MuhMur Radio Broadcast 24 June 2021 (Playlist)

 

 

Little bit of pre-amble. 

Apologies for no playlist for the broadcast on June 10. The playlist is in the comments section of the MixCloud archive. Time was my enemy on this one. 

Regular listeners / followers might have noticed that there is no longer a MuhMur Radio on Facebook. Whether this is temporary or not I have yet to decide. If truth be told MuhMur Radio was never meant to be on Facebook, or any social media platform really. Back in the mid-noughties I joined Facebook, my wife (Tamsin) was on there and as I had moved to the Deep South and contact with friends was becoming more remote I decided to sign up, give my privacy away and share photographs of our days out with the kids with my family and friends ... but I didn't really like it .. so after a couple of years I de-activated my account. I then decided to start the 'MuhMur' Blog where I could write about records, gigs, Dieter Müh, secondhand record shops etc etc. In 2012 I started to broadcast on SoundArt Radio (102.5FM), live broadcasts every other Thursday night ... I would talk about the programme on the MuhMur Blog as this is MuhMur Radio. Straight from the off I archived each programme on MixCloud. Back in 2012 / 2013 I used to follow (broadcast after) a prog-rock music show called "Honey For You Rears" hosted by Andy "Hatter" Howard, he would boast about his listenership and freebies he was sent etc and told me to get the MuhMur Radio 'out there' with a Facebook page and Twitter page and then folk could interact with you live ... all that kind of nonsense, but being who I am I took his advice and re-joined Facebook and started a Twitter account. The Twitter account didn't last long. After a couple of days I had "followers" in triple figures who were all posting shite on my feed, folk I didn't know and have never met were using my platform. That had to stop! When trying to set up a MuhMur Radio Facebook page I discovered that my profile from 2009 was still there with all the old profile photographs and information so it was simpler just to re-activate the old account and set-up a MuhMur Radio page. 

By this time my old server, Freeserve, had ceased to exist and I had to get a new one, choosing gmail. Unfortunately I could not retrieve my MuhMur Blog for reasons of forgotten passwords and losing the old fsnet Email address. So I set up 'ReMuhMuration' to write about records, gigs and post playlists for the broadcasts ... This year, this year though it has been different. Over the past few months block advertising has been happening on my News Feed page and I cannot get rid of it. Daily notifications popping up on the MuhMur Radio page telling me to promote and boost my "product". I could reach thousands of new 'customers'. I know the old adage that with the internet if something is "free" then you are the product (and ... cue The Desperate Bicycles) I used to say it to Tamsin all the time but now it has reached a point of it really getting to me, getting under my skin. So it has had to stop. The de-activation is only temporary but it may lead to a full stop. I apologise to the people who followed and supported MuhMur Radio on Facebook but hopefully you all understand. I can always be contacted via this page or the MixCloud Archive or muhmur.radio@gmail.com is my preferred mode of contact. 

MuhMur Radio was never meant to be broadcast to the thousands anyway. I have spent most of my time and activities since the late 1970's acting below the radar, beneath the awareness. I would rather there be 40 or 50 folk who really enjoy what I play than 950 or so listeners who don't. Does that make sense? 

So to tonight's broadcast. 

Playlist :

01: Jim Haynes : "Multiple Gunshots" (SIGE) 2021.

02: Dome : "Ampnoise" (Dome Records) 1980.

03: Bruce Gilbert : "Here Visit" (Mute Records) 1984.

04: Desmond Simmons : "April Waits" (Dome Records) 1981.

05: Neutral : "Coop" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

06: Neutral : "Jalusie" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

07: Artery : "Unbalanced" (Aardvark) 1981.

08: Bruce Gilbert : "Children" (WFMU) 2017.

09: Mark Vernon : "Succulent Gros" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

10: Mark Vernon : "Overflown Elipsis" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

11: Mark Vernon : "The Larum Of The Living" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

12: Mark Vernon : "The Consensus Is To Delete" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

13: Mark Vernon : "Nossos Ossos" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

14: Mark Vernon : "Revolving Rivers" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

15: The Dead Mauriacs : "Still" (NPH) 2021.

16: Dome : "Cancel Your Order" (Dome Records) 1980.

17: Dome : "Cruel When Complete" (Dome Records) 1980.

18: Blod : "Danmark Frit" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

19: Simon Joyner : "After The Gold Rush" (WFMU) 2011.

20: Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg : "An Gott Verraten" (V I S) 2021

21: Troum : "Dream Theme / Towards The Invisible Being" (Raubauu) 2020.

22: Albert Von Abbe And David Von Behr : "Extratool 3" (Extratool) 2021.

23: Dome : "Linasixup" (Dome Records) 1980.

24: Five Or Six : "Polar Exposure" (Cherry Red Records) 1981.

25: Swell Maps : "Tibetan Bedsprings" (Easy Action) 2021.

26: Wire : "Second Length (Our Swimmer)" (Rough Trade Records) 1983.

27: Dome : "Here We Go" (Dome Records) 1980.

28: Dome : "Rolling Upon My Day" (Dome Records) 1980. 

You can listen to the broadcast in full here :

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-24062021/

The reason for playing extracts from the LP "Dome 1" by Dome was because it was released on June 24 1980. Dome were the duo Graham Lewis & Bruce Gilbert ex of Wire. It's an album that has never left my side since release. 

Links to releases :

Jim Haynes : https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-sky-burned

Grapefruit Records : https://www.grapefruitrecordclub.com

The Dead Mauriacs : https://thedeadmauriacs.bandcamp.com/album/of-course-this-is-dance-music

Troum : https://troum.bandcamp.com

Extratool : https://extratool.bandcamp.com

Thanks for listening. The next MuhMur Radio will be broadcast on July 8 at 20:00 hours GMT. SoundArt radio is available to all those who inhabit the dark corners of Totnes & Dartington, just tune the radio dial to 102.5FM - live streaming is always available vis the SoundArt Radio website : 

https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

You can always contact me via this blog or E Mither me at muhmur.radio(at)gmail.com 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 10 June 2021

 

A new MuhMur Radio Broadcast is available for listening on the MixCloud Archive page. Sounds from Modelbau, Mark Vernon, John Duncan + Stefano Pilia, Nostril Flair, AntiChildLeague and Kazuya Ishigami amongst others ... Please take a listen here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-june-2021/

A full blog with playlist with links and pictures and the usual ramblings will be posted soon ... 

MuhMur Radio Facebook.

 

Some folk may have noticed that I have come off Facebook over the weekend, I have no presence on that platform at the moment. All notices about MuhMur Radio, upcoming broadcasts etc will be posted here. The after-show playlist + information shall remain the same. 

If you want to get in touch, then please use my E Mail address which is listed in 'my profile' here. This may or not (the FB presence) be permanent. 

The picture above features some, if not all of the sounds that will feature in the June 10 Broadcast. SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM if you're hanging around Totnes / Dartington or listen to the live stream via the SoundArt Radio Web Site. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk Kick-Off as always is 20:00 GMT. 

Sick Days.

 

Sick Days is the sound project of Canadian artist Jeff Sinibaldi. A new name to me and certainly one I wouldn't have chanced upon if it wasn't for their recent releases on the Finnish Hyster Tapes label. It is just over 20 years ago when myself (as part of Dieter Müh) and Putrefier toured the pubs, clubs, sinkholes and dives of Europe and wherever we turned up at the venue there was "Sick On The Bus" graffiti all over the backstage areas, so I have always avoided bands with "Sick" in their name. (Sickness being an exception because Chris is a fine fellow!). Anyway ... 

Sick Days have released an eponymous cassette on the Hyster Tapes imprint. Two pieces spanning 45 minutes. The first is a 30 minute or so piece called "Cold Tones". An improvisation of layered passive frequencies and loops that lead into a sense of isolation, a sense of abandonment in the tones which leads to the visualisation of white, cold bleakness of an Artic tundra. I do get to listen to a lot of releases pertaining to this genre, the genre of Drone, Experimentalism, Field Recordings, Looped Tones etc and Sick Days do rise above.

"Point Abino" (That may not be the title .. the typewriter Hyster HQ use needs a new ribbon) is some sort of 'hydrophonic' piece based on the rhythm and flow of water. The sound of waves lapping upon a pebbled shoreline. The burbling and gurgling of H ² 0. The running time of this piece is 13 minutes but that's because the tape just ends ... I have a feeling this an excerpt from a much longer piece. 

The only other Sick Days release I can find (Discogs as research) is a 2015 eponymous CDR on the Vacancy label. Jeff Sinibaldi is the owner of the Vacancy label. Whether or not this tape is an edited version of the CDR I do not know, the CDR was limited to 18 copies only and I would imagine long sold out by now. 

                                                    A selection of Hyster Tapes releases.

Hyster Tapes started in 2003, at first it was planned to be a cassette only label using recycled cassette tapes for releases. Running along similar lines to the 'Recycled' series on RRRecords. The label is operated by Heikke (aka Plaa from Grey Park / Nolls). Their first release was Dieter Müh "Doin' It Dresden Style". A 40 minute recording of a live performance at the AZ Conni in Dresden (when we seemed to be following Sick On The Bus everywhere!). I came up with the title as a kind of homage to two of my favourite bands; Slaughter & The Dogs and Swell Maps. It was then four years before Hyster Tapes released a follow up with a release by XXIII, followed by their first compilation "Your Own Shadow Blocks The Light" featuring XXIII, Grey Park, Culver, YuriYuri and others. Since 2007 Hyster Tapes has moved up a gear with releases with tapes from Re-Clip, Uton, D.D.Dobson, Dear Beloved Henry, Zoe Polanski, Leitmotiv Limbo, Keijo and Grey Park themselves. Hyster Tapes have also collaborated with Finnish counterparts Ikuissus to release vinyl LPs by A Handful Of Dust, Varropas and Grykë Pyje. 

Over the years I have really enjoyed discovering new sounds and artists through Hyster Tapes. Sick Days being added to that list. 

Contact Hyster Tapes here : http://www.pcuf.fi/~plaa/hyster.html most cassettes cost €2 + postage. 

Vacancy are based in Toronto. No contact details are available.