Live Rope
| Live Rope | ||||
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| 📅 Released | November 2024 | |||
| 🎙️ Recorded | Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York City on 18 May 2024 Amare, The Hague on 19 November 2023 | |||
| ⏳ Length | 182:51 (USB version) ~150:00 (vinyl version) 147:52 (CD version) | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Young God | |||
| 🤑 Producer | Michael Gira | |||
| Swans chronology | ||||
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Live Rope is the tenth live album by American experimental rock band Swans, released in November 2024 on Young God. Released in full as a USB "credit card" as well as in edited forms on CD and vinyl, the album served as a fundraiser for the upcoming seventeenth studio album Birthing.[1][2][3][4]
Background
The vinyl and USB releases were limited to 1,000 and 1,300 copies respectively.
The album contains live recordings of songs from the band's previous two albums, Leaving Meaning and The Beggar, on the 2023 and 2024 tours, where both albums' material saw their live debuts. The album also features three new songs, "Rope/The Beggar", "Away", and "Birthing". The former, at 86 minutes, is the band's longest song to date by a significant margin, surpassing the 46-minute The Knot from their 2017 album Deliquescence. As a whole, at 183 minutes in length, the album is additionally to date the band's longest release, also exceeding Deliquescence at 155 minutes.[1]
Live Rope consists of the entirety of the band's performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York City, on 18 May 2024 (lightly edited on the CD and vinyl releases), as well as additional performances of previously released tracks (The Memorious, Cathedrals of Heaven, and Leaving Meaning) recorded at Amare, The Hague on 19 November 2023. Leaving Meaning, played initially as an introductory section for Birthing, additionally interpolates The Glowing Man from the 2016 album of the same name.[1]
Track listing
All music composed by Michael Gira, Kristof Hahn, Larry Mullins, Dana Schechter, Phil Puleo, and Christopher Pravdica, except where noted..
| USB "credit card" version | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
| 1. | "Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2024"
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| 2:23:57
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| 2. | "Den Haag, Netherlands, 2023"
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| 38:54
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| Total length: | 182:51 | ||
| CD version (disc one) | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Rope/The Beggar" | 1:18:24 |
| CD version (disc two) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
| 1. | "The Hanging Man" | Michael Gira | 12:52 |
| 2. | "Away" | Michael Gira | 7:51 |
| 3. | "Birthing" | 37:27 | |
| 4. | "Cathedrals of Heaven" | 11:16 | |
| Total length: | 147:52 | ||
| Vinyl version (side one) | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Rope/The Beggar" | |
| Vinyl version (side two) | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Rope/The Beggar (cont.)" | |
| Vinyl version (side three) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
| 1. | "Rope/The Beggar (cont.)" | Michael Gira | |
| Vinyl version (side four) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
| 1. | "Rope/The Beggar (cont.)" | Michael Gira | |
| Vinyl version (side five) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
| 1. | "The Hanging Man" | Michael Gira | |
| 2. | "Away" | Michael Gira | |
| Vinyl version (side six) | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Birthing" | |
| Vinyl version (side seven) | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Birthing (cont.)" | |
| Vinyl version (side eight) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
| 1. | "The Memorious" | Michael Gira | |
Personnel
- Michael Gira – guitar, vocals, cover art
- Christoph Hahn – double lap steel guitar, loops
- Larry Mullins - Mellotron, synthesiser, drums
- Dana Schechter - lap steel guitar, bass guitar, loops
- Phil Puleo – drums, Appalachian dulcimer, flute, melodica, insert art
- Christopher Pravdica – bass guitar, taishōgoto, loops
- Jerry Melcher - live mixing engineer, recording
- Ingo Krauss - mixing (Williamsburg), mastering (The Hague)
- Doug Henderson - mastering (Williamsburg)
- Thomas Stern - mixing (The Hague)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Swans announce new live album Live Rope preorder". Young God Records. 10 September 2024. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ↑ "Swans reimagine crowdfunding". Scene Point Blank. 16 September 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- ↑ Fabretti, Claudio (11 September 2024). "Swans: esce l'album dal vivo, il ricavato finanzierà il nuovo disco in studio, che è già in lavorazione". Ondarock. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- ↑ Lefebvre-Massey, Félix (11 September 2024). "Swans partage un album live pour financer leur prochain album". Le Canal Auditif. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
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