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    Michael Rolfe Gira (/dʒəˈrɑː/; born February 19, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and artist. Now based in New Mexico...
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    band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. One of the few acts to emerge from the New York City-based no wave scene...
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    musician Michael Gira after he disbanded Swans, the group he had founded in 1982. The band has marked a distinctly different style for Gira since he left...
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  • To Be Kind (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    cracked the top 40 in both countries. To Be Kind was produced by frontman Michael Gira and recorded by John Congleton at Sonic Ranch and at Congleton's studio...
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  • The Beggar (album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    in Berlin, Germany across 2022, with key collaborators of front man Michael Gira, as well as both past and present members of the band. The announcement...
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  • The Seer (Swans album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    released by Young God Records on August 28, 2012. Producer and front man Michael Gira funded the recording of the album with the sales of the live double album...
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    group Swans, which was a collaboration between the core Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe. The project was initially called Skin, with the first two...
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    of the New York City experimental rock band Swans in 1985. Jarboe and Michael Gira, the founder of Swans, were the two constant members of the group until...
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  • Soundtracks for the Blind (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    the lyrics of "Your Property" from Cop for "YRP"). On this, frontman Michael Gira said in 1997: I've always been interested in different sounds like that...
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  • Young God Records is an independent record label formed by Michael Gira in 1990 that specializes in experimental, avant-garde and often non genre-specific...
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  • Cop (album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    a number of different compilations. It was remastered by band leader Michael Gira in 1992 for release on CD along with the Young God EP (1984) appended...
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    led by composer Michael Gira between 1998 and 1999 following the breakup of Swans in 1997. Both projects served as an outlet for Gira's loop experimentation...
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  • Leaving Meaning (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    the sonic weather, Gira's spiritual austerity remains unimpaired." All tracks are written by Michael Gira, except "Hums" by Gira, Kristof Hahn, Christopher...
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  • Children of God (Swans album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    that direction. So, I pushed the music into unfamiliar territory. — Michael Gira Children of God was reissued along with the World of Skin compilation...
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  • The Glowing Man (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    Looks Red/The World Looks Black" contains lyrics written by frontman Michael Gira that were used in the Sonic Youth song "The World Looks Red" in 1983;...
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  • Filth (Swans album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    Norman Westberg plays in a grating fashion. The vocals of Swans frontman Michael Gira are scathing and direct, covering topics of social decay, corruption...
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  • Drainland (category Michael Gira albums)
    Drainland is the debut solo studio album by American musician Michael Gira. It was released on June 9, 1995, through Alternative Tentacles. Using spare...
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  • aggressively explicit lyrics. All lyrics are written by Michael Gira; all music is composed by Swans Michael Gira – vocals, production N. Westerg (Norman Westberg)...
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  • Greed (Swans album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    wrapped in leather." All lyrics are written by Michael Gira; all music is composed by Swans Michael Gira – vocals, samples, tape operation, piano, bass...
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  • Drainland by fellow Swans member Michael Gira. All tracks are written by Jarboe, except "My Buried Child" by Michael Gira Musicians Jarboe – vocals, keyboards...
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  • White Light from the Mouth of Infinity (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    second half of Swans' unique career." All tracks are written by Michael Gira Michael Gira – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, effects...
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  • My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    2010; it was their first studio recording in 14 years. Swans founder Michael Gira funded the recording of this album by creating the limited-edition album...
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  • The Burning World (album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    only major-label release. Co-produced by Bill Laswell and band leader Michael Gira, the album features a major stylistic shift from their past releases...
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  • The Gate (Swans album) (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    band Swans. The album was released on October 1, 2015 on band leader Michael Gira's Young God Records. Limited to 2500 copies, the album served as a fundraiser...
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  • Holy Money (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    major influence. Credits adapted from Holy Money liner notes Performers Michael Gira – vocals, piano, sampling, production Norman Westberg – guitar Jarboe...
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  • most primal form." All lyrics are written by Michael Gira; all music is composed by Swans Michael Gira – vocals, tapes, production, sleeve design Harry...
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    singer Teddy Geiger. Xiu Xiu also covered the song with Swans frontman Michael Gira, a version that was included on Xiu Xiu's 2008 album Women as Lovers...
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  • faithfully restored. All lyrics are written by Michael Gira; all music is composed by Michael Gira Michael Gira – bass/vocals Jonathan Kane – drums Bob Pezzola...
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  • Love Will Tear Us Apart (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    Love Will Tear Us Apart EP by Swans Released 1988 Length 16:56 Label Product Inc. Producer Michael Gira Swans chronology...
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  • The Great Annihilator (category Albums produced by Michael Gira)
    January 23, 1995, through frontman Michael Gira's own record label, Young God. The album has been described by Gira as a companion album to his solo album...
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