MuhMur Radio Broadcast 30 September 2021.

 

Tape letters straight from the heart to misquote Ketty Lester. I guess it was an 80's thing, the tape letter. I used to make them for and receive them from a friend who lived in Austin, Texas. I used to mail him John Peel Sessions and talk in-between and in return he'd send tapes with rare stuff by the likes of The Residents and NKVD or Soviet France and interviews with John Duncan and Paul McCarthy. Fair exchange no robbery there ... Duncan Harrison's label AdHuman have just released a cassette of Emil Beaulieau's unique noise featuring a couple of 'private' live performances that were recorded for an (unrealised) compilation being put together by Frans de Waard. Whilst hunting for other stuff Frans discovered a cassette marked "Franz From Emil", a tape letter from Emil. (aka Ron Lessard of RRRecords). The letter, now edited and digitised (by Frans) takes up Side 2 of this great cassette. Grab a copy from : https://adhuman.bandcamp.com/releases. I think you have to request if you want a cassette version. 

I Love Emil ... I Miss Emil .... I Need Emil ... America's greatest living noise artist. 

Fossil Aerosol Mining Project offer songs of enhanced delay and faked resurrection. Active since the mid 1980's they have been releasing album after album of great sounds. They / He are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist. September 2021 and FAMP release "Zombi Traditions (37 Years)" on their own Afterdays Media label. This album uses sounds from films 'about fake corpses' used in the earliest recordings by Fossil Aerosol Mining Project. Sound sources found on a section from an old film trailer in an abandoned drive-in film theatre, the first FAMP album had the topic "If You Loved Dawn Of The Dead", released on iTunes only .. it has since been deleted from distribution. 

"During all of this reanimated revisionism, certain tracks were left behind while others merited remastering or even remixing. So during lockdown last year, that's what we did. We addressed the entire zombie back catalogue, culling from it what we thought was the strongest and most representative material, remixing or remastering just about everything and at the same time pulling in the missing pieces.  The result is a 15 song collection of synthetic resurrections from the Reagan Era - our desert island selection of fake dead bodies and the worlds created for them."

More information on the great Fossil Aerosol Mining Project and their releases can be found here : http://www.fossilaerosol.com/Home.html. Expect to hear more from this album on upcoming broadcasts. 

Back on a Frans de Waard tip. The two pieces played here (and seriously, I might have got the titles mixed up a bit) are from the new cassette album "April Shower" on the German Grisaille label. Limited to 38 copies on cassette now sadly sold out from source, digital copies are available direct from here : https://grisaille.bandcamp.com/album/april-shower. Two tracks from the new Howard Stelzer feature on this broadcast. Both pieces are from "Shaking Off The Metaphors (Suburban Observances Volume One)", a CDR on Chocolate Monk. It now appears that there are going to be many volumes of 'Suburban Observances' released as the next two volumes are on Tribe Tapes and Humanhood Recordings. 

"On This Day" features two very important records. "Sandpaper Lullaby" by The Virgin Prunes (God Bless The Virgin Prunes .. as David Fanning once said). Released in 1981 this 7" was the first in a series of releases called "A New Form Of Beauty". The series featured releases on 7", 10", 12", VHS Tape and cassette. 12 months after releasing their debut LP Dome put out "Dome 3". Experimentations by Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis (from Wire) recorded with John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe at Blackwing Studios in London. "Dasz" features the voice of Angela Conway. 

Fang Bomb are a label from Gothenburg based in London. The first releases in 2006 were from Wolf Eyes, The Skull Defekts, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words and Martin Birgersson. In 2008 they released the compilation album "Gothenburg 08", this album was a follow up (of sorts) to the compilation "Gothenburg 84" released by Radium 226.05. "A similar idea but in a different era" is what Fang Bomb boss Petter Ottosson calls it. Swedish experimentalists Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander appear on both albums. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words "Facelessness Erases Every Trace Of Humanity" is from this compilation. DLSODW is a pre-Trepaneringsritualen project by Thomas Ekelund. In 2014 Fang Bomb released the second solo album by Paul Baran called "The Other", a follow up to the 2009 album "Panoptic".

Paul is half of the Glaswegian experimentalists The Cray Twins. (Alongside Gordon Kennedy). A new Paul Baran release on Fang Bomb will be out later this year. Sons Of Viljems are another duo, this time from London. They are Nejc Haberman and Andrea Giommi (formerly of The Emerald Leaves and Edible Woman). "Jelena" is their first vinyl release and features a guest appearance by film composer Filip Sijanec. All Fang Bomb releases can be found here : https://www.fangbomb.com. 

Words cannot express the sadness I felt when I read of the passing of Richard H. Kirk. Cabaret Voltaire are a large part of my life. Doors were opened back in 1978 c/o Richard. I remain indebted. 

No strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist Neutral have a new vinyl album out on Happiest Place. The album is a re-release of a 2017 ultra-limited cassette, the first ever release on Happiest Place. "Live På Autodiktat" was recorded live in Växjö (Sweden) in November 2016.

The album and other Happiest Place releases can be grabbed from here : https://happiestplacerecords.bandcamp.com

Browning Mummery are an Australian industrial band formed in 1983 by Andrew Lonsdale and John Jacobs. It is only natural that John Murphy would also be involved (Australian / industrial / experimental music) and on the 40th anniversary of the John Murphy "Krang Music" cassette on Coded Information Systems the Australian label Novichok have put out a limited 7" featuring Krang and Browning Mummery. "Lament For Comrade Time" features the line-up of Andrew Lonsdale, Rob Cummings, Annie Stubbs and Julian Percy (of Last Dominion Lost). Murphy collaborator Jon Evans assisted in the production.  https://novichoklabel.blogspot.com for more information.

I am still playing the "Lucy & Aaron" album .... 

The broadcast can be found here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-30-september-2021/ . Next broadcast is on October 14. SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM if you're down in Devon or stream it here : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk. 20:00 GMT kick off time (as usual). 

Playlist :

01: Emil Beaulieau : "Franz From Emil" (AdHuman) 2021.

02: Fossil Aerosol Mining Project : "Damaged Years Ago (2020 Mix)" (Afterdays Media) 2021.

03: Modelbau : "0406543" (Grisaille) 2021.

04: Modelbau : "0416504" (Grisaille) 2021.

05: Howard Stelzer : "Sayanora Baby" (Chocolate Monk) 2021.

06: Virgin Prunes : "Sandpaper Lullaby" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

07: Dome : "Dasz" (Dome Records) 1981.

08: Dome : "Roos-An" (Dome Records) 1981.

09: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words : "Facelessness Erases Every Trace Of Humanity" (Fang Bomb) 2008.

10: Paul Baran : "Britonia" (Fang Bomb) 2014.

11: Sons Of Viljems (ft Filip Sijanec) : "Jelena" (Fang Bomb) 2021.

12: Cabaret Voltaire : "Capsules" (Rough Trade Records) 1979.

13: Cabaret Voltaire : "Jazz The Glass" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

14: Cabaret Voltaire : "Silent Command" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

15: Neutral : "Intro" (Happiest Place) 2021.

16: Neutral : "Du" (Happiest Place) 2021.

17: Browning Mummery : "Lament For Comrade Time" (Novichok) 2021.

18: Howard Stelzer : "Pine Tree And Shooting Star" (Chocolate Monk) 2021.

19: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Yodeling Slits" (Hanson Records) 2021. 

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