release the bats #16 DOVE YELLOW SWANS - LIVE DURING WAR CRIMES VOL.2 CD The second volume, this time a collection of darker and more sinister live recordings taken from their tour in Europe early 2006. 42 black minutes of creepy soundscapes painting a depressive picture of a world going down in dust and ashes. The 5 songs all has a weird desperate and dense apocalyptic feel to them, making this a haunting and very bleak experience. Trashy dark rumblings and total coldness. Again very well-edited stuff by Pete Swanson, works more like a full proper album than just a collection of random recordings. Amazing. Comes packaged in a Dual Plover full color sleeve with black felt. Cover drawings by Liz Harris of Grouper. PRESSING INFO! 1000 made. REVIEWS! aquarius brainwashed fake jazz mashnote musique machine the one true dead angel #9 outer space gamelan vital weekly #546 wire #273 (november 2006) Yellow Swans play a constantly evolving mass of psychedelic noise that is both physically arresting and psychically liberating. Their music is powerful rendering of free rock, black electronics, and white light vibrations. Consisting of Pete Swanson (vocals, drum machine, and electronics) and Gabriel Mindel Saloman (guitars, feedback, electronics), Yellow Swans create a dense ocean of sound using various analog and digital machines, all locked in a spiraling web of feedback. Yellow Swans, having spent two years in Oakland, CA, are based once again in Portland, OR, where they originally formed in the Fall of 2001. They have just finished a year in which they toured the USA, the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and are about to embark on their 3rd US tour in the Fall of 2006. They have also just released their second studio album, "Psychic Secession", on LOAD Records. http://www.jyrk.com/yellowswans yellow swans myspace