MuhMur Radio Broadcast April 29 2021

 

Tonights programme features two faces / slices of Frans de Waard. (The Man That Never Sleeps ... Or Eats Bread Apparently). The first piece is "Tilos" by Freiband. Freiband is one of many solo projects of Frans'. Beginning in 2002 Freiband was inspired by the tape-scratching of Asmus Tietchens on his "Daseinsverfehlung" CD, but using an entirely digital context. Using recordings that were made for an upcoming Beequeen release, (Beequeen being the duo of Freek Kinkelaar & Frans de Waard) a recording that has lots of guitars, drums and keyboards, Frans started to rework the sounds by scratching the hard disc. The result is a warm, glitchy pop music where the original instruments used are barely recognisable, and the sound is entirely electronic. "Tilos" is from the 2011 cassette album "At Home At Last - Six Songs Seek Shelter" on the Beam Ends label. Beam Ends is a small label run by Freek. The second slice of Frans is the piece "Within" by Modelbau. Released earlier this year on the hugely collectable Falt label. The cassette edition of this release is unfortunately all sold but digital copies are still available on the Falt Bandcamp page : https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/within-without 2022 will see a book on the first ten years of Modelbau.

It is always a joy to receive a surprise through the post and the new CD by Heimito Künst is such that joy. Utilizing synthesisers, magnetic tapes, percussion, strings and field recordings and recording live with environmental microphones (between 2019 - 2019) Heimito creates a deep psychedelic journey with recurring tropes. The recordings were mastered in 2020 by Simon Balestrazzi (Kirlian Camera / T.A.C.) and released on the newly emerging Dissipatio label. https://dissipatio.bandcamp.com It is worth noting that Heimito Künst is the name of a character - a mentally-impaired Neo nazi thug from Vienna - in Chilean author Roberto Bolaño's novel "The Savage Detectives" and track titles from this CD relate to stories and characters in this tome. The plot thickens. 

The Leif Elggren piece is from a recent cassette release on the hugely collectable Research Laboratories label. "Only Criminals In Crowns Find Sanctuary" is limited to 25 copies packaged in a box with a tin crown and postcard. Most Research Laboratories releases are small limited runs so it's worth following them on Tumblr to find out what's happening! : https://researchlaboratories.tumblr.com

Paul Harrison of Expose Your Eyes and Howard Stelzer have collaborated on a new release with a title that is about as long as the CD. This releases is packaged within a hollowed out book. A few weeks ago I received a CD by Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim that was stuck to a plate and a cassette by Modelbau that was packaged in a cardboard box that was the outer packaging - with name and address printed on etc, so each cassette was individual. 2021 is becoming the year of the 'art package'? Released by Illinois (USA) based label Oxidation, standard copies are available here : https://oxidationlabel.bigcartel.com

In 1980 Snatch Tapes put out a cassette by Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey called "Reprint". (I think it was the last cassette release on Snatch Tapes until Ice Yacht's "Pill Box" in 2020). As time passed and myths and rumours to who exactly Claire & Susan were floated about the underground, it became apparent that "Reprint" is an album by Storm Bug(ger) Philip Sanderson. Claire & Susan being a clever ruse and pseudonym. In 2003 Anomalous Records reissued the cassette on CD with bonus tracks and crediting it all to Philip. "Bright Waves" is from this CD. 

One of my most memorable gigs from my youth was seeing Gary Numan on his "Pleasure Principle" tour at Friars in Aylesbury. September 1979, I had just left school with no qualifications and just saw a whole life of travelling up and down the country watching bands and buying records ahead of me. Support at this gig was Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and they were excellent. At this point they had just released their first single for DinDisc "Red Frame/White Light" and were still just a two-piece. "Messages" followed "On This Day" in 1980. 

In September 1980 OMD released "Enola Gay" and our affair ended. 

US Teens is Ashley Davies. Ashley has been delivering the goods since the late 1980's with bands such as Chemical Plant, Headbutt and Spectreman. I first heard Ashley's work as part of Project D.A.R.K. and their 'Excited By Gramophones' series. For the past few years Ashley has been living on the West Coast of USA where the US Teens gave birth. I did ask Ashley where the name came from ... "There was a reason I chose US Teens as the name, fucked if I can remember now tho! Something I heard on the radio when I was driving thru Beverley Hills". I don't know if this cassette is an "official" release.

Knone is another project from Ashley Davies. A duo with vocalist Andrea Croce. "An Exorcism" is from the album "Ritual And Ceremony" released on Radiowave Recordings. Both Knone and Radiowave are contactable through Facebook. 

Cent Ans De Solitude is Jean-Yves Millet, owner of the French label Les Nouvelles Propagandes. I was fortunate enough to perform live with C.A.D.S. in 2014. Along with Le Syndicat we played the El Diablo Club in Lille, France. The track "Des Visages Et Des Ruines" is from the LP of the C.A.D.S. live performance that evening. 

There are two versions, a vinyl version released by Force Majeure (a label operated by Stephané of Nuit Et Brouillard) and a CD version released on Les Nouvelles Propagandes. Both versions are available via Nuit Et Brouillard : http://www.nuitetbrouillard.com

The two Rovar17 pieces are from a split cassette with American performance artist The Three-Brained Robot. Rovar17 is Kálmán Pongrácz from Budapest. He is also part of the Royal Hungarian Noisemakers ensemble. Like Knone, contact is available through Facebook.

Please take a listen to the broadcast here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-29-april-2021/

Playlist :

01: Freiband : "Titos" (Beam Ends) 2011.

02: Heimito Künst : "What's Behind the Window" (Dissipatio) 2021.

03: Hermito Künst : "Talking To Ulises" (Dissipatio) 2021.

04: Leif Elggren : "Her Sister (2) For Me" (Research laboratories) 2021.

05: Expose Your Eyes & Howard Stelzer : "One Should Never Cease Considering Human Love, Which    Remains As Grisly And Golden As Ever" (Oxidation) 2021.

06: Philip Sanderson : "Bright Waves" (Anomalous Records) 2003.

07: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : "Messages" (DinDisc) 1980.

08: Throbbing Gristle : "Adrenalin" (Industrial Records) 1980.

09: US Teens : "20:20" (Radiowave Recordings) 2021.

10: Knone : "An Exorcism" (Radiowave Recordings) 2021.

11: Modelbau : "Within" (Falt) 2021.

12: Cent Ans De Solitude : "Des Visages Et Des Ruines" (Force Majeure) 2020.

13: Rovar17 : "P.A.N.Y.I.G." (Alien Seduction) 2020.

14: Rovar17 : "Sheet Music" (Alien Seduction) 2020.

The next programme will be broadcast on May 13th at 20:00 GMT. at the moment it features Alice Kemp, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, Andrew Quitter, David Tibet and Hugo Randulv and an 'On This Day' featuring Phones B. Sportsman and the Au Pairs.