Whilst waiting for the restart of MuhMur Radio broadcasting and building playlists I have taken the time to sort out some old boxes of tapes and CDs and re-arrange some of the records and listen to some releases I have not heard in years ...
Shiver is the solo project of Genova based sound artist Mauro Sciaccaluga. Mauro also operates the label Diazepam on which 'They Will Feed Us" was released. A C30 cassette in two parts running over side A and side B. "They Will Feed On Us" was the second release on Diazepam in 2011. The cassette is packaged in a hessian pouch with two inserts and two bones, my guess is chicken and/or turkey.
Part two begins on the ground level. Ground level lo-fi. Rising from the floorboards, the slow rumblings of bass and six-string guitar building to a canter, an easy 'groove' to travel with. Again, as with Part One, the sound builds to a wall of noise including manipulated undecipherable masked vocals and like Part One the sound drops, this time to scraped (violin) strings. It's a great sonic effect and leaves the listener in an isolated space. The floorboard frequency returns with a bass drone surrounded by escaped electricity which accelerates in to a separate wall of noise.
"They Will Feed On Us" is a great tape, released in 2011 and a follow up to the Shiver CDR "Born To Lose". I do have the 2013 Shiver cassette "Shiver" but have yet to come across the box that one is in ... I look forward to (re)discovering it. I was uncertain to whether Mauro and Shiver were still active / releasing but a search on the internet I discovered there is a 2023 cassette on the Italian label Angst called "The Unquiet Grave". There's also a Regosphere & Shiver split tape on Diazepam I'll have to hunt down. Mauro is contactable via : http://shivernoise.blogspot.com or http://dzpm.blogspot.com.
MuhMur Radio will be returning to the airwaves sometime in March 2024.
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