MuhMur Radio Broadcast 29 October 2020.

 

                                                         Wagner Ödegård /156/ Draoidh.

The programme starts with a new release from Wagner Ödegård. "Nordsolen" is from the new (August 2020) cassette on Altare Productions called "Ursumar". Wagner is a very mysterious artist, born in Lapland but now resident in Sweden. He also plays (bass guitar I think) in a couple of Black Metal / Doom Metal bands called Felon Wind and Tomhet. Wagner's solo project leans more towards the ambient occult / industrial noise genre. On the same day as this cassette Altare Productions released a companion cassette called "Spösturgan" which came packaged with a 35 page magazine of Wagner's artwork.  The Altare Productions (a Portuguese label) website seems to be under maintenance until mid-November but copies maybe available direct from Wagner here : https://brugmanziah.bandcamp.com

The Current 93 track is from the triple CD "The Inmost Light". Alongside the voices of David Tibet and Jonh Balance is the voice of Alessandro Moreschi, the late 19th Century castrato, the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make sound recordings. 

The origins of the name behind the project of 156 may be found here https://www.amodali.com/galvah/ or may be not ... 156 is also the bus route between Vauxhall and Wimbledon, it's also a song by the rock band Queensryche and the atomic number of an element temporarily called Unpenthexium. Earlier in the year Adel Souto got in touch by sending some 156 vinyl and cassettes, a completely new project to my ears 156 have been releasing sounds since 2011. 156 are a collective project conducted by Adel from his base in Florida. The 10" LP "Momento Mori" is constructed of sounds made by human bones and breath passing through human bones. "Kokoro" & "To My Sons And Daughters" are from this 10". "The Collapse Of It All (Pts I-III)" is from a split cassette with Canadian noisemaker Knurl. This tape was released by Humanhood Recordings. Adel also has his own record / publishing label called 'Feast Of Hate And Fear'. Get in touch here : https://onefivesix.bandcamp.com/music

2020 is becoming a busy year for Contrastate with a couple of albums out since summer. "The Illusion Of Power" CD has just been released by the Italian Old Europa Cafe label, an accompaniment to the 10" lathe cut that came out at the start of the year, and in September Black Rose Recordings released the CD "Recorded Evidence II". (I don't think there was ever a "Recorded Evidence I" album). This CD is a compilation of singles, b-sides and compilation LP appearances from 1993 - 2017. There's also a couple of unreleased tracks and it is these tracks that are played here. 

Copley Medal is the solo project of Dais Records boss Ryan Martin. "Select Panic" is from the 2015 cassette "Marble Cage" on Vitrine. 

                                                                          Muhviertel.

Muhviertel were a Manchester based project. Originally created for a one-off live performance at Manchester PSV Club in 1986. Culling members from Systemlaw Violator, Landishkrill and Ideas Beyond Filth Muhviertel carried on recording and releasing up to 1989. In 1985 Systemlaw Violator mainman Sean Rorke created the Carnifex Recordings label (with Gary Warmington) to release their sounds. In 1987 Muhviertel released the 3xC46 tape "Morsjusti". The track "Nap'hsha" is from this release. This track was recorded in John Nash Crescent in Hulme. Carnifex Recordings sold their cassettes at Eastern Bloc Records in Manchester and via mail order, how many are out there in the world is unknown but if anyone has copies I'd be interested to know. 

Draoidh are an American project, "Temple Of Tongues" is their only release to date. The cassette version has sold out but is available as download from Orb Tapes (of Pennsylvania) here : https://orbtapes.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-tongues

The Birthday Party single "Release The Bats" is the MuhMur Radio concession to playing the obvious on a "Halloween Special". 

I was to follow this track with "Ghost By Mouth" by Eric Lunde. I have the lathe-cut single edition (with book and artworks) but unfortunately the needle did not want to know and kept slipping and sliding across the surface ... so I played two TG tracks instead of just finishing on "Spirits Flying". here two tracks are taken from the "Mission Of Dead Souls". The LP is subtitled "The Last Live Performance of TG" and originally released by Fetish Records in 1981. I play the Mute Records re-issue here. 

Playlist:

01: Wagner Ödegård : "Nordsolen" (Altare Productions) 2020.

02: Current 93 : "Where The Long Shadows Fall" (Durtro/Jnana Records) 2007.

03: 156 : "Kokoro" (Feast Of Hate And Fear) 2016.

04: 156 : "The Collapse Of It All (Parts I-III)" (HumanHood Recordings) 2020.

05: Contrastate : "Between Two Mirrors" (Black Rose Recordings) 2020.

06: Copley Medal : "Select Panic" (Vitrine) 2015.

07: Muhviertel : "Nap'hsha" (Carnifex Recordings) 1987.

08: 156 : "To My Sons And Daughters" (Feast Of Hate And Fear) 2016.

09: Draoidh : "Temple Of Tongues (I)" (Orb Tapes) 2019.

10: Contrastate : "Africanas Neanderthalis" (Black Rose Recordings) 2020.

11: The Birthday Party : "Release The Bats" (4AD Records) 1981.

12: Throbbing Gristle : "Funeral Rites" (Mute Records) 1983.

13: Throbbing Gristle : "Spirits Flying" (Mute Records) 1983. 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-29-october-2020/

Next broadcast will be on 12 November and feature new pieces from Alice Kemp and John Paul alongside a small tribute to 40 years of 4AD Records with some tunes by Mass, Modern English, My Captains and Gilbert And Lewis and some great sounds from Slavek Kwi & Artificial Memory Trace.