{"id":6742,"date":"2018-07-10T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2018-07-10T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:44:29","slug":"swans-oral-history-book-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/swans-oral-history-book-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Oral History book out now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/swans-book-e1531229671581.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6743\" alt=\"swans book\" src=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/swans-book-e1531229671581-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/younggodrecords.com\/\"><strong>Swans<\/strong><\/a> Oral History, <em><strong>Sacrifice and Transcendence<\/strong><\/em> by <strong>Nick Soulsby<\/strong>,\u00a0 is out now. <strong>JG Thirlwell<\/strong> was interviewed extensively for the book about his involvement with the group. Thirlwell regards Swans as one of the most important groups of the last thirty years, and has a long friendship with their leader <strong>Michael Gira<\/strong>. There has been a lot of cross-fertilization between the <strong>Swans<\/strong> and the <strong>Foetus<\/strong> live bands, with many musicians being members of both, including <strong>Norman Westberg<\/strong>, <strong>Algis Kizys<\/strong>, <strong>Ted Parsons<\/strong> and <strong>Vinnie Signorelli. <\/strong>In addition, Thirlwell started his <strong>Wiseblood<\/strong> project with former Swans drummer<strong> Roli Mosimann.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Swans song &#8220;<strong>Jim&#8221; <\/strong>from the album <em><strong>My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky<\/strong><\/em> is about Thirlwell. You can buy it now at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Swans-Sacrifice-Transcendence-Oral-History\/dp\/1911036394\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1531229331&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=swans+transcendence\">Amazon<\/a><\/strong> or wherever good books are sold, as they say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans Oral History, Sacrifice and Transcendence by Nick Soulsby,\u00a0 is out now. JG Thirlwell was interviewed extensively for the book about his involvement with the group. Thirlwell regards Swans as one of the most important groups of the last thirty years, and has a long friendship with their leader Michael Gira. There has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[68,477,563,893,935,965,986,1115,1139,1244,1256,1393,1408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}