Susanna shares poignant number "Freight Train" ahead of new collaborative covers record

The album is a collaboration between Susanna, Swiss baroque harp player Giovanna Pessi, accordion player Ida Hidle, and fiddle player/folk singer Tuva Syvertsen. It features 10 tracks, including covers of Joy Division and Lou Reed songs.

"Digging for gold in LA’s vinyl stores, I came across Elizabeth Cotten’s album When I’m Gone which is an appealing title in itself," explains Susanna. "A wonderful record, and one of the songs is 'Freight Train'. I am deeply fascinated by how people think of death, as the final rest or the moving beyond to something new - do you find comfort in thinking it’s all going to end some day or do you fear it? 'Freight Train' is such a master piece of a song, cut to the bone about being content with what this life has to offer, the tempo of it all and how some day it’s going to be just fine to wrap it up.”

The album, produced by Susanna with Deathprod, is one of "several extensive projects" arriving in 2017 and 2018. It follows last year's Triangle.

Tracklist:

1. Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten)
2. Cold Song (John Dryden/Henry Purcell)
3. Invitation To The Voyage (Charles Baudelaire/Susanna Wallumrød)
4. Rye Whiskey (Traditional)
5. The Willow Song (Anonymous)
6. Go Dig My Grave (Traditional)
7. Lilac Wine (James Shelton)
8. Wilderness (Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner)
9. The Three Ravens (Old English folk ballad)
10. Perfect Day (Lou Reed)