other titles...
- The Parasite
- Paradise Is Mine
- Los Angeles: City of Death
- Michael is Done
- Unforming
- The Beggar
- No More Of This
- Ebbing
- Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want?
- The Beggar Lover (Three) (vinyl down load / cd - disc 2)
- The Memorious (cd - disc 2 only)
swans
The Beggar
Mute
swans' 16th studio album pairs gira with recent and former Swans members, members of Angels Of Light, as well as guest Swan, Ben Frost.
Following 2019’s 'leaving meaning', the album emerged from the 2020 lockdown with Michael explaining, “after numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album leaving meaning, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color. Now I’m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite color is pink. I hope you enjoy the album.”
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