She offers a kind of musical authority that is only fully realized by openly acknowledging and submitting to one's own vulnerability.
In a year overrun with countless horrors and innumerable cultural, social, political, and personal setbacks and pitfalls, All Thoughts Fly takes Orsini’s artistic expression of grief and imbues it with an unparalleled sense of beauty.
All Thoughts Fly is undoubtedly a peculiar album, but absolutely one well worth investigation.
Without Von Hausswolff's astringent vocals, this solo instrumental album feels lighter on gates-of-doom atmosphere than previous work, but even so, whispers and echoes start to bounce off this record's walls, promising revelation at every turn.
Von Hausswolff uses the organ’s full expressive range, exploring new sides of the instrument on each song without ever disrupting All Thoughts Fly’s essential solemnity.
Anna von Hausswolff flexes her skills and imagination as an organist on All Thoughts Fly.
It’s a charming and utterly enveloping release, and one worth setting aside some time to get lost within.
To release a church organ album that never once sounds hymnal is something close to genius in itself.
After meeting the magnificent Dead Magic, I was super curious about Anna's other works. While the melodies can be so delicate, they convey a feeling of fear of the unknown, and this combination makes her an even more special artist, especially in the time of completely commercial songs in which we live today. Listening to anything from Anna becomes an experience.
After seeing that she had announced a new album for 2020, I was very excited, and here we are; All Thoughts Fly, an ambitious work, ... read more
The latest album from virtuoso pipe organist Anna von Hausswolff is a considerable step back after the monumental Dead Magic. All Thoughts Fly is a much more miminalistic ambient project with beautifully droning organs and evocative soundscapes.
Her music has always had a gothic air to it, so much so, religious fundamentalists kept boycotting and cancelling her shows after this album. That's of course not without its own bittersweet irony, especially considering All Thoughts Fly is probably ... read more
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2 | Dolore di Orsini 4:04 | 79 |
3 | Sacro Bosco 6:23 | 85 |
4 | Persefone 7:08 | 85 |
5 | Entering 2:10 | 79 |
6 | All Thoughts Fly 12:23 | 89 |
7 | Outside the Gate (For Bruna) 5:23 | 83 |
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