At the beginning of April this year I found myself in Lincoln. I was staying at a place near the venue Decimal Place. Whilst I was there I discovered the venue was holding a 'tape noise night' and one of the attendees was going to be Gavin Morrow. I knew Gavin by name and association with Ben Hallatt (Widows Of Europe / Murder Cult) so I got in touch and planned a meet and a chance to grab some of his releases as Grey Frequency. "Tape Noise Night" occurs on the first Thursday of every month and it's a chance for folk to meet, chat play their latest noises, show their films or chat about whatever has excited them over the past weeks. A kind of 'show and tell' for noiseniks.
So, Grey Frequency is Gavin Morrow, a visual and sound artist based in Nottingham. Grey Frequency began in 2012 with the album "Second Sight" on US label Darker Days Ahead. The sound of Grey Frequency explores modern mythologies and the paranormal using soundscapes and audial painting. It's quite an 'organic' sound built by tape machines, effect pedals and spoken word sampling. Really immersive. Earlier this year Grey Frequency released the cassette album 'Ufology' via his bandcamp page : https://greyfrequency.bandcamp.com it has sold out of it's cassette version but still available as download.
For MuhMur Radio Grey Frequency provided four new pieces. "Earth Recycled" is a studio edit taken from the live improvised performance that took place at The Church Of Sound in Nottingham in May this year (also included in full). "Rendlesham Forest (1980) (Edit)" and "You Will Improve Or Disappear (Edit)" are special edits from the tracks pulled from the "Ufology" album. "Broad Haven (1977)" is also from "Ufology". "Dyatlov Pass" and "Cascade" are from the compilation album "Exhibition". Released (again) via the Grey Frequency bandcamp page and still available. Gavin also has a website : http://www.greyfrequency.co.uk Well worth a visit.
The broadcast starts with a track from the new album by BºTong "Probing The Boundaries". The sound of BºTong is very similar in construct and concept to Grey Frequency. I once travelled by train between Hamburg and Bremen with Chris (aka BºTong) and for the whole time he had his head in an old 1970's pulp sci-fi paperback. The sound of this CD is very much the sound of that book.
The Bass Communion track comes from a 5xTape album by Pyramids. I bought this release the year it came out (2010) because it featured Burial Hex and after playing with Clay in 2009 and being enthralled by his sound I was buying anything by (or with) Burial Hex at the time ... I still am if truth be told! Also on the compilation are Windy & Carl who I saw supporting Tactile and The Silver Apples back in 1997 at Sam Feys in Nottingham. Again, I felt entranced by their live sound but what I heard on vinyl at the time left me cold ... I was keen to know what they sounded like ten years after.
Here is the blurb : "Each artist in this collection received original Pyramids music with no instructions other than to make a new work from any or all of the sounds provided along with anything else they wanted to add to the mix. All forms of manipulation were encouraged and utilised. "Wvndrkmmer" contains fifty-two pure interpretations of the same music, which was not so much a song, but four operate, cooperating textures".
The Anemone Tube + Jarl track comes from the new album "The Hunters In The Snow - A Contemplation Of Peter Bruegel's Series Of The Seasons". It is available from The Epicurean direct :
https://epicureanescapism.bandcamp.com/album/the-hunters-in-the-snow-a-contemplation-on-pieter-bruegel-s-series-of-the-seasons
It's always a treat to get a new Helm release and this month Pan Records put out "Chemical Flowers". As far as I can work out this is Helm's 16th album. Conjecture is the solo project of Greek artist Vasilis Angelopoulos. "Flesh" comes from the album "V" released last month on the Bulgarian Amek label. Following the 2015 cassette album "XX" Italian label Xn Recordings have just out out the new 7" single by Swedish industrialists Proiekt Hat. "Freeloader" is the A side to the single ""XXIII". About six years ago I met the main man behind the Proiekt Hat, he handed me a load of cassette tapes of the project and that of Wintheer, a side project. All really good stuff, but I seem to remember him saying that the band was to be called "Projekt Hat" but a misprint on the first release gave them their new name. (Now I was drunk at the time so may have mis-remembered, but.....).
Last weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Contrastate live in Plymouth and I managed to pick up a CD re-issue of their first LP "Seven Hands Seek Nine Fingers". The final tack on this broadcast is from that album.
Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-soundart-radio-6-june-2019/
Playlist:
01: BºTong : "Sinister Overture" (Marbre Negre) 2019.
02: Grey Frequency : "Earth Recycled" (Not On Label) 2019.
(Exclusive piece recorded for MuhMur Radio).
03: Grey Frequency : "Dyatlov Pass" (Grey Frequency) 2017.
04: Grey Frequency : "Cascade" (Grey Frequency) 2017.
05: Bass Communion : "Untitled" (Small Doses) 2010.
06: Anemone Tube & Jarl : "The Gloomy Day" (The Epicurean/Auf Abwegen) 2019.
07: Grey Frequency : "Rendlesham Forest (1980) (Edit)" (Not On Label) 2019.
(Exclusive piece recorded and edited for MuhMur Radio).
08: Helm : "Leave Them All Behind" (Pan) 2019.
09: Conjecture : "Flesh" (Amek) 2019.
10: Grey Frequency : "Live At The Church Of Sound, 16 May 2019" (Not On Label) 2019.
(Exclusive piece recorded for MuhMur Radio).
11: Proiekt Hat : "Freeloader" (Xn Recordings) 2019.
12: Inade : "Quartered Conclusion" (Membrum Debile Propaganda) 2000.
13: Grey Frequency : "You Will Improve Or Disappear (Edit)" (Not On Label) 2019.
(Exclusive piece recorded and edited for MuhMur Radio).
14: Grey Frequency : "Broad Haven (1977)" (Grey Frequency) 2019.
15: Contrastate : "The Man Seeking Experience Requires His Way Of A Drop Of Water"
(Fin De Siėcle Media) 2005.
The next programme is on June 20 at 20:00 hours GMT. Thank you for listening, and thank you to Gavin Morrow / Grey Frequency for the support and sounds that made this broadcast....
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