"Silently the servant crawled, across the ebony tiles, naked as the infant Christ,
but bloodied in her inimitable style, and ashamed to the core of his dessicate
heart for the pain he'll finally cause, when her resurrected children return to
crush his white bones in their jaws..."

THIS IS THE FIRST NON-SWANS RELEASE ON YOUNG GOD RECORDS, AND A BOLD STEP FOR M.GIRA AS HE MOVES ON FROM HIS FIFTEEN-YEAR OBSESSION WITH THE MUSIC OF SWANS.

THE BODY LOVERS DEBUT NUMBER ONE OF THREE, IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT IN THIS "PSYCHOAMBIENT" INSTRUMENTAL "SOUNDTRACK-WITH-OUT-A-FILM" PROJECT. ESSENTIALLY ONE SHIFTING AND RADICALLY MORPHING STREAM OF SOUNDS AND TEXTURES (WITH ID POINTS PROVIDED FOR THE LISTENER'S CONVENIENCE), THE MUSIC ON THIS CD IS IN GIRA'S WORDS, "A METASTASIZING SONIC FLOWER GARDEN", CHARACTERISTICALLY, THIS IS NOT PASSIVE AMBIENT MUSIC. SENSUAL ONE MOMENT, TURNING BRUTAL AND CATACLYSMIC THE NEXT. SOUND SOURCES INCLUDE EVERYTHING FROM ELECTRONIC & SYNTH NOISES, TO RAIDED SWANS GROOVES, BASS-DRUM-GUITAR- PROCESSIONALS, SINE WAVES, IRISH HARPS, MANDOLINS, ACCORDIONS, ORCHESTRAL BELLS, VIBRAPHONES, FLUGEL HORN, DIGITAL FEEDBACK, FOUND RECORDINGS, A BABY IN THE COURSE OF HIS CIRCUMCISION - ALL WOVEN TOGETHER AND FURTHER MUTILATED IN A COMPUTER, INTO A TRAJECTORY THAT NOT ONLY MAKES PERFECT SENSE (SOMEHOW), BUT IS GRATIFYING, ALMOST TRANCE-INDUCING TO HEAR.

MUSICIANS CONTRIBUTING TO THESE RECORDINGS COME FROM A WIDE RANGE IN THE SPECTRUM: JARBOE (SWANS. WORLD OF SKIN); BILL RIEFLIN (EX-SWANS, MINISTRY); MIKA VANIO (PANASONIC); BILL BRONSON & PHIL PULEO (EX-COP SHOOT COP); JAMES PLOTKIN (SCORN, DEATH AMBIENT), AS WELL AS SONIC CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NORWAY'S ORIGAMI REPUBLIKA & DEATHPROD.