{"product_id":"birthing-limited-3lp-dvd","title":"Birthing: Limited 3LP + DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSwans return with Birthing, the latest album, developed over the course of a yearlong 2023–2024 tour. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirthing is released via Mute and Young God Records. The initial pressings of the deluxe vinyl and CD include a bonus DVD featuring Swans Live 2024 (Rope) The Beggar, a concert film by Marco Porsia documenting the band's most recent US tour. The DVD also includes I Wonder If I’m Singing What You’re Thinking Me To Sing, a documentary by Christopher Nicholson following Michael Gira’s 2022 solo tour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefined through relentless improvisation and live performance, as well as newly composed studio pieces, Birthing is a testament to Michael Gira’s uncompromising sonic vision. Beginning as skeletal acoustic compositions, the songs were gradually expanded and transformed in the studio with longtime live members and collaborators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This album, coupled with the recent live release, Live Rope, constitutes my final foray (as producer \/ impresario) into the all-consuming sound worlds that have been my obsession for years. We’ll do a final tour in this mode towards the end of 2025,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethen that’s it. After that, Swans will continue, so long as I’m able, but in a significantly pared down form. Hints of that direction can be found in a few moments on the current album. In the meantime, my hope is that the music provides a positive and fertile atmosphere in which to dream.” – Michael Gira \/ Swans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by Gira, Birthing was recorded at Soundfabrik Berlin, mixed at Candy Bomber Studio by Ingo Krauss, and mastered by Doug Henderson at Micro-Moose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recordstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49974715449586,"sku":"STUMM516","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/1621\/5794\/files\/SWANS_birthing_LP_PS_2048x2048_7191a368-7d1a-4fa7-9a2b-f1237afab86e.jpg?v=1787629358","url":"https:\/\/recordstero.shop\/products\/birthing-limited-3lp-dvd","provider":"recordstero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}