Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
label: Mute, 2022
media: vinyl, format: 12"LP, number of discs: 4
black , gatefold
download code: yes
cat. no: LSTUMM421
time: 72:21; 69:23; 55:08

NEW, UNPLAYED

rock, wave/dark/gothic

https://youtu.be/SmeveIgMshI

CD 1: (Silver Disc) 1. Red Velvet Corridor 3:05 2. I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull 6:39 3. Helpless Child 15:48 4. Live Through Me 2:32 5. Yum-Yab Killers 5:07 6. The Beautiful Days 7:50 7. Volcano 5:19 8. Mellothumb 2:45 9. All Lined Up 4:49 10. Surrogate 2 1:52 11. How They Suffer 5:53 12. Animus 10:43 CD 2:(Copper Disc) 1. Red Velvet Wound 2:02 2. The Sound 13:12 3. Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey 3:19 4. Bloodsection 2:39 5. Hypogirl 2:44 6. Minus Something 4:15 7. Empathy 6:46 8. I Love You This Much 7:24 9. Yrp 7:47 10. Fan's Lament 1:28 11. Secret Friends 3:08 12. The Final Sac 10:28 13. Yrp 2 2:09 14. Surrogate Drone 2:10 CD 3:(Die Tur Ist Zu) 1. Ligeti's Breath/Hilflos Kind 22:17 2. Ich Sehe Die Alle In Einer Reihe 4:47 3. Surrogate Drones 2:56 4. YRP 8:51 5. You Know Everything (Reprise 1991) 4:26 6. M/F 3:53 7. Soundsection 7:57

SWANS Soundtracks for the Blind – originally released in 1996, and the band's last studio album prior to their 2010 reformation – will be released for the first time on vinyl by Mute / Young God Records on 20 July 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 digital copy. The box set will be a limited edition of 4,000 copies worldwide and, once sold out, will be followed by a gatefold LP version. Soundtracks for the Blind 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 US, the Die Tür Ist Zu EP will be released as a limited edition companion piece double vinyl set, also on 20 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

Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Michael R. Gira, Vudi (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar – Joe Goldring (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone – Larry Mullins (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
Musician [Additional] – Al Kizys, Clinton Steele, Christoph Hahn, Larry Lame, Norman Westberg, Bill Rieflin
Voice, Sounds, Loops, Sampler – Jarboe, Michael R. Gira

Wydanie winylowe (box 4LP) zawiera jedynie materiał z CD1 i CD2. Materiał z CD3 dostępny jest w plikach (kod do ściągnięcia całość dołączony do winyla).

European reissue of the 2021 US release. Remastered in 2018.
Housed in a gatefold sleeve. Contains an insert, a poster, and a download card for the companion album Die Tür Ist Zu.

Rafał Księżyk (Brum 1/98):
"(...) takiej muzyki czas się nie ima. 150 minut esencji geniuszu Swans - gitarowy czad, w wydaniu zarówno punkowym, noise'owym, jak i industrialnym, piękne, ciemne ballady przechodzące w oniryczne ambientowe pasaże o niesamowitych barwach i rytualnej motoryce, szczypta technowego bitu. Czadu jest mniej, przeważa ambient, ale poszczególne wątki przenikają się i nakładają na siebie. Łączy je niepowtarzalny klimat napierający z siłą potopu, hipnotyczny, pełen bólu, mroku, podszyty neurozą, ale też nawiedzany transcendentalnym światłem"

Tomek Kowalski (Muzyka Mroku):
"(...) Ostatni okres w twórczości Swans i... najlepszy! (...) Apogeum twórczości The Swans była płyta, "Soundtracks for the Blind", której brudnopisem była płyta "Die Tur Ist Zu". Charakterystyczne brzmienie akustycznej gitary na tle nieziemsko brzmiącej gitary elektrycznej, z dodatkiem innych nieokreślonych instrumentów i samplerów, taśmami, głębokim głosem M. Giry i sennymi wokalami Jarboe. Kolejna muzyczna perełka.
Nagrania na tych albumach są dłuższe niż kiedykolwiek a brzmienie kryształowe. Fragmentami przypominają najlepsze momenty z twórczości niemieckiego Popol Vuh (nagranie otwierające "Great Anihilator") i... "Ummagumma" (nagranie 'Ligeti's Breath/Hilflos Kind' z "Die Tur Ist Zu"). Szczególnie wybijającym się nagraniem, jest monumentalny 'The Sound' z "Soundtracks for the Blind" (...)".

SWANS Soundtracks for the Blind – originally released in 1996, and the band's last studio album prior to their 2010 reformation – will be released for the first time on vinyl by Mute / Young God Records on 20 July 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 digital copy. The box set will be a limited edition of 4,000 copies worldwide and, once sold out, will be followed by a gatefold LP version. Soundtracks for the Blind 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 US, the Die Tür Ist Zu EP will be released as a limited edition companion piece double vinyl set, also on 20 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

Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Michael R. Gira, Vudi (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar – Joe Goldring (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone – Larry Mullins (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
Musician [Additional] – Al Kizys, Clinton Steele, Christoph Hahn, Larry Lame, Norman Westberg, Bill Rieflin
Voice, Sounds, Loops, Sampler – Jarboe, Michael R. Gira

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