Killerlady is Martin Kircher. Based in Munchengladbach, Germany. Martin has been producing sounds since the mid 1980's playing bass with the punk group Ranola. He began the Killer / Killerlady project in the late 1990's. "Die Heimat Wird Streben" is the latest 7" on the Beau Travail label. The programme starts with "Seestück", the B-Side. Beau Travail is an interesting label to watch with past releases by Pisse, Mark Wynn and Negative Space amongst others : https://beautravail.bandcamp.com/album/killerlady.
Kazuya Ishigami ended 2022 with the release of the cassette "Unrealistic Memory" on the French Falt label. Falt is operated by Christian Schiefner who puts out his own sounds under the banner of Chemiefaserwerk. All Falt cassettes are limited but are available as downloads (if that's your thing) from their Bandcamp page : https://falt.bandcamp.com/music.
February saw the release of the new album by The Dead Mauriacs (firm favourites here on MuhMur Radio). Entitled "Paravents Et Mirrors, Une Cérémonie" It is a live recording.
'"Paravents Et Miroirs, Une Cérémonie" corresponds to the first concert performed alone on stage. I was invited through Thorsten Soltau to play at the HausKlangFestival in Hamburg in 2017. The hall where the festival is held is also an art cinema. So it was an opportunity to present a show combining film and music. It also solves the problem of a musician alone on stage behind a computer. Although the music was not especially thought for these images, the spectator himself makes relations, concordances are born between musical and visual ruptures and each one makes his own story .... I met Thorsten via the internet. We only saw each other once in Hamburg. He is a friend, we correspond regularly, we exchange sounds, we collaborate sometimes. I did one or two remixes for him. The festival took place during two days. The program included Enema Syringe, Air Cushion Finish, Ansgar Wilken, Thorsten Soltau under the pseudonym of Marina Stewart, Soviet-France and me!' (Olivier Prieur~from the sleeve notes). Here I play the whole of side A, it is split into seven sections :
1: Short Drift : An Opening.
2: The Return Of The Electric Insects / The Strange Birds.
3: Tension, False Terror.
4: Malaysian Ending.
5: Rituals And Vanities 1.
6: Rituals And Vanities 2.
7: Italians In Hamburg.
It has been released by the Japanese label Calax Records. https://calaxrecords.com.
As strange as the story goes, I was also asked by Thorsten to play this festival in 2017 but I could not make the flight. It would have meant flying out to Hamburg on Boxing Day (Dec 26), so it was not possible. Regrets ... I've had a few.
The programme's obligatory cover version comes from The Human League and their take on Mick Ronson's "Only After Dark". The original appeared on the "Slaughter On 10th Avenue" LP released in 1974 (on RCA Victor), The Human League's version is from their 1980 "Travelogue" album on Virgin Records. To accompany the album "Starballs" (released by Chocolate Monk), Neil Campbell aka Astral Social Club has self-released the album "Occultics". Available through his Bandcamp page for a tenner!
'On This Day' in 1982 Modern English released the single "Life In The Gladhouse" on 4AD Records. It was available only as a 12". The single was a remix from the album "After The Snow", the version I play here is the album version ... the 12" has always evaded me as have Modern English. I had the opportunity to see them live on a couple of occasions but they were support to New Order and Japan so I gave them a miss. I love the 4AD singles from 1980 to 1983.
Speaking of singles I love .... I was in Bristol a couple of months ago and bought a pile of 7" singles from the variety of (excellent) second hand record shops that are situated in the City. Manicured Noise "Faith" was in the pile, mainly for the B-Side "Freetime". Manicured Noise were formed in 1978 in Manchester and fell apart in 1980 (or 1981 ... I'm uncertain). They centred around singer / songwriter / guitarist Steve Walsh. Steve was a member of Flowers Of Romance and formed the soul / funk outfit The Weathermen after the demise of Manicured Noise. Death In June's "Holy Water" is the B-Side of the their 1982 single "State Laughter".
Joe Colley is an artist / composer based in Sacramento (California). He began recording as Crawl Unit and releasing on his own Povertech Industries label in the mid 1990's. Since the turn of the century he seems to be recording / releasing under his own name. "Limit" is from his latest release, a 10"EP "Acting As If" on the Drone Records subsidiary Substantia Innominata.
"In describing 'Acting As If', Colley offers a vague series of descriptors: unheimlich, terror of the familiar, and no faith in what is not "real". Within the sustained movements of scrabbling textures, motorised abrasions, and uncomfortable harmonics, such conditions are made manifest and Colley amplifies them into something eerily sublime.
All of that held within a self-contained logic that works within and against a deep knowledge of drone-on minimalism, mystique concrete dynamics, and the explosiveness of noise culture. His swarming masses, throttled rumbling and smouldering tension are all encircling and folding in on themselves. Rhizomes of sound that speak poison, Drink up if it doesn't kill you it will only make you stronger". (Jim Haynes). More information on this 10" can be found here : http://www.substantia-innominata.de.
Another new release from the MuhMur Radio 'house-label' Haemoccult Recordings. Modelbau and the EP "Metal & Motif". 'Three imaginary soundtracks from the dystopian nightmare at the cineplex. Reel-to-Reel cacophonies, made to measure the format of a 7"' (Frans de Waard).
The single is available from me at muhmur.radio@gmail.com at £7.50 + postage. And speaking of Reel-to-Reel cacophonies .... "Film Theme" by Simple Minds is from their 1979 album "Real-To-Real Cacophony" on Zoom Records, although the version I play here is from the 2003 remastered CD on Virgin Records. "Warm Leatherette" is a classic .... and also mine & Mrs MuhMur's wedding song back in 2003. I am still spinning 'The Elephant Table' compilation double LP from 1983. Portion Control's "Chew You To Bits" (which incorporates their 'Crash Weight Gain' song) and Chris & Cosey's "Raining Tears Of Blood" are from this release. A different version of "Raining Tears Of Blood" was released on their 1984 album "Songs Of Love & Lust" (on Rough Trade Records).
The Prestidigitators were created in 1995 by Micheal Gillham. A rotating set of musicians and misfits that have included Dave Walklett (Smell & Quim), Kevin Short (Drunk In Hell) and Michael Baines + Ian Roberts (Snotnosed). "Nights Jenseits Nihilismus (II)" also features Thomas LaRoche and Zoë Valls (Dead Normal). Michael Gillham is also involved with The New Blockaders, it was many years ago that I met Michael whilst he was performing with TNB and we have remained friends ever since. It was Michael that invited me to be part of Vagina Dentata Organ in 2012. Michael was the 'master of ceremonies' at VDO performances. Whilst compiling tonight's programme I received the news of Michael being hospitalised after an attack on the streets of Middlesborough. He is (at time of writing) on the mend. Another compadre and fellow Blockader is Phil Julian of Cheapmachines. The track here is from the "Viva Negativa!" 8xLP Box Set on Vinyl On Demand*. A tribute to The New Blockaders.
The programme finishes with the Normil Hawaiians and their version of "Heaven" from the 'Eraserhead' soundtrack. This is from their debut single "The Beat Goes On* on Dining Out Records. The Normil Hawaiians are formed in 1979 and active until the mid 1980's releasing on labels such as Dining Out, Red Rhino Records and Illuminated Records. A few years ago (uncertain when), they reformed and now release on the Upset! The Rhythm label. https://normilhawaiians.com for more information.
Listen to this broadcast here :
Playlist:
01: Killerlady : "Seestück" (Beau Travail) 2023.
02: Kazuya Ishigami : "Unrealistic Memory (I)" (Falt) 2022.
03: Kazuya Ishigami : "Unrealistic Memory (II)" (Falt) 2022.
04: The Dead Mauriacs : "Screens And Mirrors:A Ceremony" (Calax Records) 2023.
05: The Human League : "Only After Dark" (Virgin Records) 1980.
06: Astral Social Club : "Knowl" (Astral Social Club) 2023.
07: Modern English : "Life In The Gladhouse" (4AD Records) 1982.
08: Manicured Noise : "Freetime" (PRE Records) 1980.
09: Death In June : "Holy Water" (Extremocidente) 2020.
10: Killerlady : "Die Heimat Wird Streben" (Beau Travail) 2023.
11: Joe Colley : "Limit" (Substantia Innominata) 2023.
12: Modelbau : "Film Theme (Not Explained)" (Haemoccult Recordings) 2023.
13: Simple Minds : "Film Theme" (Virgin Records) 2003.
14: The Normal : "Warm Leatherette" (Mute Records) 1978.
15: Portion Control : "Chew You To Bits" (X Tract) 1983.
16: Chris & Cosey : "Raining Tears Of Blood" (X Tract) 1983.
17: Modelbau : "Segue" (Haemoccult Recordings) 2023.
18: Modelbau : "End Titles (Curtain)" (Haemoccult Recordings) 2023.
19: The Prestidigitators : "Nichts Jenseits Nihilismus (II)" (Research Laboratories) 2017.
20: Cheapmachines : "Null Opus" (At War With False Noise) 2010.
21: Normil Hawaiians : "Heaven" (Dining Out Records) 1980.
* The Cheapmachines track is from the CD version of the box set on At War With False Noise.
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