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Swans: Seer [Special Edition] [Digipak] *

CD / Young God / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Lunacy; Mother Of The World; Wolf, The; Seer, The; Seer Returns, The; 93 Ave. B Blues; Daughter Brings The Water, The; Song For A Warrior; Avatar; Piece Of The Sky, A; Apostate, The; No Words/No Thou...
Artists: Swans

Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica); Bill Rieflin (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Chris...continue...

Swans: The Seer [Digipak]

CD / Young God / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Lunacy; Mother of the World; Wolf, The; Seer, The; Seer Returns, The; 93 Ave. B Blues; Daughter Brings the Water, The; Song For a Warrior; Avatar; Piece of the Sky, A; Apostate, The
Artists: Swans

Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica); Bill Rieflin (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Chris...continue...

Wooden Wand: Death Seat [Digipak]

CD / Young God / 2010-10-26

Tracks: Sleepwalking After Midnight; Mountain, The; Servent to Blues; Bobby; I Made You; Death Seat; I Wanna Make a Difference; Ms. Mowse; Until Wrong Looks Right; Hotel Bar; Arc, The; Tiny Confessions
Artists: Wooden Wand

Personnel: James Jackson Toth (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin); Caleb Mulkerin (vocals, electric guitar); Brian Lowery (vocals, dobro, electric piano, organ); Siobhan Duffy Gira, K...continue...

Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky [Digipak]

CD / Young God / 2010-09-21

Tracks: No Words/No Thoughts; Reeling the Liars In; Jim; My Birth; You Fucking People Make Me Sick; Inside Madeline; Eden Prison; Little Mouth
Artists: Swans

Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, guitar); Bill Rieflin (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Christoph Hahn (vocals, electric guitar, lap stee...continue...

Lisa Germano: Magic Neighbor [Digipak]

1 CD / Young God / 2009-09-22

Tracks: Marypan; To the Mighty One; Simple; Kitty Train; Prince of Plati, The; Million Times, A; Magic Neighbor; Suli-Mon; Snow; Painting the Doors; Cocoon
Artists: Lisa Germano

2009 release. Following the release of Lisa Germano's 2006 album, In The Maybe World, and a good deal of subsequent touring, she hid herself away...continue...
Personnel: Sebastian Steinberg (baritone guitar).

Audio Mixer: Jamie Candiloro.

Starting with music box chimes and piano, Magic Neighbor shows once again that Lisa Germano knows about fr...continue...

Larkin Grimm: Parplar [Digipak]

1 CD / Young God / 2008-10-28

Tracks: They Were Wrong; Ride That Cyclone; Blond And Golden Johns; Dominican Rum; Parplar; Durge; Be My Host; Mino Minou; My Justine; Anger In Your Liver; All The Pleasures In The World; Fall On My Knees; H...
Artists: Larkin Grimm

Born 26 years ago in Memphis, Tennessee, to hippie devotees of the religious cult The Holy Order Of MANS, Larkin Grimm was raised by multiple...continue...
Parplar might be in some ways a folk record, or at least a folky singer/songwriter one. But if so, it's at the freakiest margins of those genres -- not in a distasteful outsider way, but in a pretty i...continue...

Akron/Family: Love Is Simple

1 CD / Young God / 2007-09-18

Tracks: Love, Love, Love (Everyone); Ed Is a Portal; Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead; I've Got Some Friends; Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music For Moms; There's So Many Colors; Crickets; Phenomena; Pony's ...
Artists: Akron/Family

CD + DVD. One of the best bands on the planet! I don't recall seeing such fantastic live shows ever, except maybe Pere Ubu at...continue...
The beauty of Akron/Family's sound is their ability to jump between disparate styles at a moment's notice, and sometimes to combine them all into one. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the New Yor...continue...

Angels of Light: We Are Him

1 CD / Young God / 2007-08-28

Tracks: Black River Song; Promise of Water; Man We Left Behind, The; My Brother's Man; Not Here/Not Now; Joseph's Song; We Are Him; Sometimes I Dream I'm Hurting You; Sunflower's Here to Stay; Good Bye Mary ...
Artists: Angels of Light

We Are Him is the fifth album from Angels of Light, the main vehicle for Michael Gira's music since he disbanded Swans in 1997. Gira...continue...
Angels of Light: Siobhan Duffy Gira (vocals); Christoph Hahn (electric guitar); Patrick Fondiller (mandolin); Birgit Cassis Staudt (accordion); Bill Rieflin, Miles Seaton (bass guitar); Adam Sachs (un...continue...

Lisa Germano: Lullaby for Liquid Pig

2 CD / Young God / 2007-06-26

Tracks: Nobody's Playing; Paper Doll; Liquid Pig; Pearls; Candy; Dream Glasses Off; From a Shell; It's Party Time; All the Pretty Lies; Lullaby For Liquid Pig; Into the Night; ...To Dream; Its a Rainbow; Liv...
Artists: Lisa Germano

Personnel includes: Lisa Germano (vocals); Johnny Marr, Craig Ross (guitar); Raymond Richards (pedal steel guitar); Sebastian Steinberg (bass); Joey Waronker (drums, percussion); Wendy Melvoin (drums)...continue...

Akron/Family: Meek Warrior

1 CD / Young God / 2006-10-10

Tracks: Blessing Force; Gone Beyond; Meek Warrior, The; No Space in This Realm; Lightning Bolt of Compassion; Rider, The (Dolphin Song); Love and Space
Artists: Akron/Family

"Since Akron/Family's March '05 debut, the band has played hundreds and hundreds of shows across the known world, recorded a split album with Angels of...continue...
Personnel: Hamid Drake (vocals, drums, frame drum); Justin Small (guitar); Ohad Benchetrit (flute, alto saxophone); Charles Waters (clarinet, alto saxophone); Ed Sortman (trumpet, background vocals); ...continue...

Lisa Germano: In the Maybe World [PA]

1 CD / Young God / 2006-07-18

Tracks: Day, The; Too Much Space; Moon in Hell; Golden Cities; Into Oblivion; In the Land of Fairies; Wire; In the Maybe World; Red Thread; Seed, A; Except for the Ghosts; After Monday
Artists: Lisa Germano

The new album from former 4AD artist Lisa Germano. A gifted lyricist & singer, but also a talented multi-instrumentalist (violin / piano / guitar). Her...continue...
Personnel: Johnny Marr (guitar); Joey Waronker (drums).

Best known for her 1990s solo work on 4AD and stints performing with the likes of John Mellencamp and Iggy Pop, multi-instrumentalist/voc...continue...

Akron/Family: Akron/Family & Angels of Light

1 CD / Young God / 2005-11-08

Tracks: Awake; Moment; We All Will; Future Myth; Dylan Pt. 2; Oceanside; Raising the Sparks; I Pity the Poor Immigrant; Provider, The; One For Hope; Mother/Father; Come For My Woman
Artists: Akron/Family

On Akron/Family & Angels of Light, the most functional if unrelated family in Brooklyn shares disc space with Angels of Light, a band made up of Akron/Family plus Young God Records honcho Michael Gira...continue...

Mi and L'au: Mi and L'au

1 CD / Young God / 2005-11-08

Tracks: They Marry; How; Philosopher; I've Been Watching You; Bums; Older; Merry Go Round; Nude; Word in Your Belly, A; Boxer; Andy; Christmas Soul; New Born Child; Study
Artists: Mi and L'au

Mi and L'au: Mi, L'au.

Personnel: Ryan Vanderhoof, Miles Seaton (vocals, guitar, percussion); Paul Cantelon (violin); Julia Kent (cello); David Garland (flute, accordion); Michael Gira (harmoni...continue...

Akron/Family: Akron/Family

1 CD / Young God / 2005-03-22

Tracks: Before and Again; Suchness; Part of Corey; Italy; I'll Be on the Water; Running, Returning; Afford; Interlude: AK AK Was the Boat They Sailed in On; Sorrow Boy; Shoes; Lumen; How Do I Know; Franny/Yo...
Artists: Akron/Family

Akron/Family: Seth Olinsky (vocals, guitars, banjo, accordion, melodica, organ); Miles Seaton (vocals, guitars, melodica, piano, bass instrument); Ryan Vanderhoof (vocals, guitars); Dana Janssen (voca...continue...

Angels of Light: The Angels of Light Sing Other People

1 CD / Young God / 2005-03-22

Tracks: Lena's Song; Kid Is Already Breaking, The; My Friend Thor; On the Mountain; Destroyer; Dawn; My Sister Said; Michael's White Hands; To Live Through Someone; Simon Is Stronger Than Us; Purple Creek; J...
Artists: Angels of Light

Angels of Light: Dana Janssen (vocals, electric guitar, saxophone, piano, synthesizer, glockenspiel, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Ryan Vanderhoof, Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton (synthesizer); Michael...continue...

Devendra Banhart: Niño Rojo [Digipak]

1 CD / Young God / 2004-09-14

Tracks: Wake up, Little Sparrow; Ay Mama; We All Know; Little Yellow Spider; Ribbon, A; At the Hop; My Ships; Noah; Sister; Water May Walk; Horseheadedflesh Wizard; Island, An; Be Kind; Owl Eyes; Good Red Ro...
Artists: Devendra Banhart

With NINO ROJO, San Francisco Bay Area neo-folkster Devendra Banhart brings forth a companion to his acclaimed REJOICING IN THE HANDS, released earlier in 2004. Sitting barefoot by the metaphorical ca...continue...

Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands

1 CD / Young God / 2004-04-27

Artists: Devendra Banhart

Personnel: Devendra Banhart (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, piano); Devendra Banhart; Paul Cantelon (violin); Julia Kent (cello); Joe McGinty (piano, organ); Thor Harris (vibraphone, percussion); St...continue...

Swans: Swans Are Dead (Live '95-'97)

2 CD / Young God / 2003-05-27

Tracks: Feel Happiness; Low Life Form; Not Alone; Blood on Your Hands; Hypogirl; I Crawled; I Am the Sun; Blood Promise; Final Sac; Sound, The; I See Them All Lined Up; Lavender; Yr PRP; Yum Yab; Helpless Ch...
Artists: Swans

Swans: M. Gira (vocals, guitar); Jarboe (vocals, keyboards); Vudi (guitar, keyboards); Joe Goldring (guitar, bass); Clinton Steele (guitar); Phil Puleo (hammer dulcimer, percussion); Larry Mullins (vi...continue...

Devendra Banhart: The Black Babies

1 CD / Young God / 2003-05-27

Tracks: Bluebird; Surgery I Stole; Cosmos and Demos; Onward the Indian; Lagoon; Charles C. Leary, The; Long Song; Old Thunderbird
Artists: Devendra Banhart

Angels of Light: Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home

1 CD / Young God / 2003-03-04

Tracks: Palisades; All Souls' Rising; Kosinski; Nations; Family God, The; Because She Was; Rose of Los Angeles; What You Were; Sunset Park; Wedding; What Will Come
Artists: Angels of Light

Angels Of Light include: Michael Gira.

Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, various instruments, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano); Thor Harris (vocals, dulcimer, piano, vibraphon...continue...

Larsen: Rever

1 CD / Young God / 2002-01-15

Tracks: Impro #2; Radial; Mentre; Finger Number Six; Intermezzo; Akin; Intro; Maya; Impro #1
Artists: Larsen

Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, background vocals); Catherine Schell (vocals).

Recording information: Torino, Italy.

The mystique surrounding the making of this record is enough to make...continue...

Michael Gira: What We Did

1 CD / Young God / 2001-11-13

Tracks: Pacing the Locks; Is/Was; Cold Creeping; Lines; Brown Eyes; 17 Hours; Stitches; Waiting Beside Viragio; Forcing Mary; Quiet One; Sunflower; Brightest Star, The
Artists: Michael Gira

Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, various instruments); Dan Matz (vocals, various instruments); James Plotkin (vocals, guitar).

Recording information: Dan's House, Brooklyn, NY (1999-2001).
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Swans: Soundtracks for the Blind

1 CD / Young God / 2001-10-02

Artists: Swans

Choosing to extinguish the band name under which Gira and Jarboe had worked together for so long must not have been an easy step, but when they decided to end Swans with one last studio release as a p...continue...

Calla: Scavengers

1 CD / Young God / 2001-01-23

Tracks: Fear of Fireflies; Hover over Nowhere; Traffic Sound; Tijerina; Slum Creeper; Swarm, The; Mayzelle; Love of Ivah; Fondness for Crawling, A; Promenade
Artists: Calla

Calla are from Texas, and moved to NYC a few years ago. The music is slow and slinky, with deep bass and lots of space...continue...
Personnel: Aurelio Valle (vocals, guitar); Sean Donovan (keyboards, programming).

Recording information: 11206; 1125, Brooklyn, NY; Moose, Brooklyn, NY.

Unknown Contributor Role: J. Bude...continue...

David Coulter: Intervention

1 CD / Young God / 2000-01-25

Tracks: Kinsnow Orchestra; How Can I Love Thee?; Broken Mass; Picnic On...; Harmonik; Shinju (Pot Etude #3); Widow's Lament; Wailing / Seesaw; Darkness Aside Trail; Slide Krar Story; Looking At Trees / Vocus...
Artists: David Coulter

David Coulter is well known among musicians as a sideman of enormous talent on virtually any instrument he chooses to play and can perform in almost any musical setting. (Hint: he was in the Pogues an...continue...

Windsor for the Derby: Difference and Repetition

1 CD / Young God / 1999-06-15

Tracks: Shoes Mccoat; Shaker; Egg, The; Nico; Lost in Cycles
Artists: Windsor for the Derby

A sparse recording from this New York City-via-Texas quintet. Windsor For The Derby here consolidates its guitar sound, weaving it to form warm, circular melodies. The result is a melding of post-rock...continue...

Angels of Light: New Mother

1 CD / Young God / 1999-04-13

Tracks: Fragment; Praise Your Name; New Mother; Angels of Light; Inner Female; This Is Mine; Shame; Intermission; Man With the Silver Tongue, The; Real Person; Forever Yours; How We End; Garden Hides the Jew...
Artists: Angels of Light

Starting with a gentle keyboard in "Fragment," which seamlessly moves into "Praise Your Name" with its piano, accordion, brushed drums, and folk/pop backing singers, Michael Gira continues with his in...continue...

Swans: Various Failures 1988-1992

2 CD / Young God / 1999-04-13

Tracks: Miracle of Love; Black Eyed Dog; Golden Boy That Was Swallowed by the Sea, The; (-); I Remember Who You Are; Her; No Cruel Angel; When She Breathes; Why Are We Alive?; Child's Right, The; (-); Other ...
Artists: Swans

VARIOUS FAILURES contains material from THE BURNING WORLD, WHITE LIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF INFINITY, LOVE OF LIFE and 10 SONGS FOR ANOTHER WORLD, a side project from longtime Gira collaborator Jarboe....continue...