Brandon stosuy talks with 60yearold artrock legend michael gira about how swans managed to return without losing any potency, and how a haitian revolutionary. Hello there, we swans have recently completed our new album. Public castration is a good idea by swans, released 23 march 2016 1. Swans then released we rose from your bed with the sun in our head, a limited double cd of live recordings and demos, in order to help finance swans 2012 release, the seer. Produced and written by michael gira, swans leaving meaning features several former members along with dozens of other handpicked musicians. Between 2010 and 2017, michael gira led a mostly stable lineup of swans who toured and recorded constantly, producing some of the most ambitious work of his monumental career. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans and fronted angels of light. While some of the material here can become instrumentally repetitive, its not a bad album in the slightest, with alternate takes on swans songs and completely original songs, most. Apr 29, 2017 michael gira was just two years away from pulling the plug on his band swans when it released the great annihilator in 1995. Swans michael gira goes understated on new album album. Michael gira, songwriter, vocalist, and producer, has been a constant on the independent music scene for over 20 years. These are also the first shows swans will play in chicago since the bands frontman and creative nucleus, michael gira, was accused.
Using spare arrangements recorded in august 1994 at musician bill rieflins seattle home, the album features contributions from rieflin and gira s swans bandmate jarboe. Staatsorchester stuttgart lithuanian chamber orchestra the 12 cellists of the berlin philharmonic orchestra dennis russell davies saulius sondeckis gidon kremer keith jarrett tatjana grindenko alfred schnittke. When the time ran out for that project, gira turned his attention back to swans, and no one had any idea how much his musicality had grown until this album came out in 2012. A global tribute to sparks w egnekens daughter, fanmael cd 1999 live music from a dead campus.
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Assisted by jarboe and lateperiod swans member bill rieflin, at whose seattle home most of the album was recorded, gira brings his expected bleak. Michael gira was just two years away from pulling the plug on his band swans when it released the great annihilator in 1995. Michael gira has promised that the next album from swans will be their last, though he qualified that statement by saying its only the end for this versioniteration of the band. Brandon stosuy talks with 60yearold artrock legend michael gira about how swans managed to return without losing any. Michael gira on swans, religion and the hubris of matthew. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s new york no wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Find michael gira discography, albums and singles on allmusic.
Coming off the heels of swans the great annnihilator, michael gira came out with his first solo album, and you can see why he usually has a band to back him up. Albums include women as lovers, drainland, and hard rock. George michael complete discography torrent amazing album version 04. The best version of all swansmichael gira releases rate. After dissolving swans in 1997 gira released a solo album under his own. We are him is the fiftth album by angels of light, michael gira s 21st century project after the dissolution of swans.
Michael gira michael rolfe gira is an american singersongwriter, musician, author, and artist. Michael rolfe gira born february 19, 1954 is an american singersongwriter, musician, author and artist. Collected solo home recordings 2001 2010 label young god. Michael rolfe gira is an american musician, author, and artist. Their next album would not come about until 2010, and during that time, michael gira would go on to create the excellent, but mostly overlooked band angels of light. I am not insane 2010 folk michael gira download folk. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Twentyplus years my senior, the swans front man sounded wide awake and alert for such an early hour, ready to discuss the glowing man, the new doublealbum that will likely be his last with this iteration of the band although gira is one of the most intense musicians making. It was released on june 9, 1995 through alternative tentacles record label. Not what you would expect from the frontman of the. You can buy album i am not insane 2010 michael gira. He also produced or coproduced nearly all releases on the label. Get michael gira setlists view them, share them, discuss them with other michael gira fans for free on. He also fronts the angels of light and is founder of young god records ygr website.
First michael gira solo album, released in 1995 and recorded shortly after swans the great annihilator michael says a few words about the record at the young god records website drainland. October, 2002 michael gira performs live at san franciscos noe valley ministry. Surprisingly enough, this era of the group ended up being highly successful, with a top 40charting album and nearuniversal acclaim. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans, active from 1982 to 1997, reformed in 2010.
One of few acts to emerge from the new york citybased no wave scene and stay intact into the next decade, swans have become recognized for an everchanging sound, exploring genres such as noise rock, postpunk, industrial and post. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from michael gira at the discogs marketplace. In 2011, and in perhaps similar fashion, gira decided to release songs for a dog in a different format after all, making it available as a cd and digital download. Michael gira pronounced jeerah born 1954 is an american musician, author, and artist. It was a bleary morning when michael gira called me via skype from his new mexico home. Soundtracks for the blind is the 10th album from swans, and, being released in 1996, was their last album before going on a lengthy hiatus. Michael gira solo recordings at home mp3 album download. Their dark, multilayered sound evokes the same americana feel of the likes of bruce lamont, beat circus, wovenhand, larkin grimm, 16 horsepower, reverend glasseye and slim cessnas auto club among others. Michael gira drainland lyrics and tracklist genius. It opens with the uptempo black river song, then follows the heavy slow number promise of water with typical giraesque apocalyptic lyrics. Music, news, and information from the label run by michael gira, featuring his work with swans and his postswans music.
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In the spring of 2005, young god records releases two new recordings, akronfamilys self titled debut, as well as the fourth album by michael giras. The angels of light biography the angels of light are a progressive countryfolkpostfolk group formed by swans frontman michael gira. The album the angels of light sing other people was. Drainland is the debut solo studio album by american musician michael gira. Twentyplus years my senior, the swans front man sounded wide awake and alert for such an early hour, ready to discuss the glowing man, the new doublealbum that will likely be his last with this iteration of the band. Additionally two videos were recorded for each set of lyrics. Using spare arrangements recorded in august 1994 at musician bill rieflins seattle home, the album features contributions from rieflin and gira s swans bandmate jarboe jarboe released her 1995 solo studio album sacrificial cake as an. Using spare arrangements recorded in august 1994 at musician bill rieflins seattle home, the album features contributions from rieflin and giras swans bandmate jarboe jarboe released her 1995 solo studio album sacrificial. In january 2010, michael gira reactivated swans and released a new album, my father will guide me up a rope to the sky on september 23. In 1990 he founded young god records which released swans music and other projects. George michael complete discography torrent nohardidol.
After dissolving swans in 1997 gira released a solo album under his own name and began. Gira says this new group incarnation is more similar. First michael gira solo album, released in 1995 and recorded shortly after swans the great annihilator michael says a few words about the record. Electronic, techno, electro, house, experimental, grime, dubstep, hip hop, alternative, indie, and many more. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans and fronts angels of light. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. When the blurb on the back of a book features a quote from nick cavethe man who utilized exactly 236 different terms for vagina and masturbation in his wonderful novel the death of bunny munrocalling your book repulsive, you know you have managed some kind of achievement the consumer is a collection of grotesque and scatologically unsound vignettes written over a. Angels of light is the songwriting project i started immediately after terminating swans 19821997. Michael rolfe gira is an american singersongwriter, multiinstrumentalist, author. Discover whats missing in your discography and shop for michael gira releases. Swans has a really big discography, and a confusing amount of reissues and such, and even more material from other projects related to the swans name. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans and. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon.
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