It is the year 2026. The world situation remains precarious. Business
as usual, in other words. The general decline continues at a leisurely
pace. Tech billionaires have luxurious bunkers built for themselves,
while ordinary people can only retreat to the rehearsal room around
the corner. From there, perhaps, a counterattack can be launched with
toxic noise.
Abrichten was founded in late autumn 2014 - even then
with the rough but entirely plausible intention of combining American
noise rock with German lyrics. Since then, there have been a few
personnel changes in the band's line-up, which our estate
administrator will be happy to explain to you.
›aufheben‹ is now the
fourth release and appears as an artistically designed tape on It's
Eleven Records. Musically, you'll find our usual mix, with which we
condemn ourselves to continued failure* - i.e. songs that are partly
heavy, partly driving, with expressive vocals. This is unfriendly
music, carefully crafted by friendly people so that in the end it
sounds somehow wrong and somehow engaging. As before, it was recorded
and mixed at Studio Tutti in Leipzig-Holzhausen. (Many thanks to
Alexander Günther for the balanced sound and to T-Rex for the fine mastering.)
The lyrics are in German,
mostly angry in some way, and (hopefully) sometimes repulsive or
quirky and eccentric. There is certainly a certain tendency towards
provocation, but this should not, of course, serve as an excuse for
bad behaviour. ›Don't whine, don't moralise‹ would probably be the
appropriate rule of thumb – both are far too common in today's music
world, usually with rather dreary results.
Incidentally, the term
›Abrichten‹ can be thought of as in terms of either dog training or
Michel Foucault**. The term ›aufheben‹, on the other hand, was coined
by Hegel***.
* Like ›failure‹, ›success‹ is of course
relative. If you produce mass-market goods, you can potentially sell
them to masses of people and call that success. Which is fine.
However, we have other interests and plans.
** We are
thinking here more of Foucault's book Discipline and Punish than of
the fact that the French theorist had a cupboard full of S&M
paraphernalia at home – although that would also be a possible
association. As we know, chains of association are very long and
patient.
*** Hegel was a German philosopher who wrote thick
books and then died of cholera. His concept of ›Aufhebung” has
something to do with dialectics.
contact: abrichten@u-bac.net
