The Brno concert of the Swans will be one of their last live appearances in their current line-up of this American legend in Europe. After completion of their world tour for their triple album The Glowing Man the group will be finishing in their current incarnation.
The central theme of their last album The Glowing Man is consciousness of the inevitability of the end, the finality of human fate and also the end of what is so far the last stage in the existence of the group. The compositions radiate an urgent ubiquitous energy, which literally wraps around the listener, wrapping around them from all sides. The growing guitar dissonance, the classically tense ominous sounds, the drums interwoven with ringing bells, the instrumental noise peaks of the long compositions and the unsettling disturbed atmosphere – this is the kind of composition that will be heard in the Brno concert.
The current tour of the American experimenters is the culmination of their careers and the end of a fertile six-year period, in which they have issued four albums. At the beginning was the disc My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010), which brought the Swans back to the studio and the concert stage “with rock music from the other end of the universe”, as the new sound of the Swans was described by John Robb (frontman of the British group The Membranes). Up to 2016 they had also issued the double album The Seer, the triple album To Be Kind and the current triple album The Glowing Man.
The Swans’ guest will be the New York singer, composer, cabaret singer, painter, poet, actor and pastor Little Annie. Musically she has worked with Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Bim Sherman, Coil, Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons, now Anohni), with Baby Dee, Larsen and even with Mark Almond and other artists. Her recordings are a unique combination of chanson, post-punk, jungle and dub, hip-hop and avant-garde elements.
The concert of Swans and Little Annie will take place 14 March from 8 p.m. in the Fléda club.
