In Richard Powers Roman The Time of Our Singing sagt der Ich-Erzähler an einer Stelle: „most people wanted from music not transcendence but simply companionship, a tune just as bound by gravity as its listeners were“. Wer die Swans bei einem ihrer zahlreichen Auftritte erlebt hat, der braucht nicht einmal auf Michael Giras Äußerung zum neuen Album zu verweisen (“I’m decidedly not a Deist, but on a few occasions – particularly in live performance – it’s been my privilege, through our collective efforts, to just barely grasp something of the infinite in the sound and experience generated by a force that is definitely greater than all of us combined.”), Weiterlesen →