Anna von Hausswolff

Pipe organ and funeral pop

Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von Hausswolff was born on September 6, 1986 in Gothenburg and studied architecture at Chalmers University of Technology. She plays vocals, pipe organ, piano and synthesizers. The Guardian called her style funeral pop, and Wikipedia lists comparisons to Nico, Diamanda Galas, Yma Sumac and Kate Bush. Her debut single "Track of Time" came out on February 5, 2010, followed by the album Singing from the Grave. Ceremony (Sweden, July 18, 2012, Kning Disk; Europe June 14, 2013, City Slang; North America July 9, 2013, Other Music) was produced by Filip Leyman and recorded at Annedal Church in Gothenburg, her first album to feature a pipe organ, and reached 5 in Sweden. After it she moved to Copenhagen, and played her US debut at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn on July 10, 2013.

The Miraculous (November 13, 2015) was recorded at Studio Acusticum in Pitea on its Gerald Woehl organ, which has about nine thousand pipes and some placed in water, and mixed at Leyman's studio in Gothenburg. The title comes from a name she gave a village she visited as a child, later identified as Kisa in Ostergotland. It reached 8 in Sweden; Metacritic scores it 82. She opened Swans' European tour in October 2016, played Dead Magic (March 2, 2018, City Slang), produced by Randall Dunn mostly at Frederik's Church in Copenhagen, and played the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2018 at Nick Cave's invitation, released as a live album in 2022.

All Thoughts Fly (September 25, 2020, Southern Lord) is solo pipe organ, recorded in January 2020 at Orgryte New Church in Gothenburg. Iconoclasts (October 31, 2025, YEAR0001), produced with Leyman, runs 72:49 with guests Iggy Pop, Ethel Cain and Abul Mogard, and Metacritic scores it 88. She has collaborated with Wolves in the Throne Room on "Born from the Serpent's Eye" (2017), Swans in 2019 and Sunn O))) live, and performed Organ Reframed at Union Chapel in London with the London Contemporary Orchestra. A North American tour was postponed from March 2026 to January 2027.