Avant Garde Showcase w/ Michael Gira & Larry Seven 1993 NYC Public Access Television RARE

A friend sent me this, the best SWANS-related project you'll see on KZbin today, here's an incredibly rare clip of Michael Gira on New York public access television in 1993, spoofing beat poetry and free jazz with a piece entitled "Furniture of Sorrow".
Also includes some incredible upright bass improvisations from the inimitable and esteemed Lary Seven.

[@sonofslop320]

Congratulations, you have reached the deepest known point of the Swans/Gira iceberg

[@Ernie_HSR_Taka]

Guess this is my reward for simply knowing who mastered the old albums

[@gekinatracksuit9710]

but I just started listening to them a month ago...

[@Tom-tc4ok]

93 ave. blues has come a long way

[@saturn9records]

Michael Gira could do a tour of just this and I’d go see it

[@deadhorseak]

you're missing the part where jarboe plays the tuba naked lol

[@jglovehart9021]

I’ve read about this and never thought I’d see it. Amazing and hilarious. Thank you so much

[@lasselehmann7646]

Where did you read about it?

[@jamesparsley5796]

@@lasselehmann7646 My question as well

[@BR-we7fi]

@@lasselehmann7646 It's mentioned in the 'Sacrifice and Transcendence' book by Nick Soulsby. This book is about the history of Swans/Michael Gira, and Larry 7 talks about it around the middle of the book.

[@agsrf6479]

This is fuckin awesome

[@wesleyharden7761]

This is great!

[@johngarcia1887]

Beautiful People Ltd..

[@alivegirl820]

oh my god

[@goldenhog]

the sax guy is pretty good, but the bongo guy was just some guy gira met at the bar.

[@crisha721]

this is gold. thanks

[@JuanaWynWithers]

Fuckin incredible. Thank u so much!

[@darylcumming7119]

😷🌻

[@iCirith]

what the shit is Gira on about LMAO

[@ippy9269]

what is blud waffling about

[@goldenhog]

AMERICA

[@jtotheulian708]

wheres micheal gira tho

[@LukasPrimeEdition]

a... america?

[@goldenhog]

is that john lurie?

[@synthmalicious7541]

How did your friend find this?

[@ImaginalComponent]

synthmalicious Some radiowaves, such as those of a short-wave frequency, bounce back off the ionosphere and are therefore poor candidates to be picked up in space. But waves like FM radio or television signals can pierce it and travel through the vacuum of space at the speed of light.

[@govegan6682]

@@ImaginalComponent what

[@TheAvizanski]

@@ImaginalComponent what

[@synthmalicious7541]

@@ImaginalComponent Where did your friend find this video, as in, did he look through the internet, or what did he do to get this video.

[@ImaginalComponent]

@@synthmalicious7541 yes.

[@gekinatracksuit9710]

6:33 ain't no way his "beard" or whatever is actually just a piece of plastic glued to his chin edit: 7:02 holy shit all of his facial hair is fake

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