Artist.......: Swell
Album........: South of the rain and snow
Label........: Talitres
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jun-10-2008
str.date.....: Jun-2008
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Kicking all them ghosts 02:20
02. Trouble loves you 04:46
03. Saved by Summer 04:17
04. Comes right here 02:46
05. Our Aquarium 04:12
06. South of the rain and snow 06:11
07. Good Good Good 02:43
08. Tell us all 05:15
09. The measure of this moment 03:28
10. Waiting for a beer 07:15
Runtime 43:13 min
Size 57,2 MB
Release Notes:
The band recorded a self-titled debut album and
released it on Freel's own pSychoSpecific label in
April 1990. Swell's influences range from 80's post
punk bands, Pink Floyd to folk, noise pop and Ennio
Morricone film scores.
Freel, Kirkpatrick and Mark Signorrelli (bass)
spent the summer of 1990 busking on the streets of
Europe, mainly in Spain. They returned to the
States in time to pick up a support slot for Mazzy
Star at San Francisco's I-Beam. But Before they
even played this first US show, Signorrelli had
passed bass duties on to Monte Vallier, and John
Dettman(lyttle), had joined as a second guitarist.
This configuration toured around California during
the fall of 1990. By early 1991 their booking agent
in Belgium was calling them back to Europe to play
shows in France, Germany and the Benelux.
That same year they recorded a second album,
...Well?, which was released in February 1992, also
on the pSychoSpecificMusic label. Though Dettman
left the band soon after, Freel, Kirkpatrick, and
Vallier carried on, receiving an offer from Def
American to give ...Well? a wider release one year
after its first issue.
Adding guitarist Tom Hays following the sojourn of
Pete Vogl on guitar, Swell kept up a heavy touring
schedule of Europe and the US. They began recording
their third album, 41, in 1992. It was released by
American in November 1993. In 1993 Niko Wenner
(Oxbow, Jellyfish) replaced Hays, and toured with
the band on guitar, backing vocals, and keyboard
through 2003. Subsequent albums include 1997's Too
Many Days Without Thinking and 1998's For All the
Beautiful People. The latter album included Wenner
on guitar and backing vocals, and Rob Ellis (PJ
Harvey, Laika, Spleen) on drums.
Everybody Wants to Know, more a Freel solo album
than anything else, appeared in spring 2001.
Whenever you're ready- recorded with Sean
Kirkpatrick - and the compilation Bastards and
rarities both appeared in 2003. Early 2004 Swell
toured the States for the first time in 6 years.
Swell also toured Europe again in 2004 and played
shows in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Spain
(Primavera Sound Festival) and in France. The tour
band consisted of Mat Mathews on drums, Greg
Baldzikowski (keyboards and guitars), Doran Bastin
(bass) and David Freel (vox, acoustic guitar).
After three years of silence David Freel starts
recording new songs which should be out at the end
the summer of 2007. / Wikipedia.