The broadcast starts with "On The Edge Of The Outside" by Nurse With Wound released in July 2020 on the French Lenka Lente label. The 3" CD accompanies the book "Minuits Pour Géants" (Midnights For Giants) by Tristan Tzara. It's published in French so I haven't read it (yet!). The book was originally published in 1949. This is the 10th Nurse With Wound Lenka Lente release. All are recommended. More information here : http://www.lenkalente.com.
Two of giants of experimental / industrial / electroacoustic noise from the 1980's have joined together to release the LP "Erosion Of The Monolith" on the Nihilist label. Phillip B. Klinger (PBK) and Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions). Nihilist the the US label operated by Andy Ortmann. More information on the LP is here : https://nihilistrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch.
This month's Modelbau track is from the compilation album "Struppig Tanzen". "End of 2021 we hold the first Struppig Tanzen event since exactly two years. Not everyone invited could make it, neither artists and audience, because of pandemic reasons. That's why we decided to put out this compilation, which is kind of the second part of the event. Some pieces are documents of the evening, others representing artists, who could not participate in the end, in presence. And it's for the audience, who decided (not) to come ..... Released in context of the Strupping Droehnen! event at Kulturausbesserungswerk Opladen, Dec 3rd 2021". The album also features Buck Moon, Marc Behrens, Denise Ritter and N + Licht-Ung. Copies are available for around €5 from : http://licht-ung.de/struppigtanzen/.
Human Larvae released their 9th album earlier this year on the Freak Animal Records label. Sounds of increased deprivation, filth and destruction. Human Larvae is Berlin based musician Daniel Burfoot. Contact him at : https://humanlarvae.bandcamp.com. Oxidation is becoming an ever increasing interesting label. With a recent register of releases by the likes of Howard Stelzer, PBK, Modelbau and BºTong. The label is run out of Illinois by Marc Benner who has just put out a split C10 cassette with Howard Stelzer ...(spoiler alert ... it's very good) ... And now they have put out the double CDR "Rest" by Expose Your Eyes. "Inspired and disappointed in equal measure by the 1980's power electronics and noise scenes, Expose Your Eyes has been attempting to stretch the boundaries of sound since the early 1990's. REST features choice cuts and specially reworked pieces of some of the more recent output". Expose Your Eyes is West Yorkshire based artist Paul Harrison who is also known for his work with Feral Copse and Smell & Quim. "Bertram Russell Fucker Remix Edit" is from the "Rest" album. A title I am guessing is inspired by Derek & Clive.
The programme also features two 'exclusive' pieces from Frans de Waard. Frans was kind enough to mail some sounds for MuhMur Radio. I don't know whether or not Frans performed as Kapotte Muziek or under another pseudonym, I think the recordings are pre his Modelbau project. Also Olivier Prieur from The Dead Mauraics sent a piece called "Maman", a collaboration with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. The story goes ... "Three or four years ago I was involved in a broadcast for Radio France concerning poetry during the summer season. I sent a series of translations of GPO texts to the producer and as I was not paid he sent me the complete recording he made with GPO at home. I forgot the file and found it on a hard drive in November while looking for GPO archives as I was thinking to do a new edition of "To Be Ex-Dream" and I did a track with this part of the recording .... That's the story!" All information concerning The Dead Mauriacs can be found here : http://www.thedeadmauriacs.com.
The eponymous Flaming Tunes album is a record I have been searching for and was happy to find that San Francisco's Superior Viaduct label had reissued a couple of years ago. Originally released on cassette in 1985 Flaming Tunes were Gareth Williams and Mary Currie. Gareth Williams was the original bass, keyboard and tape splicer with This Heat. Gareth passed away in 2001.
Niandraz are a Bulgarian project formed in 2018. On "Ten Of Swords" they collaborate with fellow Bulgarian Ivan Shopov. The track is from the 2021 compilation cassette "Vanishing Standards II" on Angel Simitchiev's Amek label. Copies can be found here : https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com. As mentioned before I have discovered the works of Mark Vernon. Expect more before the summer recess! "Vardǿger" is from the album "Paper Gestures" on Jason Lescalleet's Glistening Examples label.
"On This Day" features the second album by A Certain Ratio. "To Each .. " it was released in 1981 on the Factory Records label. I sawACR live a few times around this time, it was usually with other 'Factory' bands like Section 25 or The Durutti Column. Always superb! The LP was produced by Martin Hannet and has a sleeve designed by Throbbing Gristle's Peter Christopherson. As an introduction to the sound of A Certain Ratio I played a track from their debut album "The Graveyard And The Ballroom" from 1980. The programme ends on a classic 7" single by Danish group Sort Sol.
When this record came out (in 1981) I knew nothing of Sort Sol. I bought it because it was on the 4AD label. I bought everything on the 4AD label at that time ... they were releasing sounds from Modern English, Mass, Rema-Rema, My Captains, Bauhaus, The The, The Cocteau Twins, Gilbert & Lewis, Past 7 Days etc etc ... Sort Sol were an extension of the Danish punk band The Sods who in 1979 had their debut LP "Minutes To Go" released in the UK by Step Forward Records. A year later they put out the album "Under En Sort Sol" on the Danish Medley records label ... this is where "Marble Station" comes from ... in 1984 they ended being the Sods and became Sort Sol. Confusing? It is and since 1981 has always been one of my favourite songs, the drumming by Tomas Ortved is exceptional!
I hope you enjoy the programme, please take a listen here :
Playlist :
01: Nurse With Wound : "On The Edge Of The Outside" (Lenka Lente) 2020.
02: PBK & Nocturnal Emissions : "The Piasa Bird" (Nihilist) 2022.
03: Modelbau : "Absentia (Life From Home)" (Struppig Tanzen/Licht-Ung) 2022.
04: Asmus Tietchens & Terry Burrows : "Watching The Burning Bride (#10)" (Hamster Records And Tapes) 1986.
05: Human Larvae : "Electric Daze" (Freak Animal Records) 2022.
06: Expose Your Eyes : "Bertram Russell Fucker Remix Edit" (Oxidation) 2022.
07: Frans de Waard : "Various Excerpts Going At Once From A Concert At Maakhaven, 05 May 2009" (Not On Label) 2022.
08: Frans de Waard : "Various Excerpts Going At Once From A Concert At The Hörbar, Hamburg 17 May 2012" (Not On Label) 2022.
09: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & The Dead Mauriacs : "Maman" (Not On Label) 2018.
10: Flaming Tunes : "It's Madness" (Superior Viaduct) 2020.
11: Niandraz & Ivan Shopov : "Ten Of Swords" (Amek) 2021.
12: Mark Vernon : "Vardøger" (Glistening Examples) 2020.
13: PBK & Nocturnal Emissions : "Sarcophagus Of The Sun" (Nihilist) 2022.
14: Duncan Harrison : "Live At Realistic" (Joy De Vivre) 2021.
15: A Certain Ratio : "I Fail" (Factory Records) 1980.
16: A Certain Ratio : "Winter Hill" (Factory Records) 1981.
17: Sort Sol : "Marble Station" (4AD Records) 1981.
It is aways a treat when folk pop in to say 'hello' whilst recording the broadcasts ... On this occasion I had a visit from Andrew Fletcher, the man behind the excellent 'Intrusive Signals' magazine. Andrew also performs and releases as Soloman Tump and has his own programme on SoundArt Radio called "The Tump Clump". Well worth hunting down ...
Issue #3 of 'Intrusive Signals' can be found here : http://intrusivesignals.limitedrun.com/products/721103-intrusive-signals-3. It features interviews with Coldsore, Himukalt and Brachliegen Tapes. George Rayner-Law (one of the operators of Brachliegen Tapes) will appear 'in session' on the next MuhMur Radio Broadcast on May 12th.
