KSV 533 MR02 MR ist der Tod

by Merkwürdig Riechnerv

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1.
Death 05:46
2.
L'original 02:46
3.
Get Healthy 03:23
4.
Prinz der Szene 07:56
5.
Don't Touch My City 05:44
6.
Achtsamkeit 02:54
7.
Sweaty Hands 05:46
8.
Throw Up 06:48
9.
Flattering Circles of Hell 08:23
10.
Wir sind der Tod 03:18

about

"The splintered, protean Hannover coven known as Merkwürdig Riechnerv transformed Ligeti knots into innovative gestures of abrupt typology; their predilection for chopped and reticulated motion - arresting, recurring manifestations of subterraneous chromaticism - drastically modified the hearing of audience members more accustomed to dated "brutal" norms, and extended hitherto incompatible apparitions of psychological collage. They questioned the threads from which traditions are weaved, supplementing staid herringbone with strands of distorted Berg and discolored Mahler; they quoted crypto-rhythmic surrealist mythologies and staggered illusionist architectures.

Tom Smith began assembling the Nakonxipanian idiologues in early 2012 under the "Merkwürdig Riechen" banner, initially in a duo formation with fellow American expatriot Luke Calzonetti (who'd recently exited Child Abuse, the fervent, Escheresque partisans he'd helped found). This constellation was snatched up and bundled off by anomie in mid-2015. (Calzonetti, since late 2012, had been enjoying solo success as Run Dust, and Smith, beginning in early 2013, had begun his anxiety-aggrandizing T/SMS project. With To Live and Shave in L.A.'s resumption of touring and recording in late 2014, there wasn't much time for Merkwürdig Riechen's fusillades. Cut to late 2015: Smith, presumably sated from the precarious and hysterical terrors engendered by the Amercian and European tours of the TLASILA clot that recorded "As Gods Are Skinned" for Independent Woman Records, nonetheless again set the Boschean mill in motion, resuscitating Riechen as Riechnerv ("smell" became "olfactory nerve"). With assistants in tow, Smith steered MR to the precipice of the apocalyptic, but their ascension (at a prestigious October 2019 festival in Bremen) was sabotaged when a bassist revealed that a house pet was ailing, and a vocalist complained of cosmogonic discomfort. Neither could muster the strength to attend the event to which they’d been invited. The full truth was soon revealed, however - the vocalist had just flat-our made made other plans. The group died the moment Smith read their texts.
A studio album had been begun - nine compositions were recorded during the initial session; a second affixed overdubs. Mixes were created, but the album still wasn't quite ready. After Smith ended the project, he moped around for a month and a half, then contacted Lurch (Guttersnipe, To Live and Shave in L.A.) and Paige A. Flash (Laundryroom Squelchers, Cult of Youth). NM Meth was thus formed. Following the completion of NHM's debut album, "Unknown Gen" (also available on Independent Woman), Smith revisited Merkwürdig Riechnerv's unfinished collection, which was thereafter known as "MR ist der Tod" ("MR Is Death"). "I remixed the lot," he revealed to French zine 108/101, "strengthening its structures, adding backing vocalists to several of its tracks, enhancing its depth of field and just fucking trying to give this malformed ghoul of group its due, despite its pitiably ignimonious end." A tenth composition, the album's title track, was demoed for the ensemble but never properly recorded. It completes "MR ist der Tod" and slams the sarcophagus shut on a group that should have gone global but ended up immobile. Such is the stench of the pursuit of sacred shocks.

- Vikram, Latin Declension (Spring 2021)

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released May 8, 2021

Released as a cassette by Independent Woman Records on May 5, 2021.

Music by Tom Smith: backgrounds, electronics, devices, voice (2, 4-5, 10), tape manipulated vocal (6), lyrics (6, 9-10), edits, location recordings, final mix and production.

And: Bocker: bass, radio (5, 9).

Rat Bastard: guitar (8), remix (5-6), mastering.

Blob: voice (1-9), lyrics (1-8), transformer (4-5, 9), additional text (9).

Willi Dammeier: engineering, initial mix, associate production.

Mizzy (courtesy of Auks): barks and commands.

P&V (courtesy of NH Meth): chorale (8).

"Flattering Circles of Hell" was composed by To Live and Shave in L.A. (Tom Smith, Rat Bastard and Graham Moore) for "The Cortège" and originally sung by Misty Martinez.

Recorded at Institut für Wohlklangforschung, Hannover, 2019. Completed at KSV at Lagerhaus 49, Hannover, 2020. Mastered at Dan Hosker Studio, Miami Beach, 2020.

Composed and performed by Merkwürdig Riechnerv (2016-2019).
Design: Karl Schmidt
Danke: Claudia Franke, Luke Calzonetti, NH Meth, Auks and Guttersnipe.

Eine Produktion der MR Stiftung.
Benedict Quilter: executive production

c+p 2021 IWR / KSV / MR Stiftung

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Karl Schmidt Verlag Hannover, Germany

Karl Schmidt Verlag is a label and publishing organ founded in October 2008 by Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A., OHNE, NH Meth, Pussy Galore, et al.) in Hannover, Germany. Physical albums are issued as micro-releases.Genre is obsolete!

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