MuhMur Radio Broadcast 19 August 2021.

 The programme starts with 4 pieces from Mark Dicker. All 4 pieces make up Side B of his new release "Flyalarm" on Brachliegen Tapes. Up until a few weeks ago Mark Dicker was completely unknown to me, but a recommendation from Thanasis at Electric Knife Records turned me on ... and now I am on the hunt for Mark Dicker releases. Research tells me that Mark begin this century playing keyboards and vocals for the Casio-Grindcore band Treacher before joining Doom Metal merchants Palehorse. Again, new names to me but I suppose Doom Metal and Grindcore aren't my 'sort of thing'. Mark also spent time in the Psychedelic Rock group Queen Of Swords (alongside John Macedo) and is also one half of the Drone Folk duo Time. Since 2014 Mark has been releasing under his own moniker. 

"Flyalarm" was recorded in a room above a church in Oslo, Norway earlier in the year. Collecting field recordings around the location, sounds from a Norwegian winter, Mark mixes the recordings with multi-layering modular synthesisers. 'Flyalarm' is released on the Brachliegen Tapes label. Brachliegen Tapes is run by George Rayner-Law in Deal (Kent). George also records and releases as Schwerpunkt, expect some Schwerpunkt in the next broadcast. "Flyalarm" is available direct from the label here : https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com Another Mark Dicker cassette I found was the "Schwarzschild Radio" C30 put out by Beartown Records in May this year. Two fifteen minute pieces of modular synth work mixed with processed recordings of number stations. Another great tape from the highly collectable Beartown Records label. https://beartownrecords.bigcartel.com

Emile Bojesen (like Mark Dicker) was an artist unknown to me until a few weeks ago. I bought his latest cassette release "Ice" via Jan Warnke at Gerauschmanufaktur. Further listening led me to the CDR album "Reality", a collaboration with the project Banished Pills. Banished Pills is the project of Italian sound artist Edoardo Cammisa. As well as releasing sounds on a variety of labels such as Gerauschmanufaktur, Outsider Art, Line and Hoopoe Industries Emile is an author of philosophy and academic books such as 'Forms of Education (Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy'. 

Emile works as Reader In Education And Faculty Head Of Research And Knowledge Exchange at Winchester University. "Reality" was released by Cathedral Transmissions and "Ice" on Gerauschmanufaktur. Both releases are available here : https://cathedraltransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/reality . https://geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com/merch

The Crispy Ambulance track is from their debut LP "The Plateau Phase". http://muhmur.blogspot.com/2010/02/crispy-ambulance-in-north-hykeham.html Since this piece was written I have met up with Mark again (he lives in Dursley, Glous ... just up the M5) and contacted Alan to get his memories of that evening ... he remembers it well.

"On This Day" features the only decent track on the 1979 compilation album "Street To Street - A Liverpool Album". The Id were a precursor to Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. The album also features (amongst others) Echo & The Bunnymen, Big In Japan, The Accelerators, Modern Eon and Dead Trout. Sleeve notes are by John Peel. 

Over the past five or six years Stefan Hanser at The Epicurean has been collating, archiving and releasing the oeuvre of John Murphy. 2016 saw the collection "All My Sins Remembered - The Sonic Worlds Of John Murphy". A 3xCD set featuring John's work as a drummer in various post-punk groups in Australia (Whirlywirld, News and Mandrix) and his projects The Orchestra Of Skin And Bone, Browning Mummery, Krank, Vhril, Sooterkin Flesh as well as his work with The Associates, SPK, Knifeladder and Blood Axis amongst others. This year The Epicurean released Volume II of "All My Sins Remembered" exploring the recordings of The Grimsel Path, Crank, Ophiolateria and My Father Of Serpents. This time the release is a double CD package. John Murphy was a legend. Both volumes are available direct from The Epicurean : http://the-epicurean.transformed.de

Shit Creek is Bristol based artist Lewis Duffy. Last year he teamed up with Neil Campbell and Owen Chambers (of Carnivorous Plants) to create Soberin Exx and release the cassette album "Normal Islands". This year Lewis and Neil team up again to release the CDR "Arclight Trance/Cloud Market". Lewis also runs the Luxury Bucket label releasing his own work as well as sounds from Neil Campbell, Territorial Gobbing, Daniel J Gregory, Bearer and Kek-W amongst others. A label worth exploring. Contact Lewis : https://luxurybucket.net

A few weeks ago I bought a Din A Testbild Boxed LP and inside was a 7" by Kluster and Mr. Welten. A 1997 release on the German Marginal Talent label. I know nothing of Kluster / Cluster, always tagged them with the likes of Can, Faust, Neu! and Ash Ra Tempel. Although I did see Dieter Moebius play live in Hamburg University, 2013. 

The broadcast ends on Dangerous Girls and a track from their final vinyl. Dangerous Girls existed between 1978 and 1981 releasing four classic singles. Originally from Birmingham and called In The Jungle With No Guns they have recently reformed calling themselves Dangerous Girls Reunited. There's some great live footage across YouTube including this song filmed in 1979 in Birmingham Uni.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Lf8Sk4UkA

Playlist : 

01: Mark Dicker : "Isflak" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

02: Mark Dicker : "Morkegronne" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

03: Mark Dicker : "Varmeskaper" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

04: Mark Dicker : "Sirap" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

05: Banished Pills & Emile Bojesen : "Irrelevant" (Cathedral Transmissions) 2021.

06: Emile Bojesen : "Ice (2)" (Gerauschmanufaktur) 2021.

07: Crispy Ambulance : "Are You Ready?" (Factory Benelux) 1982.

08: The Id : "Julia's Dream" (Open Eye Records) 1979.

09: My Father Of Serpents : "Untitled" (The Epicurean) 2021.

10: Mark Dicker : "Broadcast No. 29028.118.1" (Beartown Records) 2021.

11: Shit Creek & Neil Campbell : "Cloud Market" (Not On Label) 2021.

12: Kluster : "Eruption (Extract From Part Two)" (Marginal Talent) 1997.

13: Dangerous Girls : "Men In Suits" (Human Records) 1981.

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-19082021/

Next Broadcast will be on September 2nd, 20:00 GMT kick-off (as always). SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM. Live stream via https://www.soundartradio.org.uk and will feature sounds from Karen Constance, Thomas LaRoche, Schwerpunkt, Ice Yacht and tracks from the new Minny Pops LP ... amongst other things.