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Yellow Swans

Real Name:
Pete Swanson & Gabriel Mindel Saloman
Profile:
Yellow Swans (Often prefaced with a changing "D" word; changing to reflect the constantly evolving nature of the music, dialogue between the music and those hearing it and naming it.)
Improvisational music, primarily using electronic instruments and processing, with respect to the methodology of international underground musics and DIY culture. Musically comparable to a distillation of American hardcore, Free improvisation, Dub, Hip Hop, Noise, Industrial, and Modern Composition. Interested in full spectrum tonality, sonic exploration, the opening of new doors of perception, spiritual journey, and the establishment of new, meaningful shared cultural experience in the tradition of folk and native musics from around the globe. Interested in full spectrum tonality, sonic exploration, and free form musical construction.
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Discography

Releases:
Free Detained Yellow Swans (CDr, Ltd)   Collective Jyrk 2002
Manik Tiks (CDr)   Collective Jyrk 2002
Casual Psychedelic (7", Ltd)   Collective Jyrk 2003
Dark Yellow Swans (Cass, Ltd, C20)   Folding Cassettes 2003
Dosed Yellow Swans (Cass)   Since 1972 2003
Live In The Men's And Women's Bathrooms, The Placebo, Arcata, CA (CDr, Mini)   Tape Mountain 2003
Against Sleep And Nightmare (CDr, Ltd)   Collective Jyrk 2004
Basement Ghost b/w Castle EVP (7")   Helicopter 2004
Bring The Neon War Home (CD, Album)   Narnack Records 2004
Drowned Yellow Swans (CDr, Mini, Ltd)   Chondritic Sound 2004
Get The US Out Of A (Cass)   Collective Jyrk 2004
Humming Lattice Flowers (2 versions)   Collective Jyrk 2004
Live In The Police State Capitol (12", S/Sided, Ltd)   Weird Forest Records 2004
Split (Cass, Ltd, C45)   Exploder 2004
War (CDr, Ltd)   Hung Like A Horse?! 2004
Against Sleep And Nightmare (LP, RE, Ltd)   Weird Forest Records 2005
Australian Tour E.P. (CDr, EP, Ltd)   Heathen Skulls 2005
Collaborations (CDr, Comp)   Collective Jyrk, Decomposition 2005
Copper / Silver (2 versions)   Collective Jyrk ... 2005
Damaged Yellow Swans (Cass, Ltd, C20)   23 Productions 2005
Deathbomb Arc Tape Club Year One (Cass, Ltd, C20)   Deathbomb Arc 2005
Declawed Yellow Swans (Cass, Ltd)   Tone Filth 2005
Doorendoorslechte Yellow Swans (CD, Mini, Ltd)   Ultra Eczema 2005
Draught Yellow Swans (7")   Deathbomb Arc 2005
Dreamed Yellow Swans (CD)   PACrec, Deleted Art, Troniks 2005
Drift Yellow Swans (LP, Album, Ltd)   Root Strata 2005
Drowning Yellow Swans (CDr)   Carbon Records 2005
MLK Day (CDr, Ltd)   Collective Jyrk 2005
Psychic Secession (Album) (3 versions)   Numerical Thief ... 2005
Untitled (CD, EP)   Troniks 2005
Untitled (CDr)   Scratch And Sniff Entertainment 2005
Yeh Yellow Swans (CDr, Mini)   Collective Jyrk 2005
Yellow Swans: Live At Sound & Fury 29.10.2005 (CDr, Ltd)   Sound & Fury 2005
Axolotl & Yellow Swans (CDr)   Collective Jyrk 2006
Birchville Cat Motel & Yellow Swans (CD, Album)   Important Records (2) 2006
Damned Yellow Swans (Cass)   Fuck It Tapes 2006
Drift Yellow Swans (CD, MiniAlbum)   Acuarela Discos 2006
Global Clone (CD)   Troniks, PACrec, Collective Jyrk 2006
Live At The Smell (CDr, Ltd)   Swampland 2006
Live During War Crimes (CD, Comp)   Release The Bats Records, Release The Bats Records 2006
Live During War Crimes #2 (CD)   Release The Bats Records, Release The Bats Records 2006
Psychedelic Used Car Lot Blues (CDr, Mini, Ltd)   Memoirs Of An Aesthete 2006
Split (7", Ltd)   Modern Radio Record Label 2006
They Do Not Always Remember (CD, Ltd)   Obsolete Vernacular, Oedipus Records 2006
At All Ends (Album) (2 versions)   Load Records ... 2007
Descension Yellow Swans (Album, EP) (2 versions)   Three Lobed Recordings ... 2007
Deterioration Yellow Swans (2 versions)   Not On Label ... 2007
Drowner Yellow Swans (Album) (2 versions)   Tape Room 2007
Split (7", Ltd)   Not Not Fun Records 2007
Split (7", Ltd)   DNT Records 2007
Split (7", Ltd)   Arbor 2007
Untitled (LP, Ltd, Red)   Root Strata 2007
Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core (LP, Ltd, Red)   Blossoming Noise 2007
Conan Island (LP, Ltd)   Weird Forest Records 2008
Live On Conan Island (LP)   No-Fi 2008
Split (LP, Ltd)   Not Not Fun Records 2008
Mort Aux Vaches (CD, Album, Ltd)   Mort Aux Vaches 2009
Portable Dunes (CD)   Helicopter 2009
Untitled (CDr)   Collective Jyrk  
Untitled (CD, B/card)   Collective Jyrk  
Untitled (Lathe, 12", Cle)   Collective Jyrk  
Tracks Appear On:
SSSSSOSS (Cass, Comp, C66) Untitled Folding Cassettes 2004
Tapeworms Eat Bookworms (2xCass, Ltd, C62) The Murder Of Two Men ... Not Not Fun Records 2004
Just Because Your Music Wears Thin Doesn't Mean You're In Good Shape (2xCDr, Comp) Untitled X Died Enroute Y 2005
4 Sides A Circle (4xCDr, Mini, Comp) Untitled Banned Production 2006
California (10xLP, Comp, Ltd + Box) Untitled Troniks, Ground Fault Recordings, RRRecords 2006
End Times Festival 2006 (CD) Live / End Times Fest ... End Times Festival 2006
Siked Psych: NNF Gold (CD, Ltd) The Murder Of Two Men ... Not Not Fun Records 2006
Wooden Octopus Skull Experimental Music PFestival 2006 (CD) Untitled Stentorian Tapes 2006
Zum Audio Vol. III (CD, Comp) Untitled Zum 2006
Sonic Protest 2007 (2xCD) Untitled Sonic Protest 2007
Ambient Not Not Ambient (CD, Comp) To Valleys Of Beautifu... Audio Dregs 2008
Endless (CDr) Endless Heat Terminal (2) 2008
PDX Pop Now! 2008 (2xCD, Comp) Velvet Water PDX Pop Now! 2008
Psyched Punch: DNT 3 Year Anniversary (2xCass, Ltd) Untitled DNT Records 2008
Untitled (Cass, Ltd, C30) Untitled Excite Bike  
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Review by bikefridaywalter Oct 03, 2009
Highly akin yet often divergent to the works of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!, Mirag, Hototogisu), Yellow Swans craft a particularly psychedelic, heady form of ambient-drone-noise that is dynamic and electic. Those looking for clean white sheets of harsh noise need not apply, yet those who do not enjoy repetitive structures and hypnotic washes of sound should also steer clear. In the end they do hybridize so much that they will do little for purists of any genre, but those with an open mind and an ear to experimental music across genres will be incredibly delighted.

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