I read somewhere, recently, that we are fortunate to be living in the 'time of Dilloway' and I whole-heartedly agree. Aaron Dilloway's latest offering is a collaboration with the American noise-rockers Body/Head. Aaron Dilloway's collaborations have introduced me to some fine noise makers in the past. The likes of Hive Mind, Mark Morgan, Bill Nace, C. Lavender, Hong Chulki, Tom Smith and more recently Lucrecia Dalt to name a few. I was fortunate to witness a live improvised collaboration with Irish artist Vicky Langan at the Cafe OTO, London in 2016. It would be great to see this performance as a release.
Body/Head is the project formed by ex-Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace. To celebrate Three Lobed Records 20th anniversary they collaborated with Aaron Dilloway to create Body/Dilloway/Head. The eponymous album features three pieces of Dilloway manipulating their sound.
"Body/Erase" is Side A of the LP. I bought the LP not knowing who Body/Head were and was surprised to find out that Kim Gordon is involved. It's an excellent album. I saw Sonic Youth live back in 1985 at The Boardwalk in Manchester and was not too impressed. The Membranes were support so I guess that didn't help. And then the world went Sonic Youth crazy, everyone I knew had at least "Bad Moon Rising" and "Evol" albums, and the "Death Valley '69" 12". They returned to Manchester a year or so later to play a bigger venue ... maybe the Hacienda, maybe The International, I can't remember. I do remember not going ... This album is essential. http://threelobed.com/tlr/
Grey Frequency begin 2022 with a cassette re-issue of the "When Do We Dream?" album. Originally released in February 2012 the re-issue is packaged in a black vinyl bag with art cards and inserts. Contact Gavin (Grey Frequency) via : http://www.greyfrequency.co.uk
There's a couple of tracks from Sewer Election in the programme. Dan Johansson (Sewer Election) has been releasing regularly over the past few months, sometimes it has been difficult to keep up with his output. "Psychic Panorama" was originally released on cassette on Dan's own Malign Editions label. Limited to only 25 copies. Discreet Music re-issued the album on CD in December last year. The initial run is 300 copies and still available direct from Discreet here : https://www.discreetmusic.se. The second Sewer Election piece is from the new album "Navigation I Inre Och Yttre Landskap". It's a collaboration with Australian vocalist Charmaine Lee. The album can be filed under Sewer Election's 'experimental and abstract' recordings, along with the recent "Skärvor Av" and "Kassettmusik" albums. This is the sound of Sewer Election I prefer more, although last years "Cosmic Mirror" CDR on Förfall despite being slabs of harsh noise and screeching is a pleasant listen ... perhaps I am mellowing in my old age?
The Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone label series of compilation albums have reached to volume eight. The series started eleven years ago with volume one (natch) featuring Halo Manesh, Jarl, BºTong and Ubeboet. Like the Drone Records series of 7"s that ran from 1993 to 2010 and the subsequent 10" series on the Drone Records side label Substantia Innominimata, the Mind-Drone compilations are the perfect way to discover new projects and new sounds. Hats off to Stefan Knappe who runs the label(s) and is one half of Troum. Volume eight features MuhMur Radio favourites Kazuya Ishigami, and Baldruin. The surprise element here is Aume, a new name to these ears. Aume is the project of Scot Jenerick and Aleph Kali. I have some of Scot's previous work as a member of F-Space and he also co-operstes Mobilization Records. I guess that's why the piece has a 'sub' Savage Republic feel. All brilliant stuff and the LP series is well worth hunting down. (I am still short of Volume Two if there are any sellers out there ... ). Contact Stefan at : https://www.dronerecords.de or look for a local distro - Drone Records are well distributed.
Well ... after working in a hospital since 2003, and working in the Pathology/Microbiology department and working through the times of Covid it gives me no pleasure to say that in the last week of January I tested positive for CV-19. But, on the upside ... every cloud and all that .. I did get to stay at home and listen to a lot of stuff. I rearranged a few boxes, re-sleeved a few albums etc and discovered an LP by First Law I forgot I had ("Beyond IO"). I really enjoyed the album so started playing what I have by First Law which lead me to fill some gaps in my collection and getting the excellent 1999 debut CD "Violent::Sedated" on LOKI Foundation. It's available at a reasonable price on Discogs.
Grey Park have released another cassette of high quality low fidelity experimental infectious noise. "What Transparency Clouds" is a self-released C20 cassette available through their bandcamp page. It says that the cassette is to be released sporadically. €4 a pop! https://greypark.bandcamp.com/album/what-transparency-clouds. Heikke of Grey Park has just put out an excellent cassette by Modelbau on his Hyster tapes label, some of which will appear in later broadcasts.
Big Hare are Dutch duo Luuk Ottenhof and Tim Franje. "Divine Math" is from their latest 7" on Extratool.
A very interesting and extensive 'On This Day' section starting with "Albatross" by Public Image Limited. It's from the 1980 re-issue vinyl edition of "Metal Box" called "Second Edition", the same day as The Psychedelic Furs released their eponymously titled debut album.
Formed in the suburbs of London in 1977, their debut single "We Love You" was released two years later. I must've heard the single on John Peel's radio show, I do remember rushing out to get it, and I was hooked on the 'Furs for the next couple of years. The album has been re-issued / re-released on many formats and on many labels, both this LP and "Second Edition" can be picked up at a reasonable price. On this day in 1979 Fish Turned Human released their first EP. Fish Turned Human were a mysterious five piece from Cambridge. Even after searching for information on the world wide web they still remain quite a mystery. "Turkeys In China" EP features four tracks of post-punk, reggae tinged psychedelic pop(!). The bass player was Andy Metcalfe who went to join The Soft Boys ... and later Squeeze. Michael Ikon the guitarist went on to form the excellent Missing Presumed Dead and drummer Julian Treasure went in to The Transmitters. Philip Furei and Adrian Cole make up the quintet and (allegedly) one of them is the son of AMM / Scratch Orchestra pianist Cornelius Cardew.
A couple of years later Fish Turned Human appeared again with their "Animal Transport" EP. Only Furei and Treasure remained as original members. After the pleasure of "Turkeys In China" this EP was a bit of a disappointment. Both EP's can be bought cheaply on the internet.
On the coattails of the success of their single "Vienna" Island Records repackaged a load of old Ultravox! recordings hoping to get chart success. They re-issued the singles "Slow Motion" and "Quiet Men" as a double pack 7" including an alternative version of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and an edited version of "Dislocation". But, as we all know by this time Ultravox! ceased to be Ultravox! after John Foxx left. There was another great single released on this day in 1980 The Mekons "Teeth" double 7" on Virgin Records. Unfortunately time was not on my side but I'll slip it in another programme ... soon.
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Playlist :
01: Body/Dilloway/Head : "Body/Erase" (Three Lobed Recordings) 2021.
02: Grey Frequency : "Echo Test" (Not On Label) 2022.
03: Sewer Election : "Psychic Panorama #1" (Discreet Music) 2021.
04: Kazuya Ishigami : "Clean 2020" (Drone Records) 2021.
05: Aume : "Between Mirage And History" (Drone Records) 2021.
06: First Law : "Loxapine (220 mg)" (Loki Foundation) 1999.
07: Sewer Election & Charmaine Lee : "Dream Bizarre-Sover Du?" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2022.
08: Baldruin : "Klima + Psyche" (Drone Records) 2021.
09: Grey Park : "Hole In The Ground" (Not On Label) 2022.
10: Public Image Limited : "Albatross" (Virgin Records) 1980.
11: The Psychedelic Furs : "Blacks/Radio" (CBS Records) 1980.
12: Fish Turned Human : "Porky's Minion" (Sequel Records) 1979.
13: Big Hare : "Divine Math" (Extratool) 2021.
14: Ultravox! : "Dislocation" (Island Records) 1981.
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