Sean Mackowiak (the grasshopper) – acoustic and electric mandolins, clarinet, various songsīen Frost – fire sounds (acoustic and synthetic) on Piece of the Sky Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton, Dana Janssen (Akron/Family) – backing vocals on Piece of the SkyĬaleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella of Big Blood – accordion, vocals, dulcimer, guitar, piano and assorted other instruments on the Seer Returns Jarboe – backing vocals and voice collage on Piece of the Sky and backing vocals on The Seer Returns

Karen O – lead vocal on Song for a Warrior (Karen appears courtesy Interscope Records) Honorary Swan: Bill Rieflin – piano, organ, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, percussion, casio, synthesizer, bass guitar, voice, bird idea…. Thor Harris – drums, percussion, orchestral bells, hammer dulcimer, handmade violin thing, vibraphone, piano, clarinet, voiceĬhristopher Pravdica – bass guitar, voice, incredible handshake Phil Puleo – drums, percussion, hammer dulcimer, voice Michael Gira – voice, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, casio, soundsĬhristoph Hahn – lap steel guitars electric guitar, voice Denver CO Gothic Theater08/03 – Berlin, DE Berghain San Francisco CA The Regency Grand Ballroom

Seattle WA Neumo’s Crystal Ball Reading Room SWANS North American Tour Dates – Xiu Xiu as support: Kortrijk, Belgium De Kreun- Sunns curator festival Reykjavik, Iceland Iceland Airways Festival SWANS European Tour Dates – Sir Richard Bishop as support: SWANS North American Tour Dates -A Hawk & Hacksaw as support: The songs began on an acoustic guitar, then were fleshed out with (invaluable) help from my friends, then were further tortured and seduced in the studio, and now they await further cannibalism and force-feeding as we prepare to perform some of them live, at which point they’ll mutate further, endlessly, or perhaps be discarded for a while.įull Tour Dates: – Buy Tickets to this Tour Here The frames blur, blend and will eventually fade. But it’s unfinished, like the songs themselves. It’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined. According to, Producer Micheal Gira told the Quietus:

Swans lunacy