It was early summer 2012 and I was working away (I work for the NHS at Torbay Hospital) when a delivery driver from Polar Speed popped his head around the door and said "I've just been listening to some weird shit on the radio ... and it made me think of you". He was up on the Paignton ring road and tuned in to 102.5FM, by the time he was in Torquay the signal was lost ... A quick search on the computer found that 102.5FM was the signal for SoundArt Radio (a community radio station based in the South Hams) ... and they were streaming live so I tuned in and heard Merzbow being blasted out. It was in the middle of the afternoon!
I contacted them asking if they wanted any Dieter Müh vinyl to play and they invited me to their studios. SoundArt Radio are based inside the grounds of Dartington Hall Estate. Thee place where 23 Skidoo recorded "The Culling Is Coming". Chatting with Chris & Lucinda (the mandarins of SoundArt) they offered me a slot to broadcast what ever I wanted .... by late summer MuhMur Radio was created. Chris offered an engineer / producer to assist me with the technical side of things and I met Dave. Dave Mutch has been on the journey since programme number one. It turned out we have similar tastes and passions in music, Dave being the chap who built equipment for Nigel Jacklin and Alien Brains when they were based in Aberdeen.
There came the idea to ask friends if they were interested in providing something "special" for the broadcasts. Maybe some unused sounds, unreleased gems, work in progress tracks or live recordings. Up to now MuhMur Radio has featured 72 "sessions" (as I like to call them, but then again I was a big John Peel fanatic back in the late 1970's). Gerechtigkeits Liga were the first, and Paul Watson/BBBlood featured on the last programme of August 2019. A full list of participants can be found here : https://remuhmuration.blogspot.com/2018/01/muhmur-radio-sessions.html Although recently it has come to my attention that folk / projects / artists get requests from labels, net labels, radio broadcasters to provide stuff all the time and it really 'winds them up' ... so I've kind of stopped asking. Just to say though as Dieter Müh / Haemoccult Recordings / MuhMur Radio ... no-one asks or offers me for stuff!
And now as the new season starts we are in celebrating seven years.
Astute folk will note that in the picture above there is a copy of the compilation CD "Pyre". I was going to end the broadcast with a track from the album but a day before broadcast the new Contrastate 7" single arrived and HAD to be fitted in!
This programme starts as programme #1 started, with a track by Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim.
"Paradieswurst" is from the album "Vaginal Erbrechen". F.T.B.P.D. is the solo project of Bremen based sound artist Jürgen Eberhard, active since the early 1990's I have shared the stage with F.T.B.P.D. a couple of times in Germany and have always felt entranced with the sound. Releases have been scarce lately. Jürgen is contactable at : http://www.pinkelsdaheim.com/index.html
MuhMur Radio has never been shy of playing Nurse With Wound and/or Current 93 so it is only fitting that an anniversary broadcast should feature Stapleton & Tibet. Back in 1996 Stapleton & Tibet released the album "Musicalische Kürbs Hütte" on the United Durtro label and last year United Dirter re-issued the album as a double incorporating the first Stapleton & Tibet LP "The Sadness Of Things" plus some out-takes from 1996 studio recordings. The (double) LP was released to coincide with Current 93's London show last October.
Gonzo is the project of Gonçalo F. Cardoso. Gonçalo also runs Discrepant Records who release Gonzo.
"Ruido(s)" is the final album from Gonzo, their twelfth album since 2012's "The Porn Tape". Artwork for the album is by Evan Crankshaw who also did the artwork for The Dead Mauriacs's "Beauté Des Mirages" album back in 2017. Discrepant can be found here : https://discrepant.bandcamp.com
Over the past seven years I have played a lot of sounds from The Dead Mauriacs.They have supplied exclusive materials for broadcast twice. "Moiteur Radiophonique" is from the 2018 release "Suspended Dawns, Blind Mirrors, Electrical Paradise - Red Landscape" and features the slowed down voice of myself talking about The Dead Mauriacs on the radio.
Creep Of Paris have a handful of releases on the cult and bijou label Research Laboratories, usually limited to just a handful "Geronticus Eremita" is their first 'album' widely available on Brighton based Chocolate Monk. Still unsettling, still confused as ever ... the CDR is available from : http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/enter.htm : Well worth a fiver of your pocket money.
I was in Toulouse last month and managed to pick up a copy of the excellent John Duncan LP "Klaar" from Croc Records. I have had this LP on an old TDK D90 for the past 20 years or so, so it's great to grab a vinyl copy. This has made me dig out some old John Duncan vinyl. "I Fall In Love Too Easily" is from a 7" EP released by Ideal Records and "The Ruud E. Memorial Choir" is from a 1996 single released by Robot Records.
In the winter of 1992, Ruud Ecklehof travelled to Estonia to join friends there for a one-day trek across the frozen Gulf Of Finland to Helsinki. Soon after they started out, the more experienced local hikers noticed that the ice was cracking under their weight and the group decided to turn back. Ruud refused, and went ahead on his own. Six months later, his body was discovered floating in Helsinki Harbor. Within days of this news, Ruud's closet friend Arkadi was found dead with his girlfriend, asphyxiated in a household accident.
During The Preparation of a joint memorial planned for Ruud and Arkadi, a set of notebooks were discovered where Ruud kept his writings, including texts he'd written in a secret language that he and Arkadi had developed. I copied the complete text of these notebooks for a 30-voice choir, giving each member one page that was unique, one page that was shared by at least one other choir member, and one page that was shared by all.
This recording was made at a live performance held during an all-night memorial service held August 1993. Texts from the secret language are spoken by Piet Moss.
A feature which seems to have 'developed' over the past seven years is "On This Day", where I play records that were released on the day of broadcast - according to my old diaries and the great 'Punk Rock Diary' books by George Grimarc. 12 September saw Ultravox release their third and final album "Systems Of Romance", and ex-XTC and League Of Gentlemen keyboardist released his final solo single on Virgin Records. "Rossmore Road" does feature Robert Fripp.
Barry Andrews then went on to form Shriekback with Gang Of Four bassist Dave Allen.
I apologise to Ben Hallatt and his Widows Of Europe project, I cannot stop calling them "Windows" of Europe. Earlier this year Ben and fellow sound artist Ian Watson released the ambitious "Surround" concept. Documented on a variety of dictaphones, digital recorders and smart phones "SURROUND" presents a fragmentary and playful amalgamation of electronic sound generation, field recording and site specific improvisation, recorded on the coastline alongside the Vale Of Glamorgan in 2015.
The KIKS/Girlfriend labels' blog hasn't been updated in a while but it may be worth trying to contact Ben through this address : http://kiksbooks.blogspot.com There maybe a Facebook page too ...
In May this year a stripped down Contrastate played live in Plymouth alongside Alice Kemp and Nocturnal Emissions. The single "An Excercise In Defascination" was to be released to co-incide with this performance, but unfortunately .... "Spasmo" is the B-Side and will appear in some form on the upcoming Contrastate LP inspired by the Italian 'Giallo' films of the 1970's.
Get the single here : https://www.contrastate.com/?fbclid=IwAR2HUfXqNzkigq9ElsV_qid8GSfqeLejTYFWPCp7ICB_IT0z45WYUNscaLM
I am lead to understand that the playlist on Mixcloud has listed the Gonzo record as 5 separate pieces therefore contravening copyright laws of some countries. (USA for example). I apologise for this and there is nothing I can do about it. If you can, please take a listen here :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-12-september-2019/
Playlist :
01: Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim : "Paradieswurst" (Reduktive Musiken) 2007.
02: Stapleton & Tibet : "The Dead Side Of The Moon" (United Dirter) 2018.
03: Gonzo : "Ruidos (A Portuguesa)" (Discrepant) 2019.
04: Gonzo : "Vinha D'Alho" (Discrepant) 2019.
05: Gonzo : "Sāo Joāo XXX" (Discrepant) 2019.
06: Gonzo : "En (Fado) (Discrepant) 2019.
07: Gonzo : "A Fuga Dos Grilos" (Discrepant) 2019.
08: The Dead Mauriacs : "Moiteur Radiophonique" (NPH) 2018.
09: Creep Of Paris : "Geronticus Eremita #2" (Chocolate Monk) 2019.
10: John Duncan : "Klaar" (Black Truffle) 2017.
11: John Duncan : "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (Ideal Recordings) 2016.
12: Unknown Singing Objects : "Man Who Sold The World" (Not On Label) 2018.
13: The Stranglers : "Goodbye Toulouse" (United Artists Records) 1977.
14: Ultravox! : "Dislocation" (Island Records) 1978.
15: Barry Andrews : "Rossmore Road" (Virgin Records) 1980.
16: Ian Watson + Widows Of Europe : "Surround (CDR #1)" (KIKS/Girlfriend) 2019.
17: Contrastate : "Spasmo" (Black Rose Recordings) 2019.
18: John Duncan : "The Ruud E. Memorial Choir" (Robot Records) 1996.
19: Thorsten Soltau : "Brittle Life Seagrass Exposed To The Sun" (Not On Label) 2019.
The final track of the broadcast has been played in a different format before. In September 2018 Thorsten Soltau sent a 'session' that included "Brittle Life Seagrass Exposed To The Sun", it was broadcast under the name of Thorsten Soltau x Comrades. Earlier the month Thorsten (self) released the album "Dales And Shores" which includes a remastered version. The album also features remixes / re-interpretations of Thorsten's work by Susan Matthews, Jan Warnke, Miguel A. Ruiz and Herr Penshcuck. It is available here : https://thorstensoltau.bandcamp.com
Thorsten also supplied exclusive material in 2016, a piece called "Catafalque" that was released on cassette later in that year by Sinneslöchen.
Next programme is on Thursday September 26. 8 0'Clock kick off ....
here's to the next 7 years!!
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