Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Grove”) is the first track released from Anna von Hausswolff’s forthcoming album, All Thoughts Fly, set to be released this September 25th. The entire album features just one instrument, a pipe organ in Gothenburg, a Swedish replica of the Arp Schnitger organ in Germany, and the largest organ tuned in Quarter-comma Meantone temperament in the world.
With it’s four manuals, one pedal, and 54 stops, the Gothenburg organ was built as part of a ten-year research project reconstructing the craft of 17th Century North German organ building. The tuning temperament deeply affected the sound and radically changed the process of creating the album.
The organ was recorded with two room mics for atmosphere and two pairs of close mics placed inside the organ to capture nuances and detail for further processing by Filip Leyman in the studio. von Hausswolff noted the organ's ability to create beautiful "pitching" notes through its stops and air supply system. She remarked, “We took advantage of this so most of the pitching sounds and notes that you hear on the album comes from the mechanics of this organ, effects made entirely acoustically."
Sacro Bosco is a garden in the center of Italy containing grotesque mythological sculptures and buildings overgrown with vegetation, situated in a wooded valley beneath the castle of Orsini. Created during the 16th Century, Sacro Bosco was commissioned by Pier Francesco Orsini, some say to try and cope with his grief following the death of his wife Guilia Farnese. Others speculate the purpose was to create art.
“Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo is a creation carved out from one man’s head," Anna noted. "A frozen thought lasting throughout time and touching people across generations. All thoughts fly, Ogni Pensiero Vola, is about this: the importance of sharing for surviving, creating space and evolving. Once you’ve shared your words they are not only yours anymore."
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