The first broadcast of 2021. 2021 marks the ninth year of MuhMur Radio on SoundArt Radio broadcasting from studios situated on the Dartington Hall Estate in South-East Devon.
The programme starts with a small piece from the latest release by French multidisciplinary artist Rainier Lericolais. This track is from the cassette "Ondes Courtes" released on the Dead Mauriacs own imprint NPH.
Unfortunately Rainier releases in limited editions, most being gallery editions and 'one-off' art pieces .. but contact NPH here, there still might be copies and downloads available. http://lartpenultieme.blogspot.com The Dead Mauriacs piece is a special piece recorded for MuhMur Radio. "HBSC" translates as 'Happy Birthday Steve Cammack' and was mailed as an audio birthday card for myself last December.
SOON are a new project to me. A duo based in Nijmegen, Holland comprising of Jochem Van Toi and Liu Mottes. Extratool is a label set up by artists and musicians working out of the Extrapool Art Space in Nijmegen. The single was produced by Trepaneringsritualen member Peter Johann Nijland. SOON have a great website. Visit here : https://soonmusic.nl
Over the Christmas period (usually about 3 days if you work in the NHS) I spent a couple of days playing nothing but the sounds of John Duncan. Spurred on by the arrival of the 2016 album "Bitter Earth" to Hartop Towers. I first came aware of the work of John Duncan via ND Magazine, his performance art (actions) like "Blind Date" I find fascinating. Dan (Plunkett) of ND then started mailing me tapes of John's audio and I have been "a fan" ever since. The two tracks here are from the "Bitter Earth" album.
"The House On Highland Avenue" is a cover of a Gun Club song and "Dark" is an old Perl Ubu number. The BºTong piece comes from the split cassette with Fabio Orsi. BºTong is the solo project of Basel based Leaden Fumes bass player Chris Sigdell. On Christmas Day last year Frans deWaard posted audio files from his early incarnation "Construction". Sounds from Willem de Ridder's 'Radiola Improvisatie Salon' broadcasts alongside other recordings from 1981. Frans also posted a PDF of a little booklet designed by Alfred Boland to compliment the recordings, et voila! a Construction album.
Songs Of The New Erotics were an experimental music and performance art project created by William A. Davison in Toronto in 1991. The project ceased to exit in 2014. William has been active on the Toronto underground 'scene' since the early 1990's and his work with Phycus. William has also been involved with Gastric Female Reflex, Six Heads and Wax Infant (with fellow Canadian Jim DeJong) and operates a radio programme called "Re/Cycling" available on MixCloud. Information on William's work / art can be found at http://www.recordism.com/list.html "Japanese Ghost" was released as a 3" CDR on William's own Disembraining Songs label. It was recorded live at Studio 303 in Toronto on June 27, 2010 and mastered by another ex Phycus musician Scott Righteous.
The (ir)regular "On This Day" feature is "D.O.A. The Third And Final Report" by Throbbing Gristle. I bought this LP "on this day" back in 1979 from Sanctuary Records in Lincoln. It's one of those albums n my collection that I have 3 copies of. The original vinyl, the version that came with the "Five Albums" box set and the CD re-issue on Mute Records.
The Creep Of Paris track comes from the new eponymous cassette on Beartwon Records. Creep Of Paris (or CREEP OF PARIS or C.O.P.) is the project of Thomas LaRoche. Thomas is no stranger to the MuhMur Radio playlist with releases with projects such as Active Denial, Poultry Breeders Union, Rotting Shrine and Pavlov's Children. Thomas is also head mandarin of Research Laboratories and occasional drummer for Vagina Dentata Organ. The cassette is still available from Beartown Records and is only £4.00. Grab it here : https://beartownrecords.bigcartel.com/product/creep-of-paris-untitled This track put me in a kind of 'funky mood' so I followed with 400 Blows.
400 Blows were formed in the early 1980's by Andrew E. Beer and Robert Taylor, they were previously known as Concrete. Robert was also a member of the band Six Minute War. "Movin'" is a cover of a Brass Construction song. "Tumba Rumba" by A Certain Ratio is the flip side to their 7" "Knife Slits Water". A new name to me in 2020 was Robert Millis. Robert is a founder member of the Seattle based project Climax Golden Twins. There were rumblings from folk I know have good taste about the new Millis LP "Related Ephemera" on Helen Scarsdale Agency, so I had to get a copy. "Samsara" is side one on the album created from old 78RPM records, shellac and wax discs, surface noise and feedback generated through various old gramophones. "Related Ephemera" is certainly one of the finer releases from 2020. The vinyl edition sold out pretty quickly (I bought from Discogs) but a digital file is still available here : https://helenscarsdale.bandcamp.com/album/related-ephemera
Tarkatak is Lutz Pruditsch from Oldenburg in Germany. Tarkatak began at the start of the 1990's with cassette releases on labels such as Trümmer Kassetten and Biotape Art Organisation. The track here is from the 1998 7" on Drone Records. I managed to get a copy of this when I played alongside Tarkatak at Der Elefant in Bremen.
Please take a listen to the programme here :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-21-january-2021/
Playlist :
01 : Rainier Lericolais : "La Bouche Du Chaos" (NPH) 2020.
02: The Dead Mauriacs : "HBSC" (Not On Label) 2020.
03: SOON : "The Inventor Dreams" (Extratool) 2020.
04: John Duncan : "The House On Highland Avenue" (Ideal Recordings) 2016.
05: BºTong : "From Insomnia To Revelation In 15 Minutes" (Grubenwehr Freiburg) 2020.
06: Construction : "Construction #1" (Korm Digital) 2020.
07: John Duncan : "Dark" (Ideal Recordings) 2016.
08: Songs Of The New Erotics : "Japanese Ghosts" (Disembraining Songs) 2012.
09: Throbbing Gristle : "Hamburger Lady" (Industrial Records) 1978.
10: Creep Of Paris : "United (Side B)" (Beartown Records) 2020.
11: 400 Blows : "Movin'" (Illuminated Records) 1985.
12: A Certain Ratio : "Tumba Rumba" (Factory Records) 1982.
13: Throbbing Gristle : "E-Coli" (Industrial Records) 1978.
14: Robert Millis : "Samsara" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2020.
15: Tarkatak : "Oroa" (Drone Records) 1998.
The next broadcast will be on February 4 - same time / same channel and features sounds from Robert Curgenven, Stuart Chalmers, Blöd, AntiChild League, Hunting Lodge and Throbbing Gristle amongst others. I know this because it's a pre-record!
