{"id":50294,"date":"2023-03-22T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=50294"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:04:49","slug":"new-york-experimental-rock-band-swans-announce-new-album-and-world-tour-this-summer-with-one-stop-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=50294","title":{"rendered":"New York Experimental Rock Band Swans, Announce New Album And World Tour This Summer With One Stop In Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"
SWANS \u2013\u00a0<\/b>THE BEGGAR<\/b><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
SIXTEENTH STUDIO ALBUM \u2013 23 JUNE 2023 \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/b>OUT ON MUTE \/ YOUNG GOD RECORDS\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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LISTEN TO \u2018<\/b>PARADISE IS MINE<\/b><\/a>\u2019<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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EXTENSIVE TOUR ANNOUNCED<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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SWANS<\/b>\u00a0have announced details of their sixteenth studio album,\u00a0The Beggar<\/i><\/b>, due for release on Mute \/ Young God Records (N America) on\u00a023 June 2023<\/b>. In addition, Swans have announced further dates for a tour across the UK, Europe and North America \u2013 full details below.\u00a0The Beggar<\/i>\u00a0will be released on double vinyl in a brown chipboard sleeve with a download card for accessing an additional 44 minutes of music (also included on the album\u2019s CD version), as a double CD in a brown chipboard digi-pack, as well as digitally.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Listen to the first track from the album, \u2018Paradise is Mine:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b>https:\/\/youtu.be\/HgtGHp2kfPQ<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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The Beggar<\/i><\/b>\u00a0was recorded and mixed at\u00a0Candy Bomber Studio, Berlin,<\/b>\u00a0engineered by\u00a0Ingo Krauss\u00a0<\/b>and mastered by\u00a0Doug Henderson<\/b>\u00a0at\u00a0Micro-Moose<\/b>, Berlin. The album was written and produced by Michael Gira and features contributions from recent and former Swans, members of Angels of Light, as well as Guest Swan Ben Frost.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cAfter numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album\u00a0<\/i>leaving meaning<\/i><\/b>, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color. Now I\u2019m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite color is pink. I hope you enjoy the album.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Michael Gira<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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Primary\u00a0contributors to\u00a0The Beggar<\/i><\/b>:<\/span><\/div>\n

Michael\u00a0Gira\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Vocals,\u00a0words, acoustic guitar, production. Gira started Swans in NYC in 1982 and\u00a0has been\u00a0the primary songwriter, singer and producer throughout the years. During the Swans hiatus (1999 \u2013 2010), he released several albums by and toured with a\u00a0group called Angels of Light. Gira recently published a book of his short stories, journals, and words for music, called\u00a0The Knot<\/a>. He lives in New Mexico.<\/span><\/div>\n

Kristof\u00a0Hahn\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Lap\u00a0steel, various guitars, vocals. Kristof first joined Swans in\u00a01989 and was a principal contributor to Angels of Light, and\u00a0a core Swans member\u00a02010 \u2013 2017. Kristof\u2019s other musical ventures have included the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll\u00a0Noir band Les\u00a0Hommes Sauvages and Kool Kings (with Alex Chilton). When not making music Kristof translates books. He lives in\u00a0Berlin, Germany.<\/span><\/div>\n

Larry\u00a0Mullins\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Drums, vibes, orchestral percussion, Mellotron, various keyboards, backing\u00a0vocals. Larry is a trained symphonic percussionist. He played through the \u201890s\u00a0with Iggy Pop and later with The\u00a0Stooges. He played with Swans in the late \u201890s and was a main contributor to\u00a0Angels of Light. His current main job is playing\u00a0drums with The Bad Seeds. Larry lives in Berlin, Germany.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dana\u00a0Schechter\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Bass guitar, lap steel, keyboards, vocals, piano. Dana played bass in and was a core\u00a0member of Angels of Light.\u00a0She subsequently released music and toured as Bee and Flower. Her current band is the power-duo, Insect Ark. Dana is an animator and designer in the film industry and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.<\/span><\/div>\n

Christopher\u00a0Pravdica\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Bass guitar, sounds, keyboards, vocals. Chris played bass as a core Swans\u00a0member in 2010 \u2013 2017. Chris has played with the bands, The Gunga Din, Flux Information Sciences, Xiu Xiu, Yonatan Gat\u2019s Medicine Singers and has a project of his own called We Owe. Chris is a sound designer and lives in Brooklyn, NY.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Phil Puleo\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Drums, percussion, vocals, piano, exotic wind instruments. Phil played drums with Swans in the late \u201890s and\u00a0was a core\u00a0member in Swans 2010 \u2013 2017 and contributed to Angels of\u00a0Light. Phil\u2019s early NYC musical venture was Cop Shoot Cop and has since played with Human Impact, among others. Phil is an extremely talented illustrator and lives in Chicago, IL. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ben Frost\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Guitar,\u00a0synthesizers, sound manipulations. In his own work, Ben\u2019s adventurous sound-craftings are sometimes\u00a0harrowing\u00a0and sometimes delicate and quite musical. His numerous albums and his powerful live\u00a0shows have afforded him much recognition. He is also an accomplished composer and arranger of music for film and television. Ben\u00a0lives in Reykjavik, Iceland.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Backing vocals are provided by\u00a0Jennifer Gira, Lucy Kruger and Laura Carbone.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Michael Gira founded the groundbreaking NYC band Swans in 1982. Initially notorious for their relentless, brutal, high-volume onslaughts of sound, the extreme, abject imagery of Gira\u2019s lyrics and his thundering vocals, Swans would undergo a series of startling transformation over the next 15 years. Following the punishing\u00a0Filth<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Cop<\/i>\u00a0albums, the ensemble would venture into harshly mechanical proto-industrial rock of their\u00a0Greed<\/i>\u00a0period, then both haunted atmospheric idylls and martial stomps on 1987\u2019s landmark\u00a0Children of God<\/i>\u00a0double album. They\u2019d conjure gentler acoustic-based meditations on\u00a0The Burning World<\/i>\u00a0(1989), then after relocating to Atlanta grand, melody-dense sonic whirlwinds of the\u00a0White Light from the Mouth of Infinity<\/i>\u00a0(1991) and\u00a0Love of Life<\/i>\u00a0(1993) era, becoming more dissonant and sharp-edged with The Great Annihilator (1994). Finally, the ultimate statement of that epoch of Swans,\u00a0Soundtracks For The Blind<\/i>\u00a0(1996), incorporated all of these elements across well over two hours of music. At this point, Gira called it quits after 15 years of non-stop recording and touring, disbanding the group.\u00a0 For the next 13 years, he\u2019d make a long series of acclaimed albums and perform live extensively with a revolving roster of musicians under the name Angels Of Light. Gira also discovered, produced and released albums by other musicians through his label Young God Records. He cultivated such talents as Devendra Banhart and Akron\/Family among others, the original figures of the late 00\u2019s Avant-folk movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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In 2010, he reactivated Swans, releasing the studio album\u00a0My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky<\/i>\u00a0to ecstatic critical response and touring the world for the better part of a year.\u00a0The Seer<\/i>, a triple album studio set, came out in 2012 and was celebrated by another lengthy world tour eliciting more media praise and album sales that landed\u00a0The Seer<\/i>\u00a0on Billboard\u2019s Top 200. Swans\u2019 next release,\u00a0To Be Kind<\/i>\u00a0(another triple vinyl) debuted at #36 on Billboard\u2019s Top 200 Sales Chart and #5 on their Independent Sales Chart. The group sold out 47 concert dates in their subsequent touring including selling out two-night stands in cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Paris, as well as single shows in London, Berlin and Rome. The album garnered enormous praise from the press, and the two-hour long album stream was premiered by NPR.\u00a0The Glowing Man<\/i>\u00a0(2017) (also triple vinyl) was the last studio release by this incarnation of Swans. With 2019\u2019s\u00a0Leaving Meaning,<\/i>\u00a0the 15th<\/sup>\u00a0studio album, Gira returned to working with a fluid supporting cast of musicians once again.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Beggar tracklisting<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
1. The Parasite<\/span><\/div>\n
2.\u00a0Paradise is Mine<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
3. Los Angeles: City of Death<\/span><\/div>\n
4. Michael is Done<\/span><\/div>\n
5. Unforming<\/span><\/div>\n
6. The Beggar<\/span><\/div>\n
7. No More of This<\/span><\/div>\n
8. Ebbing<\/span><\/div>\n
9. Why Can\u2019t I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want?<\/span><\/div>\n
10. The Beggar Lover (Three)<\/span><\/div>\n
11. The Memorious<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pre-order The Beggar:\u00a0<\/i><\/b>https:\/\/mute.ffm.to\/swans_tb<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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SWANS LIVE DATES \u2013 2023<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
20 May \u2013 Leipzig\u00a0<\/b>DE, UT Connewitz \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/span><\/div>\n
21 May \u2013 Poznan\u00a0<\/b>PL, CK Zamek \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/span><\/div>\n
23 May \u2013 Katowice\u00a0<\/b>PL, Kino Teatr Rialto \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/span><\/div>\n
25 May \u2013 Zilina\u00a0<\/b>SK, New Synagogue<\/span><\/div>\n
26 May \u2013 Ljubljana\u00a0<\/b>SL, Kino Siska<\/span><\/div>\n
27 May \u2013 Innsbruck<\/b>, AT, Heart of Noise Festival, Treibhaus<\/span><\/div>\n
29 May \u2013 Bologna\u00a0<\/b>IT, Teatro Duse<\/span><\/div>\n
31 May \u2013 Lyon\u00a0<\/b>FR, Transbordeur<\/span><\/div>\n
2 June \u2013 Barcelona<\/b>\u00a0ES, Primavera Sound Festival\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
4 June \u2013 Lisbon\u00a0<\/b>PT, Culturgest \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/span><\/div>\n
5 June \u2013 Lisbon\u00a0<\/b>PT, Culturgest<\/span><\/div>\n
6 June \u2013 Faro\u00a0<\/b>PT, Teatro Das Figuras<\/span><\/div>\n
9 June \u2013 Madrid ES<\/b>, Primavera Sound Festival<\/span><\/div>\n
11 June \u2013 Athens\u00a0<\/b>GR, Vraxon Theatre<\/span><\/div>\n
13 June \u2013 Thessaloniki\u00a0<\/b>GR, Moni Lazariston<\/span><\/div>\n
15 June \u2013 Antwerp\u00a0<\/b>BE, Bourlaschouwburg<\/span><\/div>\n
16 June \u2013 Utrecht\u00a0<\/b>NL, Hertz Theatre \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/span><\/div>\n
11 Aug \u2013 Brighton<\/b>\u00a0UK, St George\u2019s<\/span><\/div>\n
12 Aug \u2013 Manchester<\/b>\u00a0UK, Albert Hall<\/span><\/div>\n
15 Aug \u2013 Newcastle<\/b>\u00a0UK, Boiler Shop<\/span><\/div>\n
16 Aug \u2013 Glasgow<\/b>\u00a0UK, St Luke\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
18 Aug \u2013 Bristol<\/b>\u00a0UK, Arc Tangent Festival<\/span><\/div>\n
19 Aug \u2013 Leeds<\/b>\u00a0UK, Belgrave Music Hall<\/span><\/div>\n
21 Aug \u2013 Dublin<\/b>\u00a0IE, The Academy<\/span><\/div>\n
23 Aug \u2013 Norwich<\/b>\u00a0UK, Waterfront<\/span><\/div>\n
24 Aug \u2013 London<\/b>\u00a0UK, Troxy<\/span><\/div>\n
26 Aug \u2013 La Tour-De-Peilz<\/b>\u00a0CH, Nox Orae Festival<\/span><\/div>\n
2 Sep \u2013 Dallas<\/b>\u00a0TX, Granada Theater<\/span><\/div>\n
3 Sep \u2013 Austin<\/b>\u00a0TX, Paramount Theatre<\/span><\/div>\n
7 Sep \u2013 Phoenix<\/b>\u00a0AZ, Crescent Ballroom<\/span><\/div>\n
8 Sep \u2013 Los Angeles<\/b>\u00a0CA, Lodge Room<\/span><\/div>\n
9 Sep \u2013 Los Angeles<\/b>\u00a0CA, Lodge Room<\/span><\/div>\n
12 Sep \u2013 San Francisco<\/b>\u00a0CA, Great American Music Hall<\/span><\/div>\n
13 Sep \u2013 San Francisco<\/b>\u00a0CA, Great American Music Hall<\/span><\/div>\n
15 Sep \u2013 Portland\u00a0<\/b>OR, Revolution Hall<\/span><\/div>\n
16 Sep \u2013 Seattle<\/b>\u00a0WA, The Crocodile Showroom<\/span><\/div>\n
19 Sep \u2013 Omaha<\/b>\u00a0NE, Waiting Room Showroom<\/span><\/div>\n
20 Sep \u2013 Minneapolis<\/b>\u00a0MN, Fine Line Music Cafe<\/span><\/div>\n
21 Sep \u2013 Chicago<\/b>\u00a0IL, Cabaret Metro<\/span><\/div>\n
23 Sep \u2013 Detroit<\/b>\u00a0MI, Magic Bag<\/span><\/div>\n
24 Sep \u2013 Cleveland<\/b>\u00a0OH, Beachland Ballroom<\/span><\/div>\n
26 Sep \u2013 Toronto<\/b>\u00a0ON, Phoenix Concert Theater<\/span><\/div>\n
27 Sep \u2013 Montreal<\/b>\u00a0QC, Theatre National\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
29 Sep \u2013 Brooklyn<\/b>\u00a0NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
30 Sep \u2013 Brooklyn<\/b>\u00a0NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg<\/span><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/OfficialSwans\/playlists<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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