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| | Swans (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was the first Swans album to feature more conventional pop melodies, though Gira's lyrics still favored themes of depression, death, greed and despair, though actually sung, rather than the chanting or shouting typical of earlier material. | | | Swans were one of the few rock music bands to emerge from the New York, USA No Wave scene intact. | | | Swans Are Dead (1998) brings together live recordings from their 1995 and 1997 tours, documenting the energy and stage presence of Michael Gira and Jarboe. |
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| | Godflesh A-Z |
| | Shortly after, Earache signed the band and requested a full LP to be recorded and released. | | | After the release of the Godflesh EP, the band recorded 4 tracks to be released as an EP under the title Tiny Tears. | | | Justin and Nik both left the band before that record was released. |
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http://www.godflesh.com/encyclopedia
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| | Swans: Swans Are Dead: Pitchfork Review |
| | Swans Are Dead is their aptly named final release; a double live CD culling live recordings from their 1995 and 1997 tours. | | | The Swans' relentless attack of steamroller percussion, clanging guitar drones, atmospheric keyboards, and the interplay of Gira's deep vocals with that of his counterpart chantuese Jarboe make for a slow- motion sonic catharsis, repeated over and over in every song. | | | The brutal repetition in Swans' music is mirrored by a repetition of lyric themes-- pain and pleasure, death and life, love and hate-- which seem simple enough, but Gira recognizes them as deeply integral parts of human existence that cannot be fully comprehended. |
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| | The Young Gods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The band's lineup generally has consisted of vocalist a sampler operator, and a drummer. | | | This article on a band or other musical ensemble is a stub. | | | The Young Gods is a Swiss band of Industrial music. |
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| | The band first appeared on record in 1982 with a self-titled EP, and its early releases document their search for the musical vocabulary to express their ideas effectively. | | | Acoustic guitar and nearly New Age electronic pastels are as likely to be part of the mix as the band's signature metallic harshness... | | | Their first MCA album, The Burning World, came the closest to mainstream rock of anything they had done up to that point, and 1991's White Light From the Mouth of Infinity continued that trend. |
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| | SWANS - Review/live/Chicago Reader |
| | Swans were remarkable in that almost every album they made over the course of 15 years was better - or at least more interesting - then the one before it. | | | The histories of so many brilliant bands are studies in entropy that it's become the rock and roll status quo. | | | It was a deft reinvention, and as it turned out, a surprising act of humility - from 1987 onward, Gira's songs grew shoots of melody and subtlety; his lyrical lines grew long and relatively intricate; his dark voice picked up some wryness and self-reflection and just a hint of whiskey. |
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| | SWANS - Article Detroit Metro Times |
| | Swans are an ever-evolving group of musicians, led by singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Michael Gira, and his ubiquitous companion, keyboardist, songwriter and vocalist Jarboe. | | | The Swans' sound has evolved out of the early punk and downtown Manhattan no-wave scene, from plodding, harsh, extreme blast of guitar and drum noise to 140 beats per minute, drum machine dance music terror to exotically beautiful and shimmering musical textures that are almost medieval in their melodic structure and execution. | | | The band's first album, "Filth," crossed my desk, and I put it on the store's sound system. |
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| | Young God Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The label's original intent was to be a place to release the music of Swans (like the Beatles and Apple Records). | | | The record company has grown to host Gira's current band, the Angels of Light, Swans re-issues, Gira's side projects the Body Lovers and the Body Haters, Michael Gira's solo career, and a number of other bands. | | | Young God Records is a record label formed by Michael Gira in the early 1990s. |
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| | Why Satan Loves...Swans |
| | In 1998 Swans released their last album as a band "Swans are Dead", and split up. | | | Swans are the greatest band of all time, ever. | | | This is the last Swans' album, a 2 hour live recording from various locations on their final tour. |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/satan.is.love/Site/Pages/Music/swans.htm
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| | SWANS - Article Boulder Weekly SWANS SONG |
| | Most of Swans' ultimate development can be traced back to their watershed 1987 release Children of God - a stunning album that finally provided a reference point for dealing with the harsh invincibility of the band's heaviness. | | | He's proudest of Swans' most recent works, The Great Annihilator album from 1995 and the brand-new two CD set titled Soundtracks For the Blind. | | | True, that was the sound of Swans when Gira first formed the band in New York City back in 1981, but today, to say that Swans' music has matured doesn't even begin to describe the perfect and beguiling beast it has become. |
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| | Press - Article Birds of Prey San Francisco Bay Guardian |
| | Swans song Iyrics are a genre of their own, with Gira - and later Jarboe -penning grotesquely beautiful explorations of the extremities of power, transgression. | | | Swans' first studio album in three years, and the release of Jarboe's third solo work last spring, Sacrificial Cake, and Gira's first, Drainland, both on Alternative Tentacles. | | | The solo albums and tour are the latest chapter in a long, tumultuous history that ranks Swans alongside Sonic: Youth as one of the most seminal bands to emerge from New York's early-'80s noise scene. |
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| | Swans glide into Detroit Interview PRESS YOUNG GOD RECORDS |
| | With the release of its newest album, "Soundtracks for the Blind," the band (meaning the two primaries, Michael Gira and the mono-sobriqueted Jarboe) announced that it wasn't going to record any more studio albums and that its next tour would be the last. | | | It seems to set a series of preconceptions in people's minds before they listen to it, or before they decide not to listen to the music. | | | "Soundtracks for the Blind" is, in some ways, an album that summarizes the band's history. |
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| | SWANS - Article Chicago Tribune |
| | Swans flirted with wider acceptance of their own after the release of their acknowledged masterpiece, the 1987 double album "Children of God," a work that evokes both medieval beauty and horror with, its stately, acoustic-laden textures. | | | Gira describes everything recorded since as a part of the "recovery process," which recently culminated in the release of the band's final studio opus, the shimmering double-CD "Soundtracks for the Blind" (Atavistic). | | | Contrary to rumor, the towering singer-producer-conceptual-ist is an affable conversationalist, capable of laughing at himself as well as at a music industry that has done its best to push him into the hand-to-mouth hinterlands by characterizing Swans as a sickening aberration instead of one of rock's most alluringly quixotic band. |
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| | For band line-ups, see the write-ups for those albums above. | | | Band line-up: Michael R. Gira - voice, electric and acoustic guitars, samples, sounds, loops Jarboe - voice, keyboards, sounds, loops GUESTS: Larry Mullins - drums, percussion, vibraphones Vudi - electric and acoustic guitar Joe Goldring - bass guitar and electric guitar Cris Force - Viola... | | | The song "Gun" is performed in collaboration with a band called GROUP 349. |
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| | Swans, Possibly the most important band you have not heard - Musician Forums |
| | She wasnt officialy with the band but she made like she was appearing on stage and playing keyboards and bass. | | | This is the black disc from from the album the swans are dead this was recorded live on there last tour if enough people like it I will upload the white disc. | | | Which the Swans became an extremely experimental band and creating some of the most breathtaking and beautiful and also hideous music ever created. |
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| | SWANS - Article CMJ The Final Sacrafice |
| | The last Swans studio album delves into ambient music, mixing songs and collages of loops, taped voices, live musicians and noises. | | | Over the course of ten studio albums and a slew of EPs, singles, live records and "official bootlegs," they've developed from a slow, rhythmically potent noise-rock band into a slow, rhythmically potent avant-rock singularity equally capable of lush, stunning power and dark, semi-acoustic dirges. | | | And the imminent release of a final Swans double live CD makes the band's legacy anything but dead. |
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| | SWANS - Interview Chart(Toronto) |
| | Swans happened in about '82, and appeared to be the sonic embodiment of Gira's rage. | | | Though he's quick to point out that Swans are a collaborative effort involving all band members (Gira: vocals and writing; Jarboe: vocals and keyboards; Norman Westberg: guitars; Al Kyzis: bass; Ted Parsons: drums), the band is essentially his-which means without him they wouldn't exist. | | | This dubious badge of achievement was earned by Swans, the all-time champs of the Sonic Brutality Index (defined as the inverse ratio between decibels produced and the area of the room enclosing them). |
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| | Jarboe interview from QRD#16 |
| | The Living Jarboe band is playing in Norway in 2000. | | | despite her solo work before after and during Swans, Jarboe is most known as the singer and keyboard player in that legendary band. | | | since that time she’s become incredibly prolific with her collaborative projects, made one of 1998’s best albums (Anhedoniac), formed a new band, recorded another album soon to be released, and started a website that features informal discussions and interviews with fellow artists she admires. |
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| | SWANS - Article Denver Post |
| | Outside the recording studio, the band continues to deliver its powerful sonic theater. | | | And even though the band bases its music on traditional rock instruments -- guitars, keyboards, percussion -- there is nothing quite like the Swans in the world of rock 'n' roll. | | | To that end, the Swans are not band that lives in compromise. |
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| | SWANS - article Mancunion 1995 |
| | I was in a band as a kid and I pursued many different musical jobs, even lounge room singing, after college so I do have a life completely away from Swans." Her third solo album approaches. | | | Disregarding all those ill directed goth/metal press accusations, the Swans musical catalogue, (new LP and first since 1992, "The Great Annihilator" included) remains a fearsome beast, surveying all aspects of love, life and death, and in doing so dragging both band and listener through emotional and sonic hell. | | | Approaching Michael Gira, frontman of Swans, one of New York's most groundbreaking and exhilarating musical success stories, you would imagine is something to be done with appreciation. |
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| | Jonathan Kane and Swans PRESS YOUNG GOD RECORDS |
| | We went on tour with Sonic Youth, it was both bands’ first tours: 10 of us in one airless, seatless van with a trailer at the back for the gear. | | | We’d played in a band called Circus Mort. | | | Like so many young rock bands, we broke up the moment we put a record out. |
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| | MusicMoz - Resources: Directories: Bands and Artists |
| | Bands For Hire - A list of bands and disc jockeys who are looking for gigs. | | | Concentrates on up and coming bands with the intention of broadening your listening experience. | | | Musicorner, The - A collection of independent bands and their music, in RealAudio format. |
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| | SWANS Young God Records |
| | At the beginning of the final tour of his band Swans, Gira took the time to discuss the end of a 15 year odyssey as one of contemporary music's most highly regarded and overlooked bands. | | | New listeners and old discovered a rock band with as much richness and subtlety as a classical symphony orchestra. | | | Bursting from the NY scene in the early 80's, the Swans' sound was so heavy, so threatening that listeners either fled in fear or joined the throng. |
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| | Swans MP3 Downloads - Swans Music Downloads - Swans Music Videos |
| | Jarboe's own standout tracks include "Mother/Father," a brawling number showcasing both her and the band at their full-on best, and "My Buried Child," with her softly husked take on a terrifying Gira lyric, which is carried by a roiling rhythm. | | | As is par for the course by now, Swans seem incapable of producing a bad album, Annihilator being crammed full of astonishing songs to prove it. | | | Leadoff single "Celebrity Lifestyle" is one of the catchiest things the band has ever done, but it's still uniquely Swans -- a minimal, throbbing song matched with a sharp lyric on starlust and what it might mean. |
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| | SWANS - Article Swans Song Addicted to Noise |
| | The album comprises studio and live recordings, songs from the sessions for The Great Annihilator, their preceding album, as well as a dizzying multitude of tape loops, samples of found sounds, studio-recorded noises, old surveillance tapes from the files of Jarboe's late father -- he was an FBI agent. | | | The next four Swans albums, The Burning World, White Light From the Mouth Of Infinity, Love of Life, and the live Omniscience were recorded with a shifting cast of characters. | | | This won't be a rock band at all, but be more acoustic, atmospheric stuff." |
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| | Midheaven Mailorder Browse by Label: Young God |
| | Cacophonous, confrontational, and unrelentingly loud, the band used vocal rants and bone-crunching distortion to achieve unparalleled levels of sonic pain. | | | Swans atomize rhythm and melody by taking repetition to an extreme, almost aberrant degree, to a point where the music is transformed into a behemoth machine that simultaneously disrupts and illuminates its own internal structure.... | | | As the band recorded with Michael Gira and Jason La Farge, a song would sometimes be described as "too red" or "not aluminum enough" or some other arcane reference, but inevitably, corrections made with the aid of a screwdriver or maybe the sanded metal rails of a staircase resulted in an unpredictable but "correct" result. |
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| | autodidact - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!" |
| | The result on this first CD (after years of cassette-only releases on labels such as Spilling Audio, Corprolith, and Loud Cat) is a series of droning, minimalistic songs that are both unearthly in sound and intensely hypnotic in nature. | | | Autodidact, an experimental band from Austin, Texas, has been exploring the boundaries of guitar sound since January of 1995. |
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| | SWANS Review Great Annihilator Event W. Yorks |
| | From their first stomach-churning rumblings on Filth (1983), Swans produced some of the most frightening claustrophobic music of the 1980's. | | | Leading protagonists of the discordant post-punk revolution of the early '80's were either acquiescent (Swans, Band of Susans), rocking out (Rollins, Sonic Youth) or in danger reaching a creative dead-end (Butthole Surfers. | | | Split into 'songs with words' and 'songs without words,' its a relentless barrage of triple-guitar overdrive. |
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| | S W A N S - F A Q |
| | Both bands came out of New York in the early 1980s, they shared concert billings, and were the subject of a parody album, Swanic Youth. | | | The band that recorded "Photographs and Letters" is unconnected to Swans. | | | Michael Gira's pre-SWANS band released this four song EP in 1981, and promptly disappeared. |
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| | So I'm in this band: Influences, Part II: Swans |
| | There was, however, some weird kind of beauty in the urgent, desperate way that the songs were put together, and it seemed to me even then that its brutality had a point that was lacking from some of the other dark music I was listening to at the time. | | | Gira has been the most prolific, and in fact he ended up starting his own record label, Young God Records. | | | The more I listened to it, the more I heard, and I've never quite been able to lose the part of me that thinks that if I like something enough, my friends will like it too. |
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| | My Dying Bride : Turn Loose the Swans - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | The gothic strains and pure depression of the band are in peak form on this recording. | | | Averaging a cool eight minutes apiece, each of this record's seven songs is dripping with treachery and pain, as the band's lyrical fascination with deceit and transgressions of every variety are apparent in every line. | | | From the gentler strains of "Your River" to the deathly title track, My Dying Bride takes sorrow to new extremes on this Futurist release. |
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| | Declan Swans news archive |
| | During the call Judith expressed her concerns about certain Swans lyrics, these were noted by the band who look forward to meeting her in the near future. | | | If you have experienced any of the band's recent live shows some of the songs will be familiar. | | | On the 8th June the much delayed Live at The Racecourse video will finally be with us and early in July the band will release a CD of new material. |
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| | Movements of Trumpeter Swans Shown by Band Returns and Observations |
| | A third was banded on Saskatoon Lake on August 29, 1955. | | | An adult male, caught and banded while flightless at Hughes Lake near Grande Prairie, Alberta, on August 28, 1955, was seen with his mate and cygnets on the same lake during the summer of 1956. | | | Four other cygnets banded in 1955 were seen on Saskatoon Lake on May 16, 1956. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: S: Sw: Swans |
| | TrouserPress.com: Swans - Reviews of the band's recordings, including solo and side projects. | | | Young God Records - Music, news, and information from the label run by Michael Gira, featuring his work with Swans and his post-Swans music. | | | Die Tuer wird Nicht Zubleiben -- an Unofficial Swans Site - Fan-oriented site features a forum, information about a tribute CD, discography, and FAQ. |
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| | SWANS - live review by ozymandias G desiderata |
| | And while the Swans really are Gira and Jarboe, the backing band was no | | | 5-person band was able to create such a complete and flawless wall of | | | occasions, listening to the Swans' music has left me feeling physically |
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| | Swans t-shirts, band merchandise, hats, flags, stickers and patches |
| | Swans concert T-shirts and thousands of Rock and Roll, heavy metal, | | | Swans band merchandise, concert t-shirts, hats, flags, stickers and patches | | | We carry concert t-shirts of over 1200 Music bands of rock n roll, |
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| | GSN: The Sea Lyrics By Swans Band AIM Buddy Icons |
| | GSN: The Sea Lyrics By Swans Band AIM Buddy Icons | | | The Sea Lyrics By Swans Posters and T-Shirts | | | The Sea Lyrics By Swans AIM Buddy Icons |
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| | World War 1 and 2 - Angels of Light |
| | All Angels of Light albums have been released on Michael Gira's label Young God Records. | | | Angels of Light has marked a distinctly different style for Gira since he left Swans, most noticeably being musically more melodic and less brutal than his previous efforts, though no less emotionally draining. | | | Angels of Light are a rock group formed in 1997 by singer Michael Gira after he disbanded Swans, the group he'd founded in 1980. |
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| | Decomposition-Sharon Cheslow |
| | Sharon Cheslow, Chuck Bettis, Yellow Swans, SC+CB+YS, Noise Nomads, Mildew | | | w/Sharon Cheslow solo, Carly Ptak+Chuck Bettis, Yellow Swans, Et At It, Max Demand, Ohm, Robert | | | w/Sharon Cheslow+Eva, Carly Ptak+Chuck Bettis, Yellow Swans, Et At It, Thunderberg/Natestorm (w/Max Demand) |
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| | Swans Commentary: Past Issue - September 22, 2003 |
| | They are part of the larger Shoshonean-speaking Native American groups that lived in the Intermountain West. | | | Become a repository for spent nuclear waste, a chilling solution for the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians, described by Gerard Donnelly Smith. | | | According to the Utah Division of Indian Affairs' Goshute Page, "The Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians is a federally recognized Indian Tribe located in the west desert of Tooele County. |
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| | Sufjan Stevens |
| | Promotional Contact / Join the Sounds Familyre E-mail Newsletter (Check out SF's Homepage for Details) / More Info at Billions | | | to Michigan / The 50 States / Asthmatic Kitty / Sounds Familyre / Seven Swans on SF |
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| | Re: Why don't we band hunting swans? |
| | : Why don't we band hunting swans forever?I mean while the trumpeter swans are being shot we are doing nothing. | | | : : Why don't we band hunting swans forever?I mean while the trumpeter swans are being shot we are doing nothing. | | | In Reply to: Why don't we band hunting swans? |
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| | Swans EP - 12" K2422 KDE 1-12 (reissued as EP N1 1982 on Young Gods YGEP 1 in 1990) |
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| | Swans: band |
| | Home > Performers & Artists > Club Bands > S > Swans | | | Update on Tuesday December 14, 2004 3:04am EDT |
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