SIMPLE DATA: D. Yellow Swans are a one year old duo from Portland, Oregon. They feature, under various alias’, Peter Swanson (formerly of Mur*der, Silentist) and Gabriel Mindel (formerly of Boxleitner). Between them they play a mixture of improv, noise, hardcore, and IDM. Their music draws few clear comparisons, touching on the early industrial howl of Throbbing Gristle, the science fiction beats of Timbaaland, and the societal critique of Crass records. Wolf Eyes, Crack:WAR, and Metalux are among the few peers who are exploring similar territories. D. Yellow Swans are touring the West Coast July 2002.

POETIC DATA: No one made plans for the 21st century. The world was supposed to end, by atom bomb or by hellfire. Thus we live in a future of our own speculative fiction, a post apocalyptic society with out the benefit of a singular traumatic event to clean the slate. We are free to imagine ourselves, to create ourselves, without the paralyzing power of millennial fear. It is now within our power to materialize our freedom fantasies, and embrace our revolting fetishes. Through costume, and toys, with noise, dance, and sex, we create moments of immediate awareness, and monuments of unique consciousness. Nostalgia is fear. No one wrote the story of the 21st century. So we do.
It is not a coincidence that we find the underground living again, believing in its own power, and that anything is possible. It is. New things happen - under the sun and into the night. We begin by reclaiming our hearts, our minds, and our bodies. Then we take over dance floors, parks, school yards, the café, the gallery, the street corner; if we gather there and live there then it is ours. The streets are filled with our parade, our music. Our friends and loved ones stop looking outward for their action, for spectacle. We are dismembering the world, legs running off on their own volition. This is part of how we take it back. Brick by brick we tear apart castles, and if they try and stop us, we dispose of them with those same bricks. Whose streets? Our’s. Who’s night? Our’s.

RECORDED DATA: 7" record on Helicopter/Collective Jyrk : Collaboration with John Wiese (Bastard Noise/Sissy Spacek). Out Fall, 2002.
Multiple limited-edition CDRs are also available on Collective Jyrk.

SWAN LINKS: here

TOUR DIARY: here

CONTACT DATA: peter@mail.pacifier.com www.Jyrk.150m.com