A quick update on Susanna And The Magical Orchestra from my earlier post this week.
A 2006 release of cover versions the like of which you have never heard.

In a similar way Stina Nordenstam deconstructed familiar songs on her brilliant cover version CD “People Are Strange”, Susanna does an equally superb job of totally reworking all the covers on this album beautifully.

Susanna – “Love Will Tear Us Apart (Again)” from the album “Melody Mountain”

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Vocalist Susanna Carolina Wallumrød does a cracking job of massaging melancholia out of the songs on this album. She totally changes the meaning of Dolly Partons’ “Jolene” with her sparse vocal working of it.

The rest of the album is equally atmospheric and not as bleak as you may first think.

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra – “Jolene” from the album “List Of Lights And Buoys”

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