Listen to Susanna’s haunting new track Invitation To The Voyage

By Scott Munro
( Prog )
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Susanna releases a stream of her track Invitation To The Voyage - taken from her upcoming album Go Dig My Grave

Susanna
Susanna

Norwegian artist Susanna has released her new track titled Invitation To The Voyage.

It’s the latest track taken from her upcoming album Go Dig My Grave, which will arrive on Friday (February 9) via her SusannaSonata label.

The record features reworkings of folk ballads and covers, with Susanna previously revealing the title track, Freight Train and her take on Lou Reed’s Perfect Day.

Invitation To The Voyage is a brand new composition written to a poem from Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil, which was banned in 19th century France for its treatment of decadence and eroticism.

Susanna explains: “Quite recently I started to read Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil. I fell in love with the beautiful poems and got the urge to sing some of them.

“This one is the first of the songs I have written to this poetry, and a wonderful mysterious world has opened up to me.

“Invitation To The Voyage is a dream, or singing it feels like entering a dreamlike state of mind. I get a very strong sense of being in between worlds with the beautiful words of Baudelaire in this poem.”

Susanna is joined on Go Dig My Grave by baroque harp player Giovanna Pessi, accordion player Ida Hidle and fiddle player and folk singer Tuva Syvertsen.

She has several live dates scheduled for later this year. Find them below, along with the Go Dig My Grave cover art and tracklist

Susanna Go Dig My Grave 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 (Joy Division)
  9. The Three Ravens (Old English folk ballad)
  10. Perfect Day (Lou Reed)

Susanna 2018 tour dates

Mar 22: Knoxville Big Ears Festival, TN (solo)
Mar 23: Knoxville Big Ears Festival, TN (ft. Giovanna Pessi, Frode Haltli & Cheyenne Mize)
Mar 24: The Park Church Co-op, NY
May 25: Asker Kulturhus, Norway

Susanna – Go Dig My Grave album review

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.