Back in September, Puscifer announced the next entry in their series of album-by-album remix collections, Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired, as the debut release of the REVOLVER ICONS series. That quickly sold out, so today (January 11th), the Maynard James Keenan-helmed art-rock troupe has followed up by announcing the remix album's wide release, on March 31th via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG.
With that news comes a music video, for "A Singularity (Re-Imagined by Carina Round)," shot and edited by Keenan, that serves as a memoriam to the singer's beloved Yorkie, MiHo, who can be heard on various TOOL, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer recordings, and who you can get to know better in our 2008 profile. Watch and listen above.
"On Oct. 7, 2021, I lost my Muse. Deadly Little MiHo lost her 2 year battle with pancreatitis and kidney disease," Keenan commented. "We thought we lost her in late 2019, so I panicked and wrote her this song. We were certain she was done for. But we were blessed with a second chance and a bit more time. I rarely share things like this. Too painful. But this one can't be kept bottled up. As I have mentioned before, she has been hiding in most of my vocal tracks since 2005. She was either in or near the vocal booth every time I tracked. Her sigh, her bark, sniffle, sneeze. Her jingling collar. Her squeaky toys. Usually poorly timed. Performance Credits- @PUSCIFER - V is for V*****, Don't Shoot the Messenger EP, V is for V***** remixes, C is for…EP, Conditions of My Parole, All Re-Mixed Up, Donkey Punch the Night EP, Money $hot, Money $hot Your Re-Load, Existential Reckoning, Existential Reckoning Re-Wired. @APERFECTCIRCLE - "By & Down" single, Eat the Elephant. @TOOLMUSIC - 10,000 Days, Fear Inoculum."
Puscifer member Carina Round said of her remix: "Maynard's vocal for this song is synonymously a sorrowful hymn and a siren of celebration. I wanted the main vocal and the bass and drums to be anchors in a sea of jubilant chaos. A kind of controlled cacophony of celebratory joy. Familiar, but a bit unnerving. The horns and saxes at the end are all moving together but somehow so loose, dispersing off into foam and then coming back together into one harmonious wave and then breaking off again, cascading. I feel excited when it's over and like I want to get back on the ride. Birds, a charm of finches bookend the song. You can feel their energy. And within, there's Maynard's lone whistle, mimicking them. The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force. The synergy of composure and chaos in a dance reverence."
In addition to Round's contribution, Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired also includes remixes by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, TOOL's Justin Chancellor and Queens of the Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen, among others. It's available for pre-order in an array of collectible formats including a Revolver-exclusive "clear with black smoke" vinyl variant limited to 500 copies. Order yours now.
