The Body Lovers / The Body Haters - The Body Lovers / The Body Haters (1998)
The Body Lovers were a group of experimental musicians led by Michael Gira following the dissolution of Swans. This album was recently reissued including a previously unreleased track on the second "Body Haters" CD. Below is a description provided by the label (Young God) that is a certainly more apt description than anything I could ever come up with, i.e. 'some pretty dark experimental shit.'
"THE BODY LOVERS DEBUT NUMBER ONE OF THREE, IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT IN THIS "PSYCHOAMBIENT" INSTRUMENTAL "SOUNDTRACK-WITH-OUT-A-FILM" PROJECT. ESSENTIALLY ONE SHIFTING AND RADICALLY MORPHING STREAM OF SOUNDS AND TEXTURES (WITH ID POINTS PROVIDED FOR THE LISTENER'S CONVENIENCE), THE MUSIC ON THIS CD IS IN GIRA'S WORDS, "A METASTASIZING SONIC FLOWER GARDEN", CHARACTERISTICALLY, THIS IS NOT PASSIVE AMBIENT MUSIC. SENSUAL ONE MOMENT, TURNING BRUTAL AND CATACLYSMIC THE NEXT. SOUND SOURCES INCLUDE EVERYTHING FROM ELECTRONIC & SYNTH NOISES, TO RAIDED SWANS GROOVES, BASS-DRUM-GUITAR- PROCESSIONALS, SINE WAVES, IRISH HARPS, MANDOLINS, ACCORDIONS, ORCHESTRAL BELLS, VIBRAPHONES, FLUGEL HORN, DIGITAL FEEDBACK, FOUND RECORDINGS, A BABY IN THE COURSE OF HIS CIRCUMCISION - ALL WOVEN TOGETHER AND FURTHER MUTILATED IN A COMPUTER, INTO A TRAJECTORY THAT NOT ONLY MAKES PERFECT SENSE (SOMEHOW), BUT IS GRATIFYING, ALMOST TRANCE-INDUCING TO HEAR."
All of the tracks are untitled.
"THE BODY LOVERS DEBUT NUMBER ONE OF THREE, IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT IN THIS "PSYCHOAMBIENT" INSTRUMENTAL "SOUNDTRACK-WITH-OUT-A-FILM" PROJECT. ESSENTIALLY ONE SHIFTING AND RADICALLY MORPHING STREAM OF SOUNDS AND TEXTURES (WITH ID POINTS PROVIDED FOR THE LISTENER'S CONVENIENCE), THE MUSIC ON THIS CD IS IN GIRA'S WORDS, "A METASTASIZING SONIC FLOWER GARDEN", CHARACTERISTICALLY, THIS IS NOT PASSIVE AMBIENT MUSIC. SENSUAL ONE MOMENT, TURNING BRUTAL AND CATACLYSMIC THE NEXT. SOUND SOURCES INCLUDE EVERYTHING FROM ELECTRONIC & SYNTH NOISES, TO RAIDED SWANS GROOVES, BASS-DRUM-GUITAR- PROCESSIONALS, SINE WAVES, IRISH HARPS, MANDOLINS, ACCORDIONS, ORCHESTRAL BELLS, VIBRAPHONES, FLUGEL HORN, DIGITAL FEEDBACK, FOUND RECORDINGS, A BABY IN THE COURSE OF HIS CIRCUMCISION - ALL WOVEN TOGETHER AND FURTHER MUTILATED IN A COMPUTER, INTO A TRAJECTORY THAT NOT ONLY MAKES PERFECT SENSE (SOMEHOW), BUT IS GRATIFYING, ALMOST TRANCE-INDUCING TO HEAR."
All of the tracks are untitled.
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