Nien: A Schizospective, 2009-2018

by J. M. Smig

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So much groovy keyboard stuff. It sounds like another epic video game, nothing less than epic. Simon and Garfunkel fans have something good to listen to again. And do you like Japanese people? Because they also know how to create masterful performances like this. Favorite track: Crank Calls From Heaven.

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	1.	Fill Up Yer Glass 06:19
	2.	Black Coffee Waltz 05:03
	3.	String Quartet No. 2 04:24
	4.	God Shave The Queen 06:16
	5.	Man Of God 03:34
	6.	Purgatory Wells 02:59
	7.	David's Ascension 05:31
	8.	Kentucky Valentine 10:18
	9.	Crank Calls From Heaven 01:52
	10.	Little Sitars 00:34
	11.	Kwanzaa Lady 05:35
	12.	Lullaby No. 4 in B Locrian (Transatlantic) 04:42
	13.	Brownline: I. U. S. Pick 03:04
	14.	Brownline: II. See J. M. Bored 03:24
	15.	Pickle Park Polka 04:39
	16.	Duh Butler Dunnit 04:45
	17.	Fairy Lust 06:56
	18.	Rich Man, Poor Manners 06:44
	19.	Fawke the Pope 05:00
	20.	Professional Static 02:56
	21.	Case Of AIDS 01:18
	22.	Kentucky Valentine (disco reprise) 02:40

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Contains previously released material. ✷

The miserable prick is still at it. The self-proclaimed composer of "lounge music from the Vatican gay bar" for his fellow "sophisticated schizophrenics, murderous nerds and other assorted deviants" doesn't know when to give it up and go home.

Actually, he does but he just doesn't give a fuck. He's in this for the right reasons. Ascending a childhood of toughing it out in the government projects of the Witch City, overcoming addictions to alcohol and raw cookie dough, and even managing to work in a government science facility without a college degree, wearing a white coat instead of the janitor's Dickies (for eight fuckin' years!), all the while crafting sonic soliloquies that Electronic Musician would praise in its weekly newsletter as "contemporary music for the bizarre at heart". J. M. Smig has constantly confounded the upper crustaceans of his community, including the Berklee elves of the music world.

April 11 marks the ninth anniversary of the release of his first album, the electroclassical Music For Sophisticated Schizophrenics, and he's celebrating with an anniversary reissue that will include both remastered and reimagined versions of the original tracks. While all you Wesley Willises of the avant-garde world drool in anticipation, you can enjoy the "schizospective" entitled "NIEN", a handpicked, 99-minute collection of 22 tracks from his back catalog. Listen or don't. He don't care. He's not into reverse psychology. No lie. Really.

NIEN includes classic singalongs such as “Pickle Park Polka” and “Kentucky Valentine” as well as selected tracks from the aforementioned reissue of MUSIC FOR SOPHISTICATED SCHIZOPHRENICS.

WHAT THE CRITICS THINK OF J. M. SMIG:

"Unapologetically strange and jarring...a captivating and enigmatic soundscape of obscure lounge music that will set your five senses alight." (Brandon Minia, 24OurMusic)

"...[A] restless compositional philosophy that will not resonate with listeners expecting concise, neatly packaged musical content." (Evan Crandell, 24OurMusic)

"...[C]ontemporary music for the bizarre at heart. Featuring both conventional and atypical instrumentation and composition techniques, [his] electronica and classical works operate in a style unlike any other." (Electronic Musician newsletter, May 2009)
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✷Original albums:
1-2: Music For Sophisticated Schizophrenics
3-4: Chamber Music In The New World
5, 19: Manofgod
6-7, 9: Crank Calls From Heaven
8, 16, 22: Electronica Moronica
10: MIDI Life Crisis
11: Kwanzaa Lady (single, also avaialble as the B-side to "Massive Elves")
12: Lullabies For Luci
13-14: An Equal Sea
15, 21: Witch City Stink
17-18, 20: Professional Static

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J. M. Smig Salem, Massachusetts

The musical equivalent of the guy at the party who offends everyone by mooning the camera (but guess what everyone does to the camera minutes later), Smig is the Witch City's composer laureate (not a difficult achievement, in all honesty).

"[C]ontemporary music for the bizarre at heart...[His] electronica and classical works operate in a style unlike any other."
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