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Sep 19, 2019 · Where Does a Body End?: Directed by Marco Porsia. With Devendra Banhart, Blixa Bargeld, Jehnny Beth, Michael Gira. The worldview of Michael Gira, through his life as a globetrotter and his four decades leading Swans, a group that he founded in the noisy and iconoclastic New York underground of the early '80s and that keeps reinventing itself today.
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- Documentary
- Marco Porsia
- 2019-09-19
Sep 5, 2020 · In 1982, a band emerged from the rotten bowels of New York City and became legends in the annals of independent music. That band was Swans, led by charismatic, enigmatic frontman Michael Gira.
'Where Does a Body End?' is a SWANS documentary with unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs. An unfiltered story of a life in the arts, frequent difficulty spanning decades without a safety net, creating work because Gira says "What else am I going to do?"
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- Eyelight Films
- Marco Porsia
Oct 30, 2020 · Failure is the word Swans’ head honcho Michael Gira uses to describe the deep-rooted motivation that has propelled and guided him, dating back to when the band first inflicted itself on audiences in 1981.
Michael Rolfe Gira ( / dʒəˈrɑː /; [6] born February 19, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and artist. Now based in New Mexico, [7] [8] he founded the band Swans, in which he sings and plays guitar, in New York City in the 1980s at the height of the no wave movement.
Jun 23, 2023 · Michael Gira is no sentimentalist when it comes to Swans recordings. This includes the group’s forthcoming record The Beggar, their 16th, released on June 23 on his Young God label and in Europe via Mute.
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Nov 13, 2012 · Michael Gira's mighty Swans play live at London's Koko this Thursday, 15th November. In advance of the show, Joseph Burnett speaks to the man himself about thirteen of his favourite albums, from Miles Davis and Gorecki to Throbbing Gristle and Pink Floyd.
