NEWS
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Michael Gira and Kristof Hahn of Swans Announce Europe/UK Tour 2025
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Both M. Gira and K. Hahn have toured extensively solo in the past. Here, they combine their visions in a single, collaborative set of instrumentals and songs, drawing from reinterpretations of Swans music, new songs, and other material.
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SWANS ANNOUNCE NEW LIVE ALBUM LIVE ROPE PREORDER
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Hello there friends and supporters. The SWANS live album Live Rope is now available at younggodrecords.com. Funds generated from the sale of this album go toward the recording of the new SWANS studio album, in progress. Live Rope is quite a beast. It is available as a 2XDeluxe CD, a 4XLP Box Set, and also as a USB Credit Card. -
SWANS ANNOUNCE NEW UNITED STATES TOUR - APRIL/MAY 2024
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SWANS have announced a United States tour for April and May 2024, following European dates. The tour details, which are shared on the heels of a triumphant tour across Europe, N America, and the UK, will see the current incarnation of Swans perform– starting from April 12 through to mid-May. Full details below. -
SWANS ANNOUNCE NEW EUROPEAN TOUR - FEB/MARCH 2024
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SWANS have announced a European tour for February and March 2024. The tour details, which are shared on the heels of a triumphant tour across Europe, N America, and the UK, will see the current incarnation of Swans perform in theatres, churches and festivals – starting from 7 February through to mid-March – with support from Maria W Horn. Full details below.
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SWANS ANNOUCE THE BEGGAR, SIXTEENTH STUDIO ALBUM OUT JUNE 23 2023
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SWANS have announced details of their sixteenth studio album, The Beggar, due for release on Mute / Young God Records (N America) on 23 June 2023. The Beggar will 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's CD version), as a double CD in a brown chipboard digi-pack, as well as digitally. The Beggar was recorded and mixed at Candy Bomber Studio, Berlin, engineered by Ingo Krauss and mastered by Doug Henderson at Micro-Moose, 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. “After numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album leaving meaning, 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......