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My Dear Killer. was born in the middle of the nineties as project aimed at collecting minimalist song-writing,
stratified on a mesh of noise, ambient and field recordings. The songs are built around few fragile chords and whispered vocals, often
drowned in a sea of feedback or accompanied by field recordings and they are intended to be listened on (possibly biased) audiocassette,
ideally in a parked car, by a frozen lake. My Dear Killer first LP, "Clinical Shyness" (BM01/UMB#02) was released in 2006 despite having
being recorded a few years earlier. The record is characterised by what might appear a rather improbable combination of a landscape of
noises and feedback overlaid on top of the soft, melodic, guitar arpeggios and buried murmured vocal, yielding an extremely personal sound at
the border of noise and alt-folk. The sound characterising Clinical Shyness is clearly recognisable in the single "Glass Glow", the band
contribution to the Boring Machines edited split 7" with Rella the woodcutter (BM33, 2012). A different perspective of the project,
in which samples, minimal electronic glitches and field recordings replace the noise texture, characterises both the single "Forecast"
(EBS1, 2004), part of a second split 7" also featuring Prague and the EP "Cynical Quietness" that is part of the "Cinque Pezzi Facili"
split series released by Under My Bed (UMB#016, 2012), together with Tettu Mortu . The second full lenght album, "The Electric Dragon of Venus" , was
released in 2013 by Boring Machines and featured the key collaboration with ONQ on the arrangements as well as the support of other guest musicians,
Piergiorgio Storti (Morose), Stella Riva (Satan is My Brother), Matteo Uggeri (Sparkle in Grey) and Gherardo della Croce (HMWWAWCIHCCW). The multifaceted nature of the project became more evident, as sharpness of
the guitar-based noise feedback element resulted more dispersed in feeble and delicate sounding episodes , always maintaining the minimal yet uncompromising
character of the bare naked song-writing. In 2018 the third complete work of MdK, entitled The Cold Plan saw the light. In a sort of progression towards
minimalism it features even sparser sound landscapes with only occasional episodes of screaming guitar noise. The album was recorded and features the participation
of Stefano DePonti. It has been released in the 28th of February 2018 jointly by Under My Bed (UMB#52) and the new-born EeeE (Edizioni Etiche ed Estetiche).
In 2019 MdK released a extended single piece instrumental composition, entitled "Dancing Marna" as a collaboration with The Cricket on The
Radio. It was put out by UMB as digital release (free download) and very limited CDr edition of 10 copies. In March 2020, in the middle of CoVid19 epidemics,
then pandemics, Boring Machines released the fourth, and conclusive MdK LP, "Collectable Items" (BM99). The record had a sort-of long gestation, having
been recorded its bulk, quasi-acoustic, form already in 2014 (name-code "farfalle"). Most of overdubbing and arrangements were however recorded at the end in the winter
spanning 2018 and 2019, and feature the contributions of P.G. Storti (Cello), G. Loffredo (Screwdriver-prepared guitar, organ, loops), M. De Pascalis (Synths), M. Laudati
(synthetic string processing) and M. Uggeri (Sampling). The album mixing, at MafarKa BoX, Lake's Land, was assisted by A. Novellino. It is possible to listen to
Collectable Items in streaming through Boring Machines' Bandcamp page.
This record closes an ideal tetralogy started with Clinical Shyness,
continued with The Electric Dragon of Venus and Collectable Items. It's ending where it all begun. And since it's a good bye,
so long My Dear Killer.
Some more information available at the band website:
Killing the killer
MdK On the net:
@bandcamp;
@soundcloud;
@myspace.
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2020
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My Dear Killer |
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2019
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My Dear Killer & The Cricket on The Radio |
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2018
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My Dear Killer |
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2013
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My Dear Killer |
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2012
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My Dear Killer/Tettu Mortu
My Dear Killer, Cynical Quietness: |
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2011
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My Dear Killer |
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2008
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My Dear Killer/My Shell/The Frozen Fracture Shelling the Killer, Killing the Shell (UMB-X1) Three version of "the rules behind": 01. My Dear Killer: Violin edit 02 My Shell: Piano and tape noise edit 03. The Frozen Fracture: Instrumental Karaoke edit "Free Download" MDK TECHNICAL: Recorded in 2000 by a Toshiba VHS recorder, direct-take from mixer+microphones. Mastered April 2008, using a Tascam 424 MK3 casette recorder a Boss GE-7 Graphic equaliser and a home-built modified version of the MXR Dynacomp design; @The Burroughs, London. |
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2006
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My Dear Killer Clinical Shyness. LP. (Boring Machines/Under My Bed/Eaten By Squirrels) (UMB#02/BM01) 01.A May Afternoon 02.Clinical Shyness 03. The Wish Talker 04. Phone Calls 05. (I Fear) Time 06. Words 07. To Apologise Read what the "experts" are saying about Clinical Shyness. |
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TECHNICAL:
Clinical Shyness was originally recorded by
a TEAC 80-8 reel-to-reel recorder by Stefano S. and Lorenzo T in 2001.
A series of additional recordings have been added in 2002 (by S.S. and Marco G.),
2003 (by S.S and L.T.) and in the summer (by. S.S. and Mauro M.) and the winter (by S.S. and Nicola E.) of 2005. Mixed @ The Burroughs and Mastered @ MafarKa Box between December 2005 and February 2006 by MdK. Released in definitive form:01 May 2006. |
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2002
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My Dear Killer/The Fog In The Shell |
2011
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My Dear Killer/Rella The Woodcutter. 7". |
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2005
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My Dear Killer/Prague |
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2011
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My Dear Killer
- Nighttimes Ten Years of Secret Mixtapes. Compilation. (UMB#030). TECHNICAL: Recorded on the 20th of October 2001 with a Teac-Tascam 80-8 Reel-to Reel recorder. The field recordings of children playing football were taken at the Botanical Gardens and the see-saw noises at Hyndland Park, both in Glasgow, Scotland, a couple of years before. |
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2004
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My Dear Killer
- Smokers Collage 2004. Compilation. OuZel Records. TECHNICAL: Recorded the 28th of September 2003 at the MafarKa boX by MdK by a Sanyo cassete tape recorder (mod. M2511). |
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My Dear Killer
- Facing the Storm |
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2002
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My Dear Killer
- On The Track Mixed Tapes Kept Under My Bed Compilation.(UMB#01). TECHNICAL: Recorded during January 2002 at Grandville Place (East Finchley) by Alex Viccaro (Prague/Smou) and Mdk. Additional samplig (Phylipp K. Dick) edited by M. Guizzi (FogInTheShell). |
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2004
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My Dear Killer |
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