Yellow Swans

From their 2001 founding to the duo’s final shows (and subsequent hiatus) in 2008, Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson aka Yellow Swans carved an influential path through America’s experimental music underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and hardcore. During that time they released well over 50 recordings documenting studio experiments, live improvisations, and numerous collaborations. Together they relentlessly toured North America, Europe, and Oceania, performing at numerous international music festivals including Sonar (ES), Open Circuit (BE), and Sonic Protest (FR), and were invited to join Art Council England’s Free Noise Tour in 2007. After a 15 year break, they have returned to recording and performing. Their music continues to be restless, ragged, and forever in flux, untethered and unresolved.

The duo Yellow Swans from Portland, Oregon, deliver untethered, nerve-racking, ear-shredding noise. Around the turn of the millennium, Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindel Saloman began thrilling audiences with their raging bass vibrations, convulsive spiralling whines and loops, and spiky lobe-mining feedback that floored listeners while uplifting their spirits. The Yellow Swans were instrumental in the burgeoning industrial noise scene of the noughties; after a fifteen- year break, they’re back on stage.