It's really pleasing to see Phil Julian get physical. Over the past five years or so Phil has been putting his sounds out as download only files. "Young Person's Guide To Voice Job" is released in cassette format (as well as WAV format) on Dale Cornish's Vanity Publishing label. All pieces were recorded in 2018 using a corrupted user bank of a Yamaha TQ5 FM Midi Expander and resequenced in 2021. The cassette is limited to 40 copies only and available : https://vanitypublishing.bandcamp.com/album/young-person-s-guide-to-voice-job
Re-Clip are from Finland and another project who now concentrate on download releases. I first came across their sound via the 2009 cassette album "Notes" on Hyster Tapes, and have been hooked ever since. Re-Clip seem to put out extremely limited editions of self-pressed 7"'s once in a while .. "Alt" is from the 2021 7" "Alt/On". https://re-clip.bandcamp.com is worth following if you want to grab the 'physical' stuff.
Q&A are the improvisational / experimental duo of Quentin Rollet and Andrew Sharpley. Rollet is a French saxophonist who has collaborated with Nurse With Wound whilst Sharpley is a founding member of Stock, House & Walkman. "Loop" is from the CD "The New Me" on the French labels Reqords / Test Recordings. https://testrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-me-2
I received a package of releases from Humanhood Recordings a few weeks back and the album "Heat On Earth" by PBK/Spybey/Butcher/Johnson was a great surprise. With Robin Spybey being involved the tracks have a kind of motorik pulse feel around them with electronics from PBK and treated saxophone by John Butcher. John Butcher is also part of the UK free jazz improvisational electronic troupe The Seen alongside Phil Julian. Travis Johnson adds a stringed drone to the pieces ... it's become a regular spin here at MuhMur HQ. Originally released in 2018, a second edition on cassette has now been issued. Go to https://humanhoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/heat-on-earth to get a copy. (Download available).
Last year Onewayness played a few selective live dates with Drekka. For these dates they put out a 'tour only' collaborative CDR. This alerted me to the presence of Onewayness and it's main protagonist Adam Holquist. Adam kindly mailed me a package of releases (including the 'tour only' CDR which I played in the last programme on January 20) that he has released on his own Onomastic label. Onewayness are based in Erie, Pennsylvania. Adam is a multi-instrumentalist using pianos, guitars and analog synthesisers to create a unique ambient drone sound. 'Contemporary electronic listening music'. The track here is from the Onewayness compilation CD "Bansang". Contact Adam here : https://onewayness.com. Also on the last broadcast I played side A of the new Art & Miljö album "Ensam Vär Rhyd Över Vita Vägar" in full. This broadcast includes Side B ... in full. Vinyl copies are sold out from Discreet Music but I have seen the LP on various distort lists. Download is still available though. https://discreetmusicgbg.bandcamp.com/music
'Vertonen is the work of Blake Edwards, a veteran of the Chicago noise and experimental scene. With close to 100 releases many of them published through his own Crippled Intellect Productions and Ballast imprints spread over several decades. Edwards has fine-tuned his craft of cryptically inclined, electronic invocations that might channel the raw brutality of industrial machinery or the existential claustrophobia of a submarner's voyage nearing its untimely end. There are numerous aesthetic facets to the Vertonen oeuvre - scabrously harsh noise, zoned out isolationism, roughly tactile cacophonies, polished smooth harmonics. Yet, much of the work is tied to a conceptual precision that informs if not agitates his sound to act'. (J. Haynes).
The Vertonen track here is from the 2020 cassette "Broken Air" on Helen Scarsdale Agency. Vertonen and his work can be found here : http://ballastnvp.blogspot.com
A couple of books were read over the Christmas holiday. "Rub Me Out" by The Shend was a good enough reason to reacquaint myself with the sound of The Cravats. "Rub Me Out" is a history of The Cravats inter-woven with The Shend's lyrics all explained and given purpose. There are also lyrics and stories from his later projects The Very Things and Grimetime. Other words in the book are written by (amongst others) Mick Mercer, Penny Rimbaud, Stewart Lee, Jello Biafra and Steve Underwood. (Just as an aside and totally unplanned the author/comedian/national treasure Stewart Lee is also a member of the UK free jazz improvisational electronic troupe The Seen). The book is limited in publication, recommended and available from : https://advancerecords.com/product/the-shend-rub-me-out-book/. I was fortunate to meet The Shend once, in the queue for the buffet at Steve Underwood's wedding, we chatted briefly and I learnt that the first The Cravats LP was recorded in Torquay, a few miles from where I now live. A reformed The Cravats later played a blistering live set at the wedding ... I vaguely remember Mark Durgan's son playing drums with them for a bit ... I was very drunk at the time ...
In 1990 I moved from Manchester to York and started drinking in a pub called The York Arms. It's right next to the Minster (if it's still there). It was there whilst wearing my Psychic TV "Feast Of Flowering Light" T-Shirt that a man approached me to talk about all things Psychic TV. He called himself Fez and mentioned he was the drummer in local surf / psychedelic rock band Suicidal Flowers. Over the weeks we became drinking buddies and I got to see Suicidal Flowers live around York a few times - they usually played with a band called God's Little Monkeys who had ex-The Nightingales roadie Kev Cartwright in their ranks. Lovely chap. Anyway, it was Fez who asked if the then recently formed Dieter Müh would like to support Suicidal Flowers live at a venue called The Bonding Warehouse. I (naturally) agreed, but the gig was cancelled (I can't remember why ... perhaps the venue flooded? The Bonding Warehouse was always flooding as it sat on the River Ouse) but the idea of playing live was too tempting and Dieter Müh's first live performance happened later that year in 1994. If it wasn't for Fez perhaps we would have never played live, certainly not in York where Colin Potter introduced himself and offered time in his ICR studio. Sliding doors and all that ... anyway, Pre Suicidal Flowers Fez was the drummer in The Village Idiots. The track here is from their one and only 7" "Ugly!". Ramblin' Johnny Stomachpump's whereabouts remains a mystery.
Nolls are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist, the track here is from the compilation cassette "Skunk'd Gunk" on D.I.H.D. http://www.dihd.net.
The "On This Day" section features the 7" "Eiseger Wind" by Liliput. Liliput were formed in Zurich in 1978 using the name Kleenex. They released a couple of singles on the Rough Trade Records label before changing their name to avoid legal battles with the tissue manufacturers. Liliput split in 1983. Around the same time that Kleenex played live in Lincoln's Drill Hall (along with The Raincoats and Spizz Energi), Fashion played at AJ's. It must have been 1979 ... I've always loved the single "Citinite". I heartedly recommend band member Luke James' memoir "Stairway to Nowhere". It's a fascinating read. https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/luke-james/stairway-to-nowhere/paperback/product-1z8mjvn5.html?page=1&pageSize=4
"This Jungle" comes from the newly released collection "Church" by John Foxx. "Church" is comprised of studio outtakes and demo recordings from the time of "The Garden", it was released to coincide with the 40th anniversary pf John Foxx's 1981 album.
"Gods And Guns" by Savage Republic is from the new LP "Meteora". It's a lathe cut album, but also available on CD on the Gusstaff Records imprint. https://gusstaff.com.
A few weeks ago I heard the project The Wyndham Research Institute on the radio programme "The Institute Of Spectra-Sonic Sounds". I hunted down the track they played, it was from the "Concise Illustrated History Of....." cassette. I contacted the label HREA'M Recordings and discovered that the main member of TWRI also had a project called Bolivian Fireships. Bolivian Fireships are J.G. Sparkes and James Buchanan and they're based in Stockholm. "Thank You For Not Smoking (The New Emphatic Remix)" is from the cassette "Translations / Reinterpretations" and "Border Crossings" is from the CDR (imaginatively) called "Untitled". Both albums are on HREA'M Recordings.
HREA'M Recordings are contactable at : https://hream.bandcamp.com/releases. Or write direct to J.G. and James via : https://jgsparkes.bandcamp.com/music.
Playlist :
01: Phil Julian : "016" (Vanity Publishing) 2021.
02: The Anti Group : "Organ Needles" (Armmcom Europe/Rizosfera) 2022.
03: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft : "Co Co Pino" (Mute Records) 1980.
04: Re-Clip : "Alt" (Re-Clip Records) 2021.
05: Q&A : "Loop" (ReQords/Test Recordings) 2021.
06: PBK/Spybey/Butcher/Johnson : "Heat On Earth" (Humanhood Records) 2018
07: Onewayness : "Colours And Audio Vibration" (Onomastic) 2019.
08: Arv & Miljö : "Gnistrande Och Knarrande" (Discreet Music) 2021.
09: Arv & Miljö : "Sagoland" (Discreet Music) 2021.
10: Arv & Miljö : "En Strimma Hav Som Glimmar Grå" (Discreet Music) 2021.
11: Arv & Miljö : "Värnandet Av Kyla" (Discreet Music) 2021.
12: Arv & Miljö : "Tystnaden Djup I Decembers Mitt" (Discreet Music) 2021.
13: Arv & Miljö : "Extas" (Discreet Music) 2021.
14: Vertonen : "Collision (Escalation)" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2020.
15: The Cravats : "Gordon" (Overground Records) 2012.
16: Ramblin' Johnny Stomachpump And The Village Idiots : "Norman On The Platform" (Elwood Recordings) 1990.
17: Nolls : "Villain" (D.I.H.D.) 2021.
18: Liliput : "Eiseger Wind" (Off Course Records) 1980.
19: Liliput : "When The Cat's Away The Mice Will Play" (Off Course Records) 1980.
20: Fashion : "Citinite" (Fashion Music) 1979.
21: John Foxx : "This Jungle" (Metamatic) 2021.
22: Savage Republic : "Gods And Guns" (Don't Sit On My Vinyl!) 2021.
23: Bolivian Fireships : "Thank You For Not Smoking (The New Emphatic Remix)" (HREA'M Recordings) 2021.
24: Bolivian Fireships : "Border Crossings" (HREA'M Recordings) 2021.
The broadcast can be heard here : https://www.mixcloud.com/tamsin-jane-cammack/muhmur-radio-february-3-2022/
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