My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

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My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky


Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, guitar); Bill Rieflin (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Christoph Hahn (vocals, electric guitar, lap steel guitar); Norman Westberg (vocals, electric guitar, E-bow); Kenny Siegal (vocals, electric guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Thor Harris (vocals, hammer dulcimer, keyboards, vibraphone, drums, percussion); Phil Puleo (vocals, hammer dulcimer, drums, percussion); Christopher Pravdica (vocals, bass guitar, Jew's harp); Siobhan Duffy Gira, Devendra Banhart (vocals); Grasshopper (mandolin); Jason LaFarge (violin); Brian Carpenter (slide trumpet); Steve Moses (trombone).Audio Mixers: Adam Sachs; Kevin McMahon; Bryce Goggin. Recording information: Marcata Recording, Gardiner, NY; Old Soul Studio, Catskill, NY; Seizure's Palace, Brooklyn; Trout, Brooklyn. After Michael Gira disbanded the brutal, beautiful Swans in 1997, he did anything but go quietly into the mists of avant rock legend. He ran his label Young God, wrote and published fiction, formed and cut half a dozen albums with Angels of Light, and produced and released recordings by numerous acts, including the first offerings by Devendra Banhart. Gira reconvened the Swans project for My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, eight songs that pick up in part where 1997's Soundtracks for the Blind left off, while remaining firmly in the present with the influence of Angels of Light and his solo records in the mix. This edition of Swans contains various former members, including guitarists Norman Westberg and Christoph Hahn, drummers Phil Puleo (who played with Swans and Angels of Light) and Thor Harris (ex of the Angels), and bassist Chris Pravdica. Guests include Banhart, Bill Rieflin (who also guested with a previous edition of Swans), and Mercury Rev's Grasshopper. The chimes that introduce the nine-and-a-half-minute opener, "No Words/No Thoughts," give way to martial, massive no wave guitars and pummeling k.






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