Doc Wör Mirran for Krautrock

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   Formed in 1984, Doc Wör Mirran is the creative vehicle for American expatriate multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Joseph B. Raimond, currently living in Fürth, Germany. A progressive music multimedia project inspired by krautrock, industrial, surrealism, DIY and the spirit of punk, Doc Wör Mirran received its inscrutable name from Raimond's friend and then-roommate Bernard Worrick in 1982 while the two lived in San Francisco (and the former studied art at San Francisco State University).

Worrick ended up joining the US Army and moving to Nürnberg, Germany, while Raimond amassed recordings in the college studio during several semesters of his electronic music class. Finishing his degree, Raimond founded his own record label MT Undertainment (and the first of many future sublabels eMpTy Records) on December 20, 1984 to distribute the project's music as well as his artwork and poetry, the same day he released Doc Wör Mirran's eponymous debut cassette. That cassette was intended as a one-off, but Doc Wör Mirran was rejuvenated after Raimond took a road trip to New York and then Europe in early 1985, ending up in Nürnberg for a job offer and ultimately reuniting with Worrick, beginning the torrent of releases that still goes strong as of this writing.

Doc Wör Mirran, operating as an open-door collective, has drawn dozens of guest collaborators into its fold over the years, featuring at one point or another Current 93's Joolie Wood, Rat Scabies from the Damned, the Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra, Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge, Controlled Bleeding's Paul Lemos, Kapotte Muziek's Frans de Waard, Asmus Tietchens and Conrad Schnitzler. Outside of Worrick, who left the project to move to Florida in 1998, other notable long-term members have been Peter Schuster (who also recorded as Tesendalo), Ralf Lexis (aka Der 7. Versuch), Stefan Schweiger and Raimond's close friend Frank Abendroth. Doc Wör Mirran's discography spans over two hundred releases across cassette, vinyl, CDR and Bandcamp, an ambition in keeping with stylistic fellow-travellers Nurse With Wound and the Residents. Forgoing the rigmarole of the music industry, Doc Wör Mirran has willfully remained independent and unsigned, but apart from MT, the project has distributed some releases through friendly labels Attenuation Circuit and Schuster's Prion Tapes (managing to officially license a split with the Beatles in 2017!). Live performances are rare but not unheard of (with only fifteen in total over four decades).

Constantly experimenting and consistently unpredictable, the band's range runs the gamut from mangled acid rock, Stapleton-esque studio trickery, bizarre spoken-word post-Beat poetry, post-industrial drones in debt to early krautrock, mutant avant-pop, jazzy post-rock and even Pink Floyd-like dad-psych played completely straight. While crude and sexual humour adorns its artwork and track titles, especially in the early days, the band's more recently expressed left-leaning and anti-fascist sentiments, particularly in the wake of Trump's rise.

Doc Wör Mirran's engrossing and trippy body of work will appeal to fans of Faust, Zweistein, the Decayes, Verde, Kluster, Metabolismus, Fille Qui Mousse and Stull.

"Machines Don't Bleed" (1997)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/machines-dont-bleed

"Deep See Deth" (1992)
[url]https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/deep-see-deth[url]

"Adopt a Polyp" (1989)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/adopt-a-polyp

"Body Rejects Face (2014)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/body-rejects-face

"Pencil" with Telepherique (2019)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/pencil

"Alternative Facts" (2018) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/alternative-facts

"Labyrinth: Birth - Death" (1989)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth-birth-death

"Jazz My Azz" (1989)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-my-azz

"Recipe for a Memory" (2015) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/recipe-for-a-memory

"Sanozama" with Stadlmeier & Fiebig (2023) https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/sanozama

"Severe Pig" (1989)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/severe-pig

"Gosia" (2016)
https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/gosia

"Schnulz" (2023)
https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/schnulz

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	Formed in 1984, Doc Wör Mirran is the creative vehicle for American expatriate multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Joseph B. Raimond, currently living in Fürth, Germany. A progressive music multimedia project inspired by krautrock, industrial, surrealism, DIY and the spirit of punk, Doc Wör Mirran received its inscrutable name from Raimond's friend and then-roommate Bernard Worrick in 1982 while the two lived in San Francisco (and the former studied art at San Francisco State University). Worrick ended up joining the US Army and moving to Nürnberg, Germany, while Raimond amassed recordings in the college studio during several semesters of his electronic music class. Finishing his degree, Raimond founded his own record label MT Undertainment (and the first of many future sublabels eMpTy Records) on December 20, 1984 to distribute the project's music as well as his artwork and poetry, the same day he released Doc Wör Mirran's eponymous debut cassette. That cassette was intended as a one-off, but Doc Wör Mirran was rejuvenated after Raimond took a road trip to New York and then Europe in early 1985, ending up in Nürnberg for a job offer and ultimately reuniting with Worrick, beginning the torrent of releases that still goes strong as of this writing. Doc Wör Mirran, operating as an open-door collective, has drawn dozens of guest collaborators into its fold over the years, featuring at one point or another Current 93's Joolie Wood, Rat Scabies from the Damned, the Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra, Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge, Controlled Bleeding's Paul Lemos, Kapotte Muziek's Frans de Waard, Asmus Tietchens and Conrad Schnitzler. Outside of Worrick, who left the project to move to Florida in 1998, other notable long-term members have been Peter Schuster (who also recorded as Tesendalo), Ralf Lexis (aka Der 7. Versuch), Stefan Schweiger and Raimond's close friend Frank Abendroth. Doc Wör Mirran's discography spans over two hundred releases across cassette, vinyl, CDR and Bandcamp, an ambition in keeping with stylistic fellow-travellers Nurse With Wound and the Residents. Forgoing the rigmarole of the music industry, Doc Wör Mirran has willfully remained independent and unsigned, but apart from MT, the project has distributed some releases through friendly labels Attenuation Circuit and Schuster's Prion Tapes (managing to officially license a split with the Beatles in 2017!). Live performances are rare but not unheard of (with only fifteen in total over four decades). Constantly experimenting and consistently unpredictable, the band's range runs the gamut from mangled acid rock, Stapleton-esque studio trickery, bizarre spoken-word post-Beat poetry, post-industrial drones in debt to early krautrock, mutant avant-pop, jazzy post-rock and even Pink Floyd-like dad-psych played completely straight. While crude and sexual humour adorns its artwork and track titles, especially in the early days, the band's more recently expressed left-leaning and anti-fascist sentiments, particularly in the wake of Trump's rise. Doc Wör Mirran's engrossing and trippy body of work will appeal to fans of Faust, Zweistein, the Decayes, Verde, Kluster, Metabolismus, Fille Qui Mousse and Stull. "Machines Don't Bleed" (1997) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/machines-dont-bleed "Deep See Deth" (1992) [url]https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/deep-see-deth[url] "Adopt a Polyp" (1989) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/adopt-a-polyp "Body Rejects Face (2014) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/body-rejects-face "Pencil" with Telepherique (2019) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/pencil "Alternative Facts" (2018) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/alternative-facts "Labyrinth: Birth - Death" (1989) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth-birth-death "Jazz My Azz" (1989) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-my-azz "Recipe for a Memory" (2015) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/recipe-for-a-memory "Sanozama" with Stadlmeier & Fiebig (2023) https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/sanozama "Severe Pig" (1989) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/severe-pig "Gosia" (2016) https://docwoermirran.bandcamp.com/album/gosia "Schnulz" (2023) https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/schnulz