2005, Young God
The long awaited re-release of soundtrack-
without-a-film, "psycho-ambient" instrumental
opus by Michael Gira (Angels of Light, Swans,
Young God Records). Sonic chaos and wordless
lullabies were compiled, edited, mangled, fedback,
mutated and morphed from high quality recordings
of a dizzying array of musicians using acoustic and
electric instruments-- performed in the studio-- as
well as loops and fragments generated from these
sessions, found cassette recordings, sine waves and
drones, live Swans recordings, electronic noise and
the occasional insect, weeping woman, or a
touching recording of a baby in the process of
being circumcised. Gira's archive experiments with
analog synth, tape loops and "slabs of sound,"
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