MuhMur Radio Broadcast 10 November 2024

 

This broadcast centres on the sound of Stuart Chalmers. (I think) I first became aware of the activities of Stuart back in 2012 when I received a package of albums (CDR) from the Bristol based LF Records. Stuart's "Daydream Empire" was in the package. Stuart does not have a high internet presence, there is a bandcamp page and a YouTube page .... but other than that ... 

'Exploring the connections between the environment, the imagination and a sense of self ... Embodied sound, altered perceptions and alternative views of reality'. 

This is how Stuart describes his sound. the track 'Loop Fantasy No.4 (#2)' is from the 2017 album 'Loop Fantasy No.4' on Chocolate Monk. Loop Fantasy numbers 1, 2 and 3 do exist! 'Theatre Of The Absurd' is from the "Daydream Empire" album. 

Stuarts latest album is "Nomad Tree". The tracks 'On Sorcerous Wings Take Flight' and 'Seeking Through Deepest Fears' are from this album. Stuart is also a prolific collaborator, in the past working with Robert Ridley-Shackleton, Neil Campbell, Edward Sol, Anla Courtis, Claus Poulson and Territorial Gobbing to name but a few. His collaboration with Howard Stelzer "The Extenuating Circumstance And All That It Implies" was released on Invisible City Records in 2022. In 2018 Stuart collaborated with Oxford based sound artist Lee Riley on the cassette album "Points Of Vital Differences". Last month Lee and Stuart went into Safehouse Studios in Oxford to start another collaborative project. Stuart kindly mailed MuhMur Radio an excerpt (improvisation) from one of the studio sessions. For more information about Stuart's activities please go to : https://stuartchalmers.bandcamp.com and go to the you tube page : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4JxrJI3VQcJnYB38Tp525A. 

Cabaret Voltaire tracks are from the B Side of 'Sluggin' Fer Jesus' 12". B Sides will feature somewhat in the next broadcast. A project I have been keeping an ear on in 2024 is Organ Of Corti. The Swedish supergroup comprising of Joachim Nordwall, Dan Johansson and Matthias Gustafsson. "Rex" and "Extremum" are from their latest 7". 

One thing I didn't know (one thing amongst many) until it was pointed out to me during the last broadcast by Andrew Fletcher is that the Steep Gloss label only releases collaborations. So, I visited their bandcamp page and found the recent release by Courtis/Reche/Cornucopia. "El Humo Líquido" was recorded in San Juan De Puerto Rico and Buenos Aires in 2008. Steep Gloss is operated by Ross Scott-Buccleuch and can be found at : https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com/.

Grey Park's latest is called "Street Of Life". It is a download only (name your price) on the wonderfully named 'Why Keith Dropped The S' label. Grey Park know that I don't play downloads so kindly mailed a one-off CDR of the track (before you ask). Thank Heikke.

                                                                    Grey Park.

2024 seems to be a busy year for Scottish sound artist Fletina. With two albums out in quick succession. "Serif" is on the Belgian 'Unfathomless' label and will feature on a future broadcast, in this programme I play the "Seen To Remain" album in full. It is on the Japanese Kirigirisu label. All Fletina sounds can be found at : https://fletina.bandcamp.com. 

                                                                       Fletina.

David Walraff is a new name to me, brought to my attention through his release on Brachliegen Tapes. The cassette is called "NO", available here : https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com. 

'NO draws inspiration from Heinrich Heine's 1844 poem "The Sitesean Weavers". For Wallraf, the three-fold curse is an age old - and crucially - perpetual international struggle against God, masters and the concept of 'fatherland'. The artist states that the revolt that erupted in Iran after the murder of Masha Amini and the global solidarity with the Jin Jiyan Azadi protests incited the political/creative motivation for NO'.

Brachliegen Tapes are donating all profits generated from NO to SDS: Solitary Detainee Support, a grassroots abortionist visiting group working to break the isolation of UK immigration detention. 

I hope to hear more of David's work in the coming months, whilst writing this blog I have bought his latest cassette .. a split with Gerald Fiebig on the (always dependable) Grubenwehr Freiburg label. 

David can be contacted here : https://davidwallraf.com. 

The Pop Group track is from their debut 1979 LP "Y". The track had become a bit of an ear worm so I had to include it. The 23 Skidoo track is from their debut 12" for Fetish Records. Played as a request.

Apologies to Dronæment, I had to cut the track short as the CDR started to skip around. 

The broadcast has been archived in two parts for easier digestion. Part Two begins with Lee Riley "Armageddon Waltz". 

Part One : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-november-2024-part-i/

Part Two : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-november-2024-part-ii/

Playlist.

01: Stuart Chalmers : "Loop Fantasy No.4 (#2)" (Chocolate Monk) 2017.

02: Stuart Chalmers : Theatre Of The Absurd" (LF Records) 2012.

03: Cabaret Voltaire : "Your Agent Man" (Le Disques Du Crépuscule) 1981.

04: Cabaret Voltaire : "Sluggin' Fer Jesus (Part 2)" (Le Disques Du Crépuscule) 1981.

05: Organ Of Corti : "Rex" (iDeal Recordings) 2024.

06: Courtis/Reche/Cornucopia : "El Humo Líquido" (Steep Gloss) 2024.

07: Grey Park : "Street Of Life" (Why Keith Dropped The S) 2024.

08: Howard Stelzer & Stuart Chalmers : "The Extenuating Circumstance And All That It Implies" (Invisible City Records) 2022.

09: Organ Of Corti : "Extremum" (iDeal Recordings) 2024.

10: Fletina : "Seen To Remain" (Kirigirisu Recordings) 2024.

11: Lee Riley : "Armageddon Waltz" (Not On Label-Self Released) 2021.

12: LR/SC : "Points Of Vital Differences 2" (Cruel Nature Records) 2018.

13: LR/SC : "Points Of Vital Differences 3" (Cruel Nature Records) 2018.

14: Stuart Chalmers + Lee Riley : "@ Safehouse Studios. Oxford" (Not On Label) 2024.

                                   (Exclusive recording for MuhMur Radio).

15: Stuart Chalmers : "On Sorcerous Wings Take Flight" (Reverb Worship) 2024.

16: Stuart Chalmers : "Seeking Through Deepest Fears" (Reverb Worship) 2024.

17: Matt Atkins & Stuart Chalmers : "Doric Order" (More Mars Team) 2024.

18: David Wallraf : "NO" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2024.

19: The Pop Group : "Words Disobey Me" (Radar Records) 1979.

20: 23 Skidoo : "The Gospel Comes To New Guinea" (Fetish Records) 1981.

21: Dronæment : "Ezoterick Muziek II" (Afe Records) 2006.

Next broadcast is on Sunday December 8. This will be live and on my 62nd birthday so I am going to be playing a lot of sounds from 1978 - 1983 including my top 5 B-Sides from those years ... 

18:00 hours (GMT) kick-off. 102.5FM on your wireless https://www.soundartradio.org.uk for the live stream.

                                                          The MuhMur Radio Posse.

*** The picture at the top of the blog is NOT Stuart Chalmers!***

 

 

Clock DVA

 

CLOCK DVA LIVE in Newcastle tonight ... 

Essential!

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 13 October 2024.

 

The first hour of the broadcast is dedicated to Lenka Lente, the Nantes based label operated by Guillaume Belhomme. Guillaume started the label with the cassette release 'Olka Linto' by his project Fra Lopes. In 2013 Lenka Lente released the Michael Esposito 3"CD 'In The Silence Of A Watery Grave', it was inside a small A6 book 'L'Envelope' by Guillaume. This release became the format for all future Lenka Lente releases. Over the past eleven years they have released 3" CDs with accompanying literature by the likes of (musicians) Daniel Menche, My Cat Is An Alien, Andrew Liles, Bill Nace and a lot featuring Nurse With Wound. All the books are printed in French. Their latest release is "The Bloy Enigma' by Nurse With Wound accompanied by the book 'Revenantes' by Léon Bloy. Last year they released a limited edition compilation cassette to celebrate ten years of the Lenka Lente book/3"CD output.

The cassette was limited to 100 copies. I play side A of the cassette. Guillaume can be contacted at : https://www.lenkalente.com/. They also release a lot of jazz editions too ... if that's your thang. The Michael Idehall track is from the album version of 'Apokryphos'. I played 2 tracks from the 7" version on the last broadcast. http://www.ant-zen.com/ for more details.

With releases on such labels as Brachliegen Tapes, Industrial Coast, Profound Mystery and Helen Scarsdale Agency, Jo Montgomerie has a sound to keep an ear out for. Her latest (self) release is 'y c t y f t t' a C60 cassette of sounds produced at her last few live performances in Manchester, Middlesborough and London. The tape is limited and there's no download. https://jomontgomerie.bandcamp.com for more details. 

At the same time as compiling this programme I was playing 7" & 12" singles released between 1978 - 1983 as I have been asked for my 'top 5'. It's some social media / internet thing that a friend has asked me to do. It's fun. There's a few in this broadcast. Psychic TV 'Breakthrough' is one of them. I shall play my top 5 in December's MuhMur Radio Broadcast ... 

Last year the Belfast based label Tone Burst released the cassette 'Hatchet For Kindling', a mail collaboration between Paul Harrison (Paradox Encounter Group, Expose Your Eyes, Chapman, Smell & Quim) and Andrew Fletcher (Soloman Tump, Intrusive Signals). The cassette is long sold out but download copies are still available via https://toneburst.bandcamp.com. I was fortunate to have Andrew as a guest during the broadcast and Soloman Tump will be presenting a live set for MuhMur Radio in the new year ... 

                                                                   Soloman Tump.

Prelest is the project of Polish sound artist Mikolaj Źentara. "Tenets Of Degradation" is from the mini-CD 'Teodal', part of  a series of mini-CDs that Freak Animal Records released last year. Mozzhead, Contortus and Amek Maj also being part of the series. http://freak-animal.net for more information.

The second half of the broadcast starts with Christian Mirande and the titular track from his 2020 cassette 'Exercise' on the mighty Hanson Records label, followed by 'Mudbast Boys' by Soviet France from the 12"EP "Ritual" ... also known as the Hessian 12". (It's packaged in a hessian sack).

Released in 1982 on Red Rhino Records ..... This is NOT a B-Side! It all gets a bit Bill Burroughs next with 23 Skidoo's 'Last Words'. This is the B-Side of the 'The Gospel Comes To New Guinea' 12". Recorded in 1981 at the Western Works studio in Sheffield and jointly produced by Cabaret Voltaire. I know you probably know but the lyrics from this song come from the Burroughs novel "Nova Express". 

The Phantom Plastics 'Get In!' 

"The gun fell down on the floor from the table where it was placed and accidentally went off.

 The couple agreed to do a 'William Tell' by placing a glass on Joan's head while William fired the pistol.

 An evil spirit occupied William's body and soul and directed him to fire the lethal bullet".

'Get In!' is compiled of EVP recordings made at Calle Montgomery, Mexico City in 2011. For this project 

The Phantom Plastics were CM Von Hauswolff and Michael Esposito. Rapoon's 'Out' is from the compilation CD "Cut Up. Deconstructing W.S. Burroughs" on the Italian Unexplained Sounds Group label. 

'Hammer House' was the first release by CTI - Conspiracy International, a side project from Chris & Cosey. The name first appeared on the 1982 Chris & Cosey album "Trance" (I have still got to get myself a copy of this) but I think it was as a production unit. in 1984 CTI released 2 12" singles and 2 albums, all (in my opinion) classics. 'Hammer House' features vocals from Glenn Michael Wallis of Konstruktivists. The cover photograph is of Dennis Neilson's house in Muswell Hill. 

The Dead Mauriacs piece is from the split cassette release with Jan Warnke. I played Jan's side on last month's broadcast. https://geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com for more details. I know next to nothing about Are Mundal. From Norway and active since the 1990s is about as much as I know. Stefan at Drone Records kindly mailed me the double CD "Compilation Volume 1" released last year by Telestrion Records. 'Interloper II' was originally released in 2020. 

https://aremundal.blogspot.com for more information. Drone Records (Germany) are distributing this release. In the past few weeks Japanese sound artist Takahiro Mukai has released two cassettes on labels based (down here) in the South-West of England. "Asian Dust" appeared on the Bristol based Cardboard Club label and a couple of weeks ago Human Geography Recordings from Burnham-On-Sea released "Uneven". The two pieces here are from the "Uneven" cassette. In 1976 I was in Burnham-On-Sea and I saw my first live band ... Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders. I was in a pub I can't remember the name of and my older sister had to buy my drinks as I was under-18. (Useless Information as Chris & Cosey would say). 

Trembling with Joy is a new project from Michael Anderson (Drekka), Mark Trecka and Michael Carlson (remst8) and Cinder Sharp (Cindytalk). The piece here is from their debut CD album "Born Trembling". https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/born-trembling/ to grab a copy. The broadcast ends with a classic from 1980 by Cupol. Cupol was Bruce Gilbert & Graham Lewis of Wire & Dome fame...and yes ... it is a B-Side.    

The programme has been archived on MixCloud and is available here :

Part One : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-13-october-2024-part-one/

Part Two : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-13-october-2024-part-two/

Playlist :

01: Nurse With Wound : "The Bloy Enigma" (Lenka Lente) 2024.

02: Nurse With Wound : "On The Edge Of The Outside" (Lenka Lente) 2023.

03: Daniel Menche : "D'Entre Les Morts" (Lenka Lente) 2023.

04: Nurse With Wound : "Mandragore" (Lenka Lente) 2023.

05: Michael Idehall : "Three Paths Across The Back Of The Horse" (Ant-Zen) 2024.

06: Jo Montgomerie : "y c t y f t t " (Not On Label) 2024.

07: Psychic TV : "Breakthrough" (Some Bizzare) 1982.

08: Paradox Encounter Group & Soloman Tump : "Lime Green Felt Wand" (Tone Burst) 2023.

09: Prelest : "Tenets Of Degradation" (Freak Animal Records) 2023.

10: Throbbing Gristle : "Zyklon B. Zombie" (Industrial Records) 1978.

11: Christian Mirande : "Exercise" (Hanson Records) 2020.

12: Soviet France : "Mudbast Boys" (Red Rhino Records) 1982.

13: 23 Skidoo : "Last Words" (Fetish Records) 1981.

14: The Phantom Plastics : "Get In!" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2014.

15: Rapoon : "Out" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.

16: Conspiracy International (CTI) : "Hammer House" (Conspiracy International) 1984.

17 The Dead Mauriacs : "Hypnose De Samedi" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.

18: Are Mundal : "Interloper II" (Telestrion Records) 2023.

19: Takahiro Mukai : "#583" (Human Geography Recordings) 2024.

20: Takahiro Mukai : "#581" (Human Geography Recordings) 2024.

21: Trembling With Joy : "Where We Are Is Here" (False Walls) 2024.

22: Cupol : "Kluba Cupol" (4AD Records) 1980.

I hope you enjoy the programme ... the next MuhMur Radio is on November 10. The mighty Ubiquitous Meh! play SoundArt Radio Studios on October 27, if you're in the area please pop in .. also playing are The Goblin Band and some SoundArt Radio DJs. (not me though ... you can't dance to Bill Burroughs, you just writhe round on the floor a bit ... to paraphrase The Instant Automatons).

 

Thanks forever to Chris without whom this programme would never happen, and Andrew Fletcher.

                                                                       Chris. 

 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 15 September 2024

 

This broadcast marks the 12th anniversary of MuhMur Radio broadcasting on SoundArt Radio. This is broadcast #272. MuhMur began as a two hour live broadcast on alternate Thursday evenings, originally starting at 9pm, then starting earlier at 8pm a few years later. The pandemic bought with it restrictions and obstacles but after a handful of broadcasts compiled of downloads and repeats the Thursday programmes became pre-recorded ... recording on Saturday mornings - Saturday afternoons. Earlier this year SoundArt Radio studios switched location (the 5th since I have been broadcasting ... all on the Dartington Hall Estate) and it was decided that I present a monthly four hour live broadcast on a Sunday evening .. and that is where we are now. With live broadcasting there comes 'mistakes' and 'accidents'. This programme has a CD refusing to play from the off. Then the realisation that I hadn't brought all the records that I wanted to play ... small mistakes like that! ah well ... LIVE RADIO I suppose. This programme I wanted to play sounds from Geräuschmanufaktur, a label that has been operating as long as MuhMur Radio. This year they have put out some great releases by the likes of Voodoo Forest, The Dead Mauriacs, The Rights Of Sleepers and (label operative) Jan Warnke. It is one of my favourite labels. Geräuschmanufaktur is based in Osnabrück. https://thecalendar.bandcamp.com for details. 

                                                               Jan Warnke.

Geräuschmanufaktur roughly translates as "Noise Factory". Jan also releases under the pseudonym of J.Adolphe, a harsh wall noise (HNW) project as well as using the names The Voodoo Forest and Red Cliffs (with Thorsten Soltau). I can't remember if I discovered the label through listening to The Dead Mauriacs or vice versa ... whatever, I am glad the label exists and I hope you enjoy the choice of Geräuschmanufaktur 'tunes' I have made ... 

Michael Barthel released the double cassette "Heme" in 2017 on Geräuschmanufaktur. I have played extracts from this release on MuhMur Radio over the years ... the two pieces here are from his latest album "Two Im Tier" released on his own Recordings For The Summer label. The album is sound poetry, sound art and abstractism. Both pieces feature the voice of Alice Kemp. More information can be got at : http://www.recordingsforthesummer.de. If you're in the UK Alice has copies here : https://alicekemp.bandcamp.com/merch/two-im-teer-by-michael-barthel-limited-edition-cd. 

In February this year Geräuschmanufaktur released the CD "Matatifica" by Miguel A. Garcia / Garazi Gorostiaga and Tube Tentacles. (Miguel released a collaborative CD with Alfredo Costa Monteiro on Geräuschmanufaktur back in 2016 called "Ate Gena"). 'Zizarezulo' is from this album. This CD has the worst font known to man .... it's like I'm looking at a Nordic Death Metal CD from the 1990s. The Jan Warnke piece is from the recent split cassette with The Dead Mauriacs. 

The Rights Of Sleepers is a Belgian based project from soundartist Robin C. "Lady In The Carpet" is the A-Side of a 7" lathe-cut EP entitled "Stairs make Eye Contact, A Door Sings Off-Key, The Vase Was Never There". Limited to only 30 copies the single is a follow on release from last year's "And What About The Right Of Sleepers?" cassette. 

The Voodoo Forest will take you on a journey into a fantastic world full of reminiscences to the classical art and the great masters. A strange place of mythical legends, fairytales and sagas like the 10Bells or the deep Birnham Wood. It will tell you the tragic story of Macbeth and the priesthood of the voodoo cities. About the legend of the Steppenwolf, its prey and his hunters, until the Whalers of Rottenchapel will lead you to the terrifying Valley of the Myrmaids. 

The Voodoo Forest piece is from the double cassette album 'The Voodoo Forest & The Birnham Woods'. I am not certain of the titles' of the piece ... it's side four, it may (or may not) be called "23". 

The fiftieth release by Geräuschmanufaktur was the lathe-cut LP "Suspended Dawns, Blind Mirrors, Electrical Paradise". Released in 2018 as a limited edition of 16. 

The Dead Mauriacs for this release were Olivier Prieur, Hélène Prieur and Jan Warnke. It also features the voice of MuhMur Radio. In the winter of 2021 Geräuschmanufaktur started the "Geräuschmanufaktur Advent Calendar" project. Through their bandcamp page they digitally released 24 pieces daily leading up to December 25. The tracks by Alfredo Costa Monteiro, The Dead mauriacs and Francisco Meirino are all from the calendar. Other artists included The Voodoo Forest, Emerge, Jan Warnke, Hans Castrup, Michael Esposito, Vomir, red Cliffs and Thorsten Soltau amongst others ... After the 25th it was available as a limited edition on CD-ROM. 

I found myself spending a day listening to the sound of Andrea Borghi whilst compiling this broadcast. Thoroughly enjoyable. 'Vetrale #6' is from the CDR 'Vetrale'. Andrea is a former member of VipCranco, information on his output and work is here : https://andreaborghi.com. August's programme included two tracks from the new Frans de Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi CD 'Counting Backwards From ∞' on Attenuation Circuit. It's a three track album so I decided to finish of the trilogy. Copies can be found at : http://www.attenuationcircuit.de. Unexplained Sounds Group is a label operated by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst). Their latest release is 'Cut Up. Deconstructing W.S. Burroughs'. It's a compilation LP featuring David Lee Myers, Rapoon, PBK, 400 Lonely Things, P.U.M.A. and Paolo Bandera amonst others. The Sigillum S, Dead Voices On Air and Adi Newton pieces are from this LP. 

Unexplained Sounds Group has a subsiduary label called Eighth Tower Records that have relased some interesting 'conceptual' compilations, also the subsiduary label Reverse Allignment which released some classic albums by BºTong back in 2017. https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com for more information. I am always intersted to hear the releases of Takahiro Mukai. His latest relrease is on the Bristol based Cardboard Club label. Cardboard Club is operated by Robert Ridley-Shackleton, an interesting sound artist in his own right. https://cardboardclub.bandcamp.com. 

Live radio ... one of the problems of live radio ... I forgot to bring certain records. Following Takahiro would have been side two of the Sewer Election album 'Kassettmusik' followed by two flexi-disc singles by Phantom Plastics released by Geräuschmanufaktur, but I forgot to pack them ... well, the two singles. I could not for the life of me find the Sewer Election album. I know it's somewhere in MuhMur Radio HQ, I only played it about 10 days ago, but where it has gone ... I am slowly (re)cataloguing the contents of MuhMur Radio HQ so I know it will turn up and when it does you shall know because I'm going to play it! Same as the Andrew Chalk "Vega" CD. Mysterious .. For reasons known only to myself I am also blogging the collection here : https://muhmurradiohq.blogspot.com. Luckily the new LP by Ochu arrived last week so I get to play both sides of this album. The album is called 'Dry Routine' and it's on the White Centipede Noise label. WCN are a label I am keeping an eye / ear on now after this and their Jim Haynes release last July. Copies of the Ochu can be bought from the artist at : https://www.millstonevinyl.se.

Another thing that came up whilst planning this broadcast was a message from my friend Tim in Australia. Tim is all over the internet / social media etc and he told me about Frank at Vinyl On Demand putting the question out on his Facebook page asking for people's top 5 B-Sides from 1978 - 1984. That got me thinking and immediately pulled out the Psychic TV 12" of "Just Drifting" with a great version of "OV Power" on the B-Side. For the October programme I shall endeavour to play my top 5 B-Sides list from those years ... and undoubtedly a few more as well. 

I remember finding this in a second hand record shop in Paris, it has become one of my most treasured records. I think the shop was called "Born Bad". It was near "Bimbo Tower". (Saint Antoine)? 

One of the most fascinating and prolific artists that has released on Geräuschmanufaktur is Thorsten Soltau. In 2014 he released the double cassette "Roman Feast & A Grape From Thor Heyerdahl's Table", credited to Thorsten Soltau x Comrades. (You may remember the Thorsten Soltau x Comrades 'MuhMur Radio Session' from September 2018). Here there are 2 pieces from the 'Roman Feast' cassette. I have checked the Geräuschmanufaktur bandcamp page and a download version is still available. 

Out this month is the latest 7" single by sound occultist Michael Idehall. "Apokryphos" is a 4 track EP that comes inside a 52 page art book (collages / paintings / lyrics). It's on the German Ant-Zen label. There is also a download version that features 9 tracks ... recommended. http://www.ant-zen.com. The broadcast finishes on a piece by Robert Curgenven from the 2020 cassette "Ar Ais Aris" on Fort Evil Fruit. As it is live radio I put the wrong side of the cassette in the machine and played a completely different track to the one I had prepared ... 

The MixCloud Archive for this broadcast is available here.

Part One : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-15-september-2024/

Part Two : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-15-september-2024-part-two/

Playlist:

01: Michael Barthel : "Two Im Tier #14" (Recordings For The Summer) 2024.

02: Miguel A. Garcia/Garazi Gorostiaga/Tube Tentacles : "Zizarezulo" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.

03: Michael Barthel : "Two Im Tier #2" (Recordings For The Summer) 2024.

04: Jan Warnke : "Untitled" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.

05: The Rights Of Sleepers : "Lady In The Carpet" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.

06: The Voodoo Forest : "23" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.

07: The Dead Mauriacs : "Blind Mirrors, Electrical Paradise" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2018.

08: Alfredo Costa Monteiro : "Vague Á Liȃme" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2021.

09: The Dead Mauriacs : "The Ghost Of man Ray Visiting His Own Exhibition" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2021.

10: Francisco Meirino : "Amplified Falling Snow, Oscillators, Tape Recorders And Various Electronic Interferences" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2021.

11: Andrea Borghi : "Vetrale #6" (Observatoire) 2013.

12: Frans De Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi : "∞ Minus 3" (Attenuation Circuit) 2024.

13: Sigillum S. : "Radioactive Cockroaches In Tangiers" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.

14: Dead Voices On Air : "I Wonder Whatever Happened To Otto's Boy Who Played The Violin" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.

15: Takahiro Mukai : "#577" (Cardboard Club) 2024.

16: Takahiro Mukai : #578" (Cardboard Club) 2024.

17: Ochu : "Fatigue Torrent" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.

18: Ochu : "Origin Of Salt" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.

19: Bu.D.D.A. : "Venus In Beton" (Grubenwehr Freiburg) 2021.

20: Ochu : "Bleach Method" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.

21: Ochu : "Impotent Process" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.

22: Ochu : "Habit Solidification" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.

23: Psychic TV : "Ov Power" (Some Bizarre) 1982.

24: Adi Newton : "The Chance Of A Ghost" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.

25: Thorsten Soltau x Max Kuiper x The Dead Mauriacs : "Fügung Und Nedergang" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2014.

26: Rainier Lericolais x Roman Feast : "Fügung Und Nedergang (Fate And Demise)" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2014.

27: Michael Idehall : "Star, Beast, Man, Fire" (Ant-Zen) 2024.

28: Michael Idehall : "Normal" (Ant-Zen) 2024.

29: Robert Curgenven : "Air + Electricity Remixed" (Fort Evil Fruit) 2020.

Thank you for listening, please feel free to get in touch. The next broadcast will be (I think) 13 October and (at the moment) will largely be built from a playlist from 1978 - 1984 releases ... We shall see.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 18 August 2024.

 

Busy time at Harttop Towers .. MuhMur Radio HQ. Summer holidays for the kids .. it'll soon be over. Gorgeous weather, beach trips & walks on Dartmoor etc. Blog time is (I'm afraid) at a minimum. Normal service will be resumed in September. 

A lot of the playlist is compiled of new arrivals over the past 4/5 weeks along with some old favourites. In August I always slip in 'The Presence' or 'Concorde Square' by Crispy Ambulance as they are from the 12" "Live On A Hot August Night" .. this August it's 'The Presence'. 

Contrastive piece is from the recent album "Life Without Agriculture" on Drone Records. The Current 93 track 'The Astral Crimes Of Stephen Hawke' is side 2 of the album of the same name. The title is taken (I imagine) from the 1930's 'Horror' film starring Tod Slaughter .. but I could be wrong. 'The Long Shadow Falls' is from CD#7 of the 7 CD boxset of the same name. Modelbau's 'Myths Of The Near Future' is from a limited cassette released by Econore. The piece is based on a short story by JG Ballard. Mark Vernon track is from his latest vinyl outing on Futura Resistenza called "The Dramaturgy Of Decay". Copies still available from Mark at : https://markvernon.bandcamp.com. 

Heikke of Grey Park has been busy of late, self releasing the latest Grey Park album "Tiny Ships On Asphalt" and putting out the latest Archives Assistant CD on his Hyster Tapes imprint. Get in touch with Heikke here : https://greypark.bandcamp.com. The Coagulant piece is from the 2022 album "Atlas Obscura". Released by Anticipating Nowhere Records. https://anticipatingnowhere.bandcamp.com. 

Earlier in the summer Jim Haynes was in the UK to play a couple of gigs in London and Middlesborough. He visited Cornwall & Devon (UK's equivalent of the Deep South) .. and dropped off a couple of releases for MuhMur HQ. (via Alice Kemp ... I never got to meet Jim .. but next time, next time). 'Variant, Number Seventeen' is from the cassette album "Inadvertent" on No Rent Records and '3' is from the CD album "Inconsequential" on White Centipede Noise. https://whitecentipedenoise.com. WCN have just reissued the Treriksröset album "Sexregler". A MuhMur Radio recommendation. On the last broadcast I played some Emil Beaulieau in recognition of the new book "America's Greatest Noise" about Ron Lessard and RRRecords by Frans de Waard. A 7' flexi-disc accompanied some copies with an anti-conversation between Ron and Frans edited by Howard Stelzer. This ends part one of the broadcast ... Sticking with Frans part two begins with two pieces from his collaboration with Sindre Bjerga and Fabio Orsi. It's a three piece CD entitled "Counting Backwards From ∞" on Attenuation Circuit. Copies available from : https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/counting-backwards-from. Soloman Tump is Andrew Fletcher and a fellow broadcaster on SoundArt Radio, he also produces the Intrinsic Action fanzine and has just appeared at Supernormal Festival. 'Nocturne' is from his latest (self) release "Torpid State". Physical copies have all sold, download available at : https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/. Himukalt and Subklinik share an album on Cloister Recordings. It's called "Seven Memories/Human Meat", released in vinyl, cassette and download versions. https://cloisterrecordingsus.bandcamp.com/album/seven-memories-human-meat. 

Recently I have been cataloguing my complete audio collection. Get it down for one last time and see if it makes any sense. It is (naturally) great fun to do, going through boxes and discovering things that I haven't played in years and in some cases totally forgot I had! I have decided to record it all on an accompanying blog : https://muhmurradiohq.blogspot.com. It will take time ... one of the 'rediscovered' sounds is the split tape of Ilia Belorukov and Jelena Glazova on the Hyster Tapes label. (see above for link etc) .. If ever a piece fitted the SoundArt title ... 

The broadcast ends with The Cigarettes. I was compiling the broadcast at the start of August when the UK went crazy for a few days, seriously batshit crazy. 'They're Back Again..Here They Come' is one of the great anti-fascist songs of the 1970's ... especially by a band from Lincoln. 

Part One:

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-18-august-2024/. 

Part Two:

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-18-august-2024-part-two/

Playlist.

01: Contrastate : "Zurich 1916" (Drone Records) 2024.

02: Current 93 : "The Astral Crimes Of Stephen Hawke (II)" (Cashen's Gap) 2024.

03: Current 93 : "The Long Shadow Falls" (Dirter Promotions) 2024.

04: Modelbau : "Myths Of The Near Future"  (Encore) 2024.

05: Mark Vernon : "A Wrong Turn Towards Eternity" (Futura Resistenza) 2024.

06: Grey Park : "Sceptic's Shadow" (Not On Label) 2024.

07: Coagulant : "Novaya Zemlya" (Anticipating Nowhere Records) 2022.

08: Jim Haynes : "Variant, Number Seventeen" (No Rent Records) 2024.

09: Frans de Waard : "Frans + Ron Anti-Conversation" (Korm Plastics) 2024.

10: Frans de Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi : "∞ Minus 1" (Attenuation Circuit) 2024.

11: Frans de Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi : "∞ Minus 2" (Attenuation Circuit) 2024.

12: Current 93 : "LashTal" (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Anti-Records) 1984.

13: Archives Assistant : "All-terra" (Hyster Tapes) 2024.

14: Cabaret Voltaire : "On Every Other Street" (Rough Trade Records) 1979.

15: Soloman Tump : "Nocturne" (Not On label) 2024.

16: Himukalt : "Seven Memories" (Cloister Recordings) 2024.

17: Jim Haynes : "3" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.

18: Subklinik : "Human Meat 6" (Cloister Recordings) 2024.

19: D.A.F. : "Kebabtraume" (Mute Records) 1980.

20: Paul Harrison : "Tension-Charge-Discharge-Relaxation" (Not On Label) 2017.

21: D.A.F. : "Gerwält" (Mute Records) 1980.

22: Ilia Belorukov : "Try To Have No One Here" (Hyster Tapes) 2018.

23: The Cigarettes : "They're Back Again, Here They Come" (Company Records) 1979.

Back on September 15. Thanks for listening ... 

MuhMur Radio HQ

 For some reasons ... better known for myself. I am re-cataloguing my records, tapes + CDs so I thought I would share it here : https://muhmurradiohq.blogspot.com. It'll take some time but hopefully you'll enjoy ... comments are always welcomed.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 21 July 2024

 

Over the last few broadcasts I have concentrated on one (sometimes two) artists / projects, so I thought I would expand to four. Four artists in four hours. "Hit 'em on the head with a 4x4" to misquote the mighty Fall. With the release of the latest Sewer Election album 'Psychic Panorama II' an hour (or so) of the work of Dan Johansson was a necessity. I think it was early 00's that I first came across the sound of Sewer Election. Appearances on compilations such as "Sweetness Will Overcome" (Segerhuva Records) 2004 and "Krimkall" (Krimljud) 2003. A few years later and I discovered the sound of Ättestupa with their cassette 'Att Korsa Den Flod Som Kommer Dränka Osk Alla' on Tommy Carlsson's Abisko label. Then came a few releases on the now defunct Release The Bats label. In 2013 I played a gig with Dan. He was performing as White at The Fylkingen in Stockholm. A short sharp 15 - 20 minute set, films, noise, volume. It kind of blew me away (as did sets by Kristain Olsson and Dusa on the night). We sat and chatted on the evening but I had no idea I was chatting to Dan Johansson. It was only a couple of years ago that Love (Segerhuva / Ochu) told me that White and Dan Johansson were one and the same. Ah well. 

In the past ten years and the arrival of (or at least the entrance in my world) the labels I Dischi Del Barone, Förlag För fri Musik and Discreet Music it has been easier to get hold of the works of Dan Johansson and his many projects. Amateur Hour, Neutral, Ordeal, Heinz Hopf, Enhet För fri Musik and most recently Organ Of Corti (to name just a few). Dan has his own Bandcamp page : https://sewerelectiongbg.bandcamp.com/music. And it is worth keeping an eye on Discreet Music. Based in Gothenburg, they release and distribute Dan's work : https://www.discreetmusic.se

                                                 Ättestupa / Sewer Election / White .

                                                

About three years ago I started correspondence with soundartist, graphic designer and publisher André Coelho. He mailed some of his work to be played on MuhMur Radio. His projects were Metadevice, Sensor,  Iurta and Sektor 304. André returns with a new label KHTHON with releases by Wolfskin and the intriguing NKISI. Sektor 304 have now ceased to exist but still sounding relevant so I play pieces from the CD 'Live Reaction'. Released in 2014 it features live recordings made in various locations between 2010 & 2012. Martin Bladh of IRM is on vocals on "Untitled Action I" and "Vultures". 2023 saw André start KHTHON with the release of the cassette 'Mangaaka' by NKISI. An anonymous project from the Democratic Republic Of Congo. These are recordings from 2007 made in Boma from tape s found in a tree cracked open by a thunderstorm in 1962. (the year I was born). 

                                                         'Live Reacton'.

                                                            ANDRÉ COELHO.

This year KHTHON released the CD album 'Despojos Do Sol-Posto' by Wolfskin. Wolfskin is the project of Johan Aernus. The album is a 2013 live recording of a performance at Fábrica Do Som in Porto (Portugal). André was part of Wolfskin for this performance. Thanks to André for the sounds. Get in touch at : https://khthonkatabasis.wordpress.com. KHTHON also publish a great fanzine called 'Khthonomorphs' and the art zine 'Rusted Gantries'. André also mailed his magazine "Katabasis" which features extended pieces on / interviews with Murmer, Junkyard Saman, Blunt Instrument and artwork by André himself and poetry by Jere Kilpinen. I think this available from KHTHON too .. 

Speaking of books .... 

July sees the release of the much awaited book 'America's Greatest Noise'. Written by Frans de Waard and published by Korm Plastics. It comes with an Anti-Record, a 7" Flexi Disc cut in half to use as a bookmark and available from Frans at : https://fransdewaard.com/2024/06/18/americas-greatest-noise/. It's a great book, a great read. One of those books that I read very slowly as I don't want it to end .. There's some fascinating stories and insights to the mind and operation of Ron (Lessard) and his RRRecords ethos and Emil Beaulieau project. So, ending the '4x4' theme I play a load of Emil Beaulieau and Ron's releases via RRRecords (pronounced RRRecords not R R R Records) and the subsidiaries Recycled Music, Pure and collaborative label work. 

'One Mans Penis / One Mans Buttocks' is a CD released by the Italian label Menstrual recordings. 'One Mans Buttocks' is a full live performance recorded on the 27th July 1988. (From the sleeve notes) "All the material contained here-in was recorded throughout 1988 - everything is spontaneous/improvised - recorded in real time direct to stereo cassette - no overdub, no re-mix, no fancy high-tech studio technics, no nothing - just inspired ignorance. 

Tape Hiss, distortion, fluctuating levels etc - are inherent in all my recordings - probably because I like using 2nd hand Radio Shack equipment - no attempts were made to 'clean' the sound - the entire project was mastered on my home stereo to ensure proper RRR fidelity...... this is my solo work - all sounds self - generated. " This track first appeared on the 5xLP boxset "5th Anniversary Boxset Thing" in 1989. 

'Abusing The Little Ones' is an LP on Self Abuse Records. On this LP Emil Beaulieau reworks and manipulates the material from the 'Murder' 7" series released in 1997 by Self Abuse Records. The track played here is a reworking of Hanged Man's Orgasm 'Frenzy'. 

"Plan A : Destruction Of Output" was (probably) the first release I bought by Emil Beaulieau. (The name Emil Beaulieau comes from Emile Beaulieau, the mayor of Manchester when Ron was a child. It's like Ideal Fisher being a butcher in Cleckheaton). 1996 and I was collecting the releases of the German label Tochnit Aleph, back then they were releasing a lot of Column One material as well as sounds by Dachise, John Watermann and Con-Dom. This 7" is again Emil reworking the material from early releases on the label. The piece played here is a reworking of sounds by Con-Dom, Dachise and Column One. Tochnit Aleph is still an active label now based in Copenhagen. http://www.tochnit-aleph.com. I was fortunate to see Emil live in the UK a couple of times. In the early 00's (sorry year forgotten) he played the Red Rose in London along with The New Blockaders, Merzbow and Sudden Infant (there were others but memory fades) and a few years later when he played in Bristol with Onomatopoeia and Jessica Rylan. Again, there were others on the bill but I forget who ... Steve (Onomatopoeia) was self-harming on stage with a suitcase full of glass and contact mic's and that kind of took over the evening for me. Emil was great though. Emil was promoting his 'America's Greatest Noise' double LP on Harbinger Sound. I play a track from the test pressing version. Low friends in high places and all that.

                

Pure was a series of low-cost CD re-issues, a kind of carry on from the Statutory Tape releases. The label put out re-issues (early tape releases) by the likes of Consumer Electronics, Ramleh, AMK, Zone Nord, Smell & Quim and all at a budget bargain price. The Soldnergeist tracks are from the album 'Terror' originally released by Art Konktret in 1997. Classic 90's German Power Electronics. Another subsidiary label from RRRecords is the Recycled Music series. Lo-Fi recordings on used cassettes. The covers are wrapped in packing tape with Ron's writing on the sleeve and spine. Again, budget price. The Neil Campbell piece is from his RRRecycled release. I think there was about 300 tapes released in this series, I have 6, if anyone has any to mail / sell please get in touch. I have Neil Campbell, Smell & Quim, Masonna, Textured Bird Transmission, Modelbau and Duncan Harrison. The 'America's Greatest Noise' does not include a full discography of RRRecords and its offshoots and collaborations which I think is a missed opportunity. Ron can't remember everything he has released but I am sure there's some archivist out there who knows ... surely ... The Small Cruel Party track is from the 1994 compilation album 'America The Beautiful'. The broadcast ends with Aaron Dilloway and his contribution to the six album box set 'Michigan'. 

                                                        America's Greatest Noise Artist

The broadcast is split in to two halves for easy aural consumption. Part One ends on Sector 304 'The Prismatic Sun' and part two starts with Wolfskin. Thank you for listening. 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-july-21-2024-part-one/ 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-july-21-2024-part-two/
 

Playlist :

01: Sewer Election : "Enskilt Rum 1-3" (Discreet Music) 2024.

02: Amateur Hour : "Seven Doors" (Appetite) 2022.

03: Ättestupa : "Pesten" (Abisko) 2009.

04: Sewer Election : "Sparvüga" (Discreet Music) 2024.

05: Sewer Election : "Landscape (For Manon)" (B.A.A.D.M.) 2020.

06: Organ Of Corti : "Halucinatio" (New Forces) 2024.

07: White : "Tears Of Piss" (Utmarken) 2009.

08: Sewer Election : "Mot Döden" (Fang Bomb) 2008.

09: Organ Of Corti : "Trauma" (Dead Mind Records) 2024.

10: Sektor 304 : "Untitled Action 1" (New Approach Records) 2014.

11: Sektor 304 : "Body Hammer" (New Approach Records) 2014.

12: Sektor 304 : "Voodoo Machine" (New Approach Records) 2014.

13: NKISI : "Vert Dévorant" (Leviatā/Khthon) 2023.

14: NKISI : "Nkondi" (Leviatā/Khthon) 2023.

15: Sektor 304 : "Vultures" (New Approach Records) 2014.

16: Sektor 304 : "Pulse Generator V2" (New Approach  Records) 2014.

17: Sektor 304 : "Untitled Action II" (New Approach Records) 2014.

18: Sektor 304 : "The Prismatic Sun" (New Approach Records) 2014.

19: Wolfskin : "Terra De Serpentes" (Khthon) 2024.

20: Emil Beaulieau : "One Mans Buttocks" (Menstrual Recordings) 2012.

21: Emil Beaulieau : "Abusing The Little Ones #5" (Self Abuse Records) 2003.

22: Emil Beaulieau : "Plan A:Destruction Of Output (A)" (Tochnit Aleph) 1998.

23: Emil Beaulieau : "Any Moron Can Make A Noise" (Harbinger Sound) 2005.

24: Soldnergeist : "Introduction" (Pure) 2001.

25: Soldnergeist : "Schwarzer Orden" (Pure) 2001.

26: Soldnergeist : "Arsenverg Ftung" (Pure) 2001.

27: Soldnergeist : "Magic Weapon Fight" (Pure) 2001.

28: Neil Campbell : "Recycled #1" (Recycled Music) 1998.

29: Small Cruel Party : "1860-xii Birds Explore Trees 15-v-1960" (RRRecords) 1994.

30: Aaron Dilloway : "Untitled (Michigan)" (Hanson Records/Chondritic Sound/RRRecords) 2009.

Thanks to Tamsin and Chris. Next broadcast will be on Sunday August 18 at 18:00 GMT, I hope you can join me. ... 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast #270. (4x4)

 Just a reminder that the next MuhMur Radio Broadcast is tomorrow (21st July) at 18:00 GMT. Four hours of live radio featuring the sounds of Dan Johansson (Sewer Election, White, Organ Of Corti etc), André Coelho (Sektor 304, Iurta, Wolfskin etc) and to celebrate the release of the excellent book "America's Greatest Noise!" by Frans de Waard I shall be playing some Emil Beaulieau and releases by RRRecords, Pure and Recycled ... all in all an aurally fascinating and noisy four hours of radio. 

Tune your dial to 102.5FM if you're hanging around the Totnes 'burbs or visit the SoundArt radio website and listen to the live stream. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk. 

As Noise As Possible

 

A new radio broadcast from Thanasis (Electric Knife Records) starts today at 13.00 Hours (GMT). Lots of experimental sounds .. not music .. Greek chat and lots of drinking (today is Thanasis's birthday). 

Go to https://locomotiva-cooperativa.org/radio/ to listen. I don't know if the programme will be archived anywhere ... so make sure to tune in!

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 23 June 2024

 

Tonights MuhMur Radio Broadcast is dedicated to the sound of John Duncan. 

'Heavy, Useless, No Sense Of Humour'.

I have been listening to the works of John Duncan for nigh on 40 years now. I forget how I came across his work. I thought it was via Dan Plunkett and his ND magazine but recently I heard a podcast featuring Dan and he said he came across John through the UK 'fanzine' called "Grok". "Grok" was run by Dave Minshull in Bristol in the early 1980's. I used to get copies of "Grok", so ... maybe Dan and I both discovered John Duncan through "Grok". In 1984 Dan mailed me a cassette (we exchanged tape letters back in those days) that featured an interview with Paul McCarthy for ND magazine where he talks about his collaborative work with John ... and extract appears in the broadcast. To listen to Dan Plunkett podcast : https://www.noisextra.com/2022/04/06/in-conversation-with-daniel-plunkett-nd-magazine/

Along with John's sounds I have incorporated some of his collaborative work with Michael Esposito. 'There Must Be A Way Across The River" is from the eponymous album shared with Z'ev. The Elgaland Vargaland National Anthem features vocals by Ingrid Engarås. In 2003 Ingrid released the album "Vibradisc" on the Firework Editions Records label. "Porch" is from this album. Recorded at The Fylkingen (Stockholm) on the 24th April 2002, it was engineered and produced by John Duncan. Ingrid is the only person I know with an Elagaland-Vargaland passport ... I know, she showed me it. 

In 2016 the John Duncan album 'Bitter Earth' was released, the drummer on the album is Joe Talia. Joe is an Australian born musician based in Berlin. Joe also toured with John along with Jim O'Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi. Live recordings from the tour are on the double CD "Red Sky" released by iDEAL in 2020. The Joe Talia piece here is from the split cassette with Hanna Chetwin, Andrew Chalk and Francis Plagne. 

For information about John's work it's best to visit : https://johnduncan.org/home/. It says more than I can. 

Playlist (Part One) : 

01: John Duncan : "River In Flames" (Anckarström) 1991.

02: John Duncan : "Lock Groove" (Die Stadt) 2000.

03: John Duncan : "Untitled #2" (From the CD 'Seek') (Mort Aux Vaches) 1997.

04: John Duncan : "Lock Groove" (Die Stadt) 2000.

05: John Duncan + Michael Esposito : "There Must Be A Way Across The River" (Fragment Factory) 2011.

06: John Duncan : "Dark" (iDEAL Recordings) 2016.

07: John Duncan : "Creed" (AQM) 1981.

08: John Duncan : "Kokka 1 - 5" (Vinyl On Demand) 2012.

09: John Duncan : "The Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem" (Die Stadt) 1998.

                                                            'River In Flames'.

Playlist (Part Two) : 

01: Ingrid Engarås : "Porch" (Firework Editions Records) 2003.

02: Joe Talia : "12th Exit" (Nice Music) 2016.

03: John Duncan : "Move Forward" (RRRecords) 1996.

04: John Duncan : "Stay Alive" (GeräuschManufaktur) 2015.

05: Paul McCarthy : "Extract From Interview With Dan Plunkett" (Not On Label) 1984.

06: John Duncan : "The Tell" (Not On Label) 2019.

07: John Duncan : "Power Love" (RRRecords) 1996.

08: Citipati : "Untitled (IV)" (Hypnogogia) 2024.

09: Citipati : "Untitled (V)" (Hypnogogia) 2024.

10: John Duncan : "Lock Groove" (Die Stadt) 2000.

11: John Duncan : "Psychonaut" (Robot Records) 1996.

12: Francisco Meirino : "The Mute Fortress (Side B)" (Vice De Forme) 2024.

                                                           'Stay Alive' 7". 

The broadcast has been split in two for easy aural digestion. 

Part One : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-23-june-2024-part-one/

Part Two : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-23-june-2024-part-two/

Also in the programme are two slices of new arrivals here at MuhMur Radio HQ. Firstly the 'unofficial' vinyl LP release on Hypnogogia by Citipati. This release has caused a little upset between former members of the project. Here is the 'story' as I believe it to be. 

In early 1983, Ian Dobson & Gordon Hope invited The New Blockaders to release an LP on Flowmotion. However, it was originally intended that 'Changez Les Blockeurs' wound be the one and only release by The New Blockaders. Richard & Philip Rupenus were invited to join Citipati. Ian and Gordon were then interested in releasing something by this project on their Flowmotion label. Two days of Citipati recordings took place (April 1983) at Morden Tower in Newcastle, the best bits were then edited at Spectro, but Citipati were not happy with the recordings so the release was abandoned. Citipati were Paul Coates, Sean Breadin and John Mylotte, soon after Richard & Philip joining Paul left and Citipati morphed into Metgumbnerbone. Citipati were semi-acoustic / semi-electric whereas Metgumbnerbone are totally acoustic. 

In 2023 Paul discovered the original recordings from the Morden Towers sessions, and Old Europa Cafe label were interested in releasing the recordings on CD as a Metgumbnerbone album. The album was just about to go into production when John Mylotte discovered that Paul had already released the recordings as Citipati, a vinyl LP on his own Hypnogogia label. John Mylotte would like it to be known that this is an 'Unofficial' release. John originally intended to still go ahead with the proposed OEC CD but came to the conclusion that would only cause more confusion and "make a bad situation even worse". There will be a Metgumbnerbone release on the American Nihilistic label later in the year. 

The broadcast ends with Fransisco Meirino's "The Mute Fortress". 

MuhMur Radio returns in July.

Thanks, as always, go to Tamsin and to Chris (engineer / producer at SoundArt Radio). 

                                                              Chris @ SoundArt.