Highly acclaimed and recommended album from Susanna.

The first 70 vinyl records comes numbered and signed.

Susanna’s first soloalbum since 2012, and her eleventh album in total, is a mastodont of a singer/songwriter release. Near 70 minutes of intensely expressive, deeply felt and spiritually probing lyrics, presented and performed in layers of voice, electronics, effects and programming together with instruments as piano, violin and tuba. The artist known for  personal interpretations of songs by Joy Division, Leonard Cohen and AC/DC among others but also her strong originals , has dissected her own musical expression, collaborations and projects, and put the pieces together again creating a unique and diverse world for her songs.

‘Triangle’ is composed, arranged, played, recorded and produced by Susanna. Musicians from Norwegian bands like Supersilent, Broen, Moskus, Splashgirl and Sudan Dudan participated alongside americans Alison Chesley (Helen Money) and Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang).

Even in this golden age for female singer-songwriters, Susanna stands out. Her vocal has become ever more versatile and fluid, recalling at times Kate Bush, the Laurel Canyon balladry of Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro, or the acrobatics of the Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser. But it’s always recognisably her own: calm and determined in the face of enormous forces and looming fears. On the terrifying ‘This / Phenomena’ it’s distorted into a digital mush, while on ‘We Don’t Belong’ it’s multitracked to a lush and enveloping chorus. Muted electro track ‘Hole’ features Anja Lauvdal and Heida Mobeck from rising art pop group Broen besides Skrap, Skadedyr and Moskus – not since Prince in the mid-80s has an existential religious crisis been so beautifully expressed with the tools of electronic pop.

Triangle is soul music for lost souls.

Personnel

Susanna: voice, pianos, autoharp, keyboards, effects, noise, samples and programming

Music and lyrics composed by Susanna

Pyramid composed by Susanna and Helge Sten

Arranged by Susanna, and in collaborations with the musicians

Produced by Susanna

Hole co-produced by Anja Lauvdal and Heida Mobeck, In The Need Of A Shephed co-produced by Fredrik Wallumrød, Triangle and Under Water co-produced by Deathprod

Harpreet Bansal: violin on Before the Altar, In My Blood and Pyramid

Alison Chesley (Helen Money): cello and cello arrangement on The Fire

Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen: orchestral percussion on Under Water and Triangle

Hans Hulbækmo: drums and percussion on Hole

Emmett Kelly: guitar on Texture Within, In My Blood, For My Sins and Pyramid

Anja Lauvdal: synths and piano on Hole

Andreas S. Løwe: synths on We Don’t Belong, Death Hanging, The Fire, Texture Within and This / Phenomena

Heida K. J. Mobeck: tuba and effects on Hole

Jo Berger Myhre: double bass, baryton guitar and effects on Purple, Fear and Terror, Under Water, Death Hanging, Triangle and Decomposing

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm: saxophone on The Fire and Born Again

Laura Marie Rueslåtten: hand bells on We Don’t Belong and For My Sins

Anders Røine: guitar, langeleik, munnharpe on Death Hanging and Decomposing

Jessica Sligter: vocals on Death Hanging

Helge Sten: guitar, programming, editing on We Don’t Belong and Triangle, editing on Hole

Fredrik Wallumrød: programming, synths on In The Need Of A Shepherd