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The Black Swans
Folk / Melodramatic Popular Song / Blues

"www.theblackswans.com for memorial info"

COLUMBUS, OHIO
United States

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Last Login:  7/20/2008
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   The Black Swans: General Info
Member Since2/14/2005
Band Websitetheblackswans.com/
Band MembersThe Black Swans:

Jerry DeCicca (guitar/vocals), Noel Sayre (violin), Canaan Faulkner (bass)

Chris Forbes, Keith Hanlon, Brian Jones.

Other friends join in often

Good words below

Change!

Pitchfork album review

Spin web and print

Stylus review

Daytrotter Bookery/review

San Francisco Bay Guardian feature

Westworld Denver show preview

Salt Lake City Weekly feature

Indianapolis weekly paper feature

Dusted review

Amplifier review

USA Today web review

Onion A/V Club review

Jambase review

Pitchfork news story

Harp news story

Stereogum Change! feature

Donewaiting.com review

Paper Thin Walls "Shake" track review

Dusted Listed feature

Pitchfork Forkcast

Columbus Dispatch release show preview

Change! Hand-painted Limited Edition Vinyl Story/Video

Columbus Dispatch article

ARC Workshop LP Painting Video

Sex Brain EP

Pitchfork review

Nashville Scene feature

Stylus review

Pitchfork tour story

Who Will Walk in the Darkness with You?

Neumu feature

Aural Minority feature

6 Six Eyes blog review

Erasing Clouds review

InfluencesMasked and Anonymous, Kris Kristofferson, Mark Strand, Yeah, Me Too, Iris Dement, Leonard Cohen, pretzels, Michael J. Fox, Vince Matthews, Shel Silverstein, Reverand Louis Overstreet, tacos, Eric Andersen, black licorice, Bert Jansch, Henry Flynt, Steve Forbert, Mickey Rourke, Donnie Fritts, Jeff Bridges, Love, Jesse Winchester, vanilla soy milk, Bossman, Morgan Freeman, Daniel Lanois, rubber rats, Greg Brown, Michael Hurley, sweet potato pie, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Van Zandt, Tim Hardin, Ali Farka Toure, Richard Yates, The Bicycle Thief, pizza, Groundhog Day, Jackson Browne, Mickey Newbury, Paul Siebel, Warren Zevon, Five Easy Pieces, Jim Galvin, Monte Hellman, Mary Robison, ice cream, Roscoe Holcomb, monkeys (all kinds), Joe Tex, Spooner Oldham, and the Ford Taurus!
Sounds Likeohno ampo on a leash
Record Labella societe expeditionnaire (la-soc.com)
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   About The Black Swans
Order cd and vinyl here, directly from La Société Expéditionnaire.

Here is more than you might want to know about The Black Swans:

Who Will Walk in the Darkness with You?, is the debut album released by Delmore Recording Society in 2004 to lots of really good and really bad reviews. It dives deep into a pond of existential doubt and functions as a collection of musical vignettes where characters negotiate how to get along in the world with and without the person to whom they feel closest. Rarely acknowledging gender, the lyrics have a purposeful drift, playing out strained, washed-out moments similar to early Kris Kristofferson or the confessional fragments of Robert Creeley. Guilt and doubt run through the songs, but they are ultimately ethereal and elegiac. The songs are dialogues, existential and gray, spoken when the clock ticks slow; their subjects are companionship, intimacy and resigned acceptance.

Someone once described it as "walking through quicksand." This was suppose to be a bad review, but it is pretty right-on.

The Sex Brain E.P. was released March of 2006 on Bwatue Records, our own little fake-label named after the B-side of the Phil Ochs 45 on A&M that he recorded in Kenya. It means “Canoe” in Swahili. The E.P. is a high concept, five-song cycle which examines the tragi-comic throes of intimacy concerning the deep and dark psychological-sexual tug-of-war between our superego and id without Freud’s referee, the ego, anywhere in sight.

It's not for everyone, especially if your name is "Mom".

Change! is the newest album, released by La Société Expéditionnaire in fall 2007. A dozen slow burning songs about the reconciliation and reconstruction of the spirit and self, wow.

As in the past, The Black Swans feature the broken broodings of songwriter/singer/guitarist Jerry DeCicca, and the classical, Appalachian swoop of Noel Sayre’s violin. Canaan Faulkner is the beautiful bass player. The record's got a big band, but the 3 of us perform most shows.

We travel in a ’95 Ford Taurus wagon. R.I.P. '94 Ford Taurus: New radiator, new transmission, new battery, new starter, new used tires, 140,000 miles, never say die, but now we say, "goodbye." Hello, wagon! Though recently, since we're making so much money, we went with a rental.

In late June 2007, DeCicca co-produced the first new recordings by 1970's Monument recording artist, Larry Jon Wilson. Too, it features Black Swan Noel Sayre on violin. Wilson was featured in the 70s documentary Heartworn Highways that also includes early portraits of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. These new recordings took place in Perdido Key, Florida. It will be released in JUNE 2008 on UK label 1965 Records/Sony and Hacktone Records in the U.S.

If you want to read Black Swans reviews, please hunt the Internets or look left.

The Black Swans live in the wondrous Columbus, Ohio.

www.theblackswans.com


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hope





Jul 20 2008 4:59 PM

really?? wow. i cannot say i've ever met anyone who's said that to me before.
i saw the obituary in the columbus dispatch, and well.. had the weirdest feeling that i'd seen you guys perform. still unsure, i ordered change! and.. well, i'm impressed. but i've yet to figure out this connection..
i know. i sound like a weirdo.
but i'm really sorry that happened. i know he must have meant alot to you.

nice to meet you, though! :) it's nice when artists respond back. that happens so rarely that sometimes i forget there are people behind them.
Sinister Foxy Productions





Jul 14 2008 10:50 PM

What's new?
Kate





Jul 12 2008 1:11 PM

I took guitar lessons from Noel. He was an incredibly wonderful and talented man. This is tragic.
Southeast Engine





Jul 8 2008 1:13 PM

deepest sympathies. much love.
Richard


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Jul 7 2008 7:57 PM

My condolences to you and everyone close to Noel in this terrible time; I never knew him but it was a sound you don't forget.
brian straw





Jul 5 2008 7:43 PM

Noel's violin etched in my heart.
Sarah





Jul 5 2008 3:36 PM

Jerry -- I'm so sorry. There are just no words for times like this. I'll be thinking of you and Kristy.... Lots of love, Sarah.
Megan Palmer





Jul 5 2008 2:26 PM

black swans - I am deeply saddened and still in disbelief. my love and thoughts are with you.
love megan
Shelly





Jul 5 2008 11:04 AM

My condolences for your loss. He'll be forever missed.
-Shelly-
(Seattle)
Mark





Jul 5 2008 8:42 AM

Hey!

I heard about Noel! My deepest prayers and sympathies are with all of you!

Mark
teamtim





Jul 4 2008 2:10 PM

Sorry for your loss guys. See you sson.
V Club





Jul 4 2008 2:08 PM

Noel was a one of a kind and will be deeply missed as a friend and musician. We all feel a tremendous loss.
katie





Jul 4 2008 10:31 AM

Sending much love from Nebraska.

We are so sorry.

-Katie and Mark
bug





Jul 4 2008 9:27 AM

i am so sorry
be my chum





Jul 4 2008 4:45 AM

I cannot tell you how sorry I am. My heart sunk when I read your bulletin, chum. Though I have never met him, he was one of the finer parts of this world to you, as seen in your beautiful words.
The Free Police





Jul 3 2008 6:50 PM

sorry to hear about the loss of your friend and bandmate, our condolences
susan





Jul 3 2008 6:46 PM

i am so sorry
Dan


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Jul 3 2008 6:21 PM

My condolences.
Stavos





Jul 3 2008 5:53 PM

thoughts and condolences to the blood and musical families. thank you for making a sound.
erin





Jul 3 2008 2:44 PM

will be pouring a jalapeno margarita onto the salty utah streets just for you, noel.

will be drinking one for you, jerry.
Bastardo Serioso





Jul 3 2008 12:52 PM

My condolences go out to Jerry, Canaan, and all of Noel's friends and family.

Noel, I'll never forget that drunken Latino couple playing air-fiddle to you at Rudy's in New Haven, CT.
mikekash





Jun 26 2008 4:00 PM

i was listening to kris kristofferson's first album for months,thinking it was the album equivalent of how i felt. Then i realized i just wanted to feel like that and i was really living in CHANGE. It helped me through a lot of simple shit and a lot of complicated muck and a bit of good and bad ideas...

thanks
miekkash
melanie





Jun 23 2008 7:32 AM

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mikekash





Jun 17 2008 10:40 AM

lizorak





Jun 8 2008 9:02 PM

MR. RICHARD


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Jun 6 2008 8:33 AM

JUS' STOPPED BY TO SAY HEY & ALWAYS "THANX" FOR THE ADD.
GREAT RESPECTS FOR YOUR WORK ...

ROCK ON !

MR.
RICHARD
Bonar Hutchison





Jun 2 2008 3:41 PM

Thank you

Bonar
brooke





May 31 2008 4:24 PM

The Black Swans buy breakfast. Thank you, collectively.
Gary





May 30 2008 8:50 PM

Hey The Black Swans, I just bought you as my PET!
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Perkasie





May 17 2008 8:58 AM

Thanks for the add Swans! Great tunes.
Choo choo,
Perkasie