SUSANNA shares new single "Invitation To Voyage"New album 'Go Dig My Grave' out this Friday! Written to a once banned poem by Charles Baudelaire, Susanna beautiful new composition ahead of her album release this Friday!Norwegian artist Susanna is sharing the last single from her new album 'Go Dig My Grave' ahead of it's release this Friday, Feb 9th. The new single, "Invitation To Voyage", is a brand new composition from Susanna written to a poem from Charles Baudelaire's once banned 'Flowers of Evil' banned in 19th century France for its treatment of decadence and eroticism. An unnerving combination of existential despair and musical beauty, ‘Go Dig My Grave’ presents a selection of songs straddling issues of lost love, abandonment – and a merciless thirst for liquor. Speaking about her new record, Susanna explains, "I am attracted to the sad songs, and how people have used music throughout the years; it feels like they use songs and singing as a way of processing and dealing with of the difficult times in their lives. There’s a lot of similarities in the dramatic ways of telling a story in the old English ballads such as 'The Willow Song' and 'The Three Ravens' and the American folk songs like 'Go Dig My Grave' - even if the newer folk songs has more of a straightforwardness to the tragedy." The album marks Susanna’s return to her collaboration with Swiss baroque harp player Giovanna Pessi. Pessi first appeared alongside Susanna on the album ‘Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos’, released on Rune Grammofon in 2007, and played a major role on the critically acclaimed ECM album ‘If Grief Could Wait’, a deep-dive into the sorrow-stricken music of Henry Purcell, Leonard Cohen and Susanna herself. This time the two have invited the talented young accordion player Ida Løvli Hidle and the great Norwegian fiddle player and folk singer Tuva LivsdaWer Syvertsen to form a quartet. The result is a dynamic band that easily masters subtle shifts from the simple folk feeling of songs like Elizabeth CoWen’s "Freight Train" to the icy beauty of Purcell’s "Cold Song" and the complex, centuries old lament of "The Willow Song". Links: For more information please contact: Listen to "Invitation To Voyage" below:
February 7, 2018 6:42am ET by Stereo Sanctity
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