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. Find michael gira discography, albums and singles on allmusic. 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. Get michael gira setlists view them, share them, discuss them with other michael gira fans for free on. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans and fronted angels of light. Michael gira, songwriter, vocalist, and producer, has been a constant on the independent music scene for over 20 years. In leaving meaning young god records, the seventh such double disc, he chooses quiet. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans and fronts angels of light. Hello there, we swans have recently completed our new album.
Michael rolfe gira born february 19, 1954 is an american singersongwriter, musician, author and artist. Michael gira pronounced jeerah born 1954 is an american musician, author, and artist. Even more live music from wfmu, compilation w karen mantler, wfmu records cd 1998. You will get 2 track for free after confirming your account. The best version of all swansmichael gira releases rate. His music has evolved restlessly and relentlessly over the course of many projects from swans to skin to the body loversbody haters to spoken word recordings and now to the angels of light. Michael gira solo recordings at home mp3 album download.
Swans michael gira goes understated on new album album. These are also the first shows swans will play in chicago since the bands frontman and creative nucleus, michael gira, was accused. Not what you would expect from the frontman of the. 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. Brandon stosuy talks with 60yearold artrock legend michael gira about how swans managed to return without losing any. You can buy album i am not insane 2010 michael gira. Any singles or live albums included are here because they have bsides or notable alternate versions. In person, he is all amiability, his voice sweet, his manner courteous.
Albums include women as lovers, drainland, and hard rock. Request michael gira discography 19822012 incl swans angels of light download torrent. Discografia george michael mega completa 320 kbps mp3. We are him is the fiftth album by angels of light, michael gira s 21st century project after the dissolution of swans. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from swans. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. He also produced or coproduced nearly all releases on the label. So, i put together this list to show what i believe the core swans discography, and give my opinion as to what the best version of each album is. Brandon stosuy talks with 60yearold artrock legend michael gira about how swans managed to return without losing any potency, and how a haitian revolutionary. I am not insane 2010 folk michael gira download folk. Angels of light is the songwriting project i started immediately after terminating swans 19821997. Bleep we sell the best music from the best record labels and artists in the world.
Michael gira was just two years away from pulling the plug on his band swans when it released the great annihilator in 1995. Electronic, techno, electro, house, experimental, grime, dubstep, hip hop, alternative, indie, and many more. 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. After dissolving swans in 1997 gira released a solo album under his own name and began. Michael gira, the main person behind the band went on to form angels of light, still creating great music, but sounding hardly anything like any of his previous work. Additionally two videos were recorded for each set of lyrics. 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.
October, 2002michael gira performs live at san franciscos noe. 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. We are him is the fiftth album by angels of light, michael giras 21st century project after the dissolution of swans. First michael gira solo album, released in 1995 and recorded shortly after swans the great annihilator michael says a few words about the record. Michael rolfe gira is an american musician, author, and artist. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans and. It was a bleary morning when michael gira called me via skype from his new mexico home. Discography artist michael gira releaseproduct drainland label mute catalogue number istumm241 release date may 5, 2017 10 tracks download artist michael gira releaseproduct the milk of m. In 1990 he founded young god records which released swans music and other projects. Here you can buy and download music mp3 michael gira.
Assisted by jarboe and lateperiod swans member bill rieflin, at whose seattle home most of the album was recorded, gira brings his expected bleak. Music profile for michael gira, born 19 february 1954. Surprisingly enough, this era of the group ended up being highly successful, with a top 40charting album and nearuniversal acclaim. 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. 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. Collected solo home recordings 2001 2010 licensed to youtube by merlin virtual label llc on behalf of young god records. 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. 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. 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. Concert for world childrens day dvd 2002 performed gira con me, to where you are, the prayer duet with celine dion, and arent they all our children anthem as a cast. 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. After dissolving swans in 1997 gira released a solo album under his own. 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. Discover whats missing in your discography and shop for michael gira releases.
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. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. October, 2002 michael gira performs live at san franciscos noe valley ministry. The angels of light biography the angels of light are a progressive countryfolkpostfolk group formed by swans frontman michael gira. A global tribute to sparks w egnekens daughter, fanmael cd 1999 live music from a dead campus. Music, news, and information from the label run by michael gira, featuring his work with swans and his postswans music. 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. Well before then, by the late 1980s in fact, it was clear that the. Michael gira michael rolfe gira is an american singersongwriter, musician, author, and artist.
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Public castration is a good idea by swans, released 23 march 2016 1. 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. Then, everything is good hearplease come home was released in 2003. It was released on june 9, 1995 through alternative tentacles record label. 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. 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. Michael gira on swans, religion and the hubris of matthew. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from michael gira at the discogs marketplace. 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. Gira says this new group incarnation is more similar. Produced and written by michael gira, swans leaving meaning features several former members along with dozens of other handpicked musicians. Michael rolfe gira is an american singersongwriter, multiinstrumentalist, author.
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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. 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. George michael complete discography torrent nohardidol. 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. He is the main force behind the new york city musical group swans and fronts angels of.
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