Michael Gira

   
Artist: Michael Gira

   Genre(s): 
Industrial
   

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Discography:


   
 Drainland

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10

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Best known for his role as fall in and co-leader of avant-garde sway band Swans, Michael Gira has made it a point non to make for very lots under his own identify (at least musically -- he has published and regularly done vocable shows), preferring or else to make and lead various projects as well as produce former musicians. Even after Swans came to an end, his various musical efforts were radical personal business like the Body Lovers and the Angels of Light, which he light-emitting diode just harnessed a spacious assortment of performers. This aforementioned, Gira has had a few releases seem billed as solo efforts, and spell more than power in time surface in future, it looks likely such recordings testament be sporadic in nature. Unsurprisingly, such releases exhibit, as much as his more well-known band efforts, Gira's acquisition and force at creating emotionally acute music and lyrics. 1995's Drainland was his official full-solo release, though fifty-fifty it was described as "Swans Related Product," and was consciously put out as a complement to his longtime henchman and collaborator Jarboe's possess solo record album, Sacrificial Cake. Billed as "Michael Gira With Guests", a limited edition live transcription from early 1999 was done specifically as a benefit to assist Jarboe with her medical bills from a disease picked up on a trip-up to Israel the old year. Somniloquist followed in early 2000.

Impaled and Cephalic Carnage

   
Artist: Impaled and Cephalic Carnage

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Split

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4

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Deodorant maker sweetens Hip-hop's future

Deodorant maker sweetens Hip-hop's future

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