MuhMur Radio Broadcast 13 May 2021

 

The programme begins, ends and has an intermission with "Plegadis Flacinellus" by Brighton based project Creep Of Paris. Creep Of Paris is Thomas LaRoche. Released last year, the cassette is packaged with a small booklet and a vial of massaging oil (included purposely to rub into your feet whilst listening tot he tape, unfortunately my copy came sans oil). Released on Thomas's own Research Laboratories label copies are made to order. https://researchlaboratories.tumblr.com

On April 1 this year Fossil Aerosol Mining Project released a four track EP available for a few hours only via their website. "An Invocation Of Alice" is from this EP.

2020 was a busy year for release by Alice Kemp. The German label Fragment Factory put out the  cassette "Songs In the Key Of NO" and the Dutch label Dead Mind Records put out "Sweetly My Blacken Doll". Alice also contributed to the Amplify 2020 project which posted free downloads on a daily basis throughout the year. "Sweetly My Blacken Doll" came out in November last year. A 20 minute piece packaged in a small box with art cards and a companion made from Beech Wood, Nylon, Human Hair, Waxed & Dyed Threads and 'Secrets'. (I must admit to not opening my companion yet!). 

The cassette / art box was limited to 25 copies only but a download version is available for only €3 from Dead Mind Records : https://dead-mind.bandcamp.com/album/sweetly-my-blacken-doll

Andrew Quitter started making and releasing noises in the late 1990's. A prolific noise artist he has released under the names of Regosphere, Ignorant Eyes, Normal Police and Psychic Rape Defence Unit amongst others and collaborated with the likes of Harold Shipman, Juice Machine, Contagious Orgasm and Werewolf Jerusalem. Andrew also releases under his own name, AQ releases have a more darker edge, room for experimentation, drone textures. "Mountain Hymns For City Rats" is a collection of 

pieces from split and compilation releases. It's a CDR on Andrew's own DumpsterScore label. http://dumpsterscore.org/outnow.html I also recommend the new Contagious Orgasm / Regosphere cassette "Hospital Emissions" on DumpsterScore. 

Förlag För Fri Musik is one of the most essential labels releasing quality records for the past five or six years. It's the home for projects such as Treasury Of Puppies, Blod, Arv & Miljö, Monokultur, Leda and Enhet För Fri Musik amongst others. A couple of months ago they put out two albums on the same day ... Astrid Øster Mortensen's "Gro Mig En Blomst" and Hugo Randulv's "Radio Arktis - Samlade Ljud Från Den Norra Polcirkeln". The two Randulv tracks here are from this new LP. Hugo also plays with Amateur Hour (I wonder if they're a Sparks tribute band) and Typical Girls (Slits?). Hugo is also part of Enhet För Fri Musik, who also have a new album out and selections will be played on the next MuhMur Radio Broadcast. (May 27). 

Both LPs are limited to 240 copies, try Discreet Music for copies : http://www.discreetmusic.se

"On This Day" features two classics. Firstly The Phones Sportsman Band "I Really Love You" 7"EP on Rather Records. Phones Sportsman is an alias of David Barrington. In the early 1970's Barrington formed the Swell Maps in Birmingham (UK) alongside Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl, Kevin Godfrey, Jowe Head and John "Golden" Cockrill. "I Really Love You" was Phones' only solo release - it does feature a great cover of Slade's "Get Down And Get With It". Barrington retired from the music industry to become a geologist. The EP can be found on Discogs etc ... 

A year later on May 13 1981 Au Pairs (also from Birmingham) released their debut LP "Playing With A Different Sex". "Armagh" is from this album.

"Fontelautus" is the second album, in a series of five, of solo releases by David Tibet. Originally released last year on the Cashen's Gap imprint as a limited lathe cut 12", last month HomAleph re-issued the album

on CD, packaged with a 'Japanese' style paper imprint. I recommend signing up to the David Tibet / Current 93 newsletter. https://www.davidtibet.com

The Clock DVA tracks are from the (timeless) classic "Thirst" LP. Released in 1981 on Fetish Records. 

For the past thirty years Dutch artist / author / musician has been writing about music for publications such as Vital Weekly, Record Collector and The Wire. Earlier this year a collection of his writings on his discovery of obscure vinyl, cassette and vanity pressings was published by Korm Plastics. "Wondersound" is a fantastic read, probably one of the best books written about music that I have read. It's fascinating in detail, written with humour and personality talking about the releases of and the discovery of such artists as Vagina Dentata Organ, The Gerogerigegege, Princess Tinymeat, Whitehouse and The Legendary Pink Dots as well as his love for the kitsch sounds of Japanese Erotic Pop and singing actresses from the sixties. Anorak in detail and unputdownable. (I am a notoriously slow reader and I ate this book in three days!). The book came with a download code for the track "Boy In Love". Freek has played with such luminaries as Andrew Lilles and Frans de Waard (as half of Beequeen) ad also spent time as one of The Residents. (the story is included in "Wondersound").

Copies of the book are available from Frans at Korm Plastics. http://www.kormplastics.nl or direct from Freek. https://freekkinkelaar.nl/a-biography-longish/

This programme's obligatory piece by Frans de Waard is the Modelbau track "Palindrome", released as a download only on February 12 2021. (12022021). Staying in the Lowlands. Créme De La Crime are from Belgium. "Lipstick" is from the 1986 compilation cassette "International Sound Communication #10" released by Man's Hate Productions. Man's Hate Productions was operated out of Peterborough by Andi Xport. The 'ISC' series was a great document of home produced cassette releases between 1985 - 1987. '#10' also includes my project of old - Ideas Beyond Filth as well as Stress, Do Easy (early Lawrence Burton project), Agencement, F/I, A Split Second, Rudolf's Rache (a German post punk band that features Tarkatak's Lutz Pruditsch on vocals) and Len Liggins amongst others. Volumes #1 - #8 are available as free downloads here : https://isctapes.wordpress.com

The Grey Frequency track is from the new compilation CD "Drone Islands - Stellar". Released by Eighth Tower Records, a label operated by Raffaele Pezzella aka SONOLOGYST. Copies are available here : https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com or try contacting Gavin Morrow (aka Grey Frequency) here : http://www.greyfrequency.co.uk

Thanks for listening, please take a listen to the broadcast here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-13-may-2021/

Playlist :

01: Creep Of Paris : "Plegadis Falcinellus (Extract)" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

02: Fossil Aerosol Mining Project : "An Invocation Of Alice" (Not On Label) 2021.

03: Alice Kemp : "In Through A Dog's Head Woman" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

04: Alice Kemp : "A Fen Leth Toleth" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

05: Alice Kemp : "Un Felyr Stor Ama Keth" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

06: Alice Kemp : "Sweetly Mein Fettal Worm" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

07: Alice Kemp : "Under A Blacken Hill" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

08: Alice Kemp : "Three Trees And A Hole In the Ground" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

09: Andrew Quitter : "The Wolf Howls For No Man" (DumpsterScore) 2019.

10: Hugo Randulv : "Havet Vid Världens Början" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2021.

11: Hugo Randulv : "Radio Reykjavik" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2021.

12: The Phones Sportsman Band : "Wah Wah Track" (Rather Records) 1980.

13: The Phones Sportsman Band : "The Olton" (Rather Records) 1980.

14: Au Pairs : "Armagh" (Human Records) 1981.

15: Creep Of Paris : "Plegadis Falcinellus (Extract)" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

16: David Tibet : "Fontelautus (II)" (HomAleph) 2021.

17: Astrid Øster Mortensen : "Can I Still Call?" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2021.

18: Clock DVA : "Piano Pain" (Fetish Records) 1981.

19: Clock DVA : "Blue Tone" (Fetish Records) 1981.

20: Freek Kinkelaar : "Boy In Love" (Brunnen) 2021.

21: Modelbau : "Palindrome" (Not On Label) 2021.

22: La Créme De La Crime : "Lipstick" (Man's Hate Production) 1986.

23: Grey Frequency : "Planetary Chain" (Eighth Tower Records) 2021.

24: Creep Of Paris : "Plegadis Falcinellus (Extract)" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

Another selection from the collection will be broadcast on May 27 at 20:00 GMT on SoundArt Radio (102.5FM + streamed live via the SoundArt Radio website). Sounds from Inade, Himukalt, Grey Frequency, Nocturnal Emissions, (the aforementioned) Enhet För Fri Müsik, Angel Simitchiev & Linus Schrab, Eater (!) and much much more. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk