The Last Magazine interviews Anna von Hausswolff

The Last Magazine talks to Swedish artist Anna von Hausswolff, her very first English-language interview: http://thelast-magazine.com/?p=1920

Sirius playlist week #40

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. TALK 1
02. Robert Svensson - Runaway
03. My Poor Lover - Lovesick
04. Fun - Williams house
05. TALK 2
06. Hero Dishonest - Birth, Sports Illustrated, death
07. Hanna Hirsch - Framtid och besvär
08. Haleiwa - Observatorielunden
09. Pistol Disco - Pool
10. TALK 3
11. MF/MB/ - The grand chase
12. Ståålfågel - Stupet
13. The Nature - Northern lights
14. TALK 4
15. The Loveable Tulips - Fortune favours the brave
16. Anna von Hausswolff - Track of time
17. Hunt - Ashes of a secret heart
18. The Bells - No Waves
19. TALK 5
20. Makthaverskan - Know love

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Musikförläggarnas prisgala nominees

SMFF, aka Svenska Musikförläggarna aka the Swedish Music Publishers Association, have announced their nominees for their annual awards show:

Composer:
Salem Al Fakir (Pompadore Publishing/EMI Music Publishing Scandinavia)
Nadir "RedOne" Khayat (Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia)
Martin "Max Martin" Sandberg/Johan "Shellback" Schuster (Maratone/Kobalt Music Scandinavia)
Oskar Linnros (Universal Music Publishing)
Lyrics:
Johan "Familjen" Karlsson (Hybris/Air Chrysalis Scandinavia)
Markus Krunegård (Peermusic)
Melissa Horn (Manus)
Oskar Linnros (Universal Music Publishing)
Song:
"What's the point?" - John Engelbert (Johnossi) (Manus)
"Keep on walking" - Salem Al Fakir (Pompadore Publishing/EMI Music Publishing Scandinavia)
"Bad romance" - Nadir "RedOne" Khayat/Stefani "Lady Gaga" Germanotta (Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia)
"Från och med du" - Oskar Linnros/Christian Olsson (Universal Music Publishing)
Newcomer:
Johan Moraeus (Air Chrysalis Scandinavia)
Johanna Söderberg/Klara Söderberg (First Aid Kit) (Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia)
Anna von Hausswolff (Manus)
Andreas "Grega" Östeman (Astmabeat Publishing/EMI Music Publishing Scandinavia)

Full details and all categories: http://www.smff.se/?id=8&cid=3197

Anna von Hausswolff
Singing from the grave
Kning Disk

Anna von Hausswolff does an admirable job crafting a piano-driven album that takes unexpected turns instead of falling prey to clichéd pop structures, with a number of the tracks "Singing from the grave" giving full voice to the talents of its composer. In this way, von Hausswolff successfully avoids the fate of being pigeonholed as 'just another female singer-songwriter,' but her idiosyncratic style has the unfortunate affect of rendering entire portions of the album difficult to get into. While I applaud the fact she avoids a number of avenues already explored by other artists, tracks like "Pills" and "Lost at sea" feel like bizarre, stripped-down Björk-inspired compositions, and, while it is amazing to listen to the whirlwinds von Hausswolff creates with her voice and fingers, it is not an experience that grows more enjoyable with repeated listening. It is more than obvious that Anna von Hausswolff is a talented musician and vocalist, but instead of finding myself lost in the songs, as I did with the gorgeous and haunting "Track of time" and "Above all", I began to feel outside most of the compositions, often unable to forge any connection between myself as listener and von Hausswolff as artist.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Eric Saade - Masquerade
02. Sabaton - Coat of arms
03. Kalle Mmoraeus - Underbart
04. Timoteij - Längtan
05. The Ark - In full regalia
06. Titanix - Drömmar får liv
07. Scotts - Vi gör det igen
08. Salem al Fakir - Ignore this
09. Toni Holgersson - Ibland kallar jag det kärlek
10. Mikael Wiehe - Ta det tillbaka!
11. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
12. Anna Bergendahl - Yours sincerely
13. Rolandz - Jajamen
14. Johnossi - Mavericks
15. Amanda Jenssen - Happyland - International version
16. Anna von Hausswolff - Singing from the grave
17. Ola Magnell - Rolös
18. H.E.A.T - Freedom rock
19. The Playtones - Rock'n roll dance party
20. Cookies n Beans - Beg, borrow and steal

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Timoteij - Längtan
02. Titanix - Drömmar får liv
03. Scotts - Vi gör det igen
04. The Ark - In full regalia
05. Salem al Fakir - Ignore this
06. Anna von Hausswolff - Singing from the grave
07. Anna Bergendahl - Yours sincerely
08. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
09. H.E.A.T - Freedom rock
10. Pain of Salvation - Road salt one
11. Mikael Wiehe - Ta det tillbaka!
12. Johnossi - Mavericks
13. Rolandz - Jajamen
14. Mojje - Att leka i finrummet
15. Cookies n Beans - Beg, borrow and steal
16. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a scheme
17. John Norum - Play yard blues
18. Familjen - Mänskligheten
19. Dan Berglund - Tonbruket
20. Björn Skifs - Da capo

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Familjen
02. The Radio Dept.
03. The National
04. Jens Lekman
05. Håkan Hellström
06. Anna von Hausswolff
07. The Bear Quartet
08. Robyn
09. Band of Horses
10. Shout Out Louds

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Sirius playlist week #20

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. Enforcer - High roller
02. TALK 1
03. Robyn - Dancing on my own
04. The Amazing - And it looks like today
05. Årabrot - End of first chant: II
06. TALK 2
07. The Bombettes - Cherry shot
08. Underachiever - No rain (arson)
09. Lapko - Kiss 'n' cry
10. TALK 3
11. The Howard Way - Runaway
12. Familjen - Socker
13. Deathchain - The crawling chaos
14. Lågkonjunkturen - Den här låten handlar om...
15. TALK 4
16. Anna von Hausswolff - Track of time
17. Marit Bergman - Free falling
18. Jennie Abrahamson - I lost my heart
19. TALK 5
20. Menfolk - Rubato (con song)

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Timoteij - Längtan
02. The Ark - In full regalia
03. Anna von Hausswolff - Singing from the grave
04. Scotts - Vi gör det igen
05. Salem al Fakir - Ignore this
06. Anna Bergendahl - Yours sincerely
07. Mikael Wiehe - Ta det tillbaka!
08. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
09. Johnossi - Mavericks
10. Ola Magnell - Rolös
11. Familjen - Mänskligheten
12. Rolandz - Jajamen
13. The Playtones - Rock'n roll dance party
14. Play - Under my skin
15. Jill Johnson - Music row II
16. Brutus - Brutus
17. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a scheme
18. Amanda Jenssen - Happyland
19. Mojje - Att leka i finrummet
20. Crashdïet - Generation wild

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Familjen
02. The National
03. Jonathan Johansson
04. The Radio Dept.
05. The Concretes
06. Beach House
07. Anna von Hausswolff
08. Robyn
09. Johnossi
10. Kent

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MP3: Anna von Hausswolff - Track of time

Can't say that Anna von Hausswolff's debut album "Singing from the grave" is hitting me as hard as I'd expected or hoped for, but this song, "Track of time", is a monster. It's a vicious gut-wrencher, much in the same way as The Tiny's "Last weekend"; it aims straight for the chest and claws on through, digging deeper with every swell, every anguished vocal tic. Pure manic devotion, not for the feint of heart.

Anna von Hausswolff - Track of time

Anna von Hausswolff album preview

Swedish site Gimme Indie is streaming a preview of the hyped new Anna von Hausswolff album "Singing from the grave", due out May 5 via Kning Disk: http://www.gimmeindie.se/

[ingenting] prep new single, get covered by Anna von Hausswolff

[ingenting] next single will be my favorite song from their excellent "Tomhet, idel tomhet" album, "Medan vi sov". It will be released on May 19 and will include a special b-side cover version by Anna von Hausswolff.

Anna Von Hausswolff to release full-length in May

On May 5 Swedish artist Anna Von Hausswolff will follow up her well-regarded double single "Track of time" with her full-length debut "Singing from the grave" via the label Kning Disk. Said album was recorded with much-respected producer Henryk Lipp (besides being a member of Blue for Two with Freddie Wadling, he also recorded much of Radium 226.05's output among many other fine records) and is said to have been largely tracked live in the studio.

The Silent Ballet reviews Anna von Hausswolff

The Silent Ballet reviews the new Anna von Hausswolff album "Track of time": http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/3202/Default.aspx