If it had only clicked at the time of recording this programme I would have started with the B Movie single "Remembrance Day". Ah well, the broadcast kicks off with a track from the Howard Stelzer cassette "I've Told You Once (Suburban Observances Volume Two)". It's a cassette on the US Tribe Tapes label and (I guess) a follow up to Volume One that was released by UK label Chocolate Monk a few weeks ago. Tribe Tapes have European distribution through White Centipede Noise in Germany and Electric Knife Records / Industrial Coast and Tordon Ljud in the UK. Volume four in the Suburban Observances series is a double CD on Humanhood Records. Hopefully my copy will arrive soon ...
A few weeks ago the new album by Blue Chemise came through and it has a track called "Chrysanthemum No.1" and that got me thinking ... I have a great piece by Aube called "Chrysanthemum" that is on the compilation "Infernal Proteus". Playing the DJ license card I play both tracks back to back. "Infernal Proteus" is a 4xCD release with the CDs being encased in a hardback book, it features artists including Aube, Apoptose, Troum, Yannick Dauby, Chaos As Shelter and Ultra amongst others. Released in 2002 I imagine copies are long sold out but Discogs have copies for sale ... worth having.
Blue Chemise is the project of Australian musician Mark Gomes. I first came across the sound of Blue Chemise through the excellent 7" "The Music Lesson" on the I Dischi Del Barone label. "Chrysanthemum No.1" is from the LP "Flower Studies". A collection of eight pastorales on strings and piano inspired by the photographs of Adolphe Braun (1812 - 1877). Released on the Belgian B.A.D.D.M. label and limited to 444 copies. https://baadm.bandcamp.com/album/flower-studies
Always a treat to hear new sounds / material by Swedish sound-genius Mattias Gustafsson (aka Altar Of Flies). "Utan Titel" is from the new cassette "Piano And Tapeworks Volume II" on Mattias' own imprint Hästen & Korsett. Tordon Ljud and White Centipede Noise are doing the European distribution on this release. Again, worth having.
Tesco Organisation have been busy with releases over the past few weeks. They have now put out Himukalt's 12th album "Dreaming Of A Dead Girl". Himukalt is the project of American industrial artist Ester Kärkkäinen. Tesco Organisation have also released "Asura" the new album from Linekraft. Linekraft is the project of Japanese noise artist Masahiko Okubo.
"Asura" is the Hindu god of wrath as far as I can make out, the album has titles dedicated to political assassination and suicide ... it really is a breath of fresh air and it's great to hear well crafted and strutted power electronics again which I can also say about the new 7" single from Genocide Organ. "Khalsa" / "Operation Blue Star" is volume four in the 7" series 'Religious Extremism (Alternativism)' series by Genocide Organ.
All titles can be bought direct from Tesco Organisation. https://tesco-germany.com/en/ . The track by Grey Frequency is from the cassette album "Essentia". The cassette was released by Remote Viewing on the 13th of August and only available via the labels Bandcamp page on that day. This seems to be a marketing ploy taken up by a few labels recently and I'm not 'a fan' of it. I can understand the point of labels, small labels who do home dubbing, can know the exact figure to copy so there's not a shoebox full in the attic gathering dust for years. But, surely the label will know it's minimum / maximum sales be it 10, 12, 30 or 300. Perhaps I am not keen on this selling technique as there are days when I don't go on the internet - for various reasons - or only get to pages late at night when releases are now "sold out". Remote Viewing is a sub-label of Sensory Leakage. https://sensoryleakage.bandcamp.com The Lee Riley track is from a new 3" CDREP available through the Soloman Tump Bandcamp page. https://solomantump.bandcamp.com. The EP is called "Spl // it" and is a joint release with Soloman Tump. (Two tracks each). The EP also comes as a free download if you buy issue #2 of Soloman Tumps magazine "Intrusive Signals" (mentioned elsewhere on this blog). http://intrusivesignals.limitedrun.com. Lee Riley is a musician / sound artist based in Oxford, back in 2018 he collaborated with Stuart Chalmers to release the cassette "Points Of Vital Differences" on Cruel Nature Records. Well worth hunting down.
Over the past twelve months or so Stuart has been releasing a series of albums that all summon the heart of 'things'. Beginning with "The Heart Of Contemplation" (Wormhole Wood / Tavern Eightieth), followed by "The Heart Of Instinct" (TQ N-aut) and most recently "The Heart Of Nature" (Ikuisuus / Opal Tapes). The two pieces here are from the latest tape. Digital copies are still available from Stuart. Contact him at : https://stuartchalmers.bandcamp.com/music. No strangers to the MuhMur Radio Playlist, Hairs Abyss are Paul Harrison (Expose Your Eyes / Smell & Quim) and Chandor Gloomy (Cromlech Shadow / Feral Copse). "Looking" is the opening track from the CDR "Looking At The Land" on Brighton based label HREA'M Recordings. https://hream.bandcamp.com/releases. Hairs Abyss also have a CD out on the Baltimore (USA) based label SpleenCoffin. Called "Aposematic Displays" it's available from the label https://spleencoffin.com, or direct from Chandor at https://comakultur.bandcamp.com.
It's really good to hear new releases from Ukranian artist Edward Sol. "Go And Get Dressed" is his latest cassette on his own Quasi Pop Records label. The two Aube tracks "Scrub" and "Passive Attack" are from the 4x7" box "Quadrotation". Alex at Tordon Ljud was selling original copies recently. I am guessing that someone found a shoebox full gathering dust in their attic recently. It's an Aube release I missed out on back in the mid 90's, so it's great to have a copy ... at last.
The programme ends with a track from the timeless album (mini LP?) "Hit The Pulse" by Portion Control.
Please take a listen : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-11-november-2021/
As ever, comments are always welcomed. Contact me at muhmur.radio@gmail.com. The next programme will be on November 25th. 20:00 GMT on the FM Dial (102.5) or Live Stream via the SoundArt Radio webspace. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk
Playlist :
01: Howard Stelzer : "There Are Always Hands" (Tribe Tapes) 2021.
02: Aube : "Chrysanthemum" (The Ajna Offensive) 2002.
03: Blue Chemise : "Chrysanthemum No.1" (B.A.D.D.M.) 2021.
04: Mattias Gustafsson : "Utan Titel" (Hästen & Korsett) 2021.
05: Himukalt : "Sehr Empfindlich" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.
06: Linekraft : "An Assassination In The Organic Universe" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.
07: Linekraft : "One Kills One" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.
08: Genocide Organ : "Operation Blue Star" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.
09: Grey Frequency : "What We Become" (Remote Viewing) 2021.
10: Lee Riley : "Be Strange Not Afraid" (Not On Label) 2021.
11: Stuart Chalmers : "Wood" (Ikuisuus) 2021.
12: Stuart Chalmers : "Metal" (Ikuisuus) 2021.
13: Hairs Abyss : "Looking" (HREA'M Recordings) 2021.
14: Edward Sol : "Go And Get Dressed" (Quasi Pop Records) 2021.
15: Aube : "Scrub" (Self Abuse Records) 1996.
16: Genocide Organ : "Khalsa" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.
17: Aube : "Passive Attack" (Self Abuse Records) 1996.
18: Portion Control : "Crash Weight Gain" (In Phase Records) 1983.
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