Yellow Swans (Pete Swanson and GMS) will be performing live at these exclusive 2024 engagements. These will be our first concerts in SF, LA, and Europe since 2008.
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.
Poster by LEE NOBLE @_leenoble
Friday, September 28, 2024 @ The LAB, San Francisco, USA
The LAB presents: Yellow Swans with Cheree and John Bischoff
TIX: DICE FM
Saturday, September 29, 2024 @ Zebulon, Los Angeles, USA
Zebulon Presents: Yellow Swans with Flaccid Mojo and Maral
TIX: DICE FM
Saturday, September 29, 2024 @ Teatr Łaźnia Nowa, Krakow, Poland
Unsound Presents: Yellow Swans with Still House Plants and The Body & Dis Fig
Gabriel Saloman Mindel will also be participating in the UNSOUND Discourse Program with Bint Mbareh and Justyna Stasiowska
Unsound presents: Discussion: Volume, Power
This discussion considers the relationship between noise and the unruly crowd, as well as methods of crowd control that treat noise as a form of violence. What can protests accomplish in the face of the increasing power, destructiveness and inhumanity of military technology? Social media affords the possibility to break through mainstream media narratives, but in its overwhelming, algorithmically driven clamour for our attention – another form of noise – do our online lives also make it difficult to maintain collective focus on issues of life and death? This discussion includes Palestinian artist and sound researcher Bint Mbareh, as well as Gabriel Saloman Mindel of Yellow Swans, whose work as a researcher focuses on the relationship between noise, protest and power. Contributing moderator is Polish theorist and sound artist Justyna Stasiowska.
PRESS:
Philip Sherburne, “Unsound 2024 Turned Noise Inside Out” Futurism Restated: https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/futurism-restated-85-unsound-2024
John Doran, “Noise to Signal: Unsound Krakow 2024 Reviewed” The Quietus: https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/live-reviews/unsound-krakow-2024-review-lankum/
Raphael Helfand, “What was NOISE?: UNSOUND, wrapped” The Fader: https://www.thefader.com/2024/10/11/unsound-2024-wrapup
Diadem Discos & Library 