Person
Michael Gira
Albums
16
Members
8
Active
1954–present
Origin
United States
Biography
Michael Rolfe Gira is an American singer-songwriter, composer, author and artist. Now based in New Mexico, he founded the band Swans, in which he sings and plays guitar, in New York City in the 1980s at the height of the no wave movement. He is also the founder of Young God Records and previously fronted Angels of Light.
Discography
Hard Rock
Drainland
Drainland / Sacrificial Cake
Benefit CD – Jarboe Emergency Medical Fund
Offenbarung und Untergang by Georg Trakl
Solo Recordings at Home
What We Did
Living '02
Living ’02
Gantse Mishpuchah
I Am Singing to You From My Room
Songs for a Dog
I Am Not Insane
The Milk of M. Gira: Collected Solo Home Recordings 2001 – 2010
2014‐03‐21: da:da:, Saint Petersburg, Russia
I Am Not This
Credits
Ranked #174 of 14,615 producers — 3,232.76 career Groove across 46 records.
All rolesProducer 47Art Direction 9Mastering 9Vocal 8Writer 5Performer 4Instrument 3Lyricist 3Engineer 3Liner Notes 3Design 2Photography 1Artwork 1Illustration 1Composer 1Mix 1
Birthing
Live Rope
The Beggar
leaving meaning.
What Is This?
The Great Annihilator / Drainland
The Subversive Nature of Kindness
I Am Not This
The Glowing Man
Holy Money / A Screw
White Light From the Mouth of Infinity / Love of Life
To Be Kind
Ain't No Lies In Blood
The Seer
We Rose From Your Bed With the Sun in Our Head
Indemnity
All Is Falling
My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Parplar
The Orchard
Women as Lovers
We Are Him
Meek Warrior
Akron/Family
Akron/Family & Angels of Light
The Angels of Light Sing 'Other People'
Niño rojo
Only the Hand That Erases Can Write the True Thing
Rejoicing in the Hands
Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
Forever Burned
Dwellers on the Threshold
Lullaby for Liquid Pig
Oh Me Oh My… The Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit
203 Barriers
How I Loved You
Scavengers
Ego:Echo
Filth / Body to Body, Job to Job
The Somniloquist
Cop / Young God / Greed / Holy Money
New Mother
Offenbarung und Untergang by Georg Trakl
Talker
Various Failures 1988–1992
Number One of Three / 34:13
Swans Are Dead
Children of God / World of Skin
Die Tür ist zu
Salt Peter Remixed: Revenge, the Sweetest Fruit
Soundtracks for the Blind
Drainland
Sacrificial Cake
Salt Peter
The Great Annihilator
Notes From Thee Underground
Cop / Young God
Greed / Holy Money
Love of Life
Love of Life