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Live Rope
Live Rope
	A black vortex drawn in ballpoint pen over a white circle, all over a cardstock background
Live album by Swans
Released	November 2024
Recorded	Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York City on 18 May 2024; Amare, The Hague on 19 November 2023
Length	183:00 (USB version); 150:00 (vinyl version); 147:52 (CD version)
Label	Young God
Producer	Michael Gira
Swans chronology

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Live Rope is the tenth live album by American experimental rock band Swans.^[1] It is set to be released in November 2024 on band leader Michael Gira's Young God Records. Released in full as a USB "credit card" as well as in edited forms on CD and vinyl, the album served as a fundraiser for the upcoming seventeenth studio album.

Background

The vinyl and USB releases were limited to 1,000 and 1,300 copies respectively.

The album contains live recordings of songs from the band's previous two albums, Leaving Meaning and The Beggar, on the 2023 and 2024 tours, where both albums' material saw its live debut. The album also features three new songs, "Rope/The Beggar", "Away", and "Birthing". The former is a transformed version of the title track of The Beggar, and at 82 minutes is the band's longest song to date by a significant margin, surpassing the 46-minute The Knot from their 2017 album Deliquescence. As a whole, at 183 minutes in length, the album is additionally to date the band's longest release, also exceeding Deliquescence at 155 minutes.^[1]

Track listing

All music is composed by Michael Gira, Kristof Hahn, Larry Mullins, Dana Schechter, Phil Puleo, and Christopher Pravdica, except where noted

CD version
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rope, The Beggar" (previously unreleased)	78:24
2.	"The Hanging Man, Away, Birthing, Cathedrals of Heaven"	69:28
Total length:		147:52

USB "credit card" version
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Rope" (previously unreleased)
2.	"The Beggar"	Michael Gira
3.	"The Hanging Man"	Michael Gira
4.	"Away" (previously unreleased)	Michael Gira
5.	"Birthing"
6.	"The Memorious"	Michael Gira
7.	"Cathedrals of Heaven"	Michael Gira
8.	"Leaving Meaning"	Michael Gira
Total length:			183:00

Vinyl version (Side one)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rope" (previously unreleased) (Part 1)

Vinyl version (Side two)
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Rope" (previously unreleased) (Part 2)	Michael Gira
2.	"The Beggar" (Part 1)

Vinyl version (Side three)
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"The Beggar" (Part 2)	Michael Gira

Vinyl version (Side four)
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"The Beggar" (Part 3)	Michael Gira

Vinyl version (Side five)
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"The Hanging Man"	Michael Gira
2.	"Away" (previously unreleased)	Michael Gira

Vinyl version (Side six)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Birthing" (previously unreleased) (Part 1)

Vinyl version (Side seven)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Birthing" (previously unreleased) (Part 2)

Vinyl version (Side eight)
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"The Memorious"	Michael Gira

Personnel

Michael Gira – guitar, vocals
Christoph Hahn – double lap steel guitar, loops
Larry Mullins - Mellotron, synthesiser, drums
Dana Schechter - lap steel guitar, bass guitar, loops
Phil Puleo – drums, Appalachian dulcimer, flute, melodica
Christopher Pravdica – bass guitar, taishōgoto, loops

References

^ ^a ^b "Swans announce new live album Live Rope preorder". 10 September 2024. Retrieved 12 September 2024.

External links

Live Rope on Young God Records

Category:2024 live albums Category:Swans (band) live albums Category:Young God Records live albums Category:Albums produced by Michael Gira

[Young_God_Records-1] "Swans announce new live album Live Rope preorder". 10 September 2024. Retrieved 12 September 2024.

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v t e Swans
Michael Gira Jarboe Algis Kizys Ted Parsons Thurston Moore Roli Mosimann Vincent Signorelli Bill Rieflin Jonathan Kane Kristof Hahn Thor Harris Christopher Pravdica Phil Puleo Paul Wallfisch Norman Westberg
Studio albums	Filth Cop Greed Holy Money Children of God The Burning World White Light from the Mouth of Infinity Love of Life The Great Annihilator Soundtracks for the Blind My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky The Seer To Be Kind The Glowing Man Leaving Meaning The Beggar
Fundraiser albums	I Am Not Insane We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head Not Here / Not Now The Gate What Is This? Is There Really a Mind?
Live albums	Public Castration Is a Good Idea Feel Good Now Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room Real Love Omniscience Kill the Child Swans Are Dead We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head Not Here / Not Now The Gate Deliquescence
Compilation albums	Body to Body, Job to Job Children of God/World of Skin Various Failures Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job Cop/Young God Greed/Holy Money Forever Burned
EPs	Swans Young God A Screw Love Will Tear Us Apart Die Tür ist zu Oxygen
Singles	"Time Is Money (Bastard)" "New Mind" "Can't Find My Way Home" "Saved" "Paradise Is Mine"
Related articles	Discography Young God Records Angels of Light The Body Lovers / The Body Haters Cop Shoot Cop Of Cabbages and Kings Prong Sulfur Unsane World of Skin Where Does a Body End?