SWELL - BIO
>> BE MY WEAPON
- 'march/2009'
Be My Weapon is David Freel / Swell (guitars,
vocals, etc…) and Ron Burns (drums). The album was mostly recorded
at ‘The Pink Boot’ studio in the western cascade mountains of
Oregon, starting around august 2008, and ending in march 2009
(with two months spent touring in the middle).
For some reason, David Freel started writing
a whole load of songs in 2007 (ditto 2008): 10 of these songs
were used on Swell’s last album ‘South Of The Rain And Snow’
and 10 are used here on Be Me Weapon’s.
These songs are mostly little stories about
life and death, love and hate, light and dark, up and down,
in and out, war and peace, crime and punishment, dog and cat,
cat and mouse…(you know).
There are still more being organized for another
release by Swill (or Swell or [Swell]) later this year hopefully
and there is also a ‘project’ called Incredibly Average which
will undoubtedly succeed miserably or fail gloriously…you decide.
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BE MY WEAPON
- "march/2009" (digisleeve) - 12 euros, shipping
costs included
1 - Come Livid - 2. I Missed Your Mischief
- 3. Bad Bad Bad - 4. All Were After - 5. Are You Sure?
- 6. Love Is Just So Overrated - 7. Focus please…. - 8.
The Exits - 9. Things I Should Not Do - 10. The Last Song
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>> THE LOST ALBUM
recorded in LA, SF, and NY sometime between
'95 and '97
"i believe they have all been released
sometime, somewhere... either as promo cds or german eps or
7" vinyl or something pretty damn obscure... I doubt that anyone
has them all, but it's possible - i don't have them all. this
i am sure of..." D. Freel / Swell
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SWELL - "The
Lost Album"
1. bongstarr 2. wy don't you leave 3.
so would i 4. two dimes in the sun 5. easy 6. fuc yew
7. what i saw 8. bitter friends 9. sunshine everyday
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>> SOUTH OF THE RAIN
AND SNOW
"current album:
'south of the rain and snow' released in
2008 self released (iTunes, internet sales, MP3's) for most
of the world. the exception is a nice little french label 'talitres'
who was smart enough to license the album for France, Switzerland,
and the Benelux
brief history time:
various albums were released on various
labels in the 90's. various critics were kind. various critics
were not. various people bought the albums. various people did
not... but as time went by SWELL somehow gathered a small and
devoted following. certain people seemed to get what the band
was about right off. most others were puzzled (including some
former members) David Freel, the designated singer songwriter,(who
can't sing) and who led everybody around in a big circle, is
understandably the only one left. he has chosen to make this
point (last man standing) by "changing" the band name to [swell]
or (swell) or .(?)
This century SWELL put out 1 album in '03
on BeggarsBanquet. followed by a Big Nothing for quite some
time
then, in early 2008, came the miraculous
'south of the rain and snow'. to say people were surprised by
the risky and intimate nature of this album would be a lie.
this is the album swell or [swell] or (swell) or was always
going to make...
A brief history of now:
SWELL is spending the summer making another
album. tentatively entitled 'BeMyWeapon - 10 choices' and will
play shows in the US and Europe starting around the 2nd of october
and continuing for 6 weeks...
this was written on july 1st 2008 - 4 years
and 6 months before the end of the world... "
David Freel
