The Tump Clump #55 - 29/01/2026

Hello and welcome to 2026 at The Tump Clump.  Episode 55! 

Tonight as I sit and write this up, its proper wet and windy outside as Storm Ingrid lashes at us and deals some pretty brutal damage,  So soon after Storm Goretti too! Luckily was pretty calm last weekend when the AppleKore Do You Wassail? event took place at Things Happen Here Dartington - much fun! More on that in another post when I have gathered my thoughts into one place. 

So to brighten the mood and raise the spirits, I present an hour of dismal noise/drone/electronics to blast any remaining dust badgers away, and wassail in some good feels with sound. 

On tonights show I offer up...

• rikardfvs - do what ever filth shall be the whole of the Law (ALLISON KOWTOW) - BLACKSMITH NOISE RECORDS
• Alta Silvae - Time (John 11-35) - BLACKSMITH NOISE RECORDS
• Hiraeth - cycle (the beginning) (PMS) - s/r
• Omniwhore - Visos durys atlapos!  Sanity Frontier (La Grande Phantasia Asociale) - Mima Kass
• luxul - Rat (Materialisations) - s/r
• Dogstare - I'm Not Malfunctioning... You Are (Waes Hael) - MIGHTY FORCE
• Substak - Saturated Broadcast (V.A. - (703) My Studio Compilation) - Petroglyph Music
• Noise Cluster - my studio (V.A. - (703) My Studio Compilation) - Petroglyph Music
• METGUMBNERBONE - CORPSE CANDLES (THE MORDEN TOWER CONJURATIONS) - s/r

And it all went by ever so quickly, couldnt fit everything in possibly because I waffled on a bit more than I usually do.  Well that just means there is a bit more for next time.

A pleasure to still be able to bring this show to you - please look up and support the artists featured and please send me a hi if you enjoy listening to the show.  Thanks as ever to SoundArt Radio for hosting the show and allowing a platform for all these outsider sounds. 

DO YOU WASSAIL?

Do you Wassail?
Please say that you do!

After real life got in the way last year and forced my cancellation, im trying again, and feel privileged to have been invited along by the Acid Morris Crew to support their January event at THINGS HAPPEN HERE in Dartington, January 17th.  Devon, aye.  Grab a ticket, g'wan. 

From me, expect some creepy ritualistic beats and noises to unsettle your dance moves.  Or maybe something a little more pallatable? I have not decided, but I shall more than likely just keep it proper 'Tump'. 

A dazzling cast of local talent and psychedelic colours on display for the event - grab a ticket and come on down! Warm your cockles with a fine array of alcoholic (and non-alcoholic) drinks, pizza available next door, and a grand cast of folk Wassailing and dancing like their livlihood's depend upon it. 

Big shout out to the poster designer - it's a lush one.

Here's a little snippet from the Acid Morris in action at Balter a couple of summers back! Exciting times, 

The Tump Clump #53 - 04/12/25

This month I decided to raid the vinyl archives and do a totally turntable mix.  I have been playing a lot more techno/house recently, I even visiting Exeter Dance Music Record Fayre (hosted by Total Tunes Records of Torquay, apologies for the Facebook link) which was held at Bomba a couple of weekends back. Nice to get back into "mixing" and exploring my club tendencies again. Not everything in life has to be noise. 

So here's this months offering, a collection of things purchased, traded or gifted that have joined my collection over the years:

Necro Deathmort - Channel Fever (Distraction Records 2014) 12"

Ambulance - Antiques Roadshow (Planet Mu 2002) 7" single

Sly & The Family Drone - Tsukiji (Feeding Tube Records 2020) 12"

Shaun Robert - Envelope (The institute of Alien Research 2015) 7" single

Justice Yeldham - Fresh Balls [excerpt] (Feeding Tube Records 2019) 12"

Ekoplekz - Ekztrakz (Self released 2022) - not sure which side 1 or 2 as its an unlabelled 7" lathe cut. Nothing on the run-out groove either of course.  Limited edition number 11 of 30. 

Lucy & Aaron - Trueno (Hanson Records 2021) 12"

The Fear Ratio - arel (Kasm 2015) 10"

O.S.T - Iring (Emanate Records 2000) 12"

Pselodux - Eramer2 (8-bit Records 2002) 12"

qebrµs - ⊶⊑ ♉ ♋ ☮ ♋ ♉⊒⊷ (Love Love Records 2017) - although this 12" is from the 2024 issue, originally this was CD only. Huge thanks to LoveLove for reissuing this one (with proceeds going to the family) - long time fans may remember I interviewed qebrµs for SnareRush Zine a few years back, shorly before they passed from this plane.

BLACKCLOUDSUMMONER - My Purest Heart To You (Nim_Brut 2021) Ltd 12" lathe cut. 

The Mike Sammes Singers - Wombling Merry Christmas (Music For Pleasure 1975) 7" single - yes i'm aware I played it at the wrong speed.  It needed to be dismal.  A fun track and still not sure how I acquired this but there you go. 

          Outro: Some Soloman Tump live Drone stuff to fill out the allocated 60 mins :) 

It was fun to dig through the archives and play some different stuff again - still fairly dismal but maybe not quite as noisy as the show sometimes gets.  I guess a slight reflection on the music I buy on vinyl - more electronic based / club adjacent / leftfield, rather than drone/noise. 

Well thats it for The Tump Clump in 2025.  Another year ticked off and I shall return in 2026 for perhaps more of the same or something slightly different - havn't quite decided yet.  Thank you for tuning in and see you again in some capacity in the next one. 

Noise Compilation of (next) month

 I contributed a track to this Halloween themed noise compilation, courtesy of Vacuum Noise Records. 

https://vacuumnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/--22

My offerinf for the release is called "Hundatorra", a track that was born from the Open Access Land sessions but didnt quite feel like it fit with the rest of the album.  It did however feel quite doomy and creepy, which lent itself to the Halloween cause.

Hundatorra is the name of the long abandoned / ruined medieval village up on Dartmoor, near the rocks of Hounds Tor. Hounds Tor itself was made famous by the Sherlock Holmes novel 'Hound of the Baskervilles' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and is an amazingly atmospheric location any day of the year.  Robert Eggers has been nearby recently filming scenes for his upcoming Werwulf film.  So therefore, all ties in very nicely with the theme. 

I love the artwork that accompanies this compilation - gloomy moth-like creatures. The artist is https://francescastrada.com/home.html so check out more of their work.

The compilation of music itself is a great variety of sounds and styles and certainly not just a straight up NOYZ comp.  I was impressed by the width of offerings and look forward to hearing the bonus tracks when I get the download. As usual, there will be some artists ill explore more into.  Did I ever mention I love compilations!?

Hope you enjoy and can support the compilation if you are able.  I will feature a couple of tracks in Tump Clump #53 (December edition). 

Soloman Tump - Live for Muhmur Radio, 26/10/2025

Sunday 26th October 2025, remember it well for that was the date that I performed a session for Muhmur Radio, live and direct from the SoundArt studios in Dartington.  So a massive thank you to Steve for having me along and trusting me with about 27 minutes of your show, and to Chris for being the ever wonderful host and head honcho at the studios.  

I will admit to being a bit nervous beforehand, and especially when I discovered that the only other live broadcast that had gone out on Muhmur Radio was by Nocturnal Emissions in 2018.  So a true honour to be invited along and personally I think it ended up sounding "quite good". 

Also thanks for the cold beer! Much appreciated on the night to help calm the nerves :)

You can find more on the full broadcast, including a tracklisting of everything else that Steve played here -

https://remuhmuration.blogspot.com/2025/10/muhmur-radio-broadcast-286-26-october.html 

It turned into a solo men special, mostly (because there are always exceptions).  But I guess it shows how many guys there are out there, sat in dark rooms alone, making noises.  Perhaps we will get solo women in the future, would make for a great show.  I shall put the idea forward!  

The original Muhmur setlist - slightly altered on the night

I also gave some words for a pre-match interview with Steve over email, which have been published here - https://remuhmuration.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-muhmur-radio-soloman-tump-interview.html  - after all the interviews I did for the various zines over the years, this was the first one I had ever done for someone else.  So I probably waffled on for a fair bit after being given the opportunity.  

A few thoughts about the set itself;

It was partly planned, and partly improvised.  

I had 3 prepared recordings that I used as baseline sound sources to play and manipulate throughout the set.  There was an oscillating sine tone,  a vocal sample from "The Age of Steam" BBC Sound Effects record, and a synth recording I previously created for one of my previous releases "Weland" - so I guess this became a live version of that track.

I recorded a few practice sessions around these samples, using them in various ways with different effects and equipment, before settling on the rig that I took to the studio. The run time left a lot of room to experiment and play around these, and luckily on the night I managed to keep roughly to the allocated time.

There was the temptation to bring along EVEN MORE KIT than I did, but after a bit of whittling down, I managed to fit everything onto an offcut of timber I found in the garage, which made transporting and setting up in the studio a lot easier. 

Listening again, there were a few things I would have done differently, but thats the beauty of improvisation (and also possibly why I felt a bit nervous!).  

I kept the volume out of my mixer fairly low as im not used to blasting it out too loud at home - I also wanted to keep some headroom so that I could master the recording with ease (and yes, I think I will release a 3" CDr version soon...)

One of the alternative practice recordings will feature on the next Tump Clump radio show to give an idea of how the live process works.

Overall, great fun to do this, and it has given me the itch to do it again!  Thanks again to Steve for supporting my work and giving me the desire to do more....

Soloman Tump - Open Access Land

I kind of panic released my new album called Open Access Land and it was a fun creative process.

I flirted with the idea of approaching a few different labels to see if they were interested in my sounds - but i've always been a bit of an outsider to the ousiders and usually end up doing things by myself.

So this was a nice return to DIY projects using up some black backed CDs and cardboard sleeves that I picked up from the always fruitful Proper Job re-use centre in Chagford.  This is also where I bought an external CDr/CD-rw drive for £3. I must make time to go again soon.

The recordings for this album started in the spring, feeling endlessly inspired by my Field:Tone Weaver instrument, i've always recorded my sessions but having this bit of kit in the setup means that you can never "go back" to a sound.  So recording is now essential.  It also means I have a LOT of audio to listen back to, and to learn from, and perhaps has forced me to go a bit more minimal in my sounds in case something sounds really good and I can use it as a layer or sample at a later date.  A couple of the tracks were played on Tump Clump shows in their earlier forms, as I was sort of testing them out. 

So by nature, this album feels a little more stripped back than previous Soloman Tump efforts.  Sure, there are still erratic noises, and dark layers, and dense bits, but to me if feels a little bit more easier or free.  

Dartmoor has been the centre of a media storm over the past few years due to the wonderful RIGHT TO ROAM movement, whom I place as my main inspiration for the making of this album.  A light at the end of the tunnel in a bleak situation where parts of the open access land of Dartmoor being slowly sold off and withdrawn from public use.

Keeping in this spirit,   the digital version of this album is available for free, and always will be.  Or, you can pay something if you prefer.

As previously mentioned, I made a few physical copies of the album which was actuallty quite an inspiring artistic process and not something I usually allow myself to get too engrossed in. 

I foraged lichen and mushrooms from nearby woods following a storm. I dried the lichen to make "brushes" that I stamped in ink to pattern the blank CD cases.

I then made spore prints with the mushrooms; which had various effects from really quite good to terrible; a great DIY learning process! Different mushrooms drop different colour spores at different intensities.  I picked a wide variety of fruits from the woods, placed them on different coloured cards, covered them overnight, and kept my fingers crossed.  

The combination of white spores on yellow card was unfortuantely a bit too weak to be of any use.  But there were some blackended spores on pink card which looked excellent, and then white spores on white card too.  A great learning process.  I then used some sealing spray glue to try and preserve the prints.  If you ordered one, I hope they last a little while before degrading! 

Generally I hope you enjoy listening to the album and I am always keen to hear thoughts on my work, critical or otherwise.

1.Squirreling 05:55

2.Roamer 04:32

3.Slow March 06:43

4.Runjun 04:57

5.Bloodmoonthorned 07:54 (Produced alongside Stuart Chalmers)

6.Dub You 08:33

7.The Long Way Round 12:02

8.[Exclusive bonus Track for anyone who ordered a CD]

The Tump Clump #51 - 09/10/2025

Hello Muddy Tumpsters and welcome once again to another fun packed edition of The Tump Clump.

I said on the show I had 15 tracks for you... well I did a little fib, I actually snuck in a 16th as there was a little bit of time at the end.  So a sneaky bonus offering from the exceptional Hannya White. 

A pleasure to roll on with the new feature ** NOISE COMPILATION OF THE MONNNNTTHH **, now in its second month but unofficially lets be honest, has been around since day 1.  2 noisy little samples for you to attempt to digest this month, courtesy of the Welcome to Clydebank collective in Glasgow, and their first ever harsh noise compilation.  Lush. 

Metal waste skip at my old place of work

Here be what I played this month, please seek out the labels and artists and give them a support:

01 Trepaneringsritualen - Taiɳted Totem Nothing (1) - Diadem of Fire  [Ant-Zen]

02 B1TWRA1TH - he tunnels breath when no one's listening -INTERLUDE III - 513

03 Jay Tripwire - Obscure Tongue - For David Lynch

04 Messier 106 - A New Creation - Eternal Cosmic Connection [Gates of Hypnos]

05 Michael Idehall - Seantronique - deep code sol [Ant-Zen]

06 Dead Wood - Scar - Permanent Discharge [Welcome to Clydebank]

07 Brent Gutzeit - Captivated - Permanent Discharge [Welcome to Clydebank]

08 Anne-F Jacques - poumon probable - l'ampoule et l'insecte [Molt Fluid]

09 Abby Lee Tee & Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy - Degraded Streams - Grounds [Molt Fluid]

10 Abby Lee Tee & Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy - Hedgerows - Grounds [Molt Fluid]

11 Moss Harvest - Untitled V - Aerosol EP

12 Autechre - Fol3 - Quaristice [Warp Records]

13 Trepaneringsritualen - Taiɳted Totem Nothing (2) - Diadem of Fire  [Ant-Zen]

14 Ekoplekz -  Dvectif - Four Track Mind [Planet Mu]

15 VILE PLUMAGE - Conceived On The Sick Wurlitzer (EXCAVATION AT HOBBS LANE- THE EARLY DAYS OF COMMUNITY RADIO)

16 Hannya White - More than anything else (No Preview)

The Tump Clump #50 - 11/09/2025

Hello Clumpers!

So it was with great enjoyment that I put together my 50th show for SoundArt Radio (there was an extra "mixcloud only" edition on top of these). A pleasure and an honour to still be on the airwaves with them, live and direct from Dartington Hall. 

Lots of unreleased / independent sounds this month, with a fairly industrial / droney kinda rhythm pulsing throughout. 

  >>>MIXCLOUD ME HERE PLS<<<

I particularly enjoy the Sugababes cover by INIT that features.  I first heard this on Rinse FM over the summer, and had to instantly seek it out - found it on the artists Bandcamp page in the end. Then someone played it at this years Houghton Festival and it gained a bit more traction.  But its suitable dismal for this show and its a pleasure to play something different for you.

Also on the show, opening with a lush track by Fencepest and I urge you to check out the full album of Bloom & Decay because it is an absolute belter. 

Also a couple of tracks from the RTR2 Sessions release on Burnt Seed Records.  Burnt Seed is a label based in Perth, Australia, and hopefully something new from Soloman Tump being released through them at some point in the near future.  I just need to sort out the sounds and be happy with them.  It's a forever difficult thing for me. 

01 Fencepest - Decay III (Bloom & Decay) - Inner Demon Records

02 Vacant Land - Delivering Shared Ownership Homes (Strategic Flood Risk)

03 Dr Trousers - Wickerman (RTR2 Sessions) - Burnt Seed Records

04 Lürgid - Errorsion (RTR2 Sessions) - Burnt Seed Records

05 Lucidet - Sacrifice-Statistic, Ritual-Routine (Massive Machines LP)

06 Plague Arish - Gruinard-Rosen Bridge (Unreleased)

07 INIT - Overload (Sugababes cover)

08 Soloman Tump - Roamer (Unreleased)

09 Swamp Donkey - From One State Of Existence To Another (The Last Echoes Of Suns Now Dead LP) - Grimm Goat. 

10 Organ Of Corti - Defuncti (Insania LP)

11 Soloman Tump - Clump Loop 3 (Unreleased)

 

Thanks to Plague Arish for sending me his new music.  Cheers bro.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the show over the years, especially Chris (SoundArt big boss) and Steve (Muhmur Radio) for his continued support. More to come!

There is slow progress on new Soloman Tump music, I record a load, listen back, bin about 95% of it, start again... but every now and then, a little nugget or idea comes good and it gets put in the possible/save pile.   But i'm getting there.

New things from me

Hello lovely people of Earth,

A little update from me, attempting to give myself some creative space and get myself motivated again.

I just released More Bun Rights on Bandcamp! This was originally released by the wonderfully supportive Human Geography Recordings almost 2 years ago, but with their permission, I have re-released this digitally with a couple of extra tracks from the same recording session.  A little toe dipped in the water of clearing some hard disk space and getting some more sounds out there in the wild.

I also submitted a track for the recent end of season Hello Goodbye Radio Show - 60 seconds maximum track length was the requirement and I duly obliged! Thanks to Dexter Bentley and Resonance FM for the airplay :)  You can find my offering near the end of the show, but I recommend listening to the entire thing because its brilliant all the way through, and a few friends of the Tump Clump show are also featured in there too. 

More soon....

 

The Tump Clump #48 - 22/07/2025

Apologies a bit late updating this - you know how it is.

If you already listened to the show you might know i've been feeling a bit under the weather.  Household of plague strikes again.  But over the worst now, thankfully, just in time for the summer holidays....

No talking from me because my voice hurt.  Just a random little text to voice AI experiment (or 2) partway through to break the monotony. 

This month, a collection of dismal sounds.  

Some older, some newer. 

And here's a link because it's already on mixcloud - 

https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-edition-48-170725/

I opened with something from Feghoots that came off a tape I purchased a few years back, "Loiter Adjourned" on Beartown Records.  Marvellous.  Then a brand new thing from Shaun Robert that popped into my inbox just days before putting the show together, always a pleasure to include a track that is exactlty 4'33 long, as always. 

Some things that came via lurking on Reddit, such as Astryx, Entartete Musick and Swamp Donkey, more sounds to explore from across the globe and the murky world of noise.

Can't quite remember how I discovered Saint Elisabeth, but I did, and its wonderful crunchy noise/drone wall, highly thematic and poignant.  Beautiful. 

So there we go, another show for the wonderful SoundArt radio done and dusted.  Episode 50 is flying towards us at breakneck speed! Will I do something different / radical? Possibly not.  We shall see.

Thanks for listening and please support the artists played on tonights show.

01 Feghoots - Stridular Chafe

02 shaun robert - asymptotic behavior (institute for alien research)

03 Entartete Musick - Homo Strepitus

04 Kirril - ON052 - 01-23-07-23 - 07 VII (O)rmxVI+V

05 Swamp Donkey - Reel #ASP5674-1 (Out Of Focus, Out Of Empathy)

06 Thrill Behind Barks - Funky Dental Piggentwingers (A Small Quagmire)

07 Steven Leak - molybdenum  (Anniversary) - Bromtol Largesse

08 Saint Elisabeth - Aqueduct (Mechanical Antiquity)

09 Hannya White - Holding it down in Mexico

10 Astryx - Eta Carinae (Speculum Glacialis Memoriae)

11 Basic House - Nurse (Oats)

12 Uncle Grasha's Flying Circus - Air Raid- Baltic Sea 1944 (Hang On To Yourself- Noise Against Suicide)

Also, woo for the stats! 27th in the world this week for shows tagged with 'drone' on mixcloud. Hah, brilliant.  

The Tump Clump # 47 - 19/06/2025

Hi!

Another month of existance rolls around and I've been marvelling at the strawberry moon and complex weather systems we have been experiencing.

Midsummer approaches already and it only feels like last week that we were in the depths of wintery despair. 

Tonight's tracklisting for your deliberation... please support the artists and labels featured in the show by buying their stuff if you can, or at least give them a social media boost or tell your friends or local pigeons to spread the word.  

The Tump Clump - Episode 47 - Broadcast 19/06/2025.

01 brandon invergo - act 1 scene 2: where the sea once was  [ Here, Beneath the Ash-Choked Sky ]

02 Sean Addicott - Cat's Eyes in Absentia [True Listening Is Love In Action ] - Outsider Art compilation

03 Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge - Gumbo-Limbo [Eadem Mutata Resurgo] - forever escaping boredom

04 UgUrGkuliktavikt - Go quickly, travel safely, my young friend, to the land of ghosts [The Ghost of a Ghost]

05 GRAT - Emerging Crystal [FROST]

06 886VG - Slowly Finding Home (Hopefully)  [Permanent Discharge] - Welcome to Clydesdale

07 Gorge Ripper - Mouthful of Gravel [Permanent Discharge] - Welcome to Clydesdale

08 Isobel McKenna - I am going to need the opiates if you want to keep speaking [Live Aktions] - Welcome to Clydesdale

09 Tristan Burfield - Live @ Dartington College of Arts 2003 [Live Aktions] - Welcome to Clydesdale

10 Sunken Fence - Caff II [Lotic]

11 Itching - regular dust [Complexities]

Trying to decide whether to carry on the current format of Tump Clump or try something different....  maybe after episode 50 I shall regroup, reset, and perhaps try something different.  Or maybe more of the same! Who knows.  Opinions anyone?

Beltane greetings

Mayday! 

I *almost* had a new Soloman Tump album ready for Bandcamp Friday tomorrow (2nd May) but its just not quite there yet.  I don't want to rush it, and theres a couple of tracks that I'm not fully satisfied with yet to call them done. But for me, this has been great progress in terms of having an idea, recording things, and being happy with the process / output.

The release will be limited CDr and digital, and i've not quite settled on the name of the album yet.  I had fun printing the card sleeves, an excerpt below, I used storm-fall lichen gathered from Dartmoor, dried out then used as a sponge on ink pad.  The results are pretty striking and each cover will be unique.

The album is a dark drone love affair with discordant dismal loops and low-key murky noises.  Currently 6 tracks weighing in at around 50 minutes long but subject to final tweaks and sprinklings of  mushroom dust.  Hopefully released later in May or I might wait until the start of June.  I will probably play a track on Tump Clump Radio #46.

Happy Beltane one and all.

The Tump Clump #44 - 27/03/2025

Edition 44 of my little radio show, huzzah.

And still slightly suffering with weird spring flu / sinusitis / melancholy, but hey, Spring is kinda here and we can all breath a sigh of relief and go outside, touch some grass, hug a tree, smile at the sun a bit.

This time around I had the honour of playing the following things, which you can search for and find online at the your repository (mostly bandcamp I guess...)

Although if you are lucky you might be able to find a cassette tape at your local record store still? Who knows! Please support the artists played in tonights show, buy their stuff, listen/stream and share the knowledge around if you enjoy what you hear.  Because that after all is the point.

Hello Spiral & Bryan Killingsworth - Sunrise (Full Spectrum Warrior) - 'Not As Good As Evening Cowards' [Steep Gloss]

NNJA RIOT and PARADOX ENCOUNTER GROUP - Resisting Static Silence - 'Dissent Particles' [Fusion Audio Recordings] 

Timmy the Tapeworm - All the Birthdays - 'Anniversary' [Bromtol Largesse] 

𝕶𝕺𝕯𝕰𝖃𝕮𝕰𝕾 - eyhiijunlokt - 'Anniversary' [Bromtol Largesse]

On Their Way Back From Paris - untitled 4 + 7 [Processed Data] 

SILIM! - Yell - 'Silim' - [Steep Gloss]

Prognosticon - Transmission # 4b- (Undefined) - Middle - Error (Rebuilt From Cache)- 'Onetheon' - [s/r] 

Jim Mckenna - junk funk - 'Encrusted Retort split' - [s/r] 

Monika Badly - All Tension, No Release - 'Love Songs' [Eggy Tapes]

Matt Atkins and Ivy Nostrum -The Sign of Four ' Gestures and Constructs' - [Minimal Resource Manipulation] 

Territorial Gobbing - Jabbing Your Finger Into Someone's Chest -Like This- - 'Rites of Kindling' [Liquid Library]

NAILBREAKER - Exit Bag '- Robert Knight Wine Cellar' [Eggy Tapes]

Bonus outro track as had about 90 seconds to fill: 

Soloman Tump - 'paulstretched sounds with a beat loop chucked over the top'

So it was good to play a couple of bits from Bristol's Eggy Tapes this time around. - check out their stuff here - https://eggytapes.co.uk/ - and i'm heading to town April 5th for their EggFest which has a cracking lineup of Tump Clump alumni and acts i'm also bound to include in May's show....  exciting to be getting out to a big noisy allday gig once again to clear away some cobwebs....

New recording: Live Ritual

A live recording from home. No editing.  Some clipping.  Some big feedback.  All part of the natural order of things.  Free to you as a gift, or pay something if you wish to support my project.  But listening is the best support you can give - and feedback is always welcome especially the noisy kind. 

https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/track/live-ritual-08032025

Affirmation of the process.

Photo taken on holiday in Hope Cove, Devon, June 2009, ages before we decided to move down here.

This is a work in progress towarsd other things - a proof of concept and snapshot in time. 

From this, some things will be kept, others replaced and the cycle will continue....

Recording made possible by having a "weekend at home by myself" and a trip to Ashburton to visit the wonderful FIELD SYSTEM.  You should go if you are in the area, a very inspiring shop! 

https://fieldsystem.co.uk/  

And this is a milestone of sorts, so thank you to everyone who has streamed my sounds via bandcamp, and to everyone else who purchased something along the way.  It is encouraging getting people purchasing my sounds still, and it really does give me inertia towards carrying on this little endeavour.....

The Tump Clump #42 - 30/01/25

Happy new year!

Episode 42 is online at mixcloud HERE!

This months tracklist is as follows:

01 Hoodrat Messiah - Lapse (Perrenial LP, Trust Collective)

02 Thorn Bug - A Dundie Award For You  (Boar, Trust Collective)

03 Owrang - Cadence of Continuity (AM 5th Anniversary, Adventurous Music)

04 Quatrefoil & Jeanne Frémaux - Brack Water Serpents (AM 5th Anniversary, Adventurous Music)

05 Mouthus - Possible Hospital (Compilations -2002-2016)

06 Hideous Gomphidius - Inkcap Incantation (Apparitions of the Sporeborn)

07 COLDSORE - loss at low tide (LOSS)

08 Soloman Tump - The Blue Rose (Unreleased)

09 Moss Harvest - Untitled II (Aerosol EP)

10 Sebastian Tomb - Dare (Indifferent To Your Plights)

11 Plague Arish & Soloman Tump - This is what I then did to it 3 years later (Unreleased)

This time I include a track of my own paying tribute to David Lynch who passed away last week.  Director, Artist, Musician, Dreamer.  Not many days go by when I don't think about some of his work - be it Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, his music, the soundtracks to his work, endlessly entertaining and thought provoking.  I knew he will ill and it was only going to be a matter of time, but this still hit me hard.  I was also a fan of his version of Dune, as I watched it not long after reading through the books in secondary school. 

Lynch took his dreams and made them real through his work.  A true visionary who inspired me to do the same, in my own little way.  

I also mentioned in the show that I was unable to make the Acid Morris Wassail gig a few weeks back - I saw a few photos on Instagram which made it look like it was a great party.  Hope I can attend another of their events at some point.

Also, Tump Clump (long edition) never happened in January as I had some family issues to deal with.  Hopefully it sees the light of day sometime in the future as I enjoyed being able to incorporate some longer tracks and different themes into the special show.

So, a strange start to 2025.  Hopefully February will be a bit more predictable!

24 HOUR WASSAIL PEOPLE! A live experience 18/01/2025

24 HOUR WASSAIL PEOPLE! 

It's that time of year again for the Acid Morris Wassail Party!
WASSAIL EVERYTHING!
WHO CAN WASSAIL THE MOST THINGS IN 24 HOURS?

In addition to the finest ACID MORRIS DJS guaranteed to get you dancing and the ACID MORRIS themselves dancing the traditional Morris of the 21st century,
the night will also feature the ACID MORRIS SOUNDSYSTEM LIVE with their remixes of classic folk tunes you never knew you needed,

EQUINE ECSTASY - horsey buisness.

PLUS special guest SOLOMAN TUMP bringing you a ritualistic dancefloor experience.

Wassail comes from the old phrase Waes Hael meaning Good Health!
We Wassail the apple trees for their health and bountiful harvest in the year to come
Let's wassail the important things in our lives,
Celebrate the things that bring you and your community joy and nourishment! Appease the evil spirits for one more year .
Empower ourselves and our spaces ⚡
Dance! Sing! Shout!
Wassail!

You can buy a ticket and find out more here! https://wegottickets.com/event/641670

The Tump Clump #41 - 19/12/24 - Festive Spesh

Hello!

And welcome to a slightly festive edition of The Tump Clump, episode 41, first airing on SoundArt Radio FM live and direct from Dartington Hall in Totnes, Devon. And of course streamed live via the website worldwide, and also archived over on Mixcloud here - 

https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-41-191224/ 

Slightly condensed blog post this time because im writing this on Christmas Day evening and tbh im tired/bloated from slight excess and I want to watch another episode of LOST before I pass out for good.  So, here's the tunes played on this months show:

1. There Are No Birds Here - Do You Hear What I Hear (Good Tidings Compilation, V/A via Sunfish Starfish) in aid of the Marine Conservation Society.

2. IEOGM - First and last house (Dolphins in Cornwall) - Molt Fluid

3. BRB Voicemail - Fatima (Alms of Guilt) 

4. Amhain - 11 Tal4 (Amhain Comp V)

5. Ekoplekz - CASIOPLEKZ  (Memowrekz)

6.  456- -ae.blitpipe- -2- ＭａｋｉｎｇＮｅｗＣｏｎｔｅｘｔ 透過光 - ＥＴＥＲＮＡＬ ＳＥＰＴＥＭ - 01 Immersion Gold

7. GreenTea - Scented Candle Clairvoyance - Snowblower LP

8, Sunken Fence - Caff II (Lotic)

9. LEE RILEY - UNDOING THESE KNOTTED TIMES (FROM HERE WE ARE NOWHERE) 

10.  Wooden Hand & Dave Waller -WHD Part One - Hand Duet (EP) 

11. raxil4 - ettessac gnidaol  (girageminim)

12. Pettaluck - White Saviour Christmas (Good Tidings)

Thanks for tuning in to my shows in 2024, more to come in 2025 of course! Kicking off with an extended January special where I get to play some extra long tracks just because I can! Exciting times.  It will be broadcast on SoundArt (time/date tbc) but also will find its way onto Mixcloud too. 

Also a Soloman Tump live session coming soon - see separate post!

The Tump Clump #40 - 21/11/24

My little radio show reaches its 40th edition! Its almost as old as I am in shows vs my orbits around the sun.  Almost.

This month, a revolutionary change of tact as I publish the blog at the same time as the show is on air on SoundArt Radio.  I know, right?!

So I'll do a little running commentary as the show plays through and talk a bit about the tracks for a change.

Opening up the show was a track by Shredded Nerve called Precipice.  This from the amazing F.L.A.W festival ( aka Final Live Audio War in Cleveland, OH on October 12th, 2024) double cassette compilation.  This track was actually the final one on the compilation and provides a lush throbbing opener for this show.  Shredded Nerve is a US based artist that I really should know more about - they have released on NoRent Records and New Forces, 2 labels I'm a fan of, plus being part of this festival lineup means I will no doubt like what I hear elsewhere! To be continued. 

Next up "untitled" by NEXUS RASP, a self released experiment that I found enticing at first because of the use of Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks in the artwork.  But its also a very cool collage style track in its own right. NEXUS RASP is a California based artist with just a few releases on their Bandcamp page. 

Strange Devicers next with a track from the new album called New Urgences. Strange Devicers are Matt Atkins and Andy Rowe, and i've played some bits from them before on the Tump Clump, namely from the Orchid Terrace Preface album which was released on Steep Gloss last year.  This new album comes via Kirigirisu Recordings of Japan on CDr and at the time of writing there are a handful left...

I discovered Haddow on an Instagram live stream, from a show put on by James Shearman at New River Studios I think.... and I was captivated by this live performance despite the poor sound and audio quality of the stream.  I purchased this latest album called "o sono no arco" and the track I played on tonights show is Kitsch Corner.  Haddow creates most of his sounds with home made (string?) instruments, and applies affects, loops and layers to create haunting murkiness.  Beautiful dismal sounds! But also rhythmic and ritualistic.  Very much a recommended release.

Any long time listeners of The Tump Clump will know that I am a fan of digital compilations.  An often brilliant way of discovering a whole raft of new artists for a bargain price.  This was the Eroding The Walls compilations from Outsider Industries of Arizona, and I played "Gates Pass" by the artist Oscillator for you tonight.  I love digging through these label  / theme compilations to find suitable delights for my show. 

A couple next from one of my new favourite UK tape labels - Brachliegen Tapes.  The label set the bar really high right from when they started, and have maintained a consistently high schedule of quality throughout.  The latest batch includes David Walraf with a tense lumbering excursion, and Gorgeous Gorgeous from South Korea with a frantic noisy barrage.  Two high quality releases once again, and this time I have to thank Muhmur Radio with linking me up with download codes for these.  I usually do purchase everything that I play on the show, unless it has been gifted of course!  I support artists and labels, and share with you some of my favourite bits on the hope that you will support them too.

Static Fever by A Vibrant Struggle! Fantastic tape I discovered recently via Grisaille Records of Germany.  Another label that I need to explore the catalogue of.  There really is so much great stuff being recorded and released still.  You just have to find it.  This is a long sold out tape released in May 2023 by a trio of sound artists credited as Sindre Bjerga, Jan-M. Iversen & Steffan de Turck.  Really great dense sounds and as I type this I have just found a whole raft of their releases on Bandcamp that I need to dive into next...

Then a favourite of mine for this time of year,  a track from At A Glacial Pace by Topiary.  Cold noise drones for the bleak midwinter.  This track is "Retreading the Old Path".  Maybe ive played half of that album on this show by now.  Its beautiful and haunting and would definitely make it onto a Tump Clump best of :)  Topiary is a collaboration between Death Knell and Moss Harvest, two artists who produce amazing music by themselves also. 

Some crumbling noise wall next courtesy of Rural Noise with "No Fishing".  This taken from the digital portion of Plastic Bag: A HNW Tribute to Vomir compilation.  This ended up as a 37 track album from artists all over the world providing exactly 5 minute long harsh-noise-wall tributes to Vomir, one of which was me! My first ever HNW release and it made it onto a compilation for the figurehead of the scene.  Quite gobsmacking really.  "No Fishing" is quite a soft take on the HNW ethic but one that I find fascinating.  Static loops and filtered breaking things make for a really interest aesthetic.  

Last track, as promised to bookend tonight's show, is from the almighty Fleshlicker with a track called Hair Love.  If you were at the F.L.A.W Festival or any of the myriad UK performances from this artist over the past few years, you will know how impressive a battering of the senses this artist provides.  The sound, whilst massive and uncompromising by itself, is definitely only a part of the Fleshlicker experience. 

So until next time, A Christmas special perhaps?!

Thanks for listening and reading if you made it this far. 

Soloman Tump

The Tump Clump # 36 - Supernormal Preview Special! 01/08/2024

 

So the day this show aired, I was already at Braziers Park enjoying the sights and sounds of the Supernormal Festival.  Not quite in full swing, but full of crew and volunteers getting into the spirit of what would be another fantastic edition of the quirky DIY festival.

But more of that in the next blog post.

First broadcast 01/08/2024 20:00 via SoundArt Radio FM Totnes and online.

• 1. Rrose - Alloy (AL GHARIB Fundraiser compilation)
• 2. Fish El Fish - Skin Shedding In The Pantry (Dog Wearing Dracula Fangs)
• 3. Lacrima - Fig (Cachexia)
• 4. Yol - An Offering (Burselm Accomplice vol 2)
• 5. Genderisthebastard - XXVI
• 6. Soloman Tump & Plague Arish - sprnml  [recorded at Supernormal 2018]
• 7. Plague Arish - Day 1 in the cave par deux, I cant wait to be a chocolate bunny (s/r)
• 8. Nkisi - What you Dont kn0w (BLK SPLLS 2)
• 9. Monoxide Brothers - Three pounds forty with a clubcard
• 10. Chlorine -Bubblewraps (Velvet Teeth)

>>> LISTEN HERE <<<

This show was curated by listening to a bunch of names on the programme that I did not recognise (eg Nkisi and Monoxide Brothers) and then deciding that I liked that! But other artists I was familiar with (Rrose, GistheB and Yol) who I hoped I would catch at the festival having never seen them before.

For Supernormal because I volunteer and never know what my shifts are until I get to site, I tend to have an idea of what I want to see, generally miss about 80% of that, and end up seeing a whole bunch of different amazing stuff instead.

Spoiler alert: 2024 was no different!

Soloman Tump - Torpid State LP

I finished working on my debut full length album, and actually it wasn't too arduous, all things considered.

The album is called "Torpid State" and is a reflection of the long deep sleep of Winter and the promise of the warmth of Spring.  Its kinda almost got some positive stuff in it, but dont worry... its still mostly dismal.  

Partly inspired by the dungeon noise of Disgusting Cathedral I've introduced keys into the Soloman Tump sound for the first time... sitting around the usual dirge and simmer of crusty noises and stuff.

The main thing is that it was fun to produce and I tried not to dwell for too long on "tweaking" the tracks after they were recorded.  As usual, a lot of the tracks started as session recordings whilst others were created from separate layers over time.  Plenty of field recordings and foley sounds in here too, such is the way of things.

I plan to release the album just in time for Supernormal Festival 2024, where I hope to have a few copies for sale / trade (CDr) and also stick the digital up for sale then too via my bandcamp page.  There is a preview track on episode 35 of The Tump Clump, where you can hear the track "Nocturne".

Thanks for listening!