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	Refuge Management - Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Refuge Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During summer fledging, adult swans are checked for health status, weighed, sexed, and banded, and previously banded swans’ band numbers are recorded.
		Trumpeter swan management in the tri-state area is conducted under guidelines set forth in the Rocky Mountain Population Management Plan, recently revised.
		In the rare case that a trumpeter is found dead, the Refuge sends the swan to the National Wildlife Health Research Center (in Madison, Wisconsin) for necropsy to determine the cause of death.
	redrocks.fws.gov /rrl10.htm (3016 words)

	Facts about topic: (Swans (band)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swans were one of the few bands to emerge from the New York (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies), USA (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) No Wave (additional info and facts about No Wave) scene intact.
		The band was formed in 1982 by Michael Gira (additional info and facts about Michael Gira), and employed a shifting line up of musicians between then and their dissolution in 1997.
		Swans Are Dead (1998) brings together live recordings from their 1995 and 1997 tours, documenting the energy and stage presence of Michael Gira and Jarboe.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sw/swans_(band).htm (591 words)

	Swans (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swans were one of the few rock music bands to emerge from the New York, USA No Wave scene intact.
		The band was formed in 1982 by Michael Gira, and employed a shifting line up of musicians between then (the only other constant member was keyboardist/vocalist Jarboe) and their dissolution in 1997.
		It was the first Swans album to feature more conventional pop melodies, though Gira's lyrics still favored themes of depression, death, greed and despair, though actually sung, rather than the chanting or shouting typical of earlier material.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swans_(band) (796 words)

	Swans (band)
		Swans were one of the few bands to emerge from the New York, USA No Wave scene intact.
		The band was formed in 1982 by Michael Gira, and employed a shifting line up of musicians between then and their dissolution in 1997.
		It was the first Swans album to feature more conventional pop melodies, though Gira's lyrics still favored themes of depression, death, greed and despair, actually sung, rather than the chanting or shouting typical of earlier material.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/swans__band_ (571 words)

	swans
		...Swans are a call to glorious nullification that resounds in attempts to escape corporal existence and despair.
		The band first appeared on record in 1982 with a self-titled EP, and its early releases document their search for the musical vocabulary to express their ideas effectively.
		Swans' astonishing output since their inceptions in 1982 has seen them progress constantly, veering wildly from proto-industrial grind, to slab-of- noise militant disco, to bad-vibes psychedelic "film" music, to darkly ambient accoustic songs, and now back again, ripping apart all genres, firmly in their own world.
	www.invisiblerecords.com /bands/swans (399 words)

	Swans: Swans Are Dead: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swans Are Dead is their aptly named final release; a double live CD culling live recordings from their 1995 and 1997 tours.
		The Swans' relentless attack of steamroller percussion, clanging guitar drones, atmospheric keyboards, and the interplay of Gira's deep vocals with that of his counterpart chantuese Jarboe make for a slow- motion sonic catharsis, repeated over and over in every song.
		The brutal repetition in Swans' music is mirrored by a repetition of lyric themes-- pain and pleasure, death and life, love and hate-- which seem simple enough, but Gira recognizes them as deeply integral parts of human existence that cannot be fully comprehended.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/swans/are-dead.shtml (382 words)

	SWANS - Review/live/Chicago Reader
		Swans were remarkable in that almost every album they made over the course of 15 years was better - or at least more interesting - then the one before it.
		It's especially striking because if Swans have ever been about anything, they've been about catharsis - an ecstatic state in a broad sense, but the flip side of the bright euphoria of party music - and I would have expected a guy like Gira to be a bit possessive of his demons.
		These shifts have cost Swans a few fans: the early grind with its lurid images of rape, prostitution, and slavery has attracted a strongly misogynist element that reacted to Jarboe's presence like a roomful of vampires to holy water.
	www.swans.pair.com /PRESS/revL_chic.html (987 words)

	Swans (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their early music was typified by slow and grinding guitar noise, and pounded drums, punctuated by Gira's morbid and violent lyrics, usually barked or shouted.
		However the album has been regarded by some fans as a major disappointment, as much of the early line-up was replaced by session musicians and the distinctive heavy guitar element of their earlier work toned down significantly in favor of folk and world music elements.
		Michael Gira's disillusionment with their MCA exploits led to White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (1991), a successful blending of earlier hard rock and later pop styles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Swans (796 words)

	Godflesh A-Z
		Robert Hampson played in a band called Loop in the late 80s, a band that was always difficult to categorize.
		A band from the late 80s/90s whose music was rather psychedelic with numerous drug references.
		Shortly after, Earache signed the band and requested a full LP to be recorded and released.
	www.godflesh.com /encyclopedia (4208 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Swans
		Swans trudge through dragging tempos, 2/2 meters and low frequency mush, all the while howling about alienation and despair.
		New weapons are added to the Swans' arsenal, along with a variety of seemingly inconceivable approaches: the harrowing "Fool" is almost all piano and (sung!) vocals; several songs feature female background singers (serving more as an instrument than harmony).
		The band's early years are revisited in Body to Body, Job to Job, a collection of previously unavailable studio recordings, live cassette recordings and tape loops from 1982 to 1985.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=swans (1451 words)

	SWANS - Article \| Boulder Weekly \| SWANS SONG
		True, that was the sound of Swans when Gira first formed the band in New York City back in 1981, but today, to say that Swans' music has matured doesn't even begin to describe the perfect and beguiling beast it has become.
		Most of Swans' ultimate development can be traced back to their watershed 1987 release Children of God - a stunning album that finally provided a reference point for dealing with the harsh invincibility of the band's heaviness.
		Swans followed that work with 1989's The Burning World, an atypical outing that paired the band with a producer (Bill Laswell) for the first and only time and encouraged the lighter side of things to shine through.
	www.swans.pair.com /PRESS/art_bw197.html (1991 words)

	Press - Article \| Birds of Prey \| San Francisco Bay Guardian
		The tour is Swans' first since Jarboe and Gira moved from New York to the rural outskirts of Atlanta a year and a half ago.
		The band is equally famous for its metamorphic talents, which during the '80s led to experiments in everything from proto-industrial dance beats to Celtic and Middle Eastern syncopation.
		Swans song Iyrics are a genre of their own, with Gira - and later Jarboe -penning grotesquely beautiful explorations of the extremities of power, transgression.
	www.swans.pair.com /PRESS/art_birdsprey.html (1701 words)

	The Young Gods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The band's lineup generally has consisted of vocalist a sampler operator, and a drummer.
		Their name is taken from an early EP by the no-wave/industrial rock band Swans.
		This article on a band or other musical ensemble is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Young_Gods (160 words)

	SWANS - Interview \| Chart(Toronto)
		This dubious badge of achievement was earned by Swans, the all-time champs of the Sonic Brutality Index (defined as the inverse ratio between decibels produced and the area of the room enclosing them).
		Swans happened in about '82, and appeared to be the sonic embodiment of Gira's rage.
		When Swans intend something to be taken at face value (that "purity"), people assume all sorts of sick, hidden motives; and when they want all the implications of a word considered ("rape" for example), people usually stop after the most obvious one.
	www.swans.pair.com /PRESS/art_reflex.html (1369 words)

	Encyclopedia: Swans (band) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Michael Gira was the founder and lead singer in the New York City rock band, Swans.
		Swans were one of the few bands to emerge from the New York City No Wave scene intact.
		The Great Annihilator shows Swans within reach of attaining the qualities Gira found so appealing in the band's namesake — beautiful and idyllic on the surface, but predisposed to removing a digit from those who get too close.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swans_%28band%29 (482 words)

	Amazon.com: Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job [LIVE]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 80's as we know were not a time to be shy and with Swans Micheal Gira and the boys took a DEEP stab at the wall of uncompromise that america too often builds and rebuilds of a shallow repetitive midlife crisis inspireing nightmares.
		Swans have always had one element that has only progressed its patient build, nearly every song is catharsis till late song explosion.
		Swans held the keys of innovation in the 80's and 90's for so many artists as you will hear weather having lived then or not.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004OCVJ?v=glance (1698 words)

	SWANS - Article \| Detroit Metro Times
		Swans are an ever-evolving group of musicians, led by singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Michael Gira, and his ubiquitous companion, keyboardist, songwriter and vocalist Jarboe.
		Swans dwell in relative, if not complete, obscurity in the pop world, despite having influenced the entire spectrum of the now-popular "industrial" music scene, including acts like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, nine inch nails and Rage Against the Machine.
		The Swans' sound has evolved out of the early punk and downtown Manhattan no-wave scene, from plodding, harsh, extreme blast of guitar and drum noise to 140 beats per minute, drum machine dance music terror to exotically beautiful and shimmering musical textures that are almost medieval in their melodic structure and execution.
	www.swans.pair.com /PRESS/art_dethearts.html (1932 words)

	SWANS - Article \| Chicago Tribune
		Swans have an image that will not die, even as the group closes the door on an extraordinary, and extraordinary overlooked, 15-year career with a performance Tuesday at Double Door.
		But since those radical early releases, Swans has produced a varied body of work - some of it so beautiful and quiet that it might lull a child - and more recently has delved into the mood-altering, shape-shifting textures of ambient and film music.
		Swans flirted with wider acceptance of their own after the release of their acknowledged masterpiece, the 1987 double album "Children of God," a work that evokes both medieval beauty and horror with, its stately, acoustic-laden textures.
	www.swans.pair.com /PRESS/art_chictrib.html (783 words)

	Jarboe interview from QRD#16
		despite her solo work before after and during Swans, Jarboe is most known as the singer and keyboard player in that legendary band.
		Swans was after all, Michael's project and so it is only appropriate that I now get off of that site and have my own place.
		The Living Jarboe band is playing Gothic Wave Treffen in Lepzig Germany in May 2000 as well as other dates to be announced on my site in the future....
	www.silbermedia.com /qrd/archives/jarboe16.html (1005 words)

	Young God Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The label's original intent was to be a place to release the music of Swans (like the Beatles and Apple Records).
		The record company has grown to host Gira's current band, the Angels of Light, Swans re-issues, Gira's side projects the Body Lovers and the Body Haters, Michael Gira's solo career, and a number of other bands.
		Some bands include: Calla (band), David Coulter, Devendra Banhart, Flux Information Sciences, Larsen, and Windsor for the Derby.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Young_God_Records (141 words)

	Why Satan Loves...Swans
		They were the only band to successfully transform style three times in ten years, and yet still appeal to their audience.
		In 1998 Swans released their last album as a band "Swans are Dead", and split up.
		The experience of Swans are Dead leaves you with a single wish, that you could have been their for that final concert.
	freespace.virgin.net /satan.is.love/Site/Pages/Music/swans.htm (839 words)

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		A dimension of china patterns, ice swans, band diamond man titanium wedding and boutonnieres.
	lo26.teltopaz.com /looseheartdiamond.html (1207 words)

	Swans Commentary: Past Issue - September 22, 2003
		SWANS » Past Issue » September 22, 2003
		According to the Utah Division of Indian Affairs' Goshute Page, "The Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians is a federally recognized Indian Tribe located in the west desert of Tooele County.
		This has been a rude summer for Swans; not on the scope of the land of the one thousand and one nights or the many spots in the world where poverty, disease, starvation and violence are rampant, but tough nonetheless.
	www.swans.com /library/past_issues/2003/030922.html (1104 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Label: Young God
		At the band's insistence, 50 friends and admirers were invited into the studio to witness the performances, with the proviso that they "stand around naked, blindfolded, like lawn furniture made of flesh, and not move" as the band played, watching them.
		Swans atomize rhythm and melody by taking repetition to an extreme, almost aberrant degree, to a point where the music is transformed into a behemoth machine that simultaneously disrupts and illuminates its own internal structure....
		Swans leave behind a legacy as the most radical aesthetic dissenters from the golden age of '80s NYC tumult rock, yet also as the most faithful adherents to that scene's sternness and experimental edge....
	www.midheaven.com /labels/young.god.html (8419 words)

	Jonathan Kane and Swans \| PRESS \| YOUNG GOD RECORDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We went on tour with Sonic Youth, it was both bands’ first tours: 10 of us in one airless, seatless van with a trailer at the back for the gear.
		Swans was largely Michael’s vision and he picked on a couple of aspects of my playing that he wanted to use, and pushed them to the fore.
		My last gig with the band was at a three-day festival in New York called Speed Trials, with Sonic Youth, The Fall and the Beastie Boys.
	www.younggodrecords.com /Press/PressDetail.asp?ArticleID=393 (651 words)

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		Band line-up: Michael Gira - vocals, tape samples, bass Norman Westberg - guitar Harry Crosby - bass Ronaldo Gonzalez - drums, piano Ivan Nahem - drums Jarboe - backing vocals, keyboards Al Kizys and Ted Parsons appear in the liner photographs as well.
		Band line-up: Michael R. Gira - voice, electric and acoustic guitars, samples, sounds, loops Jarboe - voice, keyboards, sounds, loops GUESTS: Larry Mullins - drums, percussion, vibraphones Vudi - electric and acoustic guitar Joe Goldring - bass guitar and electric guitar Cris Force - Viola...
		Swans appears in the credits for the movie, but they were never paid.
	swans.infin8ty.com /disco/SwansDsc67.txt (5959 words)

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