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Swans - Stay Here
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I was saddened to hear of the passing of Brother Wayne Kramer of the legendary and influential band MC5. If you get a chance check out his excellent intense memoir 'The Hard Stuff'. Here's a version of MC5's "Call Me Animal" performed by Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre with vocals by JG Thirlwell, with Norman Westberg of Swans playing the sick guitar solo.
#Wayne Kramer#MC5#Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre#JG Thirlwell#Norman Westberg#Swans#foetus#Youtube
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Swans, c. late 80s. No photographer listed.
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Swans Rattle a Sold-Out Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sunday
Swans – Music Hall – October 1, 2023
The walls of Music Hall of Williamsburg were shaking on Sunday night. As was the floor and the ceiling and the body parts of everyone at the band’s third straight sold-out show at the venue. An opening set from guitarist Norman Westberg established the evening’s energy, solo guitar and effects that seemed to buzz and resonate into every nook of the club’s foundation, eventually finding sweet melodies and enchanting echoes.
A little after 9 p.m., Swans took the stage for their third of three packed shows. Crowded on a stage bathed in a deep red for the night, Michael Gira led the ensemble with the strums of an acoustic guitar. The simplicity of the opening chords soon yielded to complex layering, first Gira’s chanting lyrics, then a shower of cymbal rattling, shrieks of electric guitars, lap steel moans, and hair-raising bass and drum drones. It was a growing intensity that was mirrored by an almost pronounced gentleness running counter in the empty spaces left by the growing wall of sound, the drums reaching a tribal pitch as the whole room trembled in response, rattling parts of my body I’m not sure are supposed to be rattled. This was “The Beggar,” the title track of the newest release from the veteran noise-rockers, a thick sauna of sound, nearly unbearable and yet cleansing.
When I looked at the time again, it was 10 p.m. and I’m not sure how many songs had been played or if I had passed out from the intensity of the noise, but it did feel good. The rest of the night was a taffy-pull of seven or eight more songs, many, like “The Memorious” and “Ebbing,” were off the new record, dark poetry and wild-eyed, room-shaking music. The latter was a personal highlight, a spellbinding intro, Gira’s chanting feeling like a summoning of spirit as he sang, “Gestating — just dreaming / Not breathing” making way to lovely melodic bits even as the chaotic energy grew. In the end, the show was a two-hour-plus endurance test, similar peaks and troughs of dark and light, a massive sound that, despite all the vibration, had no cracks in its foundation. —A. Stein | @Neddyo
Photos courtesy of Samantha Schraub | @samcsch
#Aaron Stein#Bowery Presents#Christopher Pravdica#Dana Schechter#Kristof Hahn#Larry Mullins#Michael Gira#Music Hall of Williamsburg#New York City#Norman Westberg#Phil Puelo#Photos#Review#Samantha Schraub#Swans#The Beggar#Williamsburg
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Swans || Culturgest: mais vivos do que nunca
Os Swans aterraram em Portugal para a primeira de três noites e submeteram a Culturgest ao seu brutalismo líquido.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Os Swans aterraram em Portugal para a primeira de três noites e submeteram a Culturgest ao seu brutalismo líquido.
Passou-se demasiado tempo desde o último concerto dos Swans em Portugal. Por causa da pandemia, o mundo ficou sem saber a que é que leaving meaning. soaria ao vivo. Agora, com The Beggar já no horizonte, o público lisboeta ficou a saber o que mudou…
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When music became a trickle : small foveal fields playlist round-up 02
To find a moment of peace in the face of acoustic ugliness of everyday life
Nicola's picks
Steffen Basho-Junghans "In the Morning Twilinght"
Daniel Bachman "Coronach"
Ghazal "Fire"
Zelienople "Don't Be Lonely"
Norman Westberg "Sliding Sledding"
Loren Mazzacane, Jim O'Rouke "Now Who Are These Guys?"
Mary Lattimore "Altar of Tammy"
yes/and "Centered Shell"
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Listen/download: Flowers on the Bed of Pain by 60circuits
#bandcamp#experimental#blues#dark ambient#dark folk#devotional#noise rock#post rock#slowcore#norman westberg
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Song of the Day
27 Sep., ‘23
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Norman Westberg
very beautiful, floaty performance. thank you Mr Westberg
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Swans, live @ Theatro Vrahon (Athens, June 11th, 2023)
Swans, who are releasing their new album "The Beggar" on June 23, played in Athens last Sunday with former member Norman Westberg supporting and here you can check out our photos and video from this performance:
Swans, live @ Theatro Vrahon (Athens, June 11th, 2023)
Norman Westberg, live @ Theatro Vrahon (Athens, June 11th, 2023)
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Swans - The Memorious (live @ Theatro Vrahon)
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Norman Westberg
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$30 Advance / $35 Day of
Cabaret Metro Chicago
Swans * Norman Westberg
$30 Adv. / $35 Day of / 18 & Over / Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
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Norman Westberg - After Vacation (Full Album)
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when I went to see Norman westbergs show there were a lot of swans tees in the audience and I was thinking if I was doing solo shit I would be sort of offended by this. like you're only coming because I was in swans? like that would offend me.
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Swans regressam a Portugal com dois concertos em Lisboa e um em Faro
Os veteranos do rock experimental apresentam The Beggar, novo disco a sair já no próximo mês.
Os veteranos do rock experimental apresentam The Beggar, novo disco a sair já no próximo mês.
Os Swans, banda incontornável da cena no wave nova iorquina, regressam a Portugal em antecipação a The Beggar, o novo disco que será lançado a 23 de Junho deste ano. Depois da pandemia nos ter roubado a apresentação de leaving meaning., Michael Gira e companhia darão dois concertos na Culturgest, a 4 e 5…
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Frozen In Time: This is Darkness playlist – December 2023
"Here are the dark ambient albums that we at This is Darkness have been listening to this month – some are new releases, but a few are older gems we’ve just (re)discovered. Please check these out by clicking on the Bandcamp link next to each review (or by clicking on the BNDCMPR link at the bottom of the page), and please consider supporting the featured artists. Enjoy! ... With LUMINA, world-renowned throat singer/performance artist/shaman SoRIAH returns with an incredible set of two collaborations featuring experimental legends Hans Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia) and Norman Westberg(Swans). The music here is majestic, ethereal, and spiritual in both vibe and tone – and is intended to bring peace to the lost souls of those who have recently passed, a common overarching theme of SoRIAH‘s work. This album is also available here on beautiful 10” white smoke vinyl, with a hand numbered limited edition of 350. Simply wonderful. ..."
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