A unique anduncategorisable artist, Swedish composer-keyboardist Anna von Hausswolff is one of those musicians whose work and appeal transcends boundaries – jazz, improv, rock, the avant-grade, all inform her work. This stunning (and superbly-recorded) live album sees her revisiting six (occasionally) lengthy pieces from her Dead Magic and The Miraculous albums, and re-presenting them anew. This is heavy stuff – as in Swans, Sunn 0))) or sludge-metal heavy – particularly rhythmically (although there are no drums), but there is plenty of light-touch, out-there improv and an interest in texture, too. This is Hausswolff exploring her compositions, as all great musicians do, and coming up with something new and unexpected. If her soaring, sonorous music (call it symphonic jazz-metal, maybe) reminds me of anyone, it’s saxophonists John Coltrane or Peter Brötzmann: her voice and organ go to places – astral spaces – that one never thought these instruments could go, just like Trane on Ascension or Interstellar Space, or Brötzmann on Machine Gun. A 2-LP vinyl version will be released via Pomperipossa Records in May.