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Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT	Title:	Everything Is Good Here, Please Come Home
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	YG22
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Young God
Release Date:	2/24/03
*"The third Angels of Light album started innocently enough, with the intention of collecting well-written songs performed by the musicians who played them live for the last few years, with the addition of a few acoustic songs, lightly colored. Instead, every available molecule of the recording tape wound up saturated with sound; I then hacked, cut, and poured sonic fertilizer and salt on the resultant wounds. It finally metastasized into a raging, weeping beast that slowly bit off my head, leaving this album behind as evidence. "Some songs might be construed as sad or poignant, and others "rock" in a weird, skewed way, sometimes subtle, sometimes excessive. I think I've managed to sort through the chaos, letting the songs discover themselves. It's densely orchestrated in some places, sparse in others. The instrumentation is all over the place, initially built up from my acoustic guitar and voice, then incorporating everything from electronic noise, to banjo and mandolin, bass-drums-electric guitar, (open-tuned) lap steel guitar, vibraphones and marimbas, accordion, fiddles, flutes (yes, flutes), the dreaded children's choir, layered vocal harmonies, drones acquired from various organic sources, piano and Fender Rhodes, trumpet and trombone. It is much, much different than the first two Angels albums. A few friends say it's a "breakthrough" or some such thing, but believe me, the thing controlled me, I did not control it. "Where does it fit in the current musical environment? Nowhere, I'm sure. It's a gift for the befuddled, the rancorous, the deluded, the chosen, the failed and the insane, the crazed and misguided, the spiritual seekers, the hungry, the numb, the inveterately passive, the secretly angry over-achievers, the blandly normal, the well-primed consumers, and the mildly, distracted curious." -Michael Gira, Angels of Light / Young God Records The third installment from M. Gira's post-Swans band - quiet, loud, delicate and insane... Featured on www.younggodrecords.com 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Palisades All Souls' Rising Kosinski Nations The Family God Because She Was Rose of Los Angeles What You Were Sunset Park Wedding What Will Come If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Angels Of Light "Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home" (Young God) For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.**

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT	Title:	How I Loved You
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	YG16CD
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Young God
Release Date:	3/5/01
*"Here is the new Angels of Light album. I wrote the songs over the last couple of years. As it turns out, they're all love songs, in one form or another. The songs started out with just my voice and acoustic guitar, and then developed naturally over time by playing them with my friends (listed below) - whose collaboration and contributions are positively inspirational, to me anyway. Our combined sensibilities feel very natural at this point, which I guess comes from having played most of the songs live a lot. The songs were recorded live in the studio, then subjected to my usual lapses of over-orchestration. In this case though, I think I reigned myself in, and the final sound/picture seems to fit organically with the basic songs and lyrics. Anyway, I did my best. You decide. Making this album was a labor of love for all of us. I think this intention comes through, and I hope you find something of use to you personally in the music..." -Michael Gira MICHAEL GIRA Voice, acoustic and electric guitar, production CHRISTOPH HAHN Lap steel guitar, electric guitar DANA SCHECHTER Bass guitar, piano, melodica, backing vocals LAWRENCE MULLINS Drumset, vibraphone, timpani, Farfisa VIP 600 organ, sleighbells, tambourine, castanets, glockenspiel BIRGIT-CASSIS STAUDT Accordion, melodica, cassio, piano, backing vocals THOR HARRIS Hammer dulcimer, piano, backing vocals BLISS BLOOD Backing vocals and double vocal on "Untitled Love Song," ukelele SIOBHAN DUFFY Backing vocals and double vocal on "Song for Nico" KID CONGO POWERS Additional electric guitar on "My True Body" and "New York Girls" The finest post-Swans work yet from founder M. Gira Calling this one of 2001's best singer-songwriter albums would be faint praise Featured on label's much hit site, www.younggodrecords.com and (where else?) midheaven.com Extended RealAudio excerpts: Evangeline Untitled Love Song My True Body Jennifer's Sorry Song for Nico Two Women My Suicide New York Girls Public Embarrassment Blues New City in the Future If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Angels Of Light "How I Loved You" (Young God) For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.**

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT	Title:	The Angels Of Light Sing "Other People"
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	YG027
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Young God
Release Date:	3/14/05
*Another breakthrough for former Swans frontman M. Gira and company-- short, sharply orchestrated, almost-pop songs that access a multitude of musical styles and references. These 12 finely hewn tributes to friends and heroes, stars and scoundrels make this easily the most accessible Angels of Light offering yet. Fiercely melodic, produced with crystal clarity and often bizarrely arranged, each song inhabits its own peculiar world, built up from Gira's intense and ultra-present acoustic guitar and vocal performances-- poignant, uncomfortably personal, comical, deranged. Featured throughout are sometimes subtle, sometimes weirdly psyched-out instrumental and vocal contributions from Brooklyn's eccentric young avant rock savants Akron / Family, making for yet one more rebirth for Gira. Once again, The Angels of Light sound like no one else. The Angels Of Light...might not be skull-crushing like a train coming the other way, but their songs are no less intense just because [Gira's] "gone acoustic"... [With] no overt influences apparent anywhere on the Angels discs. They truly carve out their own sonic and lyrical terrain. --The Wire Michael Gira has for twenty years pushed fiercely (sometimes violently) against lyrical and musical boundaries... The Angels of Light continue the journey, going ever deeper into a world of rich harmony. --The New Yorker Produced by Michael Gira, arranged by Gira and Akron/Family 30-second MP3 excerpts: Lena's Song The Kid Is Already Breaking My Friend Thor On The Mountain Destroyer Dawn My Sister Said Michael's White Hands To Live Through Someone Simon Is Stronger Than Us Purple Creek Jacki's Spine If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Angels Of Light "The Angels Of Light Sing 'Other People' (Young God) For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.**

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT	Title:	We Are Him
Format:	2xLP	Catalog Number:	YG35
Price:	$17.50	Label:	Young God
Release Date:	9/24/07
***We Are Him is the fifth album from Angels of Light, the main vehicle for Michael Gira's music since he disbanded Swans in 1997. Gira is also known lately as the label master and in-house producer for Young God Records, responsible for the likes of Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, and Lisa Germano, among many others, further widening the scope and influence of his 25 years of music-making. We Are Him is a potent new chapter in a fiercely individual and remarkable musical journey. Backing/contributing musicians include Akron/Family, Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Swans, Robert Fripp, and currently drummer for both Robyn Hitchcock and REM), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons) Christoph Hahn (longtime Angel and former Swan) and many, many more... "Michael Gira taught me that you don't need to play loud to play heavy, you don't need to compromise to be a success to those who really count. He is one of maybe ten people in the whole world who inspired me to pick up a guitar and try to write songs in the first place...We Are Him is an intimidating great album and a highlight in a career of highlights." - James Toth / Wooden Wand "We Are Him is the most assured and relaxed Angels of Light album since the debut, and deserves to be considered alongside Gira's highest peaks. The frightening rage of old Swans surfaces several times, albeit in more bucolic clothing; the contrast is bracing... The title track is like a pure shot of adrenaline. An intimate, unexpected masterpiece." - John Darnielle/The Mountain Goats "The moment i played We Are Him my heart exploded with the feeling 'that voice!!!!!!' and it has done it to me every time i have ever heard it since... now is the best Michael Gira has ever sounded and i cannot without sounding insanely thrilled express how much this means to me. We Are Him is touching, frightening, wonderfully different and whole." - Jamie Stewart / Xiu Xiu "Michael Gira, at 52, is at the height of his powers ... Infused with an organic warmth that only makes it all the more urgent and harrowing, We Are Him is a sprawling masterpiece by an artist whose muse seems more fertile than ever."- Jonathan Meiburg / Shearwater 30-second MP3 excerpts: Black River Song Promise Of Water The Man We Left Behind My Brother's Man Not Here/Not Now Joseph's Song We Are Him Sometimes I Dream I'm Hurting You Sunflower's Here To Stay Good Bye Mary Lou The Visitor Star Chaser If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Angels Of Light "We Are Him" If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT	Title:	We Are Him
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	YG35CD
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Young God
Release Date:	8/20/07
***We Are Him is the fifth album from Angels of Light, the main vehicle for Michael Gira's music since he disbanded Swans in 1997. Gira is also known lately as the label master and in-house producer for Young God Records, responsible for the likes of Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, and Lisa Germano, among many others, further widening the scope and influence of his 25 years of music-making. We Are Him is a potent new chapter in a fiercely individual and remarkable musical journey. Backing/contributing musicians include Akron/Family, Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Swans, Robert Fripp, and currently drummer for both Robyn Hitchcock and REM), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons) Christoph Hahn (longtime Angel and former Swan) and many, many more... "Michael Gira taught me that you don't need to play loud to play heavy, you don't need to compromise to be a success to those who really count. He is one of maybe ten people in the whole world who inspired me to pick up a guitar and try to write songs in the first place...We Are Him is an intimidating great album and a highlight in a career of highlights." - James Toth / Wooden Wand "We Are Him is the most assured and relaxed Angels of Light album since the debut, and deserves to be considered alongside Gira's highest peaks. The frightening rage of old Swans surfaces several times, albeit in more bucolic clothing; the contrast is bracing... The title track is like a pure shot of adrenaline. An intimate, unexpected masterpiece." - John Darnielle/The Mountain Goats "The moment i played We Are Him my heart exploded with the feeling 'that voice!!!!!!' and it has done it to me every time i have ever heard it since... now is the best Michael Gira has ever sounded and i cannot without sounding insanely thrilled express how much this means to me. We Are Him is touching, frightening, wonderfully different and whole." - Jamie Stewart / Xiu Xiu "Michael Gira, at 52, is at the height of his powers ... Infused with an organic warmth that only makes it all the more urgent and harrowing, We Are Him is a sprawling masterpiece by an artist whose muse seems more fertile than ever."- Jonathan Meiburg / Shearwater 30-second MP3 excerpts: Black River Song Promise Of Water The Man We Left Behind My Brother's Man Not Here/Not Now Joseph's Song We Are Him Sometimes I Dream I'm Hurting You Sunflower's Here To Stay Good Bye Mary Lou The Visitor Star Chaser If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Angels Of Light "We Are Him" If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT	Title:	New Mother
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	YG08CD
Price:	$13.00	Label:	Young God
Release Date:	4/12/99
***Michael Gira of Swansi highly-anticipated new project, and his first song-structured outing since the Swansi discontinuation over a year ago, this is an eminently listenable and evocative piece of work in the manner of kindred contemporaries Lambchop, Lisa Germano, Vic Chestnut, Palace Music and AMC. 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Fragment Praise Your Name New Mother Angels of Light Inner Female This is Mine Shame Intermission The Man with the Silver Tongue Real Person Forever Yours How We End The Garden Hides the Jewel Not Alone Song for My Father His Entropic Highness Fear of Death If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Angels Of Light "New Mother" (Young God) For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

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