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The programme starts with a small piece by Alexandra Spence. "Flora (For A Friend)" is from the 2019 album 'Walking She Heard The Fluttering' on the Room40 label. Alexandra is an Australian living and working in Sydney. She holds the belief that electricity might actually be magic. The voice on this piece is by Rebecca Bruton. More information on Alexandra's work can be found here : https://alexandraspence.net.
Earlier in the year the American Cloister Recordings label reissued two Post Scriptvm albums on cassette. "Marginal Existence" (originally released in 2005 on the French Hermetique label) and "Chiaroscvro" (originally released in 2003 on the Italian Stridulum Recordings label).
Post Scriptvm are a Russian duo based in New York City. The first time I heard Post Scriptvm was in 2014 when I played with them at the Marie-Antoinette Club in Berlin. I fell in love with their sound on that night! "Warped In Sickness" is from the "Marginal Existence" album. More information can be found here : https://vk.com/club13887033.
Also on the same night in 2014 were Ke/Hil. Ke/Hil were a duo formed of Brigant Moloch (of Anenzephalia) and Wilhelm Herich (of Genocide Organ). It was a truly fantastic evening. The Anenzephalia tracks here are from their first album "Fragments Of Demise" released in 1993 on Ron Lessard's RRRecords label.
In April this year Tesco Organisation released the 30th Anniversary edition of the debut album released by Genocide Organ. "Leichenlinie" (roughly translates as 'Line of Corpses') was originally released in 1989. This LP features the 2009 remastering by Jason Mantis of Malignant Records. The album also features two 'bonus' Genocide Organ rarities. "This Is No Lie" was originally included on the Japanese compilation cassette "Monochrome Meditator" released in 1991 on SSSM (the label operated by Contagious Orgasm's Hiroshi Hashimoto). The album also includes "Amazed Y Negri" also from this compilation. "Keiner Kommt Zurück" is from the "Leichenlinie" LP. I don't think the Anenzephalia LP is readily available but all information on Genocide Organ and Tesco Organisation can be found here : https://tesco-germany.com.
The sounds of Takahiro Mukai are now becoming a regular feature on MuhMur Radio. "Dogú" was released by the Finish Ikuisuus label in September this year. Recently I managed to pick up a copy of his 2014 album "Ardent Spirits For Socially Unfit Persons" on the (Finnish) Lal Lal Lal label. Expect to be hearing tracks from this cassette throughout the December broadcasts.
The Dead Mauriacs is the project of Le Havre based sound artist Olivier Prieur. Earlier in the year Olivier made a one-off 12" lathe cut LP called "Les Perruches Les Ambassades (Music For Steve Cammack)". The LP was cut by Y.Ann of Ultra Milkmaids, only two copies exist. It's a one sided 12" that comes in two parts. I played Part One on the last broadcast before the summer break. You can take a listen here :
https://www.mixcloud.com/tamsin-jane-cammack/muhmur-radio-broadcast-9-june-2022/. The Samutek piece is from the 2020 cassette "Omamy" released on the Singaporean label Evening Chants. The cassette version has sold out from source but a download version is still available from the label, go to :
The Arv & Miljö track is from the recent compilation CDR "Mer Rock Mot Svinen", released on the Förfall label. The title roughly translates to 'More Rock Against The Pig'. The tracks are crudely recorded sounding like Demo Cassettes that Förfall have received and decided to put them all on one CDR. A 21st century 'Bullshit Detector' if you wish. The Arv & Miljö track is the outstanding piece on the compilation.
In March this year Current 93 released the album "If A City Is Set Upon A Hill" on the HomAleph label. In May a picture disc version was released. The picture disc album was subtitled "The Hallucinatory PulseMix". The C93 tracks here are from their version. The Lucrecia Dalt track is another from her new album "Ay!". As mentioned in the last broadcast, I have recently been up in Manchester and whilst there I trawled around the secondhand record shops. In 'Vinyl Resting Place' a shop hidden away on the top floor of Affleck's Palace I found a couple of Rip Rig & Panic 12" singles, "Storm The Reality Asylum" being one of them. I am old enough to remember when Eastern Bloc Records opened their first shop on the top floor of Affleck's Palace before moving to the downstairs arcade on Oldham Street.
Simon Balestrazzi is a multi-genre musician working out of Cagliari in Italy. He was a founding member of the Industrial project T.A.C. (Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata) and in the 1990's joined the group Kirlian Camera. "Loplop" is from the album "Early Recordings (1979-1982)" and features Simon's earliest experimental recordings with home built electronic devices and reel to reel tape machines. Copies of the CD can be found here : https://azothrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch. The Durutti Column track is from the compilation CD "Daylight Upon Magic (A Sampler)", released last year by Les Disques Du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux. The edited version of "Thin Ice" is included on the legendary "Factory Sampler" 2x7" EP. Originally formed in Manchester in 1978 the Durutti Column for this recording were : Vini Reilly, Chris Joyce (later of The Mothmen and Suns Of Arqa), David Rowbotham (another future Mothman), Tony Bowers (who ended up playing bass guitar in Simply Red) and Colin Sharp. In 2007 Colin released his memoirs in a book titled "Who Killed Martin Hannett? : The Story of Factory Records' Musical Magician". It's a great read, copies are still floating about for under a tenner on the Internet.
Please take a listen to the programme here :
Playlist :
01: Alexandra Spence : "Flora (For A Friend)" (Room40) 2019.
02: Post Scriptvm : "Warped In Sickness" (Cloister Recordings) 2022.
03: Anenzephalia : "What Are They For?" (RRRecords) 1993.
04: Anenzephalia : "Chen Town" (RRRecords) 1993.
05: Genocide Organ : "This Is No Lie" (Tesco Organisation) 2022.
06: Takahiro Mukai : "Dogú (#508)" (Ikuisuus) 2022.
07: The Dead Mauriacs : "Les Perruches Les Ambabassades (Music For Steve Cammack) (II)" (NPH) 2022.
08: Samutek : "Samospalenie" (Evening Chants) 2020.
09: Arv & Miljö : "Fuck Uber" (Förfall) 2022.
10: Current 93 : "If A City ..." (Cashen's Gap) 2022.
11: Current 93 : "There Is No Zodiac" (Cashen's Gap) 2022.
12: Current 93 : "Joke Moon" (Cashen's Gap) 2022.
13: Current 93 : "Clouds At Teatime" (Cashen's Gap) 2022.
14: Lucrecia Dalt : "Dicen" (Rvng Intl.) 2022.
15: Rip Rig & Panic : "Storm The Reality Asylum" (Virgin Records) 1982.
16: Simon Balestrazzi : "Loplop" (AZOTH) 2016.
17: Genocide Organ : "Keiner Kommt Zurück" (Tesco Organisation) 2022.
18: The Durutti Column : "Thin Ice (Unedited Version)" (Les Disques Du Crépuscule/Factory Benelux) 2021.
19: The Passage : "XoYo" (Cherry Red Records) 1982.
There will be two broadcasts in December, the next being on the evening of the 8th which coincides with being my 60th birthday, so please expect some eclecticism in the playlist. There are also plans for a Four Hour Festive Feast programme over the Xmas holidays. A live broadcast no less! Details will follow ...
Thanks for listening.
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