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It's time to duck your head under water and bring it back up....the Swans are back...!
Industrial legends SWANS release a new double CD studio album The Seer
August 28, 2012
Recorded at Studio P4 and Andere Baustelle in Berlin, by Kevin McMahon
and
at Marcata Studio, Gardiner, NY, by Kevin McMahon. Additional recording
at
Trout Recording, Brooklyn, NY, engineer: Bryce Goggin. Mixed by Kevin
McMahon at Marcata. Produced by Michael Gira.
SWANS: Michael Gira -
voice, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica,
casio, sounds; Norman
Westberg – electric guitar, voice; Christoph Hahn –
lap steel guitars;
electric guitar, voice; Phil Puleo – drums, percussion,
hammer dulcimer,
voice; Thor Harris – drums, percussion, orchestral bells,
hammer dulcimer,
handmade violin thing, vibraphone, piano, clarinet,
voice; Christopher
Pravdica – bass guitar, voice, incredible handshake.
Honorary Swan: Bill
Rieflin – piano, organ, electric guitar, acoustic
guitar, drums, percussion,
casio, synthesizer, bass guitar, voice, bird
idea….
SPECIAL GUESTS
INCLUDE : Al and Mimi of Low - (co-vocals with MG on
Lunacy); Karen O –
(lead vocal on Song for a Warrior); Jarboe –
(background vocals on Piece of
the Sky and The Seer Returns); Akron/Family
– (background vocals on Piece of
the Sky)… (many more guests)
NOTE FROM MICHAEL GIRA:
“The Seer took
30 years to make. It’s the culmination of every previous
Swans album as well
as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or
imagined. But it’s
unfinished, like the songs themselves. It’s one frame
in a reel. The frames
blur, blend and will eventually fade.
The songs began on an acoustic
guitar, then were fleshed out with
(invaluable) help from my friends, then
were further tortured and seduced
in rehearsals, live and in the studio, and
now they await further
cannibalism and force-feeding as we prepare to
perform some of them live,
at which point they’ll mutate further, endlessly,
or perhaps be discarded
for a while.
Despite what you might have
heard or presumed, my quest is to spread light
and joy through the world. My
friends in Swans are all stellar men.
Without them I’m a kitten, an infant.
Our goal is the same: ecstasy! “
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