Angels of Light - All Souls Rising. Michael Gira of Swans

[escapingplatoscave]

"Angels of Light" in the Bible are not a good thing.  They are fallen angels/demons. Maybe it's not a good idea to entertain this band as being god-like.

[greymalkin100]

Marvellous. 

[darshandukkar]

nice stuff... WE ALSO DO IT WHENEVR THRS A GET TOGETHER..:)

[FractalBolt]

I'm totally in love with the girl playing bass

[brianviglione]

@FractalBolt That's Dana Schechter from NYC, she's a total bad ass. Has a great band of her own called Bee & Flower.

[NOISYASTRONAUTS]

awesome.but mel c on bass?????

[mondoraptor]

kinda like KayoDot !

[markdksc]

I love how music is an expression of human emotion that's inside everyone.

when a person doesn't like a song it's because they don't like/ don't want to address that part of their own psyche.

[pranakhan]

@markdksc

I would personally fear the implications of this psychiatry in regards to hardcore gangster rap, but its an interesting theory nonetheless.

[gabeuop79]

Reminds me of Jandek. Completely untraditional song structures with garbled, almost folky vocals. Definitely more angry though. Anyone else?

[thefigurant]

Thor!



[thefigurant]

Thor!

[afterhours23]

LOST HIS MIND

[kicksex]

if we can make sound travel @the speed of light we can time travel

[chaote]

@ andinoble: you nailed it, his music just becomes more complete, intense, more "GIRA" - more of that indefinable something that hooked me on Swans way back when.

His fans are lucky that he can actually stay interesting/interested enough in the process to work at his craft and get better w/ age.

[deussolinvictus]

It's like ritual music.

[andinoble]

This quickly became my favourite Angels song. We´ve discussed what it is about-from Syphilis cures to mad smoking hallucinations - it has such beautiful/horrible imagery.Powerful. Michael Gira just gets better lyrically with age.

[leviadaedalus]

Sound like a witch can't. This is scary good.

[defana]

The bass and drums are nice. The rest is unimpressive, I miss swans.

[shitsandgigglez]

he;s nucking futs

[steinber]

I was so close to the front at this show that Gira spat on me a bit. Now I am baptized.

[tanky3tanky3tanky]

Thanks for posting.. I dunno: too much cymbal and the chord progressions doesn't work for me. Gira himself even seems a little disembodied from the flow of the song - something that never happened with the Swans... Btw, re: the mentions of Primus and Britney and Mellencamp below - I'm just amazed people even found their way to this clip. I'd just say to them: "thanks for visiting, maybe we'll see U again in 10 years, buying your first Swans CD".

[Zellig]

I think he's supposed to be disembodied. Soul extraction is an out of body experience, is it not?

[jermziehe]

I saw this tour in Denver...changed my life. This is a great video impression, but it was so powerful live.

[bootheavy]

This sounds a lot like "Rosary" from Scott Walker. Coming to think about it Gira in this video even looks like him.

[rafael28]

ha

they're twins, genius twins

[chemicalglee]

I thought they were much better as Primus.

[Putyourknifinme]

nothing like seeing Gira going into a trance, far beyond the cop and holy money days of swans, now that was a whole different story.

[ODBINCBD]

Love the cutaway of the goatee strokers...Hmmmm, yes....ART!

[cobalite]

If you don't appreciate art then screw off. You need to click back from where you came, to the Britney Spears video.

[cobalite]

I checked out the bassists own band called Bee and Flower on myspace after seeing this video. Pretty good.

[goldenhog]

incredible.

[warlockboyburns]

wow beautiful! its so... full

[Zellig]

I love this song. It's very intense.

[schwarzblatt]

gira knows how to bring in the top notch musicians.  does anyone know who the bassist is?

[warlockboyburns]

anyone could play that but they couldnt write it

[posthumanhero]

anyone could write and play it...they just wouldn't.....lol......love swans/gira.

[BurningSpear213]

I think that's Lisa Germano.

[beowulven]

Fuck John Mellencamp and fuck Lisa Gemano.

[BurningSpear213]

Sorry, dumbass me, that's Dana Schechter.

[gilacopter]

Yeah, she also did farfisa and keyboards on this tour. Saw them at the Empty bottle in Chigago.

[pazisad]

dobro u picku materinu!!

[SkilU]

Great song! Gira awesome!

Thanks for posting this...

[GuessBehemoth]

holy moley - talk about cathartic...whew

thanks for posting

[aj7748]

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2

[alvaroacc]

una performance perfecta.swans, maravillosos

[xxboyko]

This was filmed in Toronto. I was there -- amazing!

[rothkowitz]

hehe..the man in black crack makes sense

[pulsating123]

haha johnny cash dropping bad acid, thats hillarious. I love the musick too.

[Violator99]

When i saw them play live a few years ago, i became so into the music that i felt like i had been hypnotized! It was very nice:)

[Cynothoglys]

They call this their Led Zeppelin song... Fitting. I love this band.

[gofuserect]

a stunning performance!! hard to watch M. Gira performing so intensely! it's perfect!! love the Angels of Light! !

[goldenhog]

totally awesome. long live gira!

[noconfidenceman]

Where is the harmonica?

[brasikurtz]

great!! my favourite nrs are 'jennifer sorry' and 'my sister said.'

thanx!

[bigstrongboss]

"sister said" IS a great song.

[Cynothoglys]

God, Michael Gira is awesome. The band is exquisite too, of course. Freaky song. Like Johnny Cash dropping bad acid.