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Pete:
This bonus CD to the Going Places album shows a bit of the process behind the final album, you get two VERY extended versions of album cuts… and both are VERY wild rides. I understand why people like Going Places, it has a focus a lot of our work lacked, but here you see that the focus is just the product of selective editing, cobbled together from bits of more drawn out, psychedelic, ramblings. I love these recordings, we’re at the peak of powers and the evolution of these improvised pieces minute-to-minute make no sense to me now. They’re surprising, enveloping and really GO.

From their 2001 founding to the duo’s final shows (and subsequent hiatus) in 2008, Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson aka Yellow Swans carved an influential path through America’s experimental music underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and hardcore. Their music is restless, ragged, and forever in flux, untethered and unresolved.