Michael Gira sat across the table at a quiet Brooklyn bar on a rainy Wednesday night. The conversation had settled on a mutual hero, Werner Herzog.
“There’s such a theme in his films of the quixotic character going out against nature,” Gira said. “And that’s how he does it personally, too. He’s the last of the great hero artists, like Joseph Beuys, or John Huston.”
In many ways, Gira is himself a kind of quixotic figure, though in his case nature has been replaced by the music industry.
After moving to NYC in the late seventies, he quickly gained notoriety as the founder of SWANS—the most brutal of New York’s no wave bands. Their music was a cement fist to the back of the skull, the noise overwhelming as Gira intoned songs about despair, disgust, pain, psychosexual violence, physical decay, and a particularly frightening kind of love.
Great interview continues....
WE ARE HIM, the fifth long-player from Angels of Light, is wholly uncategorizable, and features Gira chasing far-flung muses from Beefheart stomps ("My Brother's Man") to dirgy semi-ragas ("Promise of Water"), to almost traditional pop ("Good Bye Mary Lou.") The constants throughout are delicate arrangements, odd structures, and Gira's mesmerizingly laconic baritone. There are familiar touchstones here--synth-era Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave's solo work to name two--but Gira is an original and WE ARE HIM is weird American noir that sounds like nothing else on earth. - CD Universe
I just love the cornucopia of influence he's created here as well as with Jonathan Kane before. (Good Bye Mary Lou)
Angels Of Light; We Are Him 2007
1. Black River Song
2. Promise of Water
3. The Man We Left Behind
4. My Brother’s Man
5. Not Here/Not Now
6. Joseph’s Song
7. We Are Him
8. Sometimes I Dream I'm Hurting You
9. Sunflower’s Here to Stay
10. Good Bye Mary Lou
11. The Visitor
12. Star Chaser
http://www.mediafire.com/?jyqyyqazyza
Michael Gira sat across the table at a quiet Brooklyn bar on a rainy Wednesday night. The conversation had settled on a mutual hero, Werner Herzog.
“There’s such a theme in his films of the quixotic character going out against nature,” Gira said. “And that’s how he does it personally, too. He’s the last of the great hero artists, like Joseph Beuys, or John Huston.”
In many ways, Gira is himself a kind of quixotic figure, though in his case nature has been replaced by the music industry.
After moving to NYC in the late seventies, he quickly gained notoriety as the founder of SWANS—the most brutal of New York’s no wave bands. Their music was a cement fist to the back of the skull, the noise overwhelming as Gira intoned songs about despair, disgust, pain, psychosexual violence, physical decay, and a particularly frightening kind of love.
Great interview continues....
WE ARE HIM, the fifth long-player from Angels of Light, is wholly uncategorizable, and features Gira chasing far-flung muses from Beefheart stomps ("My Brother's Man") to dirgy semi-ragas ("Promise of Water"), to almost traditional pop ("Good Bye Mary Lou.") The constants throughout are delicate arrangements, odd structures, and Gira's mesmerizingly laconic baritone. There are familiar touchstones here--synth-era Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave's solo work to name two--but Gira is an original and WE ARE HIM is weird American noir that sounds like nothing else on earth. - CD Universe
I just love the cornucopia of influence he's created here as well as with Jonathan Kane before. (Good Bye Mary Lou)
Angels Of Light; We Are Him 2007
1. Black River Song
2. Promise of Water
3. The Man We Left Behind
4. My Brother’s Man
5. Not Here/Not Now
6. Joseph’s Song
7. We Are Him
8. Sometimes I Dream I'm Hurting You
9. Sunflower’s Here to Stay
10. Good Bye Mary Lou
11. The Visitor
12. Star Chaser
http://www.mediafire.com/?jyqyyqazyza
