Swans 12" (Remastered 2015) (SOLD OUT)

YG47 Signed by M. Gira SWANS: 12" EP re-mastered in 2015 Hi There!This is the first recorded output of Swans, in it's nascent first stage, circa 1981. As such, it's searching for a sound or a mode of working that we hadn't quite found yet, but if you listen carefully I think you can discern the seeds of things to come. I was still singing from my head, rather than my gut, but that was soon to come. I'm still rather fond of the words on this E.P., though I certainly don't currently ascribe to the world view implied therein. The genesis of this way of writing was in my earlier days in art school, when I'd write out dry but vivid and descriptive scenarios, or instructions, for my performance art undertakings at the time. Impersonal, though impassioned, if that makes any sense. The songs began musically in all cases with a simple bass part I'd worked out (on a small scale bass that Mr. Rhys Chatham loaned me - and showed me how to tune, God Bless Him!) , then were developed with Jonathan