{"product_id":"swans-sacrifice-and-transcendence-the-oral-history-paperback","title":"Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNick Soulsby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I'm no stranger to failure, and I'm aware it can arrive at any minute--as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of what's really important: the work, not everything around it. If you have faith in the work, then the people will come ... it's an artistic imperative, it has nothing to do with public perception or career or any of that crap. The name, Swans, it's synonymous with who I am, but it's how it's achieved and it's achieved by people--those people need to have total commitment to making this sound and to making it utterly incisive and uncompromising. The work is everything and it has to--at least at the time--appear, to me, to be stellar. That's the prerequisite. It's an intangible thing where it really speaks and has some truth within it.'\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMichael Gira\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a span of some three and a half decades, Michael Gira's Swans have risen from chaotic origins in the aftermath of New York's No Wave scene to become one of the most acclaimed rock-orientated acts of recent years. The 1980s' infamous 'loudest band on the planet' morphed repeatedly until collapsing exhausted, broken, and dispirited in the late 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwans returned triumphantly in 2010 to top end-of-year polls and achieve feted status among fans and critics alike as the great survivors and latter-day statesmen of the underground scene. Throughout, Gira's desire has remained to create music of such intensity that the listener might forget flesh, get rid of the body, exist as pure energy--transcendent--inside of the sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these pages, the musicians responsible tell the tale of one of the most significant bands of the US post-punk era. Drawing on more than 125 original interviews, \u003ci\u003eSwans: Sacrifice And Transcendence\u003c\/i\u003e is the ultimate companion to Swans and their work from the 1980s to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Soulsby\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSwans: Sacrifice And Transcendence\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eThurston Moore: We Sing A New Language\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eCobain On Cobain: Interviews \u0026amp; Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eI Found My Friends: The Oral History Of Nirvana\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and \u003ci\u003eDark Slivers: Seeing Nirvana In The Shards Of Incesticide\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). In 2014 he curated the compilation \u003ci\u003eNo Seattle: Forgotten Sounds Of The North West Grunge Era 1986-1997\u003c\/i\u003e with Soul Jazz Records, and he also wrote the oral history of the band Fire Ants for the reissue of their 1993 EP Stripped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 26, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770008207648,"sku":"9781911036395","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3f904ce2062d51427fe7609badb6bc46.webp?v=1780362374","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/swans-sacrifice-and-transcendence-the-oral-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}