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Dave Swain

About Me

Though Dave Swain has self-released his sporadic, idiosyncratic, recordings through his own Gore Infidel label for several years, it was not until 2001 that he took the plunge and set about working full-time on his music with a view to releasing his first complete album. The endless problems and minor disasters that ensued are well documented elsewhere but the 7" single 'Sportive' ("Dark, disturbing and really rather good" [!] - Rob da Bank, BBC Radio 1, "It's astonishing stuff" - Butterfly Crush) came out in 2005 and the album 'Istvan Zsolt's Plane Ticket' ("This intriguing collection of songs and sound collages" - Robert Sandall, BBC Radio 3, "This piece of intensely crafted and cared for piece of musical expression is of an absolute integrity and honesty that is rarely matched" - Dogmatik magazine) finally emerged in 2006. Without any PR machine or industry backing behind him, the exposure and response to this work has been remarkable. Featuring on five BBC radio stations, across Europe, the U.S.A., Australia, countless internet radio shows etc. - and 'Media Monkey' was also selected by The Wire magazine for inclusion on the 'Wire Tapper 16' CD in December 2006. £8.00 (GB pounds sterling) INCLUDING WORLDWIDE SHIPPING

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Member Since: 5/11/2007
Band Website: http://goreinfidel.tripod.com
Sounds Like: Marta Silbernaglová, Alina Poliakaité, Nico Forster, Winnie Storms...
Record Label: Gore Infidel Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Second album is on the way

Just a quick word to let listeners know that the second album from Dave Swain, 'I'm Not Here, I'm never Here' has reached completion and now been fully mastered (rather excellently by sound engineer J...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:51:00 GMT

Circuit Bent Selections E.P.

Having been very heartened by the exposure and listener response to Dave's circuit bent recordings, we have now compiled seven of these tracks for release as an E.P.Our efforts and resources are all g...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:33:00 GMT

Catching up with the 21st century

We are very pleased to announce that Dave's material is finally availabe on iTunes and most reputable download sites, so if you ever wanted to have 'Sportive', 'Giada' or any other track on your iPod/...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:01:00 GMT

Circuit bent recordings

 In case anyone was wondering, 'circuit bent' instruments are (usually) rather lo-tech items such as electronic toys, old keyboards and such like, that have been rewired and had new controls adde...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:05:00 GMT