Posted By Matthew Moyer on Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 1:43 PM click to enlarge Still courtesy Marco Porsia Swans live This weekend, local arts boosters the Modern Music Movement and Uncomfortable Brunch host a one-off Florida screening of the newish music doc
Swans: Where Does a Body End? The fly-on-the-wall film takes on the formidable and complicated history of Swans, the monolithic ensemble led by Michael Gira and a shifting cast of collaborators over s decades-long non-career. The film is built around the twin poles of interviews with Gira and his fellow musical travelers who fully cooperated with this undertaking and an unseen cache of performance videos spanning dating back to the band s early years in the 1980s. Director Marco Porsi
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Magnet Magazine 30 years ago today, Massive Attack released debut album Blue Lines. We’re thankful for what we got. Read Cold Specks in MAGNET on Massive Attack:
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Print Edition: September 10, 2014
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I’d never been to the Venue before. It seemed like an odd place, in paper, for Swans to play. I thought they’d surely play at a “seedier” place than a nightclub on Granville (I don’t mean that as derogatory; seedy venues are brilliant in their own right). The dark atmosphere inside, however, suited the sounds to come.
“This place makes me think of
The Social Network,” my friend says. I’ll leave you to interpret that I’ve never seen the movie.
I pointed out the clutter on stage: amps, a guitar, drums, and a singing saw. Behind all that is the pile of gear for Swans (towering above everything else is a gong, and next to it some dulcimers). A man and a woman take their places: the woman on stage right, looking serene as she watches the man on the left begin the procession, working over a tiny synthesizer.