REMUHMURATION: September 2020

A shorter broadcast this time for no other reason than I cocked up on the timings ..

Chris Booth.

Once again the programme was recorded a few weeks before broadcast, engineered by Chris Booth. Head Mandarin of SoundArt Radio. The programme starts with a track from the Jim Haynes 2011 LP "The Decline Effect". In a few weeks time Vinyl On Demand are to release a 17xLP box set by Soviet France. This will be the second volume in as many years and for those of us that are still enjoying the first box set I played a track from the "Mohonomische" LP.

Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions is digitising the NE catalogue and putting it up on their Bandcamp page. Whilst searching in the attic for master tapes etc he came across a box of old vinyl releases and kindly mailed the "No Sacrifice" 12". I remember buying this record on release back in 1984. (Virgin Records in Manchester) and not being too enamoured but hearing it 36 years later I have fallen in love with it...especially the "B" Side "Uprising".

Ice Yacht have released their second cassette. The first "Pole Of Cold" was released five years ago on the German Fragment Factory label. Their second is on Snatch Tapes. Ice Yacht is the project of sound artist Philip Sanderson. First edition is limited to 25 copies.

The FM Einheit + Andreas Ammer piece is an extract from the Cold Spring Records CD "Hammerschlag". "Hammerschlag" was a live concert performed in the Russian city of Perm in 2019. The concert was a commissioned radio-play based on the life/works of Soviet revolutionary poet and scientist Aleksej Gastev. Gastev was executed in 1939 by Stalin for counterrevolutionary activities.

In the last broadcast I played a piece from the Western, Creed & Spybey album "W Ands", here I play another .... "W Ands" has been one of the albums of 2020 so far.

Lark Blames is the project of Lloyd James (singer/songwriter with Naevus and vocalist with the newly reformed Crisis). "Crumbs" is a 7" single featuring the voice of John Murphy. John passed away in October 2015, the track uses tape recordings made in Rotterdam in 2009. John also played in and with Shriekback, Current 93 and The Associates. Whether or not he is on the following pieces played I do not know, I do know John played on the Shriekback "Care" LP, I remember spending the evening in Lloyd's house in Leytonstone (about 15 years ago) chatting with John about his time in Shriekback and his days as a percussionist for hire. "My Spine (Is The Baseline)" was released on 17 September 1982.

The last broadcast featured an exclusive radio mix by Thomas LaRoche of Research Laboratories. It was whilst 'researching' the work and releases of Thomas I came across a band called Pavlov's Children. Pavlov's Children were a duo consisting of Thomas and R.Shah (although the two people could be one and the same as Thomas does like to exist in a shroud of mystery). "Little Douglas" is taken from the 7" called "Pavlov's Children" and released on Tim Burgess's O Genesis label.

Playlist :

01: Jim Haynes : "Half-Life" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2011.

02: Soviet France : "Mohonomische #7" (Vinyl On Demand) 2019.

03: Nocturnal Emissions : "Uprising" (Sterile Records) 1984.

04: Adam & The Ants : "Catholic Day" (Do It Records) 1979.

05: Ice Yacht : "Pillbox" (Snatch Tapes) 2020.

06: FM Einheit + Andreas Ammer : "Order 06" (Cold Spring Records) 2020.

07: Western, Creed & Spybey : "Two Of Wands" (Cold Spring Records) 2020.

08: Lark Blames : "Crumbs" (Wooden Lung Records) 2020.

09: Shriekback : "My Spine (Is The Baseline)" (Y Records) 1982.

10: Current 93 : "Death Of The Corn (Unreleased)" (HomAleph) 2020.

11: Current 93 : "Broken Birds (Maldoror Waits. Live In Japan)" (HomAleph) 2020.