, данный - единственный, который я слышал.
Любители Дед Кан Данс и ГУБЕ! будут в полном восторге!

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(c) Anna von Нausswolff biography, PA

A Swedish singer, pianist, and songwriter Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von НAUSSWOLFF was born as a daughter of a sound creator/artist Carl Michael upon September 6, 1986 in Gothenburg. Since 2008 she's played as a professional musician mainly around Sweden and released her first single "Track Of Time" in February, 2010. Anna's debut album "Ceremony" was released in July 2013 in US or Canada via Other Music Recordings, with that she gigged Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, US for the first time. "The Miraculous" has been out as her second album in November 2015 and the newest creation "Dead Magic" will see the light in February 2018.
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Dead Magic
Anna von Нausswolff
Crossover Prog, 2018
(c) Review by BrufordFreak, PA

An extraordinary force is at work in Gothenborg, Dutch-born church organist-gone-wild, Anna Von Нausswolff is exploring very proggy, atmospheric, and experimental territory with this, her latest album. Music fitting the Post Rock bill but branching out in an extremely eerie, SWANS and DEAD CAN DANCE kind of way.

1. "The Truth, The Glow, The Fall" (12:37) very similar to a DEAD CAN DANCE song with Lisa Gerrard in the lead vocal. Plodding, melodic, and absolutely brilliant! (10/10)

2. "The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra" (6:08) a SWANS-like song construct with drums, hand percussives, single- chord electric guitar strokes, and organ hits forming an electro-pulse foundation over which Anna's wild, banshee- like voice sings (wails) in a kind of Bernadette Peters-gone-wild voice. Amazing and powerful! What an impassioned vocal! So unexpected and powerful! May be the song of the year! I did not know Anna could sing like this! (10/10)

3. "Ugly and Vengeful" (16:17) spacious and atmospheric, this plodding song could easily come from either an ancient Greek tragedy or a SWANS album--or something by GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR. Powerful and unsettling. In the eleventh minute a metronomic bass drum and tom establish a shamanic or indigenous kind of beat for the first time in the song while guitars and, later, organ and voice take turns expanding the soundscape into infinity. (9/10)

4. "The Marble Eye" (5:18) a complex, layered solo church organ piece opening with breathy organ arpeggi which then get layered with bass pedal below and upper ocatve arpeggi above in the second half of the opening minute. Нigher octave organ melody gets established over the aforementioned weave of arpeggi. Are some of these layers being looped? The melodies introduced in the second half of the third minute are powerful! Awesome, gorgeous song! (9.5/10)

5. "Kallans ateruppstandelse" (7:26) opens with slow-changing ethereal synth wash chords for the first two minutes before organ joins in as the dominant instrument over the top of the synth chords. Gorgeous, relaxing, and contemplative. Anna begins singing (in English) over the top at the 3:25 mark while accompanied by plaintive solo violin. Later, in the fifth minute, this violin becomes a full string section with raunchy, staticky electric guitar playing alongside. Great vocal, great arrangement, pretty yet eery and unsettling. (9.5/10)

Five full stars; a certifiable masterpiece of exciting, boundary-pushing progressive rock music! So well constructed and produced! One of the best albums of the decade!
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Enjoy!
WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.

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