MuhMur Radio Broadcast June 22 2023.

 

Loopsel is the solo project of Monokultur / Skiftander Enheter guitarist Elon Engström. The programme starts with two pieces from her latest album 'Öga För Öga" (An Eye For An Eye) on the Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox label. (co-released with DFA). This album was my first exposure to the sound of Loopsel, it popped up as 'album of interest' in my inbox a few weeks back, and being a fan of Monokultur and Skiftander Enheter I decided to take a listen. Great album. The two pieces at the end of the broadcast are also from the same album. I love the album so much I bought the debut LP 'The Spiral' from 2020 ~ expect to here some of that on the next programme. All Loopsel + Monkultur albums can be found here : https://mammasmysteriskajukebox.bandcamp.com.     

                                                                             Loopsel.

To mark the 63rd birthday of David Tibet and to celebrate a live channeling that took place this year in London on March 11 the label Cashen's Gap have released three Current 93 albums. (well, two albums and one 12"EP). 'A Thousand Witches' is from the album 'The Light Left You Quite', a relighted mix of the 'The Light Has Left You All' album. There's new cross-fades between tracks and a different beginning, 

a different end and a total reversal of the stereo channels. 'Great Aleph Lies Dreaming' (the 12"EP) is a Re-Dreaming of the Current 93 album 'Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain'. It includes outtakes  and intakes, spacing and aching from that album. The third album in this series is 'Night At Four Winds Bar Maldoror'. This is a complete reworking of the 1986 Current 93 album 'Live At Bar Maldoror', with the album playing forwards in the right channel and reversed in the left. Very unsettling listening and recommended. https://www.cashensgap.com for more details. 

The Alice Kemp and Renato Grieco pieces are from the compilation cassette 'Pool Position', released by Italian label Second Sleep in 2022. The cassette also features Charmaine Lee, Rudolf Eb. er (solo and in collaboration with Alice) and Francesco Cavaliere amongst others, a fine slice of sound art and experimental concret. Second Sleep is a great label operated by Lettera 22 mainman Matteo Castro. They've put out some great releases by the likes of Burial Hex, Rumination, Dave Phillips, Andrea Borghi, Treriksröset and Sewer Election to name but a few. http://www.secondsleep.org for more information. The Brume track is from his latest album on Ferns Recordings called 'A Treatise Of Ethnography'. This is a quick follow up to his album 'La Violence Du Néant' released earlier this year on EE Tapes. Both CDs can be found at : https://fernsrecordings.bandcamp.com + http://www.eetapes.be/EE_Tapes/news.html respectively. 

Ronnie Sundin is probably better known as Bad Kharma. He also operated the label BonBon Records in the 1990's. The piece is here is from the split 7" with Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words. 

"In celebration of Christer Fuglesang, the first Swedish astronaut and the 1000th person to leave earth ... European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang is part of mission STS-116, by official NASA sources referred to as the most complex construction flight yet attempted. After departing on Space Shuttle Discovery and docking with the International Space Station (ISS), Fuglesang will perform two spacewalks. The main purpose of these excursions is to rewire the ISS. The space station's current electrical system, designed to support the station during the assembly phase, will be rebuilt and upgraded to support the attachment of new research modules. This, and the delivery of a new solar array system executed by mission STS-115, enables NASA to activate the permanent cooling and power systems of the ISS. ..... 'Space Is The Place (In Space Nobody Can Hear Your Demons Mix)' is composed and performed by Ronnie Sundin, inspired by Sun Ra." 

Fang Bomb (the label the 7" is released on) organised a live event at the Fylkingen in Stockholm on the night of the launch featuring Ronnie, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words and Ingrid Engarås. Unfortunately the launch was postponed ... but the party went on.

Conjecture is the project of Greek sound artist Vasillis Angelopoulos. After an album and two singles (in cassette format) on the Bulgarian Amek label comes the new album 'Hydra' on the Polish Zoharum label. 

https://conjecture-project.bandcamp.com for details. 

Part Five of Genocide Organ's (ongoing) 7" series 'Religious Extremism (Alternativism)' is the single 'You're Going To Be Fine'. It is dedicated to the work of Reverend Jim Jones. Two pieces entitled '23 April 1974 : Hide/Out' and '18 November 1978 : Go Back To Your Homes'. To assist the flipping of the disc I play an excerpt from the Vagina Dentata Organ album 'The Last Supper' released in 1984. 

A little oddity from Tesco Organisation is the 7" picture disc 'Todos Somos Autodefensas'. The A-Side of the single is a speech by Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde. He was a Mexican doctor who formed the self defence group Autodefensas to fight against the Knights Templar (drug) cartel. He died of Covid 19 in 2020. The B-Side of the single is an uncredited track by Genocide Organ, the run out lists the track as 'Mireles' with the words TESCO+++GO. 

Both singles have a limited press and probably now only available via Discogs etc, but Tesco Organisation is always worth keeping an eye on! https://tesco-germany.com. Tesco have just re-issued the Himukalt album 'Dreaming Of A Dead Girl' on CD format. I have played a few pieces from this LP in the past, so here's a track from the 2019 cassette 'Sex Worker' on Total Black. 

A Change Of Speed, A Change Of Style. The last programme had no 'On This Day' feature or even a cover version or two so I make up for that in this broadcast. On this day in 1979 Artery released their first single. 'Mother Moon', a 7" EP on the Limited Edition label. Artery were formed in 1978, previously called "the", in Sheffield. Originally a four piece, 'Mother Moon' was a self-financed three track EP. Soon after they became a quintet and signed to Sheffield label Aardvark. I love Artery. Two of the finest gigs I have been to have been Artery gigs. 1981 at The Palace Theatre in Newark and in 1984 at The Gallery in Manchester. Their gigs always had that In the next thirty minutes ... anything can happen feel about them. I think Attririon supported them in Newark ... but I could be wrong. Also 'On This Day' in 1980 fellow Sheffield noise-makers Vice Versa released the 7" 'Stilyagi' on the Dutch Backstreet Backlash Records label. I don't have a copy of the 7" but these tracks are from the bootleg LP '1979-1980' on Democratic Dancebeat Records. These are the last studio recordings of Vice Versa before they changed their name, style and credibility and became ABC.

Staying in Sheffield, and the 1980's the next three pieces are by Disease, Cabaret Voltaire (natch) and Surface Mutants. I lived in Sheffield for 4 months in 1985, in the Meersbrook district with most weekends spent at The Leadmill, and spending my dole in Fon or Rare n' Racey Records. 

I love the single "Rat Bait" by The Swimming Pool Q's. Released in 1979 I first heard this song on John Peel (I used to tape all Peel Shows) and played it to death. I found a copy floating about the other month and grabbed it. Very ... Beefheartian. The Swimming Pool Q's were formed in 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia (probably after the Sex Pistols hit town). In the same year Los Angeles band Monitor released their one and only single 'Beak'. 

The Spectres were a (what is known as) a supergroup of the post-punk era. Formed by ex-Pistol Glen Matlock and former Tom Robinson Band guitarist Danny Kustow, the band also featured future Barracudas drummer Graeme Potter and ex-Saints member Art Collins. Also on keyboards is the ex-Gloria Mundi saxophonist C.C. Smith. 'This Strange Effect' is an old Kinks song that Dave Berry took into the charts in 1965. (it also made number 1 in Holland). 

About three years ago I came across the Mezzanine Swimmers. I think it was through Discreet Music in Gothenburg but don't quote me on that. I was buying a bunch of stuff and was attracted by the name. It's a great name. Anyway, the cassette (EP) 'Kneelin' On A Knife' was / is superb. The US label Already Dead have just released another cassette by Mezzanine Swimmers. A C25 called 'Miserable Miracle'. 'Eyes In The Sand' is from this tape. It all has a bit of Storm Bugs, Wire and 1980's DIY post-punk about it. Another great listen. https://mezzanineswimmers.bandcamp.com. The programme ends with Nocturnal Emissions 'Never Give Up'. 

Please take a listen to the programme here :

https://www.mixcloud.com/tamsin-jane-cammack/muhmur-radio-broadcast-22-june-2023/

Playlist :

01: Loopsel : "Poison Tree" (DFA/Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox) 2023.

02: Loopsel : Öga För Öga" (DFA/Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox) 2023.

03: Current 93 : "A Thousand Witches" (Cashen's Gap) 2023.

04: Current 93 : "Great Aleph Lies Dreaming (III & IV)" (Cashen's Gap) 2023.

05: Alice Kemp : "Music For Little Peg" (Second Sleep) 2022.

06: Renato Grieco : "The Most Intense Light Experience The Voice Has Ever Had" (Second Sleep) 2022.

07: Brume : "Burning Capsule" (Ferns Recordings) 2023.

08: Ronnie Sundin : "Space Is The Place" (Fang Bomb) 2006.

09: Conjecture : "Hydra" (Zoharum) 2021.

10: Genocide Organ : "Hide/Out" (Tesco Organisation) 2023.

11: Genocide Organ : "Go Back To Your Homes" (Tesco Organisation) 2023.

12: Genocide Organ : "Mireles" (Tesco Organisation) 2023.

13: Himukalt : "No Safe Distance" (Total Black) 2019.

14: Artery : "Mother Moon" (Limited Edition) 1979.

15: Vice Versa : "Stilyagi" (Backstreet Backlash Records) 1980.

16: Vice Versa : "Eyes Of Christ" (Backstreet Backlash Records) 1980.

17: Disease : "Psychobin" (Aardvark) 1980.

18: Cabaret Voltaire : "Get Out Of My Face" (Rough Trade Records) 1982.

19: Surface Mutants : "Anaesthetic" (Clönic Records) 1982.

20: The Swimming Pool Q's : "Rat Bait" (Chlorinated Records) 1979.

21: Monitor : "Beak" (World Imitation) 1979.

22: The Spectres : "This Strange Effect" (Direct Hit Records) 1980.

23: Mezzanine Swimmers : "Eyes In The Sand" (Already Dead) 2023.

24: Loopsel : "I En Skog" (DFA/Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox) 2023.

25: Loopsel : "Time Machine" (DFA/Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox) 2023.

26: Nocturnal Emissions : "Never Give Up" (Sterile Records) 1985.

Back in July (6th). Same time, same channel with more noises and poptones.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast June 08 2023.

 

'Vegan Headfuck' is the latest offering from Kyiv based sound artist Edward Sol. A C40 cassette on his own Quasi Pop Records. The sounds on the album were recorded in 2015 for live performances and installation work, and now they have been heavily manipulated, re-worked and decomposed for release. Quasi Pop Records and Edward can be contacted at : QuasiPopRecords@gmail.com or Edward's band camp page at : https://edwardsol.bandcamp.com/merch. Support Ukrainian artist & labels!

I have been following the work of Andrea Borghi for a few years since first hearing his sounds as part of VipCranco. Cipher Productions released a superb VipCranco / Andrea Borghi cassette back in 2013. His recent explorations has Andrea working with VHS tapes and recorders. Mechanical sounds of cut-up tape samples and the intricate parts of the machine. The 2018 album 'VHS' was the beginning of this path. The cassette 'VCR' followed in 2020, and now there's the 12"EP 'Palsecam' on Aposiopèse. For more information go to : https://label-aposiopese.bandcamp.com. 

I had a nice package through from Petter Ottosson of Fang Bomb last month. Included in the package was the latest CD album by Paul Baran called 'Pan Global Riot'. Paul is one half of the project The Cray Twins. 'Pan Global Riot' is his third album for Fang Bomb. I Am A Vowel is the project of French artist

Nelly Larguier. Originally from Paris, Nelly is now based in London. 'Body Curves' is the title track from the 7"EP released in 2011. Contact Fang Bomb at : https://fangbomb.bandcamp.com. Also in the package was the split 7" from Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words and Ronnie Sundin, that can be heard on the next broadcast. I first heard the name Beam Weapons in 2021 when the 7" Lathe Cut single 'Beam Weapons III' came out the South Yorkshire based label Do It Thissen Records. I keep an eye and ear out for releases on Do It Thissen since they put out singles by Stunt Kites and Mzylkypop in 2018/2019. As far as I can deduce, Beam Weapons are a three piece from Doncaster (South Yorkshire). The two tracks here are from the cassette 'Old Powers' that came out last month on the Preston Capes Tapes label. Like Do It Thissen Preston Capes Tapes are a label to follow : https://prestoncapes1.bandcamp.com/music. 

"'Old Powers' is Beam Weapons' second album, and is rooted in two things. The first is a Boosey And Hawkes library record from 1970 which has the most incredible titles, but is represented by not particularly interesting music. We took some of the titles and decided to create our own versions. 

Secondly, it builds upon our mission to make as little music as possible instead concentrating on creaks, clicks, buzzes, bangs, beeps and, most importantly, atonal hums. We are not always successful in this and at times bits of melody creep in. For that we can only apologise".

The album also features the voce of David 'Dolly Dolly' Yates from The Incidental Crack. Beam Weapons can be contacted at : https://beamweapons.bandcamp.com/album/beam-weapons-iii. Speaking of titles ... I play the track 'It's Nothing Personal' which was a title of a track by <<A:A:K>> back in 1985. <<A:A:K>> was a solo project I created whilst being part of the duo Ideas Beyond Filth. I think I put out about 3 or 4 cassettes on the Carnifex Recordings label between 1985 and 1987. In 1985 Ideas Beyond Filth released the cassette "HU'as'H", again, on Carnifex Recordings. Peter Zincken (Odal) heard the tape and wanted to re-release it on his BloedvlagProdukt label but he was unhappy with a couple of the more less experimental pieces so we re-compiled "HU'asH" and re-recorded 'It's Nothing Personal' and re-titled the piece 'Baby'. We also re-titled the album "Schranken". (I see now that Schranken is German for Level Crossing and/or Barrier. I have no recollection why we chose this title). 

Peter also included Ideas Beyond Filth on his BloedvlagProdukt compilation cassette 'New-Ärt' in 1986. This tape also features Haters, Arvid Tuba, Nails Øv Christ and Odal amongst others (it's a great tape). Also in 1986 the 2xC90 compilation "Wolfsangel" released on Peter's Nihilistic Recordings label. This compilation also features Ward Phillips, Kappotte Muziek, Le Syndicat, Irritant, Ferial Confine and De Fabriek amongst others (it's a great compilation). Both of these compilation pop up now and then on Discogs. In 2008 Harbinger Sound released a collection of Ideas Beyond Filth recordings on the eponymous 12"EP which features a live recording of 'Baby', again, re-titled as 'I Want To Give You A Baby' - a line from the original version of 'It's Nothing Personal'. 

The Non Toxique Lost track is a live version of "HIA" recorded at NL Centrum in Amsterdam. 

'Låt Hatets Evangelium Råda' (Let The Gospel Of Hate Prevail) is a 2013 compilation cassette on the Norwegian Acte Fleshgod label. The Arkhe and Trepaneringsritualen tracks are from this cassette. The compilation also features Unrest and Bizarre Uproar. I am playing a lot of Arkhe back here at MuhMur Radio HQ and dug this gem out for a listen. Arkhe is Andreas Johansson from Malmö (Sweden). Formerly known as Pestdemon. Hear more at : https://arkheion.bandcamp.com.

Regional Bears have just released a new LP by American sound artist Christian Mirande. Christian has, in the past, released on Hanson Records, Glistening Examples, Vitrine and No Rent Records. 'Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next' is an album of two halves, with short experimental / Musique Concret / Field Recordings on side one and a fifteen minute diary exploration on side two. Here I play side two. Regional Bears are from Stockport (UK) and worth keeping an ear out for with great releases from the likes of Duncan Harrison, Heinz Hopf, Blackhumour and Modelbau in the past. For more information please go to : https://www.regionalbears.org. One thing you may have noticed (so far) about this broadcast is that there is no regular 'On This Day' feature or any cover version(s). My diaries show little activity for this date, so in absence of an old tune or cover I dug out the Storm Bugs 'Metamorphose' 10" single from 1981. Just to play something 40 odd years old ... The single features two great tracks 'Car Situations' and 'Tin'. I have played 'Car Situations' a few times over the past 11 years, so it's time for 'Tin'. I've always thought the single has an inappropriate cover for the sounds contained therein, but I guess it was the 1980's.

L'Invitation Au Suicide was a short lived label operated by Yann Farcy in Le Havre, France. He released the likes of Virgin Prunes, Christian Death and Citizen UK in the mid 1980's then set up the Noise Museum label in the 1990's putting out sounds by Vance Orchestra, Telepherique, Deutsch Nepal and Radboud Mens amongst others.

In March this year Mattias Gustafsson (Altar Of Flies, Cryme) released the double cassette "Seven Movements". Three hours of home recordings, field recordings and tape manipulations. At times it sinks into self-indulgence but not enough to make it a very desirable release and insight in to the workings of Mattias. "Seven Movements" is on Hästen & Korsett and limited to 30 copies, although I think there was a second edition of 10. (Unconfirmed)! Last month Mattias followed "Seven Movements' with an accompanying cassette called "Nedbrytningen". This time an hour of electroacoustic examinations. 

'Nedbrytningen' (The Breakdown) is agin on Mattias' house label Hästen & Korsett and limited to 45 copies. Each release is unique and packaged in a box with artwork / inserts and in my box .. three stones. https://altarochkorset.tumblr.com for more information. The Column One piece is from the new CD / Blu Ray Disc on Fragment Factory 'Mädchen In Schmutzigen Schürzen'.

Plymouth (UK) based label Grumpy's Third Eye Lives have released a double cassette compilation of sounds by Fordell Research Unit. Limited to only 22 copies the release is a 2xC80 collection of sounds pulled from the FRU Bandcamp page. Grumpy's Third Eye Lives is a label run by Tom Newell. Tom has virtually no internet presence preferring to sell through Discogs. He has (in the past) also operated the labels Cosmic Slumber and Thee Intergalaktik Beard releasing sounds from Nackt Insecten, Textured Bird Transmission and Culver amongst others. Fordell Research Unit can be contacted via Fraser Burnett at : https://fordellresearchunit.bandcamp.com.

The programme ends with a 20 minute sonic collage by Veryan. 'Above Colonsay' is from the split CD with The Lonely Bell. I know very little about the Veryan project, very little is written but what I can gather from the internet is that it is a project based in Scotland (like The Lonely Bell) and releases can be found on Cue Dot Records, Mortality Tables and Bibliotapes. This split CD is on the American Shady Ridge Records label. https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/night-flight-2.

Thanks for listening. The programme is archived on my Mixcloud page at :

https://www.mixcloud.com/tamsin-jane-cammack/muhmur-radio-broadcast-june-08-2023/

Playlist :

01: Edward Sol : "Vegan Headfuck (A)" (Quasi Pop Records) 2023.

02: Andrea Borghi : "Palsecam Coda" (Aposiopèse) 2023.

03: I Am A Vowel : "Body Curves" (Fang Bomb) 2011.

04: Beam Weapons : "Ping Pong At A Small Remove" (Preston Capes Tapes) 2023.

05: Beam Weapons : "It's Nothing Personal" (Preston Capes Tapes) 2023.

06: <<I.B.F.>> : "Baby" (BloedVlagProdukt) 1986.

07: Non Toxique Lost : "HIA" (NL Centrum, Amsterdam) 1988.

08: Arkhe : "Pagan Mechanisms" (Acte Fleshgod) 2013.

09: Trepaneringsritualen : "Unoin & Dissolution" (Acte Fleshgod) 2013.

10: Christian Mirande : "Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next" (Regional Bears) 2023.

11: Storm Bugs : "Tin" (L'Invitation Au Suicide) 1981.

12: Mattias Gustafsson : "Darmingar" (Hästen & Korsett) 2023.

13: Paul Baran : "Agitpop" (Fang Bomb) 2023.

14: Column One : "Aus Dem Vorwort" (Fragment Factory) 2023.

15: Fordell Research Unit : "He Comes From Hull/Shelf Field" (Grumpy's Third Eye Lives) 2022.

16: Veryan : "Above Colonsay" (Shady Ridge Records) 2023.

Back on the 22nd with sounds from Loopsel, Genocide Organ, Current 93 and Mezzanine Swimmers and an On This Day featuring Artery and Vice Versa ... and a cover version from post-punk supergroup The Spectres .... and others (natch). Same time, same channel and more than likely same T-Shirt. To listen live and you're hovering around Rattery dial your radio in at 102.5FM. Or, alternatively, stream live on : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk.