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Swans were one of the few groups to emerge from the New York, USA No Wave scene intact. The band was formed in 1982 by Michael Gira, and employed a shifting line up of musicians between then and their dissolution in 1997. The only other semi-constant members were keyboardist/vocalist Jarboe, and, to an extent, guitarist Norman Westberg. New York, NY redirects here. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Gira in Moscow, Russia. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jarboe is a solo artist. ... Norman Westberg is a New York City guitarist and member of the now-defunct Swans. ...

Early Swans (1982-1985)

Initial influences

The earliest version of Swans comprised Gira on bass guitar and vocals, Jonathan Kane on drums, and Sue Hanel on guitar. Hanel's only recordings with the group are on the compilation Body To Body, Job To Job, but the ambiguous personnel credits do not make it clear on which songs she performed; Kane stated that "Sue was the most fearsome guitarist we’d ever heard in New York. She was unbelievable" [1]

Hanel did not stay long in the group, and by the time of their recording debut, she had been replaced by Bob Pezzola; this edition of the group also featured saxophonist Daniel Galli-Duani. The debut EP, Swans, released on Labor, is markedly different from anything they would do later. The plodding tempos and distorted, detuned guitar work is reminiscent of such post-punk outfits as Joy Division; however, the minimal chord structures owe more to blues (see below), while the jazz instrumentation and awkward time signitures are evidence of Swans' roots in the No Wave scene of the late 1970s, which had more or less collapsed by the release of Cop. The closest reference point to the early Swans sound, as pointed out by one internet reviewer, is probably The Birthday Party, although far less overtly satirical. The Swans EP is the first release by the experimental rock band Swans. ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock... Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ... Minimalist music is a genre of experimental music named in the 1960s which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation (no... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Cop is the second album by the No Wave band Swans. ... The Birthday Party is the name of an acclaimed play (and later movie) written by Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party (play); and an influential post-punk band led by Nick Cave: The Birthday Party (band). ...

Early press comparisons

In the same article cited above, Kane compares Swans to blues icon Chester Burnett, a.k.a., Howlin' Wolf. While this comparison might initially seem unlikely, there are in fact some similarities worth noting: the music of early Swans was often based on a single riff played repeatedly, to hypnotic effect; some of Burnett's songs -- especially the songs penned by Burnett himself -- have this same structure and quality. Their early music was typified by slow and grinding guitar noise, and pounded drums, punctuated by Gira's morbid and violent lyrics (inspired by Genet and de Sade), usually barked or shouted. Critic Ned Raggett describes Swans' early recordings as "aggressive beyond words."^[1] Image File history File links SwansFilth. ... Image File history File links SwansFilth. ... Filth is the first LP by the No Wave outfit Swans. ... Howlin Wolf ( b. ... Riff is also an alternate spelling of Rif, a region of Morocco. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-AmÃ©dÃ©e-Philippe van Loo (c. ... Ned Raggett is a music critic whose work has appeared prominently in All Music Guide, where he is responsible for writing a large portion of the reviews of independent music of the 1980s and early 1990s. ...

Their first full-length release, Filth (1983), featured driving, choppy rhythms and abrasive drums; the whole is vaguely remiscent of heavy metal music, but Raggett contends that "early Swans really is like little else on the planet before or since." [2] Filth was the first album to feature guitarist Norman Westberg, who would play a vital role in much of Swans' music, and who was featured on every album but Love of Life. Filth is the first LP by the No Wave outfit Swans. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed between 1968 and 1974. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Norman Westberg is a New York City guitarist and member of the now-defunct Swans. ...

Cop (1984) and the originally untitled Young God EP^[2] The music continues in the same vein as Filth, vaguely reminiscent of heavy metal music played in extreme slow motion. Swans were, in this era, comprised of Gira on vocals, Westberg on guitar, Harry Crosby on bass guitar, and Roli Mosimann on drums. Gira's vocals had changed slightly, becoming slowly more melodic, although the snarl still remained. Some of the songs on the EP, particularly "Young God" and "I Crawled", have an actual vocal melody, if rudimentary, hinting at the sounds of future releases.Young God is considered by many to be the best of their early albums for this reason.^[3] Cop is the second album by the No Wave band Swans. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Young God is the 4th release by the New York No Wave band Swans. ... Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed between 1968 and 1974. ... Roli Mosimann is an accomplished musician and record producer whose contributions range from industrial to pop. ...

Audience reaction

One of the trademarks of their early period was playing at painfully loud volumes during concerts, to the point that audience members sometimes vomited and the police sometimes had to force them to cancel. That lent a reputation to the name Swans which was one of the contributing factors in Gira's retirement of the band in 1997.^[4] Vomiting (or emesis) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of ones stomach through the mouth. ...

Mid-period Swans (1986-1988)

Collaboration with Jarboe begins

1986's Greed saw a new addition to the group with vocalist/keyboardist Jarboe joining the band.^[5] Her presence began a slow thawing in the overt brutality and energy of Swans' early work. For example, both the opening track, "Fool", and the title song are sung, albeit rather ominously. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Greed is an album by the New York No Wave band Swans. ... Jarboe is a solo artist. ...

Collaboration with Algis Kizys begins

Greed also marked the introduction of bassist Algis Kizys as a long-time, near-constant member. The album is not as brutal or noisy as their previous releases but is still an extremely ominous & dark record. This was followed by its "twin" album, Holy Money, first to feature Jarboe on lead vocals. Algis Kizys is a New York City bassist most well-known for his long-time membership in no wave-sludgers Swans. ...

Introduction of acoustic elements

Holy Money was also the first album by Swans to incorporate acoustic elements. In particular, the eight-minute dirge "Another You" starts with a bluesy harmonica introduction. It also marks the introduction of religious themes in Swans records with the sacrificial ode "A Hanging", complete with gospel-like backing vocals from Jarboe. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Children of God is a 1987 album by the American post-punk band, Swans. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Children Of God (1987) further expanded Jarboe's role, acting as a foil to Michael Gira's tales of suffering, torture, and humiliation. The stories portrayed here, however, are ever the more unusual, given their juxtaposition - and admixture - with religious imagery. The intention was neither to mock nor embrace religion, but experiment with the power inherent in its wording and the hypocrisy of many of its leaders.^[4] 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Some, such as the raging "Beautiful Child", retain the vocal work of earlier days, but many are quite tame: The almost baroque "In My Garden", for example, added an extra dimension with piano (only before on "Fool" and "Sealed in Skin", to far grimmer effect) and acoustic guitar. Some songs walk the line on this front. Obvious examples include "Sex, God, Sex" (heavy metal-like bass riffs with blues and gospel-inspired singing), "Blood and Honey" (murder ballad with early post-rock tendencies), and "Blind Love" (lengthy, alternating between intoned vocals and violent instrumental passages). Gira considers this to be the band's major turning point. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... A steel string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. ... Murder ballads are a specific subgenre of the broadsheet ballad, a narrative poem that tells a tale of murder. ... The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ...

Later Swans (1988-1997)

Stylistic shift

After the Children of God album, Gira professed himself tired with the band's fearsome reputation for noise, feeling that their audience now had expectations that he had no intention of fulfilling. He made a conscious decision to tone down the band's sound, introducing more acoustic elements and foregrounding Jarboe as a singer. The first results of this shift in direction were the two records recorded by Gira and Jarboe under the names Skin (in Europe) and World of Skin (in the USA). The first, Blood, Women, Roses, featured Jarboe on lead vocals, and the second, Shame, Humility, Revenge, featured Gira on lead vocals. Both were recorded together in 1987, although Shame, Humility, Revenge was not released until 1988. These albums were full of slow, melancholy, dirge-like songs, sounding like stripped down acoustic versions of the Children of God songs. World Of Skin was a project springing out of the band Swans, and was a collaboration between longtime Swans members Jarboe and Gira. ... Blood, Women, Roses, 1987. ...

The band continued this transformation with an unexpected cover of the Joy Division song "Love Will Tear Us Apart" which was released in 1988 on Product Inc. in a confusing array of 7" and 12" formats. Both Gira and Jarboe sang lead vocals on different versions of the song. In later years Gira dismissed this release as a mistake, and for a long time refused to reissue his own vocal version, although Jarboe's version was re-released much sooner. Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ... Love Will Tear Us Apart is a 1980 song by Joy Division. ...

Major label debut

This single was followed by The Burning World (1989), Swans' first and only major label album. Released on MCA in Europe, and its US subsidiary Uni in the US, the record was produced by Bill Laswell and expanded the acoustic palette introduced on Greed and Children of God. For this album, the core line-up of Gira, Jarboe and Westberg was augmented by session musicians, and the distinctive heavy guitar element of their earlier work was toned down significantly in favor of folk and world music elements. Though Swans would later explore more acoustic music with similar moods, Gira has stated that, while he admires much of Laswell's work, his efforts with Swans were simply a mismatch. Certainly the production has a muddy quality that is at odds with the crystalline sound of other Swans albums. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Music Corporation of America was a United States based corporation in the music business. ... Uni Records was a subsidiary of MCA Records. ... Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner. ... â€œFolk songâ€ redirects here. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ...

Flirtations with pop music

The Burning World 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. They even covered Steve Winwood's popular Blind Faith hit "Can't Find My Way Home" in 1989, one of two singles from the LP. For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ... Look up Melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder, or sometimes unipolar when compared with bipolar disorder, which is sometimes called manic depression) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individuals social functioning and/or activities of daily... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born May 12, 1948 in Great Barr, West Midlands) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to his solo career, was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith. ... For other uses, see Blind Faith (disambiguation). ...

In 1990, Gira and Jarboe released the third and final World of Skin album, Ten Songs From Another World. It was less successful than the previous two Skin albums, perhaps because of the expanded line-up. MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Blood, Women, Roses, 1987. ...

End of major label involvement

Michael Gira's disillusionment with their MCA exploits led to White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (1991), a successful blending of earlier hard rock and later pop styles. Produced by Gira, the album blended acoustic rock, blues and hypnotic guitar noise successfully, producing an album more complex than anything they had released in the past. This album was followed by Love Of Life (recorded by Martin Bisi-1992)-, taking the group even farther into experimentation, and then The Great Annihilator (1995), considered to be one of the band's most accessible, possibly through being their most straightforward. The songwriting style and musical approach, however, would take a more unusual turn the next year. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Martin Bisi is an American producer and songwriter. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Demise of Swans

With other projects occupying his time, Michael Gira decided to bring an end to the group with one last album and world tour. Soundtracks For The Blind (1996) was the result: a mammoth two-disc album comprising Jarboe-supplied field recordings, experimental music, dark ambient soundscapes, post-industrial epics, pre-post rock suites and acoustic guitar; Gira, Jarboe and other long time collaborators created one of the most highly regarded albums of their career. 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. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. ... Post-industrial is a term used to refer to a grouping of music genres related to the original usage of the term Industrial Music by Industrial Records through either influence or direct involvement, such as power noise, power electronics, technoid, types of experimental music and dark ambient. ... Post-rock is a music genre characterized by non-traditional use of rock instruments and high musical density. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...

After dissolving Swans, Gira formed Angels of Light, continued his work with Young God Records and Jarboe continued her solo work. Angels of Light were a rock group formed in 1997 by singer Michael Gira after he disbanded Swans, the group hed founded in 1980. ...

Discography

Studio Releases

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Live And Other Releases

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Singles

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Notes

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