MuhMur Radio Broadcast 4 February 2021.

 Robert Curgenven is a sound artist based in Cork, Ireland. I first came across his sounds / work at a festival he organised called "Open Provocation" that took place at a village hall in the small Cornish hamlet of Polruan in 2013. It was a three day event that also featured Nicholas Bullen, Nigel Ayers and Matt Davis. I formed a correspondence with Robert but his hectic and nomadic lifestyle made it very difficult to keep in touch. 

Robert has been releasing his sounds via his label Recorded Fields since 2007. Also releasing on other labels such as The Tapeworm, Line and Kaon. The opening piece here is from last years cassette release on the Irish Fort Evil Fruit label "Ar Ais Aris". This cassette compiles works from limited edition releases, installations, reworking and unreleased material. It was recorded in seven countries over the last fifteen years. Copies are still available : https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/ar-ais-ar-s More information on Robert's work and contact is here : https://www.recordedfields.net

Stuart Chalmers has been putting out his mix of ambient imaginations and experimental drones for over ten years. This broadcast features tracks from two of his most recent releases. "Exterminating Angel" is from the album "Self Destruction". Originally released in 2017 on the Reverb Worship label it has been re-issued as a CDR on the Electromagnetic Compact Discs imprint. The track "Dome Of Visions" is from the  ongoing collaborative project with Claus Poulsen. "When There Were Birds" is the third collaborative release and appears on the Blue Tapes label. "Dome Of Visions" was recorded live in Leeds in 2019. Copies are available on the Stuart Chalmers Bandcamp page : https://stuartchalmers.bandcamp.com/album/when-there-were-birds-blue-thirty-six

10 Decimal Place is a cafe / meeting place / music venue situated on the corner of Burton Road and Occupation Road in Lincoln. In the past the place has hosted live shows by the likes of Grey Frequency, Yumah and MyTrip. The track "Occupation Road" by Rovar 17 Vs. Xpldnglke was recorded here in 2020. Rovar 17 are Hungarian, other than that I know next to nothing about them. The CD came courtesy of Idwal Fisher. Between 199 and 2001 I lived in a flat in the grounds of The Lawn in Lincoln and my garden backed on to Occupation Road, a shame the venue didn't exist back then. 

This programme features an extended "On This Day" feature and starts with Lemon Kittens classic 7"EP "Spoonfed And Writhing". 

This EP was the debut release from Lemon Kittens, back in 1979 they were a trio featuring Gary Thatcher, Karl Blake and Nick Mercer. Karl recruited Danielle Dax through the small ads in "Industrial News" (the in house TG fanzine), and they became a two-piece. The artwork of the EP is by Danielle Dax.  After a successful live tour of the East Coast of America Factory Records issued the 12" EP "Do The Du(Cause)" by A Certain Ratio on the new Factory US label. 

One of the most influential albums of all time has to be Throbbing Gristle's "Second Annual Report".  Released in November 1977 on Industrial Records - I bought it on February 4 1979 from a record shop in Doncaster (The Fetish Records re-issue that is) ... https://www.negativeinsight.com/niblog/tgfetishrecords Gustaf Dickson is Blöd. Not to be confused with the band with the same name from the same country that released power electronics based noises on Xerxes and Segerhuva at the turn of the century, but the solo artist who has been releasing ambient Nordic folk and slightly obscure music on Förlag För Fri Musik and I Dischi Del Barone for the past five or six years. The track here is from the LP "Tusen Bitar", I like the LP a lot, it conjures incidental music from children's TV programmes from the 1970's. 

I managed to pick this album up from the Gothenburg based record shop Discreet Music. Discreet Music also operate a compact and bijou label called Förfall. They have released CDRs by Joachim Nordwall, Are & Miljö, Sewer Election and Blöd amongst others ... worth keeping and eye on. http://www.discreetmusic.se

The Jane track is from the excellent compilation album "Edward Not Edward". A collection of songs written by Edward Barton. Jane had a chart hit back in 1983 with the song "It's A Fine Day" written by Edward. All things Barton can be found here : http://www.edwardbarton.com Back in the 1980's I used to live in a flat above Edward when he was in a band called The Old Men - this was in Hulme, Manchester ... then a few years (and many moves) later I found myself living a few doors down from Edward. We appeared in a James video together. AntiChildLeague track is from the new CD album "Entrenched Extreme". Copies available here : https://hagshadow.wixsite.com/antichildleague Since the appearance on the 2019 compilation "On Corrosion", the 10xCassette box released by Helen Scarsdale Agency I have been looking out for releases by Himukalt. Himukalt is the project created by American noisician Ester Kärkkäinen. The track here is from the CD album "Come October" and is a reinterpretation of the Nurse With Wound track "I Was No Longer His Dominant" who in turn appropriated the text from Harold Pinter, 

Going back to the "On This Day" feature, Arista Records released the compilation LP "Celebration" by Simple Minds in 1982. I think by this time Simple Minds had left Arista and just about to hit the big time via Virgin Records. "Life In A Day" was included on this LP and also appeared on their first album. Also on this day in 1980 Not Sensibles released the LP "Instant Classics" on the Bent label.

Not Sensibles were from Burnley in the North West of England. Formed in 1978 and lasting for a few years they split in 1982 only to reform again in 2005. Crawling Chaos are from the North East of England., from Ashington in Northumberland to be precise. They recorded an album and single for Factory Records in the early 1980's. "Berlin" was the single. They are still an active recording project releasing great albums on the Belgian EE Tapes label. Information can be found here : https://crawlingchaos.co.uk

After bad time keeping on the four hour festive feast live broadcast on December 29 I had to leave tracks by Magazine and Hunting Lodge off the playlist so here they are at the end of tonights broadcast. Magazine "In The Dark" is the B-Side on the 12" EP "About The Weather" and the Hunting Lodge track is pulled from the CDR that comes with the vinyl LP "Shack" and is previously unreleased. 

Please take a listen to the broadcast here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-4-february-2021/ Thoughts and comments always welcomed. 

Playlist :

01: Robert Curgenven : "Wisla Reorientations" (Fort Evil Fruit) 2020.

02: Stuart Chalmers : "Exterminating Angels" (Electromagnetic Compact Discs) 2020.

03: Rovar 17 Vs. Xpldnglke : "Occupation Road" (Unsigned) 2020.

04: Lemon Kittens : "Lycanthrorhene" (United Dairies) 1980.

05: Lemon Kittens : "Chalet D'Amour" (Step Forward Records) 1979.

06: A Certain Ratio : "Son And Heir" (Factory US) 1981.

07: Throbbing Gristle : "Industrial Introduction" (Industrial Records) 1977.

08: Throbbing Gristle : "Slug Bait - ICA" (Industrial Records) 1977.

09: Throbbing Gristle : "Slug Bait - Live At Southampton" (Industrial Records) 1977.

10: Throbbing Gristle : "Slug Bait - Live At Brighton" (Industrial Records) 1977.

11: Throbbing Gristle : "Maggot Death - Live At Rat Club" (Industrial Records) 1977.

12: Throbbing Gristle : "Maggot Death - Studio" (Industrial Records) 1977.

13: Throbbing Gristle : "Maggot Death - Southampton" (Industrial Records) 1977.

14: Claus Poulsen & Stuart Chalmers : "Dome Of Visions" (Blue Tapes) 2020.

15: Pär Thörn & TR Kirstein : "Dold Mätning" (Topos) 2020.

16: Blöd : "Friehetens Musik" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2020.

17: Jane : "I Slap My Belly" (Wooden Records) 1989.

18: Muckrackers + Igor!!!M + Flutwacht : "À Froid" (LFA) 2020.

19: AntiChildLeague : "Paranoid" (Obsessive Fundamental Realism/Phosgen Records) 2020.

20: Himukalt : "No Longer Her Dominant" (Found Remains) 2018.

21: Simple Minds : "Life In A Day" (Arista Records) 1979.

22: A Certain Ratio : "Do The Du (Casse)" (Factory US) 1981.

23: Not Sensibles : "Little Boxes" (Bent Records) 1980.

24: Crawling Chaos : "Berlin" (Factory Records) 1980.

25: Magazine : "In The Dark" (Virgin Records) 1981.

26: Hunting Lodge : "96 Tears" (S/M Operations/Easy Listening Records) 2020. 

Thanks for listening - back again at the same SoundArt Time on the same SoundArt Channel - February 18th. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 21 January 2021.

 

The first broadcast of 2021. 2021 marks the ninth year of MuhMur Radio on SoundArt Radio broadcasting  from studios situated on the Dartington Hall Estate in South-East Devon. 

The programme starts with a small piece from the latest release by French multidisciplinary artist Rainier Lericolais. This track is from the cassette "Ondes Courtes" released on the Dead Mauriacs own imprint NPH. 

Unfortunately Rainier releases in limited editions, most being gallery editions and 'one-off' art pieces .. but contact NPH here, there still might be copies and downloads available. http://lartpenultieme.blogspot.com The Dead Mauriacs piece is a special piece recorded for MuhMur Radio. "HBSC" translates as 'Happy Birthday Steve Cammack' and was mailed as an audio birthday card for myself last December. 

SOON are a new project to me. A duo based in Nijmegen, Holland comprising of Jochem Van Toi and Liu Mottes. Extratool is a label set up by artists and musicians working out of the Extrapool Art Space in Nijmegen. The single was produced by Trepaneringsritualen member Peter Johann Nijland. SOON have a great website. Visit here : https://soonmusic.nl

Over the Christmas period (usually about 3 days if you work in the NHS) I spent a couple of days playing nothing but the sounds of John Duncan. Spurred on by the arrival of the 2016 album "Bitter Earth" to Hartop Towers. I first came aware of the work of John Duncan via ND Magazine, his performance art (actions) like "Blind Date" I find fascinating.  Dan (Plunkett) of ND then started mailing me tapes of John's audio and I have been "a fan" ever since. The two tracks here are from the "Bitter Earth" album. 

"The House On Highland Avenue" is a cover of a Gun Club song and "Dark" is an old Perl Ubu number. The BºTong piece comes from the split cassette with Fabio Orsi. BºTong is the solo project of Basel based Leaden Fumes bass player Chris Sigdell. On Christmas Day last year Frans deWaard posted audio files from his early incarnation "Construction". Sounds from Willem de Ridder's 'Radiola Improvisatie Salon' broadcasts alongside other recordings from 1981. Frans also posted a PDF of a little booklet designed by Alfred Boland to compliment the recordings, et voila! a Construction album. 

Songs Of The New Erotics were an experimental music and performance art project created by William A. Davison in Toronto in 1991. The project ceased to exit in 2014. William has been active on the Toronto underground 'scene' since the early 1990's and his work with Phycus. William has also been involved with Gastric Female Reflex, Six Heads and Wax Infant (with fellow Canadian Jim DeJong) and operates a radio  programme called "Re/Cycling" available on MixCloud. Information on William's work / art can be found at http://www.recordism.com/list.html "Japanese Ghost" was released as a 3" CDR on William's own Disembraining Songs label. It was recorded live at Studio 303 in Toronto on June 27, 2010 and mastered by another ex Phycus musician Scott Righteous. 

The (ir)regular "On This Day" feature is "D.O.A. The Third And Final Report" by Throbbing Gristle. I bought this LP "on this day" back in 1979 from Sanctuary Records in Lincoln. It's one of those albums n my collection that I have 3 copies of. The original vinyl, the version that came with the "Five Albums" box set and the CD re-issue on Mute Records. 

The Creep Of Paris track comes from the new eponymous cassette on Beartwon Records. Creep Of Paris (or CREEP OF PARIS or C.O.P.) is the project of Thomas LaRoche. Thomas is no stranger to the MuhMur Radio playlist with releases with projects such as Active Denial, Poultry Breeders Union, Rotting Shrine and Pavlov's Children. Thomas is also head mandarin of Research Laboratories and occasional drummer for Vagina Dentata Organ. The cassette is still available from Beartown Records and is only £4.00. Grab it here : https://beartownrecords.bigcartel.com/product/creep-of-paris-untitled This track put me in a kind of 'funky mood' so I followed with 400 Blows.

400 Blows were formed in the early 1980's by Andrew E. Beer and Robert Taylor, they were previously known as Concrete. Robert was also a member of the band Six Minute War. "Movin'" is a cover of a Brass Construction song. "Tumba Rumba" by A Certain Ratio is the flip side to their 7" "Knife Slits Water". A new name to me in 2020 was Robert Millis. Robert is a founder member of the Seattle based project Climax Golden Twins. There were rumblings from folk I know have good taste about the new Millis LP "Related Ephemera" on Helen Scarsdale Agency, so I had to get a copy. "Samsara" is side one on the album created from old 78RPM records, shellac and wax discs, surface noise and feedback generated through various old gramophones. "Related Ephemera" is certainly one of the finer releases from 2020. The vinyl edition sold out pretty quickly (I bought from Discogs) but a digital file is still available here : https://helenscarsdale.bandcamp.com/album/related-ephemera

Tarkatak is Lutz Pruditsch from Oldenburg in Germany. Tarkatak began at the start of the 1990's with cassette releases on labels such as Trümmer Kassetten and Biotape Art Organisation. The track here is from the 1998 7" on Drone Records. I managed to get a copy of this when I played alongside Tarkatak at Der Elefant in Bremen. 

Please take a listen to the programme here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-21-january-2021/

Playlist :

01 : Rainier Lericolais : "La Bouche Du Chaos" (NPH) 2020.

02: The Dead Mauriacs : "HBSC" (Not On Label) 2020.

03: SOON : "The Inventor Dreams" (Extratool) 2020.

04: John Duncan : "The House On Highland Avenue" (Ideal Recordings) 2016.

05: BºTong : "From Insomnia To Revelation In 15 Minutes" (Grubenwehr Freiburg) 2020.

06: Construction : "Construction #1" (Korm Digital) 2020.

07: John Duncan : "Dark" (Ideal Recordings) 2016.

08: Songs Of The New Erotics : "Japanese Ghosts" (Disembraining Songs) 2012.

09: Throbbing Gristle : "Hamburger Lady" (Industrial Records) 1978.

10: Creep Of Paris : "United (Side B)" (Beartown Records) 2020.

11: 400 Blows : "Movin'" (Illuminated Records) 1985.

12: A Certain Ratio : "Tumba Rumba" (Factory Records) 1982.

13: Throbbing Gristle : "E-Coli" (Industrial Records) 1978.

14: Robert Millis : "Samsara" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2020.

15: Tarkatak : "Oroa" (Drone Records) 1998.

The next broadcast will be on February 4 - same time / same channel and features sounds from Robert Curgenven, Stuart Chalmers, Blöd, AntiChild League, Hunting Lodge and Throbbing Gristle amongst others. I know this because it's a pre-record!

MuhMur Radio Four Hour Festive Feast Of Fun Broadcast 29 December 2020.

                                                   The view from SoundArt Studios at dusk.
 

It's been a few months since I last did a live broadcast, and MuhMur Radio comes back with a live four hour festive extravaganza. The programme itself didn't go without any hiccups, I had skipping CD's, a CD player that was playing too fast therefore cutting the playlist timings down ... (bet you can't tell which 2 tracks are played at the wrong speed) ... I then added songs I wasn't going to play to make up the time then came a major fuck up with a Dieter Müh CDR and a Robert Turman CD that wouldn't read so Magazine and Hunting Lodge got bumped .. I will make certain those tracks get played on the next brace of MuhMur Radio broadcasts. 

Instead of going through what was played (source wise) I'll just supply the playlist and add a few pictures at the bottom. Many many thanks go to Chris Booth for giving up his Tuesday evening to watch me descend in to drunken panic (the panic being that I ran out of Stella an hour before the end of broadcast!) and help out with CD players when it all went a bit titsy skywards. 

Scritti Politti and Department S were played in the "On This Day" feature ... 

The programme has been split into two parts for easy listening : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-festive-feast-broadcast-pt-1/

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-festive-feast-pt-2/

Playlist :

01: The 39 Clocks : "78 Soldiers Dead" (Luxury Products) 2013.

02: De Tian : "Transcriptome #1" (Discus) 2020.

03: Bourbonese Qualk : "Boggy Creek" (Recloose Organisation) 1986.

04: Scritti Politti : "Scritlocks Door" (Rough Trade/St Pancras Records) 1978.

05: Scritti Politti : "OPEC Immac" (Rough Trade/St Pancras Records) 1978.

06: AG Geige : "Der Möbiousband/Zeychen Und Wunder" (Major Label) 2018.

07: Mezzanine Swimmers : "Kneelin' On A Knife" (Already Dead) 2020.

08: Mezzanine Swimmers : "Sexy Apology" (Already Dead) 2020.

09: Contrastate : "English Pastoral" (Old Europa Cafe) 2020.

10: Conjecture : "AAENH (Antechamber Mix)" (Amek) 2020.

11: Cabaret Voltaire : "Sensoria (12mx)" (Virgin Records) 2001.

12: Blue Orchids : "Bad Education" (Rough Trade Records) 1982.

13: Duncan Harrison : "Mount Zion Bathed In Lighting" (Sham Repro) 2020.

14: Soviet France : "Rays Parallel" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

15: Soviet France : "Swelled Out Downward" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

16: Soviet France : "Signing Papal Briefs" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

17: Robert Turman : "Spirals Of Everlasting Change (In)" (Helicopter/Hanson Records) 2020.

18: Swell Maps : "Harmony In Your Bathroom" (Rough Trade/Rather Records) 1978.

19: Swell Maps : "Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me!" (Rough Trade/Rather Records) 1978.

Part Two :

20: Grey Park : "Nothin' But A Sea Of Smoke" (Not On Label/Self Released) 2020.

21: Grey Park : "Corridor Of Maybe" (Not On Label/Self Released) 2020.

22: The Cure : "Primary" (Fiction Records) 1981.

23: A Certain Ratio : "Lucinda" (Factory Records) 1982

24: The Rebel : "Do U Think I'm Breathing" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

25: The Special A.K.A. : "(What I Like Most About You Is Your) Girlfriend" (Two Tone Records) 1984.

26: Blurt : "Fresh Meat For Martyrs" (Sartorial Records) 2020.

27: Blurt : "Spill The Beans" (Red Flame Records) 1983.

28: Ian Dury & The Blockheads : "Sex n' Drugs n' Rock n' Roll" (Stiff Records) 1977.

29: The Pop Group : "Snowgirl" (Radar Records) 1979.

30: Missing Presumed Dead : "Say It With Flowers" (Sequel Records) 1980.

31: Missing Presumed Dead : "Walkie Talkie Eyes" (Sequel Records) 1980.

32: Current 93 : "Niemandswasser I" (HomAleph) 2020.

33: Current 93 : "Niemandswasser II" (HomAleph) 2020.

34: Hula : "Not A Second Glance" (Red Rhino Records) 1986.

35: Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle : "Wir Gehen In Den Zoo" (A-Musik) 2016.

36: Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle : "Was Kostet Die Welt" (A-Musik) 2016.

37: John Cooper Clarke : "Thirty Six Hours" (Epic Records) 1980.

38: Department S : "Is Vic There?" (Demon Records) 1980.

39: 156: "Organ And Drum" (Goat Eater Arts) 2013.

40: The Cure : "Charlotte Sometimes" (Fiction Records) 1981.

41: Sisters Of Mercy : "Body Electric" (Merciful Release/WEA Records) 1984.

42: Dieter Müh : "Bethlehem (Live)" (Not On Label) 2004.

43: Robert Turman : "Vice" (Helicopter/Hanson Records) 2020.

44: Minny Pops : "Secret Story" (Factory Records) 1982. 

Regular service will be resumed on January 21. 20:00 hour (GMT) Kick Off ... 

Thanks for listening ... 

                                                                   AG GEIGE.

                                                             MISSING PRESUMED DEAD.

                                                               BOURBONESE QUALK

                                                       FREIWILLIGE SELBSTKONTROLLE

                                                                           BLURT

                                          156 / MEZZANINE SWIMMERS / THE 39 CLOCKS

                                           SOUNDART RADIO MANDARIN CHRIS BOOTH 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 10 December 2020.

 

This is the final broadcast of 2020. The final pre-record anyway ... there will be the annual live "four hour festive feast of fun" show broadcast on December 29 but more information about that later ... 

Tonights programme starts with a track from the Aidan Baker With The Plurals album "Glass Crocodile Medicine". Back in 2011 Aidan Baker and The Plurals toured the UK (along with Baker side project Nadja) and went in to Southern Studios in London to record two live improvisations. "Glass Crocodile Medicine" was released by Latitudes a subsidiary of Southern Records. 

Back in 2006 I (as part of Dieter Müh) played th Wave Gothik-Treffen Festival in Leipzig. We played a venue called Der Anker alongside Novy Svet, Apoptose, Land:Fire & Propergol. I was in Leipzig for four days and I saw this as an opportunity to see as many live bands as possible and blow the performance fee and airfare on vinyl. One of the live acts I wanted to see was Tho-So-Aa, the solo ambient/Experimental project of German sound artist Lutz Rach. 

The performance took place in a cellar beneath an Absinthe Bar. The bar was in an old courtyard not far from the main train station, and I managed to catch a live set by Shava Sadhana before trying to find the Tho-So-Aa gig. Unfortunately the gig was not signposted and the space beneath the bar was like a labyrinth or Escher's 'House Of Stairs', so I retreated back to the Absinthe Bar and admitted defeat. "Sleep" is from the debut Tho-So-As album "Enrielle". A few months later I managed to get a copy of the CD album "Salon Decadance" released by the Neo-Form label that featured all the acts that played the Absinthe Bar during the 2006 WGT Festival. The CD features Shava Sadhana, Sagittarius, Echo West and Tho-So-Aa. So it wasn't all just an illusion. "Just An Illusion" is the 1990 album released by Soviet France and has just been re-issued by Vinyl On Demand. "Ascend A Fall" and "Caught In The Square" are from this album. Originally a CD presented in a cigar box VOD have put it out as a double album and is part of the ten album box set "Chȃsse 2". 

The Yoni Silver And Paul Watson piece comes from the new cassette "Beartown Live Wreckage #1 (2014 & 2020)". It's an improvisational piece recorded live at 5 Miles, a brewery and night club in Seven Sisters, London. The cassette is a split release with Daniel Spicer and available via Beartown Records here : https://beartownrecords.bigcartel.com Beartown Records have just put out tapes by Creep Of Paris, Phil Maguire and John Butcher. Great stocking fillers! Ian Murphy is part of the avant-noise project Hobo Sonn and has just released a split / collaborative album with ex Plural Duncan Harrison. The album is called "Slow Lightning" and is available here : https://www.shamrepro.com If MuhMur radio did a list of best releases of 2020 then I think this LP would be sitting near the top. 

Great artwork / photography too by Eddie Nuttall of Aqua Dentata fame. The album featuring in the " On This Day" is "20 Jazz Funk Greats" by Throbbing Gristle. Released on December 10 in 1979, this was TG's third vinyl album. As a rule I don't like playing the same record twice and was surprised to find that after eight and a bit years of producing MuhMur Radio I have never played the 'album version' of "Persuasion".  "Tanith" was the name of Gen + Cosey's dog at the time. (a German Shepherd). 

The CD "Cinque Studi Sui Paesaggio" by Alessandro Ragazzo came through the post last month. I am afraid I know nothing of this artist, I don't know if this is a debut release or with or not Alessandro is part of some group. Putting the name in the search engine seems to bring up a New York based pop singer. Anyway, it's a great CD on the Dissipatio label (again, searches pull blanks). 

One of the finest albums of 2019 was "V" by Conjecture. Released by the Bulgarian Amek label it was a follow up to the 2017 release "My Body, Your Temple". Conjecture is the solo project of visual and sound artists Vasilis Angelopoulos, he created Conjecture to discover parallels between sound, the body and religion. It's a sound I really like, to me it has the same texture and feel as late 1980's Clock DVA. The track played here is from the new C20 cassette release "⨛V". Available here ... for only €6. https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/v-2 

A single that should have ben featured in the last broadcast because it was released "On This Day' back in 1980 was the "Don't Try To Cure Yourself" EP by They Must Be Russians. They Must Be Russians were formed in Sheffield in 1979 by Paul Widger (later of Clock DVA and The Box) and Russel Davies. After numerous line-up changes they split in 1986. "Air To Breathe" is from this EP. 

Please take a listen to the broadcast here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-december-2020/

Playlist :

01: Aidan Baker With The Plurals : "Turning Children Into Mice" (Latitudes) 2013.   

02: Tho-So-Aa : "Sleep" (Art Konkret) 2002.

03: Soviet France : "Ascend A Fall" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

04: Soviet France : "Caught In The Square" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

05: Yoni Silver And Paul Watson : "Untitled" (Beartown Records) 2020.

06: Ian Murphy : "New Index Of Delusion & Error" (Sham Repro) 2020.

07: Throbbing Gristle : "Tanith" (Industrial records) 1979.

08: Alessandro Ragazzo : "Cinque Studi Sui Paesaggio (I)" (Dissipatio) 2020.

09: Conjecture : "AAENH" (Amek) 2020.

10: Throbbing Gristle : "Persuasion" (Industrial Records) 1979.         

11: They Must Be Russians : "Air To Breathe" (Fresh Records) 1980.                

Many thanks to Chris Booth for facilitating and engineering this broadcast, like I mentioned this was the last 2 hour (pre-record) broadcast of 2020, but there will be a 240 minute festive extravaganza broadcast live on December 29th kicking off at 18:00 GMT. Over the past eight years this has now become a ritual event ... to listen to a mans descent into alcoholism with some choice sounds! Details will be given on the MuhMur Radio Facebook page in the coming days. ... 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 26 November 2020 (Drekka Special).

Drekka is the solo project of sound artist / visual artist and musician Michael Anderson. Michael began in 1996 experimenting with noise and getting involved with the Industrial tape culture that existed at the time, developing in to more expansive sounds, drones, cut-ups and cinematic textures and moving away from the 'bedroom noise' sound a lot of folk seemed happy with. The project became Drekka and Michael created a label for his work called Bluesanct. 

The first Drekka release on Bluesanct was the split 7" EP with US experimentalists Octal in 1997, the following year Drekka released the cassette "There Can Make Nothing Of Difference". In 2014 Drekka gained wider recognition with two album releases on the US Dias Records label and continually played live through Europe and USA. 

Collaborations have been a feature of Drekka's output working with artists such as Dylan Ettinger, Mykel Boyd, Darryl Blood, Annelies Monseré and Timber Rattle to name a few. The first track of this broadcast is from a collaboration with Howard Stelzer. "Invariably Falling Forward, Into The Thickets Of Closure" is a triple CD on No Rent Records and features two collaborations with Michael. "Violet" is one of them. 

Last year (2019) I was fortunate to catch Drekka live in Plymouth. The recording of this performance / ritual has been remixed and remastered by Michael for MuhMur Radio. 

                         

                                          Drekka Live @ Union Corner, Plymouth : 16 Nov. 2019.

"Call To Prayer" & "Length At Night" are from the 2020 album "Examinations 2016 - 2018", with "Length At Night" featuring Giuseppe Capriglione from Skrei. The final track of the broadcast "Mykramekt" a limited edition double holed lathe cut 12" that came with the 'art edition' of this release. 

"Live In Europe 2010" was recorded in Slovenia and Italy and released by Bristol (UK) based label Chemical Tapes. Physical copies have now all sold, but downloads are available here : https://chemicaltapeslabel.bandcamp.com

"The Seventh Continent (Oceanic Waves Wave)" is from the LP "Unbeknownst To The Participants At Hand" released in 2015 on Dais Records. https://www.daisrecords.com

2020 would have seen a European tour with BºTong, hopefully that will now take place in 2021. Michael can be contacted via Bluesanct here : http://www.bluesanct.com

Playlist :

01: Howard Stelzer : "Violet" (No Rent Records) 2020.

02: Drekka : "Live In Plymouth 16:11:19" (Not On Label) 2020.

                     (i) "Sense Of Senses/Call To Prayer (Sunrise)"

                     (ii) "Pianos Of The Cosmos"

                     (iii) "The Work In Question Is Unbeknownst To The Participants"

                     (iv) "Call To Prayer (Sunset)"

              (All tracks exclusively remixed and remastered for MuhMur Radio broadcast).

03: Drekka : "Call To Prayer" (Fabrica/Red Frost Industries) 2020.

04: Drekka : "Length At Night" (Fabrica/Red Frost Industries) 2020.

05: Drekka : "Wilderness Dub" (Chemical Tapes) 2011.

06: Drekka : "Bloody Heart/Bathysphere" (Chemical Tapes) 2011.

07: Drekka : "Revalations 52.9000" (Chemical Tapes) 2011.

08: Drekka : "Samy Takes Piano Lessons/Leonard Buries Strangers" (Chemical Tapes) 2011.

09: Drekka : "The Seventh Continent (Oceanic Waves Wave)" (Dais Records) 2015.

10: Drekka : Mykramakt" (Fabrica/Red Frost Industries) 2020.

Please listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-26-november-2020/

Thanks to Michael for the sounds and generosity. 

Next broadcast is on December 10. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 12 November 2020

I was playing a box of 7" singles and came across the Essential Logic "Eugene" 7". I played the B-Side as I couldn't quite remember the song, and to me it sounded like a theme tune, a them tune to a 1970's sit-com off the telly, so I played "Tame The Neighbours" as this broadcasts' theme tune. 

Going through the diaries and I find that 'on this day' in 1980 4AD Records released two singles. "You & I" by Mass and "Gathering Dust" by Modern English. I realise that this is 40 years ago, and this was the first year of 4AD Records. Back in 1980 I was 18/19 years old and an avid collector of the 7" single, usually going by what John Peel played on his radio programme, or collecting releases by such labels as Small Wonder Records, Rough Trade Records, Mute, Factory Records (etc). Coming from a history of buying the 7" single from about 1971 the format has always been (or certainly was until the onslaught of Punk/New Wave/DIY) disposable. From the throwaway singles by the likes of Lieutenant Pigeon, Geordie and Gilbert O' Sullivan to the Glam Rock of David Bowie, T-Rex and Roxy Music to the Candy Glam of Mud, Gary Glitter and Hello I bought them all (it's what the pocket money was for and the prices ranged from 27 pence to 45 pence). There was a brief period when I was 'into' rock music and the 7" singles by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Judas Priest were something to treasure as they were a rarity in themselves. Sanctuary Records in Lincoln had their 7"s for sale in an old shoebox on the counter - it was like they were a novelty item to the serious rock record collector. Of course punk changed that, punk changed everything and made the 7" single cool and collectable again. 

I was in like Flint with 4AD Records. They began in 1980 originally as Axis Records releasing a quartet of 7" singles by The Fast Set, Bearz, Bauhaus and Shox. I remember grabbing the Bearz and Bauhaus singles on release. I thought The Bearz were an off shoot from the band Fruit Eating Bears whose "Cheavy Heavy" single I loved at the time. (But No as Colin Newman once said). It was then realised by owners Peter Kent and Ivo Watts-Russell that there was always a label called Axis Records and a probable court case was on the horizon they changed the name to 4AD Records and re issued the first four singles as 4AD Records Releases. For the next couple of years 4AD Records released some of the most important and influential records of the time, also presenting 4AD Records live nights around London. Groups and projects such as Mass, Rema Rema, The Wolfgang Press, In Camera, Modern English, My Captains, Gilbert & Lewis, Past 7 Days, Dif Juz, Bauhaus, Psychotik Tanks, Cocteau Twins and The The to name but a few. For me the label fell by the wayside and became less collectable / listenable in (around) 1983 by releasing records by the likes of X Mal Deutschland, Colourbox, Dead Can Dance and Clan Of Xymox. Strange circumstances found me thirteen years later spending a week at the ICA in London attending the 4AD Records "13 Year Itch" festival. (I was on the guest list) and watching the then current slew of 4AD groups like Throwing Muses, Brendan Perry, The Breeders, Underground Lovers and Red House Painters.  I thought they were all awful but the performance by His Name Is Alive was interesting as was The Wolfgang Press covering Rema Rema. 

I have played the Mass single "You & I" a couple of times on MuhMur Radio and those times can be found on the MuhMur Radio MixCloud Archive page, and I don't like playing the same records over and over so I played the A Side to the Mass album "Labour Of Love". Released in May 1981 Mass were the fallout from The Models and Rema Rema and in 1983 developed into The Wolfgang Press with members Gary Asquith and Danny Briottet emerging in the late 1980s as Renegade Soundwave. 

4AD Records was the perfect home for BC Gilbert & G Lewis with Rough Trade Records supporting their Dome project and Cherry Red Records releasing the collaborative work with visual artist Russell Mills, 4AD released three Gilbert + Lewis records, the LP "3R4" the 12" single "Like This For Ages" (as Cupol)  and the 7" "Ends With The Sea" and later in 1988 released the CD "8 Time" a compilation of 4AD Records releases. "Hung Up To Dry Whilst Building An Arch" is the B Side to "Ends With The Sea". 

Modern English's first release on 4AD Records was in May 1980 with the single "Swans On Glass". They had already put out the 7" "Drowning Man" on the independent Limp Records label a year earlier. "Gathering Dust" was their second 7" for 4AD Records. Both songs in this programme are from this single. Little known and totally irrelevant fact is that my brother in law auditioned for Modern English whilst at university in Colchester. He later became the bass player in Appliance. 

My Captains released their only 7" on 4AD Records in 1981. My Captains were a quartet from Oxford, little is known about them, sometime in the early 1990's I got in touch with the drummer Richard Tarver who was then a councillor for the Labour Party in Oxford. I asked him if there were any studio outakes or unreleased material but the question drew a blank - he did mail me the EP though..forever grateful.

I was very happy to receive a package from Slavek Kwi from Artificial Memory Trace that included the four way split album "Frogoroth". The LP features tracks from Slavek alongside Sylvain Van Iniitu, Yannick Dauby and Dave Phillips. Mainly featuring sounds created by amphibians from around the globe the Dave Phillips and Slavek Kwi tracks are from this album. The LP  was released in 2017 and I'm not too sure if it still available but the Frogoroth Concert can be downloaded here : https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/the-z-rich-concert

It has been a busy 12 months for Alice Kemp, with the release last November of the album "Fox" on Tochnit Aleph, the track for the lockdown on the Amplify 2020 project "Your Bones Will Be My Home" (which is available for free here : https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/your-bones-will-be-my-home). And now the C20 cassette on Fragment Factory called "Songs In The Key Of NO". Packaged in an old 1990's TDK cassette case with individual art card the cassette is limited to 50 copies only and I think sold out from source but the digital version is still available from Fragment Factory. https://fragmentfactory.bandcamp.com/album/songs-in-the-key-of-no for only €3.50. Alice has also released a tryptich of pamphlets through Wrathful Flower Press and contributed (alongside Dieter Müh) to the compilation cassette in aid of funds for Skylark FM, a new Dartmoor (Devon) based radio station. Like I said ...  a busy year.

Geisterfahrer are a Hamburg based NDW band formed in 1979 by Matthias Schuster and Michael Ruff. "Leiser Tod" is the B Side to the 7" single "Madish Ahb'el" 

The John Paul track is from his new mini album "Relics" it's a companion release to the album "Subjects" which came out earlier this year. It's a co-release between Environmental Studies and Harbinger Sound and available here : https://www.musicglue.com/environmental-studies/products/john-paul-relics-6-track-download

In July this year American reissue specialists Dark Entries (back to 4AD Records again) released a 12" version of Robert Rental's "Paralysis"single. This time packaged with a small information tract and three bonus tracks that were originally released on the "Mental Detentions" cassette in 1979. "Ugly Talk" is from the 12"EP. Optimo Music in Glasgow were carrying copies, always worth an ask. https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com

Please take a listen to the programme here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-12-november-2020/. Comments and Emails always welcomed.

Playlist :

01: Essential Logic : "Tame The Neighbours" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

02: BC Gilbert + G Lewis : "3.4" (4AD Records) 1980.

03: Dave Phillips : "Frogowrath" (Iniitu) 2017.

04: Mass : "Mass" (4AD Records) 1981.

05: Mass : "Why" (4AD Records) 1981.

06: Mass : "Ill" (4AD Records) 1981.

07: Mass : "Why" (4AD Records) 1981.

08: Mass : "Isn't Life Nice" (4AD Records) 1981.

09: Slavek Kwi : "Tasman Firedance In The Drain" (Iniitu) 2017.

10: Modern English : "Gathering Dust" (4AD Records) 1980.

11: Alice Kemp : "Dead Milk Conduit" (Fragment Factory) 2020.

12: Alice Kemp : "Violent Sea" (Fragment Factory) 2020.

13: Alice Kemp : "Bad Birth" (Fragment Factory) 2020.

14: Alice Kemp : "Violent Sea (II)" (Fragment Factory) 2020.

15: Artificial Memory Trace : "Boto Pt 2 (Black Water)" (Iniitu) 2011.

16: Artificial Memory Trace : "Boto Pt 3  + Tocuxi (White Water)" (Iniitu) 2011.

17: Modern English : "Tranquility Of A Summer Moment (Vice Versa)" (4AD Records) 1980.

18: Geisterfahrer : "Leiser Tod" (Konkurrenz Schallplatten/Phonogram Records) 1981.

19: John Paul : "Happy Meal" (Environmental Studies/Harbinger Sound) 2020.

20: Gilbert And Lewis : "Hung Up To Dry Whilst Building An Arch" (4AD Records) 1981.

21: My Captains : "Fall" (4AD Records) 1981.

22: Robert Rental : "Ugly Talk" (Dark Entries/Optimo Music) 2020.

Thanks for reading / listening.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 29 October 2020.

 

                                                         Wagner Ödegård /156/ Draoidh.

The programme starts with a new release from Wagner Ödegård. "Nordsolen" is from the new (August 2020) cassette on Altare Productions called "Ursumar". Wagner is a very mysterious artist, born in Lapland but now resident in Sweden. He also plays (bass guitar I think) in a couple of Black Metal / Doom Metal bands called Felon Wind and Tomhet. Wagner's solo project leans more towards the ambient occult / industrial noise genre. On the same day as this cassette Altare Productions released a companion cassette called "Spösturgan" which came packaged with a 35 page magazine of Wagner's artwork.  The Altare Productions (a Portuguese label) website seems to be under maintenance until mid-November but copies maybe available direct from Wagner here : https://brugmanziah.bandcamp.com

The Current 93 track is from the triple CD "The Inmost Light". Alongside the voices of David Tibet and Jonh Balance is the voice of Alessandro Moreschi, the late 19th Century castrato, the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make sound recordings. 

The origins of the name behind the project of 156 may be found here https://www.amodali.com/galvah/ or may be not ... 156 is also the bus route between Vauxhall and Wimbledon, it's also a song by the rock band Queensryche and the atomic number of an element temporarily called Unpenthexium. Earlier in the year Adel Souto got in touch by sending some 156 vinyl and cassettes, a completely new project to my ears 156 have been releasing sounds since 2011. 156 are a collective project conducted by Adel from his base in Florida. The 10" LP "Momento Mori" is constructed of sounds made by human bones and breath passing through human bones. "Kokoro" & "To My Sons And Daughters" are from this 10". "The Collapse Of It All (Pts I-III)" is from a split cassette with Canadian noisemaker Knurl. This tape was released by Humanhood Recordings. Adel also has his own record / publishing label called 'Feast Of Hate And Fear'. Get in touch here : https://onefivesix.bandcamp.com/music

2020 is becoming a busy year for Contrastate with a couple of albums out since summer. "The Illusion Of Power" CD has just been released by the Italian Old Europa Cafe label, an accompaniment to the 10" lathe cut that came out at the start of the year, and in September Black Rose Recordings released the CD "Recorded Evidence II". (I don't think there was ever a "Recorded Evidence I" album). This CD is a compilation of singles, b-sides and compilation LP appearances from 1993 - 2017. There's also a couple of unreleased tracks and it is these tracks that are played here. 

Copley Medal is the solo project of Dais Records boss Ryan Martin. "Select Panic" is from the 2015 cassette "Marble Cage" on Vitrine. 

                                                                          Muhviertel.

Muhviertel were a Manchester based project. Originally created for a one-off live performance at Manchester PSV Club in 1986. Culling members from Systemlaw Violator, Landishkrill and Ideas Beyond Filth Muhviertel carried on recording and releasing up to 1989. In 1985 Systemlaw Violator mainman Sean Rorke created the Carnifex Recordings label (with Gary Warmington) to release their sounds. In 1987 Muhviertel released the 3xC46 tape "Morsjusti". The track "Nap'hsha" is from this release. This track was recorded in John Nash Crescent in Hulme. Carnifex Recordings sold their cassettes at Eastern Bloc Records in Manchester and via mail order, how many are out there in the world is unknown but if anyone has copies I'd be interested to know. 

Draoidh are an American project, "Temple Of Tongues" is their only release to date. The cassette version has sold out but is available as download from Orb Tapes (of Pennsylvania) here : https://orbtapes.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-tongues

The Birthday Party single "Release The Bats" is the MuhMur Radio concession to playing the obvious on a "Halloween Special". 

I was to follow this track with "Ghost By Mouth" by Eric Lunde. I have the lathe-cut single edition (with book and artworks) but unfortunately the needle did not want to know and kept slipping and sliding across the surface ... so I played two TG tracks instead of just finishing on "Spirits Flying". here two tracks are taken from the "Mission Of Dead Souls". The LP is subtitled "The Last Live Performance of TG" and originally released by Fetish Records in 1981. I play the Mute Records re-issue here. 

Playlist:

01: Wagner Ödegård : "Nordsolen" (Altare Productions) 2020.

02: Current 93 : "Where The Long Shadows Fall" (Durtro/Jnana Records) 2007.

03: 156 : "Kokoro" (Feast Of Hate And Fear) 2016.

04: 156 : "The Collapse Of It All (Parts I-III)" (HumanHood Recordings) 2020.

05: Contrastate : "Between Two Mirrors" (Black Rose Recordings) 2020.

06: Copley Medal : "Select Panic" (Vitrine) 2015.

07: Muhviertel : "Nap'hsha" (Carnifex Recordings) 1987.

08: 156 : "To My Sons And Daughters" (Feast Of Hate And Fear) 2016.

09: Draoidh : "Temple Of Tongues (I)" (Orb Tapes) 2019.

10: Contrastate : "Africanas Neanderthalis" (Black Rose Recordings) 2020.

11: The Birthday Party : "Release The Bats" (4AD Records) 1981.

12: Throbbing Gristle : "Funeral Rites" (Mute Records) 1983.

13: Throbbing Gristle : "Spirits Flying" (Mute Records) 1983. 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-29-october-2020/

Next broadcast will be on 12 November and feature new pieces from Alice Kemp and John Paul alongside a small tribute to 40 years of 4AD Records with some tunes by Mass, Modern English, My Captains and Gilbert And Lewis and some great sounds from Slavek Kwi & Artificial Memory Trace. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 15 October 2020.

The programme starts with a new piece from Ukrainian musician King Imagine. King Imagine is the alias of Alexei Mikryukov who is also a member of industrial band Superapes. I must admit to having never come across King Imagine before but this cassette 'popped up' as an interest as it features Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. The cassette is called "Object 23 (For Gen)" and is released on King Imagine's own label SKP Records. The Genesis samples are from an interview Psychic TV did on the 1984 TV programme "Earsay". I think the interview was done by Gary Crowley (no relation) ... but that's just from memory. The cassette is limited to 23 copies, released in August and surprisingly there are still copies available on the SKP Records bandcamp page. 

https://skprecords.bandcamp.com

In July ex-Vibracathedral Orchestra and Astral Social Club member Neil Campbell released a 10" lathe cut EP with CDr entitled "Perimeter Ghost Bloom". The two tracks here are from one side of the 10". 

The Clock DVA track is from the 1980's Industrial classic "Thirst". This is one of the few LP's I have had in my possession since release. I do fall in and out of love with it at times ... sometimes it sounds dated, sometimes it hits memories that are best left buried and sometimes it is an absolute classic. At the moment "Thirst" is an absolute classic. From the same year is a track by Dutch group Mental. Originally called Heavy Mental in the late 1970's formed by Jacob Baars and Rob Van Wijngaarden they (self) released a handful of cassettes and were joined by Hans Seen and Arjan Van Der Met. In 1981 they shortened the name to Mental with Arjan leaving shortly afterwards to create the project Ma Colle. "Love In My Heart" is from the split Flexi-Disc with Minny Pops that came with the Dutch magazine "Vinyl". 

Staying in The Netherlands Ruisch is a new project from Frans de Waard. This track here is from the debut album "Subterranean Campfires". From Netherlands to Lowlands, Sylvain Van Iniitu is a Belgium based sound artist and label owner. (Ini.tu Records). I was just discovering the output on this label with the  releases by Dave Phillips and Artificial Memory Trace and Grubenwehr Freiburg drop this tape called "The Moon" a split tape with Grodock mainman David Leutkart. The tape is available here : https://grubenwehrfreiburg.bandcamp.com/album/the-moon

The Fossil Aerosol Ming Project track is from the 2018 album "The Recounting Of Night Time". I recently managed to pick up a copy of the 1984 compilation LP "Myths. Instructions 1" on the Belgian Sub Rosa label. The Camberwell Now track is from this LP. I don't usually play Dieter Müh tracks but our version of "S.O.L.A.S." (stranded or lost at sea) is a tribute / homage to The Camberwell Now track. "S.O.L.A.S." originally appeared on the compilation CDr "Notre Dame #12-The Final Edition" on EE Tapes and is also added as a bonus piece on the 2016 reissue of "Feeling A Little Horse", also on EE Tapes and available here : http://www.eetapes.be

"On This Day" features a track from the eponymous 1978 EP by Kleenex. The all female punk rock band from Switzerland. I saw Kleenex live around this time (maybe 1979) in Lincoln. They were sharing a bill with Spizz Energi and The Raincoats. In 1980 they had to change their name to Liliput due to threats from the tissue manufacturers. I play the Zye Ye Ye in memory of John Murphy who died on October 11 five years ago. I always imagine he recorded this track whilst there was studio downtime recording "Care" with Shriekback. It's very similar to the Shriekback sound back then. 

The Beequeen track is one side of his new LP "Winter" on the Australian label A Colourful Storm. European distribution is here: https://beequeen.bandcamp.com/album/winter

The programme is available to hear here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-15-october-2020/

Playlist : 

01: King Imagine & Genesis Breyer P-Orridge : "Object 23 (For Gen)" (SKP/Interzona) 2020.

02: Neil Campbell : "Perimeter Ghost Bloom (I)" (Not On Label) 2020.

03: Neil Campbell : "Perimeter Ghost Bloom (II)" (Not On Label) 2020.

04: Clock DVA : "Uncertain" (Fetish Records) 1981.

05: Mental : "Love In My Heart" (Vinyl Magazine/Factory Benelux) 1981.

06: Ruisch : "No One's Ever Died Before" (Eroto Tox Decodings) 2020.

07: Sylvain Van Iniitu : "The Moon" (Grubenwehr Freiburg) 2020.

08: Sylvain Van Iniitu : "Gentlemen Of The Shades" (Grubenwehr Freiburg) 2020.

09: Fossil Aerosol Mining Project : "Tsints No.4" (Helen Scarsdale Agency )2018.

10: The Camberwell Now : "For Those In Peril On Sea" (Sub Rosa) 1984.

11: Dieter Müh : "S.O.L.A.S." (EE Tapes) 2000.

12: Hairs Abyss : "Remembering The Old West" (Not On Label) 2020.

13: Kleenex : "Beri Beri" (Sunrise) 1978.

14: Zye Ye Ye : "Zye Ye Ye Part Two (Birds Eye View)" (Le Rey Records) 1981.

15: Beequeen : "Early Winter" (A Colourful Storm) 2020.

16: Ultravox! : "Dislocation" (Island Records) 1978.

Next broadcast will be on October 29 - close enough to make it a 'Samhain Special' and feature sounds from Throbbing Gristle, 156, Wagner Odegard, Current 93 and Draoidh amongst others .. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 01 October 2020

Tonights programme starts with tracks from the new album by Arv & Miljö. "Himmelsvind" is the first release on Swedish label Discreet Music. Discreet Music is also a shop in downtown Gothernberg. Arv & Miljö is the solo project of Matthias Andersson. Matthias also runs the label I Deischi del Barone and makes noises in Neutral / Heinz Hopf and Enhet För Fri Musik.                                                   "Melancholia" was originally released in 1986 on the album "The Insect Musicians". This was Graeme Revell's first solo LP whilst still being a member of S.P.K. (They disbanded in 1988). The version here is from the 1994 compilation CD "Musique Brut Collection" that combines this LP and tracks from the compilation album "Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles (The Music Of Adolf Wölfli). I bought this CD from Rough Trade Records when it was in Neal's Yard, London from the money I was paid from appearing on the TV quiz programme "Fifteen To One". Last year Cold Spring Records reissued the 'classic' S.P.K. LP "Zamia Lehmanni - Songs Of Byzantine Flowers" with added sleeve notes by Graeme.      Komare are Dominic Goodman and Pete Blundell. A London based side project from the band Mosquitos. I played Side A of this LP last month ...                                                                                                 Andrea Borghi is a member of Italian sound artists VipCranco. Andrea has just released a cassette with fellow Italian experimentalist musicians Giancomo Sales and Paolo Sanna. The result is "MOT". The cassette is on the TSS label and limited to 100 copies only. 

NostrilFlair is the new project from Chandor Glöomy and Carl Anderson. Chandor's noise is no stranger to MuhMur Radio through his releases with Hairs Abyss and Cromlech Shadow. Carl also releases as Nil By Nose and used to be one half of Basic Concept, the No Noise/Hip Hop Experimentalists with Simon Morris. Carl also appears on The Ceramic Hobs album "Oz Oz Alice". The two pieces here are available via the Coma Kultur Bandcamp site, they appear on a split CDR with UK project Egone. https://comakultur.bandcamp.com/album/n-o-s-t-r-i-l-f-l-a-i-r-e-g-o-n-e

A few programmes ago I decided to play tracks by bands with numbers in their names and that made me dig out the 48 Chairs single "Snap It Around" on the Absurd Records label. Delving further I find out that Cache Cache Records have reissued the first (and only) 48 Chairs album, and after the fine work they did with Gerry & The Holograms back in 2017 I had to grab a copy. "You Were Never There" is from the 48 Chairs LP "70% Paranoid" and features the great sax work of Lol Coxhill.                                              This programme's "On This Day" feature includes The Passions and Colin Newman. Two great singles from 1980. It also celebrates The Final Academy event that took place at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton (London) in 1982. 

The three day event saw performances from Psychic TV, Last Few Days, William S. Burroughs, John Giorno, Jeff Nuttal, Cabaret Voltaire and 23 Skidoo amongst others.                                                   Hamburg based sound artist Thomas Beck has joined Swiss noise maker Chris Sigdell (AKA BºTong) and German noise band Czepoks to create the Radio Gagarin Allsound Orchestra and release an album of improvised noise on Thomas's own Wachsender Prozess label.                                                                 The final track is by Hairs Abyss and is from an upcoming release on Steep Gloss. 

Playlist :

01: Arv & Miljö : "Himmelsvind (Side A)" (Discreet Music) 2020.

02: Graeme Revell : "Melancholia" (Musique Brut/The Grey Area) 1994.

03: S.P.K. : "The Doctrine Of Eternal Ice" (Cold Spring Records) 2019.

04: Komare : "The Sense Of Hearing (Side B)" (Penultimate Press) 2020.

05: Borghi/Salis/Sanna : "MOT (Side A)" (TSSS Tapes) 2020.

06: NostrilFlair : "Light The Flair" (Not On Label) 2020.

07: NostrilFlair : "Playing In The Sirens" (Not On Label) 2020.

08: 48 Chairs : "You Were Never There" (Cache Cache) 2018.

09: The Passions : "The Swimmer" (Polydor Records) 1980.

10: Colin Newman : "B" (Beggars Banquet Records) 1980.

11: Cabaret Voltaire : "Protection" (Rough Trade Records) 1982.

12: William S. Burroughs : "The Five Steps" (Sub Rosa) 1984.

13: William S. Burroughs : "Interview With Mr. Martin" (Sub Rosa) 2009.

14: Last Few Days : "F One" (Dead Man's Curve) 1986.

15: TBC_Czepoks_SIGD : "Phainon" (Wachsender Prozess) 2020.

16: Hairs Abyss : "Back Up North Again" (Not On Label) 2020. 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-october-01-2020/

The next broadcast will be on October 15 and feature sounds from Neil Campbell, Sylvain Van Iniitu, King Imagine & Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Beequeen and The Camberwell Now amongst others.         One of the bonuses of this broadcast is Chris and I were joined by Tony Whitehead of Really Quiet Records and Radio Warblers. Tony along with Chris' partner Lucinda are starting a new FM radio station launching on October 31. Skylark FM will be a 24 hour station based on and relating to all matters Dartmoor. (Stories, Music, History, News) There is going to be a limited cassette released featuring Dieter Müh, Michael Plater and Alice Kemp. It is only available here : 

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/skylark

                                                   Chris & Tony in the SoundArt Studio.