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Soundtracks for the Blind will also be reissued on CD featuring a repackage of the original digipak for the 1996 Atavistic release plus a bonus disc of the contemporaneous Die Tür Ist Zu EP (a German language version of some of the material from Soundtracks that also includes unique material) recently released for the first time on vinyl in the USA for Record Store Day 2018. "This album has everything in there - all the ideas from Swans' initial 15 years of work. There's some contemporary recordings of the band as it existed in '96/7, with Larry Mullins on drums/percussion, Jarboe singing and playing keyboards, Vudi playing electric guitar, and Joe Goldring playing bass and electric guitar, and me singing and playing electric and acoustic guitar, but there's also a huge amount of sounds and recordings that Jarboe and I collected over the years. These are reassembled, looped, mangled, and in many cases overdubbed upon to create new pieces of music… I really set my own trap, dug my own grave on this one. There was SO MUCH material to deal with, to sift through (whole trunks full of decomposing, moldy cassettes and discs with samples and sounds), and the task of making it into something coherent was at times debilitating. Really like climbing up a mountain of sand. I don't remember why I set this goal for myself, to somehow incorporate such a ridiculously disparate amount of material. I think maybe it was so I could justify throwing all that crap into the local dump, which is what I did when I finished the album. But in the end, after centuries of picking at this huge iceberg of material with a toothpick, my trusty engineer Chris Griffin and I managed to sculpt something out of it. It actually breathes, seems to live, in most places I think. … When I decided to reform Swans in 2010 Soundtracks was what I referred to as a starting point" - Michael Gira / Swans 2018
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 Red Velvet Corridor
2 I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull
3 Helpless Child
4 Live Through Me
5 Yum - Yab Killers
6 The Beautiful Days
7 Volcano
8 Mellothumb
9 All Lined Up
10 Surrogate 2
11 How They Suffer
12 Animus
Disc: 2
1 Red Velvet Wound
2 The Sound
3 Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey
4 Blood Section
5 Hypogirl
6 Minus Something
7 Empathy
8 I Love You This Much
9 YRP
10 Fan's Lament
11 Secret Friends
12 The Final Sacrifice
13 YRP 2
14 Surrogate Drone
Disc: 3
1 Ligeti's Breath / Hilflos Kind
2 Ich Sehe Die Alle In Einer Reihe
3 Surrogate Drones
4 YRP
5 You Know Everything (Reprise 1991)
6 M/F
7 Soundsection