Come Wander With Me / Deliverance
A Twilight Zone song that merged with her own piece into a ten-minute centerpiece.
Anna von Hausswolff, from The Miraculous (2015)
Our upload is labeled with Ceremony, but the track is the fourth on The Miraculous (2015), not Ceremony (2012). The song "Come Wander with Me" was written by Jeff Alexander (music) and Anthony Wilson (words) for the Twilight Zone episode of that name, season 5, aired on May 22, 1964 and directed by Richard Donner, sung by Bonnie Beecher in her television debut. A friend introduced von Hausswolff to it, it became a favorite and a staple of her live shows, and while performing it she developed a new piece, Deliverance, and the two merged. All other tracks on the album are hers alone.
It was the first single, released on August 19, 2015. Stereogum's Tom Breihan wrote that it sounds like a dark monument, moving from expansive gothed-out soundscapes to proggy doom metal, and The Quietus's Christian Eede called it a ten-minute rock-opera statement blending stoner rock and doom-laden metal. Maria von Hausswolff directed the video, released on September 28, 2016, with a first half in a forest and then into water. At Montreux in 2018 it closed the set, building from a murmur of bowed bass into a tumult of hypnotic heaviness, and is on the 2022 live album. We found no chart entry, no covers of her version and no setlist.fm count.
On stage
- 2018, Montreux Jazz Festival Closing the set; released on the 2022 live album.
Sources
- Come Wander with Me, Wikipedia
- Anna von Hausswolff, Come Wander With Me / Deliverance, Stereogum (2015-08-19)
- Anna von Hausswolff: new song, The Quietus (2015-08-19)
- The Miraculous, Wikipedia