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― sleeve, Thursday, 14 May 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Apparently (and I ordered before I knew this) if you pre-order it from the YG site, Gira signs it.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
He seems to do that with most of the stuff you get from the YG site doesn't he? I've certainly had a number of things bought from there come with his autograph.Could just be recent releases but certainly seems to be something he does regularly
― Stevolende, Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
a la his mate jim foetus, a similar online groove.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
(have heard that jim does the whole foetus online thing himself these days, and it would not surprise me if michael followed the same path)
― mark e, Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link
Just got it today - I can't say I hear a whole lot of difference between this version of Filth/Body To Body and the ones that were released on YG in 2000, which sounded more than adequate already. The Swans EP sounds way better than any version I'd heard before + the CBGB's and London recordings sound rather mediocre to say the least :-/
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/SwansOfficial/photos/a.487755361977.266239.13879391977/10153948860591978/?type=1 : remaster/reissue of White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity in the works+https://www.facebook.com/SwansOfficial/photos/a.487755361977.266239.13879391977/10153779357881978/?type=1 : new album to be recorded starting in September
― StanM, Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
Now that I'm mentioning WLFTMOI: check out the longer version of Why Are We Alive on Various Failures, it's way better than the original
― StanM, Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
... even though the first 3'50" are identical :-)
― StanM, Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
great news, love that album
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 July 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/SwansOfficial/photos/a.487755361977.266239.13879391977/10154034056451978/
Imminent end of Swans again.
I spoke to Norman about a year ago and I strongly inferred he felt like he was getting too old to still be doing it. You then get to the "is it the Swans with just Gira" argument I guess.
― arbiter of sorrow (aldo), Thursday, 23 July 2015 07:48 (nine years ago) link
good decision, not Swans w/o Westberg imo
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 July 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Gira said in a 2011 interview that "[Swans] is what I’m going to be doing for the next five years", so I think he's had this thing mapped out for a good long while.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Thursday, 23 July 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
haha, love the description of the next studio album as an "insatiable beast". can't wait!
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
ha i wasn't aware there was a swans facebook page does anyone else find it really super weird and incongruous to see michael gira posting something on facebook?
― marcos, Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
not trying to be contrary, but don't think it's weird at all that gira is on facebook - he's always gone in for fan communication, using all available channels to reach out/promote - never really saw him as a luddite/crank hiding in his cave
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
^^^ people assume he's distant because his art is aggro but he wrote all the one-sheets for every act on Young God Records and championed the albums ceaselessly
he's not mr. warmth but he's not Artist Removed From the Process either
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
oh yea it's not the fan communication that struck me, my main impression tbh from the young god website was "wow gira is super chatty"
more just that it was facebook
― marcos, Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, disagree that Gira is not Mr Warmth, he's bizarrely close to fans.
I remember at SSonic people being freaked out by him leaving out a handwritten note that said "I'll be around to sign stuff later, or just to hang out so please don't leave and stay back to say Hi".
― arbiter of sorrow (aldo), Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjMGZEq41-g&feature=youtu.be&t=3m48s
this interview is funny
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
i ordered some stuff from young god in like 07 or so and gira wrote me an email expressing his hope that all was well in new orleans. so he's a cool dude in my book.
― adam, Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
When I saw them a couple of yrs ago I went with a friend who is a super fan and waited around afterward so she could take her picture with Gira and he was very pleasant and friendly.
Though I did mention if she had really wanted her picture taken with a dude in a big hat & smoking a cigar I could arranged that pretty easy and we wouldn't have to wait.
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
New handmade live CD now available to order:
http://younggodrecords.com/products/the-gate
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
I was just posting that, but waiting till my payment cleared before hitting submit.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
that link is blocked here - is it one particular gig, or drawn from different shows (would love a good copy of their Roundhouse concert)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
As to The Gate itself, it was recorded in Berlin at Berghain, night 2, for the most part, in 2014
― sleeve, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
really wish Gira could do the whole "buy the live CD of the gig, right after the gig" thing, seems perfect for them but it probably a big logistics nightmare
― sleeve, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Berghain chosen for a specific reason:
this was the very night that our rendition of the song The Apostate morphed through improvisation into what has since become, through the usual trials, The Cloud of Unknowing
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of that. Sometimes you miss the encores b/c they stop recording to start making the CDs (or USB sticks, which Neubauten use). Also, the recordings are obviously unmixed and unpackaged, and can sound pretty ropey. I prefer the way Dead Can Dance did it a few years ago, you bought a voucher at the gig and they sent you the properly mixed CD a few weeks later.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Would def be interested in a Mick's Picks live series
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah you're probably right there, just daydreaming
― sleeve, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
also, LOL at "Mick's Picks"
From further down that page -
"... Though there’s still much to be said and new landscapes to explore on the new album and final (but yes, anticipated to be endless) tour, it’s time that we… what’s the word here… dissolve. By this I mean that each of us will continue on our own glorious diamond-strewn path - well, my 5 friends will, anyway – and I intend to keep the name and ongoing project of Swans active in a different form, drawing sporadically on the myriad list of musical cohorts I’m met along the way over the last 30 plus years (including I hope, at times, if they’ll consent, my 5 friends mentioned above) , but the creature, the beast, the monster, the liberating vortex of light and sound that is the 6 of us working in close quarters together over extended periods of time, will cease to exist. Most likely, Swans albums will not appear so fast and furious..."
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
wow, they sold out already
― sleeve, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity and Love Of Life being reissued as a vinyl box (including a CD of rarities & outtakes) and a 3CD set. I've never heard either of these albums, and $23 for the 3CD version is very reasonable.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 15 October 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
yesss, finally. White Light is particularly great, although a lot of folks may know most of these tracks from the Various Failures 2CD comp
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
also relevant:
The individual vinyl versions of these albums will also be available after the box set has sold out.
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Yeah these are both great, although White Light is by some way superior. I think the songs for both were recorded at the same time and the best stuff got frontloaded on the earlier release. Not sure I would agree with the statement that White Light "is considered the starting point for the second section of Swans’ inimitable history", The Burning World seems to fit that particular bill more closely, although I guess Gira is still not keen on it.
Anyway, I won't be shelling out for this as I still have my copy of the original box :-)
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
those albums were recorded separately.
― new noise, Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
well WL is still better
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
agreed.
― new noise, Thursday, 15 October 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
According to Allmusic’s Ned Ragget, “Love of Life continues the astounding creative
Who is this one-T impostor?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
http://younggodrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/white-light-from-the-mouth-of-infinity-love-of-life-ltd-ed-vinyl-box-set-3cd-release
THe White Rabbit years reissued
― Stevolende, Thursday, 15 October 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Which Iguess you already nknew, I thought i was reviving a dead thread.Do wish they'd redo Anonymous Bodies in An Empty Room since i think I prefer that last days of the Children of God band gone folk rock sound.& Omniscience is interesting too. I heard that GIra meticulously pieced that together from edits of live tracks piece by piece jigsaw like instead of it being an audio verité set like some earlier things might have been. But I think it came across pretty powerfully though I haven't listened to it for ages. Not sure if I still have it or at least a working copy, think mine came from the Dublin Tower water damaged sale so may have been prey to that.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 15 October 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
despite loving C.O.G and seeing that tour (oooh my ears !), this is the reissue i have been waiting years for.
― mark e, Thursday, 15 October 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
Westberg left between Burning World and Whiter Light though he's on live materail from '88 and '89. I think he went off and became a heroin Sheik.Maybe it's taht that defines the difference between stages.Could also be that Gira disowned Burning World for years, though he did put out Forever Burned some years ago based on it.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 15 October 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
wasn't it cos of the laswell production that gira hates the burning world album ?
― mark e, Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
Well, my pre-order's in.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
I got White Light after Various Failures, paid an absurd amount for it but it seemed worth it at the time, not because of the tracks that weren't on Various Failures but because the track sequence brought new life to the songs. Never bothered to get Love Of Life or anything else from the period, just hoping that Various Failures really was all the really good stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
ordered this alongside the new dave gahan/soulsavers release (in order to qualify for the free delivery from amazon of course).
i feel very happy with my selection of dark and miserable grooves.
― mark e, Monday, 26 October 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link