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Michael Gira (19 Feb 1954 - )

Male Person - United States

Releases (12)

Official

Album - Live

  1. I Am Not This 30 Mar 2016

Album

  1. Drainland 09 Jun 1995 (as M. Gira)
  2. Solo Recordings at Home 2001
  3. Living '02 2002
  4. I Am Singing to You From My Room 2004
  5. Songs for a Dog 26 Nov 2006
  6. I Am Not Insane 2010

Album - Compilation

  1. The Milk of M. Gira: Collected Solo Home Recordings 2001 - 2010 2011

Other - Live

  1. Benefit CD - Jarboe Emergency Medical Fund 1999

Other - Spokenword

  1. The Somniloquist 17 Jan 2000
  2. The Egg: Stories by Michael Gira Feb 2018

Bootleg

Album - Live

  1. 2014‐03‐21: da:da:, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2014

Relationships (10)

Member Of

  1. Swans (1982 - 1997) original
  2. Swans (Jan 2010) original
  3. Circus Mort original
  4. Angels of Light (1997)
  5. Skin
  6. Pigface
  7. The Body Lovers
  8. The Body Haters

Married

  1. Siobhan Duffy (1999 - 2011)
  2. Jennifer Gira

Recordings by (108)

  1. I'm an Infant, I Worship Him 22:53 (1984)
  2. Game 1:57 (1985)
  3. Memory of a Murder in New York 5:24 (1990)
  4. You See Through Me 5:41 (09 Jun 1995)
  5. Where Does Your Body Begin? 3:04 (09 Jun 1995)
  6. I See Them All Lined Up 4:12 (09 Jun 1995)
  7. Unreal 4:42 (09 Jun 1995)
  8. Fan Letter 7:01 (09 Jun 1995)
  9. Your Naked Body 2:30 (09 Jun 1995)
  10. Low Life Form 3:40 (09 Jun 1995)
  11. If You… 4:41 (09 Jun 1995)
  12. Why I Ate My Wife 5:52 (09 Jun 1995)
  13. Blind 4:32 (09 Jun 1995)
  14. My Birth (Extract) 6:08 (01 Jan 1997)
  15. Goddamn The Sun ?:?? (1999)
  16. My Dead Son ?:?? (1999)
  17. My True Body ?:?? (1999)
  18. My New Body ?:?? (1999)
  19. Untitled Love Song ?:?? (1999)
  20. All Lined Up ?:?? (1999)
  21. Beautiful One ?:?? (1999)
  22. New City In The Future ?:?? (1999)
  23. My Suicide ?:?? (1999)
  24. Waiting Beside Viragio ?:?? (1999)
  25. Forever Yours ?:?? (1999)
  26. Bloodsucker (1984) 5:49 (17 Jan 2000)
  27. The Sex Machine (1994) 12:19 (17 Jan 2000)
  28. MTV and the Cult of the Body (1996) 25:00 (17 Jan 2000)
  29. The Idiot (1996) 17:10 (17 Jan 2000)
  30. My Birth 12:57 (17 Jan 2000)
  31. What You Were 5:36 (2001)
  32. All Souls Rising 5:55 (2001)
  33. Love Will Save You 4:46 (2001)
  34. Surrogate 5:47 (2001)
  35. Kosinksy 4:47 (2001)
  36. On the Mountain Looking Down 6:31 (2001)
  37. Waiting Besides Viragio 2:21 (2001)
  38. Someone Like Me 4:47 (2001)
  39. I Remember Who You Are 4:57 (2001)
  40. Mosquito Coast 5:11 (2001)
  41. Irish Queen 4:41 (2001)
  42. God's Servant 4:48 (2001)
  43. Mary Found John 1:12 (2001)
  44. What Will Come 5:18 (2002)
  45. God Damn the Sun 4:29 (2002)
  46. Nations 5:35 (2002)
  47. This Is Mine 3:49 (2002)
  48. On the Mountain 4:40 (2002)
  49. Failure 5:24 (2002)
  50. All Souls' Rising 6:13 (2002)
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On Recordings (50)

Performer

  1. Get Out 3:31 Swans (1991)
  2. Mother, My Body Disgusts Me 4:53 Swans (1991)
  3. I’ll Cry for You 5:41 Swans (1991)
  4. Your Game 3:57 Swans (1991)
  5. Seal It Over 3:48 Swans (1991)
  6. Red Sheet 3:11 Swans (1991)
  7. Only I Can Hear, Only I Can Touch 2:41 Swans (1991)
  8. Whore 3:56 Swans (1991)

Instruments

  1. Stay Here 5:36 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  2. Freak 1:13 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  3. Big Strong Boss 3:02 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  4. Thank You 3:52 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  5. Weakling 5:20 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  6. Gang 3:19 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  7. Right Wrong 4:43 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  8. Power for Power 5:52 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape
  9. Blackout 3:47 Swans (27 May 1983) bass guitar, tape

Vocals

  1. Power for Power 5:52 Swans (27 May 1983)
  2. Stay Here 5:36 Swans (27 May 1983)
  3. Thank You 3:52 Swans (27 May 1983)
  4. Blackout 3:47 Swans (27 May 1983)
  5. Gang 3:19 Swans (27 May 1983)
  6. Weakling 5:20 Swans (27 May 1983)
  7. Right Wrong 4:43 Swans (27 May 1983)
  8. Big Strong Boss 3:02 Swans (27 May 1983)
  9. Freak 1:13 Swans (27 May 1983)
  10. Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:41 Swans (1988) lead vocals

Produced

  1. Weakling 5:20 Swans (27 May 1983)
  2. Thank You 3:52 Swans (27 May 1983)
  3. Big Strong Boss 3:02 Swans (27 May 1983)
  4. Power for Power 5:52 Swans (27 May 1983)
  5. Gang 3:19 Swans (27 May 1983)
  6. Freak 1:13 Swans (27 May 1983)
  7. Right Wrong 4:43 Swans (27 May 1983)
  8. Stay Here 5:36 Swans (27 May 1983)
  9. Blackout 3:47 Swans (27 May 1983)
  10. Love Will Tear Us Apart (black version) 3:51 Swans (1988)
  11. No Cruel Angel 4:28 Swans (1989)
  12. Seal It Over 3:48 Swans (1991)
  13. Loop 33 0:59 Swans (1991)
  14. Red Sheet 3:11 Swans (1991)
  15. Mother, My Body Disgusts Me 4:53 Swans (1991)
  16. I’ll Cry for You 5:41 Swans (1991)
  17. Your Game 3:57 Swans (1991)
  18. Whore 3:56 Swans (1991)
  19. Get Out 3:31 Swans (1991)
  20. Loop 21 1:26 Swans (1991)
  21. We’ll Hang for That 3:55 Swans (1991)
  22. Only I Can Hear, Only I Can Touch 2:41 Swans (1991)
  23. Loop 1 1:01 Swans (1991)

Credited as (13)

  1. Michael Gira
  2. M. Gira / D. Matz
  3. M. Gira
  4. Xiu Xiu feat. Michael Gira
  5. Étant Donnés with Michael Gira
  6. The Body Lovers
  7. ADULT. feat. Michael Gira
  8. David Coulter / Michael Gira / Jean Marie Mathoul / Charlemagne Palestine
  9. M. Gira / Jarboe
  10. Thor & Friends feat. Michael Gira, Crystal Fullbright
  11. Microwaved & Michael Gira
  12. Lydia Lunch / Michael Gira
  13. Michael Gira & Dan Matz

Works (245)

Composed

  1. Killing for Company
  2. Where Does a Body End?
  3. Telepathy
  4. The Great Annihilator
  5. Out
  6. Her
  7. Trust Me
  8. Mind/Body/Light/Sound
  9. Soundsection
  10. You Know Everything (Reprise 1991)
  11. Ligeti’s Breath / Hilflos Kind
  12. Ich sehe die Alle in einer Reihe
  13. Surrogate Drones
  14. YRP
  15. No Cure for the Lonely
  16. Love of Life
  17. Feel Happiness
  18. Low Life Form
  19. Not Alone
  20. Blood on Yr Hands
  21. Hypogirl
  22. I Crawled
  23. Blood Promise
  24. Final Sac
  25. The Sound
  26. I See Them All Lined Up
  27. Yr Prp
  28. Yum Yab
  29. M/F
  30. Chickasaw
  31. Empathy
  32. Chickasuarus
  33. (She’s a) Universal Emptiness
  34. She Crys (For Spider)
  35. Some Things We Do
  36. Power and Sacrifice
  37. You Know Nothing
  38. Song for Dead Time
  39. Will We Survive
  40. Love Will Save You
  41. Failure
  42. Song for the Sun
  43. Why Are We Alive?
  44. The Most Unfortunate Lie
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Lyrics

  1. The World Looks Red
  2. Red Sheet
  3. Killing for Company
  4. No Cure for the Lonely
  5. Love of Life
  6. The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed by the Sea
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Events (1)

Main Performer At

  1. Michael Gira and Raymond Raposa at VERA

Links (11)

Other Databases

  1. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/michael_gira

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Gira

Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira

Bookbrainz

  1. https://bookbrainz.org/author/e3ba1fbe-380e-41b7-b133-7c4495a62bbf

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/79651

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000465387

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/74075336

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1373629

Stream For Free

  1. https://www.deezer.com/artist/8146
  2. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rQQ3KNeDPmiNGRKk15TJH

Purchase Music For Download

  1. https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/id6902668