"Thurston was spending the winter in South Florida, so I flew down and spent a few days recording his guitar parts in his home there. Watching him spontaneously compose his parts was pretty astonishing, to say the least. Once we'd finished working on those pieces, we began improvising and following wherever the music pointed us, and another few pieces were born."
"The tracklist for They Came Like Swallows - Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza is full of literary references. They Came Like Swallows is the name of a 1937 book about a family torn apart by the 1918 flu epidemic. Another track, "The Redness in the West," seems to reference the subtitle of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and Urn Burial is both a 1987 sci-fi novel and a well-known 1658 overview of funereal customs. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing."
"should exist as a prayer to the war-torn souls of the families of Palestine continually decimated by the brutality of genocide. We agreed beyond words to offer our music as a sonic activism and as a beneficent energy. This album is our duo-exchange for human dignity, it is our soul music for any semblance of a peaceful planet."
Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer collaborated on an album titled They Came Like Swallows - Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza, scheduled for release May 1. Kramer composed and recorded initial pieces at his home studio, then recorded Moore's guitar parts in Moore's South Florida home; improvisation produced additional pieces. The project is framed as a prayer for families of Palestine, offered as sonic activism and beneficent energy intended as a duo-exchange for human dignity and soul music for a peaceful planet. Lead single "Urn Burial" is a wordless experiment inspired by John Cale and Terry Riley and includes a Kramer-directed video. The tracklist contains multiple literary references and pre-orders are ongoing.
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