Gothenburg, SE · organ drone · gothic

Anna Von Hausswolff

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Pipe-organ doom hymns — sacred music for the beautifully unwell, where cathedral drones meet gothic songcraft at genuinely tectonic volume.

Anna von Hausswolff is a Swedish musician from Gothenburg who writes and performs largely on the pipe organ, recording in churches and concert halls to make use of specific instruments. She comes from an artistic family; her father is the sound and visual artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff.

Her music moves between song forms and long instrumental drone pieces, combining the organ's sustained volume with a high, keening voice, and touching on funeral doom, gothic rock and neoclassical dark wave. Later work has moved further toward wordless composition, with the organ carrying the weight alone.

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