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	Michael Gira
		Michael Gira was the founder and lead singer in the New York City rock band, The Swans.
		After the band broke up in 1997 Gira released a number of solo albums under the names The Angels of Light[?] and The Body Lovers[?].
		The former being a acoustic ensemble with Gira acting as singer/songwriter, and the latter an instrumental and experimental electronic project.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Michael_Gira.html (101 words)

	Amazon.de: The Consumer: English Books: Michael Gira,M. Gira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gira has a talent that might almost be called a gift for coming up with fascinating, vivid, and almost inevitably macabre scenarios for his short stories.
		Gira imaginatively conveys the darker and seamier side of the psyche in his examinations of self-destruction, delusion, orgiastic excess and loss of identity.
		Gira's music (the now disbanded Swans) is dark but not usually downright grotesque -- in his fiction, he seems dedicated to pulling up the most abominable arrangement of imagery and content that anyone could hope to imagine.
	www.amazon.de /Consumer-Michael-Gira/dp/1880985268 (875 words)

	Michael Gira - Biography - AOL Music
		This said, Gira has had a few releases appear billed as solo efforts, and while more might yet surface in future, it looks likely such recordings will be sporadic in nature.
		Unsurprisingly, such releases demonstrate, as much as his more well-known band efforts, Gira's skill and power at creating emotionally intense music and lyrics.
		Billed as "Michael Gira With Guests", a limited-edition live recording from early 1999 was done specifically as a benefit to assist Jarboe with her medical bills from a disease picked up on a trip to Israel the previous year.
	music.aol.com /artist/michael-gira/80165/biography (208 words)

	Michael Gira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was 1986, and there he stood, in mock-crucifixion, at the brink of the Rat's stage, pale and blank-faced in the dark as he drooled bubbling rivulets of saliva down his chest into a pool on the floor.
		In 1997 Gira ended Swans, after, as he puts it, "I'd banged my head against the wall for years trying to get something good to come of it." Despite the cranial pounding, Gira does have good memories of the band -- especially the early days of drool and din.
		Gira may feel that his energies have reduced a bit over the years, but it's hard to tell from his recent output.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/05/06/MICHAEL_GIRA.html (871 words)

	Michael Gira: Pitchfork Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Michael Gira: A long time ago, as far back as the mid-to-late '80s, I realized that the reliance on "big" sounds and volume was becoming a crutch for me and a cliché, so I started writing songs on acoustic guitar, trying to bring things to a more immediate and intimate place.
		Michael: We had just recently worked together on their album for Young God and the experience was so exhilarating for me that it just seemed natural to work with them on the new Angels album.
		Michael: Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /interviews/g/gira_michael-05 (2042 words)

	Michael Gira (SWANS/Angels of Light) ao vivo em Lisboa...
		At the heart of much of Michael Gira's songs with SWANS and The Angels of Light is the bare essence of Gira, simply the voice and guitar.
		Gira unabashedly intones to the basic, often quiet, accompaniment of his acoustic guitar plucks and strums.
		Michael ergue-se como o líder indiscutível de um grupo que ultrapassa os limites do convencional, que transmite o conceito mais duro e extremo da nossa essência mais primária, que é essa fera indomável que ninguém se atreve a mostrar.
	www-ctp.di.fct.unl.pt /~jddp/mgira/reviews.html (3638 words)

	Michael Gira interview from QRD#25
		Michael — The biggest benefit is that I don't have to worry about anybody else's musical parts, or their personalities.
		Michael — No, I think it took me a long time to be able to deal with the total responsibility of running a label, and if I’d have done so earlier it would have been disastrous...
		Michael — I gargle with warm salt water before each show, eat scores of fisherman's friend throat lozenges, drink tea with tablespoons of honey, and drink whiskey.
	www.silbermedia.com /qrd/archives/25mgira.html (1076 words)

	Michael Gira (USA) :: Culture Picks :: Moscow's virtual community for English speaking expats and Russians
		Michael Gira is an extremely private person; he doesn't like interviews, and he does not enjoy the prospect of sharing his personal emotions (outside of the realm of performance) with anyone...
		Gira's background is reasonably researched and displayed on the Young God Records website: to summarize several excellent articles about Gira's background, he was born in the 50's and grew up in a relatively affluent suburb of Los Angeles called Palos Verdes during the 60's, the son of a wealthy international businessman and a housewife.
		While Gira admits in interviews on his web site that he felt an immediate connection to Jarboe, she did spend her share of time schlepping band equipment before she was officially asked to join in 1984 to sing and play keyboards.
	www.expat.ru /culturepics_ann.php?cid=389 (5035 words)

	Michael Gira \| Young God Records
		Michael Gira is an extremely private person; he doesn’t like interviews, and he does not enjoy the prospect of sharing his personal emotions (outside of the realm of performance) with anyone...
		Gira’s background is reasonably researched and displayed on the YOUNG GOD RECORDS website: to summarize several excellent articles about Gira’s background, he was born in the 50’s and grew up in a relatively affluent suburb of Los Angeles during the 60’s, the son of a wealthy international businessman and a housewife.
		Gira explains, “Musically, the reason for the shift was that SWANS had run its course with the physical assault of sound that we employed previous to that.
	www.younggodrecords.com /prodtype.asp?PT_ID=76 (6395 words)

	Ink 19 :: Michael Gira's Angels of Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anyone familiar with Michael Gira's history with the Swans might know what they could expect from a performance by his latest project.
		Unearthing the haunted, dark side of the human experience, stripping away the veil of civility to reveal the pain and suffering of the world -- that was the Swans' specialty.
		And to a slightly lesser degree, Gira continues that approach with the Angels of Light, presenting intense and personal narratives from his unique corner of the world.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_08/live/028_michael_giras_angels.shtml (313 words)

	Cosmik Debris Magazine Presents: Michael Gira of Angels of Light
		More than two decades ago, Michael Gira and his band, the Swans, were known for being one of the more disturbing-sounding musical acts in the burgeoning pantheon of American alternative.
		The collaboration of Gira's lyrics and sinister-sounding, world-weary vocals with the mix of acoustic, archaic stringed instruments, including mandolins and banjos, is both beautiful and chilling, like something you'd expect to hear from a group of illiterate-yet-poetic post-nuclear hillbillies and mutant ones, at that--banging out their lives stories around a smoking campfire.
		When speaking to Michael Gira, one gets the feeling that conveniences like the Internet and Caller ID were designed specifically for him; he seems solitary, quiet, and perhaps even a little shy.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-septemberoctober05/michael_gira.html (965 words)

	Somniloquist - Michael Gira - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Michael Gira, frontman for Swans and Angels of Light, is also a writer of fiction.
		Hearing Gira deeply as a singer with musical backing is one thing; the music and resultant soundscapes provide both a tunnel into the listener and an escape hatch out of the lyrical content.
		Gira's baritone is so lulling, especially on later recordings, that his voice can become an agent of hypnotic sensuality.
	www.mp3.com /albums/407090/summary.html (535 words)

	Michael Gira : Living '02 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Michael Gira's post-Swans efforts have covered everything from extreme electronic experiments to guitar-and-vocal only efforts; this recording from a date in Portugal falls squarely in the latter camp.
		Gira's sense of timing and delivery has if anything gotten all the more sharp with time, shifting easily and more often than not perfectly between wrenching calls to the sky and carefully focused, close-to-the-mike words.
		More than once Gira calls to mind Johnny Cash's brilliant live solo turns -- a tough comparison to live up to, but the results on songs like "My Suicide" are hard to argue with.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2497254,00.html?GXHC_gx_session_id_=f7483e94d96b7405& (314 words)

	Michael Gira - AOL Music
		Gira has produced or co-produced every Swans recording since its inception in 1982, comprising well over 20 releases along the way.
		Michael Gira (pronounced jeer-AH; listen to an interview at this external link [1]) (born 1954) is a musician, author, and artist.
		Download, listen and watch Michael Gira music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/michael-gira/80165/main (109 words)

	Luna Kafé - Michael Gira: I Am Singing to You from My Room
		This overlooked Michael Gira 2004 solo album's title isn't misleading at all: this album is personal to the utmost.
		The biggest thing that I'm always caught by when I listen to any Michael Gira related project (The Swans, The Angels of Light, his solo material) is his sheer honesty.
		It is a personal album, but lyrically, Gira is fond of using a technique that makes his words about his life and about cosmic truths at the same time.
	www.lunakafe.com /moon103/usny103b.php (631 words)

	The Brooklyn Rail - February 2007 - Addicted to Sound: An Interview with Michael Gira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Michael Gira sat across the table at a quiet Brooklyn bar on a rainy Wednesday night.
		Their music was a cement fist to the back of the skull, the noise overwhelming as Gira intoned songs about despair, disgust, pain, psychosexual violence, physical decay, and a particularly frightening kind of love.
		Gira is currently working on a new album (possibly his last as Angels of Light), part of which he recorded with Akron/Family, an experimental jazz/folk quartet Gira discovered a few years ago.
	brooklynrail.org /2007/2/music/addicted-to-sound (1718 words)

	CREEM ONLINE: Michael Gira
		Alone on stage in a Nashville suit, Gira is a classic American songwriter, dusting off old favorites for a generation raised on noise.
		Gira’s voice is a low rumble: the sound of a distant storm on the horizon, a gentle warning that the band will soon return to pour down another deluge.
		Gira has been chasing his own strange muse for more years than Banhart has lived, and he shows no sign of stopping.
	www.creemmagazine.com /_site/BeatGoesOn/MichaelGira/AngelsOfLightLive001.html (845 words)

	The Unedited E-mail Interview with Michael Gira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gira: i suppose moving to NYC way back in 1979 from LA did have an influence on the work i eventually made with Swans, starting in 1981.
		Gira: well, if the music doesn't develop, change, and surprise me, there's no reason to continue, so i try, with varied levels of success, to push it and myself into new places.
		Gira: to me, everything is fair game, whether it's "personal" or derived from things like what's going on in the mass media, or a book i've just read.
	www.slugmag.com /oldslug/172/Lincoln_Lysager.html (1868 words)

	The Vacuum: Michael Gira - Solo Acoustic Show With Devendra Banhart by Jonny Bailie
		Michael Gira is a New York based record-label owning folk-rock avant garde artist, a boundary breaker a la Warhol and Cocteau, and perhaps the only similarly qualified punk-hick ever to grace the Ormeau Road.
		Gira's early strumming on his guitar confirmed an initial worry relating to a trained artist's interpretation of music, certainly leaning more towards 'art' than music.
		Gira is the Depeche Mode of folk, the William Burroughs of country music, though to say he has a voice of an angel would be to say so too does that poor bint Bonnie Tyler.
	www.thevacuum.org.uk /issues/issues0120/issue11/is11revmicgir.html (424 words)

	Perfect Sound Forever: Michael Gira interview
		It could be a manifesto of sorts for Gira's own mission - he's always cut out the waste and moved on, refining the elements of his music still of interest to him whilst discarding the played out aspects.
		Gira now records as the Angels of Light, and the current incarnation simply utilizes the entire Akron/Family to fire his muse.
		Michael Gira: We've agreed that we'll do one more album together, and then it will be time to move on.
	www.furious.com /perfect/michaelgira.html (1537 words)

	Michael Gira and The Angles of Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Michael was born in the 50s, the son of some privilege, and his early years were spent in L.A.—quite fitting when considering the modern malaise and urban conditions that spawned the themes that run through his work.
		During his youth, Michael left America with his father to live in Europe, an adventure that resulted in several incarcerations (in Amsterdam for vagrancy and Jerusalem where he was held for a month without formal charges as the result of his involvements selling hash).
		Gira was anxious to move ahead with new projects.
	www.slugmag.com /oldslug/172/_Lincoln__Lysager.html (1309 words)

	CREEM ONLINE: Angels Of Light — Live Review
		Gira walked nonchalantly on stage, plunked down what appeared to be a plastic bag of provisions (throat lozenges, guitar picks, strings), tuned his guitar and launched right into "To Live Through Someone." Gira’s demeanor is serious but not without a sense of humor.
		Akron Family's backing is seemingly a perfect landscape to Gira's powerhouse of a voice juxtaposed against often stark but never desolate lyrics.
		Gira promised he'd be back and seemed genuinely grateful for the crowd response.
	www.creemmagazine.com /_site/BeatGoesOn/MichaelGira/LiveReview0506.html (607 words)

	Amazon.com: The Consumer: Books: M. Gira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gira (Author) "When my sister was released from the mental hospital, she came to live with me in the tilting and crumbling one-bedroom house I'd bought with..." (more)
		Michael Gira was also the singer/songwriter for the band The Swans, a dark and moody goth/industrial type band from the 80s and has done a few Cds on his own.
		Michael Gira is well known for his visceral lyrics and his brutal/beautiful music.
	www.amazon.com /Consumer-M-Gira/dp/1880985268 (1924 words)

	Amazon.com: Drainland: Music: Michael Gira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It may be easy enough for Gira to plop a talk track on top of the opening, "You See Through Me", but the conversation from a young redneck couple about money and mothers-in-law becomes candid and frightening, like your eavesdropping on your best friends.
		First of Michael Gira's solo works from 1995 onwards, Drainland is a beautiful example of michael gira solo talent, even though the separation between the two major swans figures is not so obvious and jarboe also plays in the recording of Drainland.
		Michael Gira's first solo outing without Jarboe is some of his best work to date.
	www.amazon.com /Drainland-Michael-Gira/dp/B000000FAP (1051 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Radio & Music > Michael Gira
		Someone yelled, "we love you, Michael," and he groaned and said, "It's against my nature to be loved," or something like that.
		I very truly love this band, and this man. I find listening to Michael Gira's various projects (as well as Jarboe's) are pretty universally moving experiences.
		Somehow the conversation moved to Gira's apparel (he was wearing a vintage, musty suit and hat), and I said, "I like your suit.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/20989 (2235 words)

	Michael Gira and the Angels of Light
		Both are veterans of intellectual post-punk machinations — Gira from the Swans and Cave from The Birthday Party.
		But oddly, Gira doesn’t seem to have the same kind of name recognition that Cave does, and he should: If anyone could be cited as the inventor of horror rock, it’s Gira.
		It’s safe to say that Gira’s brand of fl humor has evolved from the visceral to the psychological, and we all know which is the more terrifying.
	citypaper.net /articles/112201/mus.pickg.shtml (224 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Drainland: Music: Michael Gira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gira's 1995 solo album starts with an ominous guitar riff and noises leading into a taped conversation that deteriorates into a bitter alcohol-induced quarrel that brilliantly demonstrates the destructive effects of "demon drink." Track 2: Where Does Your Body Begin?
		Your Naked Body covers the same territory as Mother's Milk (from Omniscience and Great Annihilator) though less brutally, as if filtered through the prose of one of Gira's inspirations, Paul Bowles.
		The last track, Blind, is my favourite on this album as it almost sounds like a take from Swans' Burning World (1989) sessions.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Drainland-Michael-Gira/dp/B000000FAP (356 words)

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