Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind & Die Tür Ist Zu '1996/2018

Tracks list

 Swans Soundtracks for the Blind, their last studio album released in 1996
prior to their 2010 reformation, will be released for the first time on vinyl by
Young God Records on July 20th 2018. Much requested by Swans fans, the vinyl
package will consist of four LPs in jackets enclosed in a box with a poster,
insert and download card. The box set will be a limited edition of 4,000 copies
worldwide and once sold out will be followed later in 2018 by a gatefold LP
version. The album will also be reissued on CD featuring a repackage of the
original digipak for the 1996 Atavistic release plus a bonus disc of the
contemporaneous Die Tür Ist Zu EP (a German language version of some of the
material from Soundtracks that also includes unique material) recently released
for the first time on vinyl in the USA for Record Store Day 2018. Outside of the
USA Die Tür Ist Zu EP will be released as a limited edition companion piece
double vinyl set, also on 20th July.

“This album has everything in there – all the ideas from
Swans’ initial 15 years of work. There’s some contemporary
recordings of the band as it existed in ‘96/7, with Larry Mullins on
drums/percussion, Jarboe singing and playing keyboards, Vudi playing electric
guitar, and Joe Goldring playing bass and electric guitar, and me singing and
playing electric and acoustic guitar, but there’s also a huge amount of
sounds and recordings that Jarboe and I collected over the years. These are
reassembled, looped, mangled, and in many cases overdubbed upon to create new
pieces of music… I really set my own trap, dug my own grave on this one.
There was SO MUCH material to deal with, to sift through (whole trunks full of
decomposing, moldy cassettes and discs with samples and sounds), and the task of
making it into something coherent was at times debilitating. Really like
climbing up a mountain of sand. I don’t remember why I set this goal for
myself, to somehow incorporate such a ridiculously disparate amount of material.
I think maybe it was so I could justify throwing all that crap into the local
dump, which is what I did when I finished the album. But in the end, after
centuries of picking at this huge iceberg of material with a toothpick, my
trusty engineer Chris Griffin and I managed to sculpt something out of it. It
actually breathes, seems to live, in most places I think. … When I decided
to reform Swans in 2010 Soundtracks was what I referred to as a starting
point” – Michael Gira / Swans 2018
:: TRACKLIST ::

Soundtracks For The Blind
 Silver Disc
1-1 Red Velvet Corridor 3:04
1-2 I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull 6:39
1-3 Helpless Child 15:47
1-4 Live Through Me 2:31
1-5 Yum-Yab Killers 5:07
1-6 The Beautiful Days 7:49
1-7 Volcano 5:19
1-8 Mellothumb 2:45
1-9 All Lined Up 4:48
1-10 Surrogate 2 1:51
1-11 How They Suffer 5:52
1-12 Animus 10:42

Copper Disc
2-1 Red Velvet Wound 2:02
2-2 The Sound 13:11
2-3 Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey 3:18
2-4 Blood Section 2:39
2-5 Hypogirl 2:44
2-6 Minus Something 4:14
2-7 Empathy 6:45
2-8 I Love You This Much 7:23
2-9 YRP 7:46
2-10 Fans Lament 1:28
2-11 Secret Friends 3:08
2-12 The Final Sacrifice 10:27
2-13 YRP 2 2:09
2-14 Surrogate Drone 2:09

Die Tür Ist Zu
3-1 Ligetis Breath / Hilflos Kind 22:16
3-2 Ich Sehe Die Alle In Einer Reihe 4:47
3-3 Surrogate Drones 2:56
3-4 YRP 8:51
3-5 You Know Everything (Reprise 1991) 4:26
3-6 M/F 3:52
3-7 Soundsection 7:56

Swans
 Michael Gira - vocals, guitar, samples, sounds, loops, producer (all tracks
except Volcano)
 Jarboe - vocals, sounds, loops, producer (on Volcano)
 Norman Westberg - additional musician
 Algis Kizys - additional musician
 Bill Rieflin - additional musician
 Christoph Hahn - additional musician
 Clinton Steele - additional musician
 Larry Lame - additional musician, mixing and recording

Guest Musicians
 Joe Goldring - electric guitar, bass guitar (on tracks 3, 5, 9, 12, 14, 19, 24,
and 25)
 Vudi - electric guitar, acoustic guitar (on tracks 3, 5, 9, 12, 14, 19, 24, and
25)
 Larry Mullins - drums, percussion, vibraphone (on tracks 3, 5, 9, 12, 14, 19,
24, and 25)
 Cris Force - viola (on Animus and YRP)

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