Michael Gira Announces Solo Dates in Australia, UK and Europe
This tour will precede what’s been announced as the final studio full-length by (the current version of) Swans, but it seems like it will be telling nonetheless, since in the spectrum of works by Michael Gira, there continues to be a one-thing-leads-to-the-next-thing linearity. What that next thing will be is the question, at least when Swans is put to rest — if in fact they are — and for however long. Recent Gira solo outings have been limited demo material for Swans and so on, but a studio LP doesn’t seem out of the question. But then, neither does anything else. It’s Michael Gira. Not a context you’d call limited as far as possibilities are concerned.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Dying to hear the sendoff Swans gives itself, and not that there was any doubt, but good to get confirmation that Gira continues to look forward.
Tour dates from the PR wire:
MICHAEL GIRA OF SWANS ANNOUNCES SOLO TOUR
Michael Gira of Swans has announced a London performance at the Barbican on March 30, 2016. The solo London date, his first since 2013’s performance at the Church of St John at Hackney, is part of a European tour through March and April – full details below.
The Barbican show, with Thurston Moore and Laura Cannell opening, is presented as part of Art Assembly’s ‘Saisonscape” series. For more information go to:
artassembly.org.uk/saisonscape
MICHAEL GIRA SOLO TOUR DATES
5 March – Brisbane, AU Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
8 March – Melbourne, AU Melbourne Recital Centre
9 March – Sydney, AU Carriageworks
30 March – London, UK Barbican Centre – bit.ly/1N7JbrE
1 April – Moscow, RU ZIL Culture Center
2 April – Saint Petersburg, RU The Place SPB Venue
4 April – Warsaw, PL Pardon, To Tu
5 April – Warsaw, PL Pardon, To Tu
7 April – Berlin, D Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
8 April – Copenhagen, DK Jazzhouse
9 April – Oslo, N John Dee Club inside Rockafeller
10 April – Bergen, NO Bergen Kunsthall – Landmark Bar
11 April – Amsterdam, NL Paradiso Upstairs
13 April – Brussels, BE AB Small Club
15 April – Paris, FR Le Point Ephémère
Michael Gira recently announced that Swans are working on their last album in this “current incarnation”. The basic tracks and vocals were recorded at Sonic Ranch studio in Texas with John Congleton as engineer, and with Michael Gira producing. Further recording and mixing took place in Seattle and Berlin and the new album is expected to be released on Mute / Young God Records in the summer of 2016.
http://younggodrecords.com
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