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Tuesday, 10 October 2023

The Tump Clump Episode 28

Wowzers... this month flew by.

Apologies for being slow to update the blog. Episode 28 hit SoundArt Radio 102.5fm last Thursday evening at the princely time of 20:00hrs. And it's now on Mixcloud, you can find it here or directly to the right with the blog widget:

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Tonight opening with a couple of artists who featured at the recent Wyrd Wild West Festival in Yeovil which was a triumphant and wonderfully chaotic evening in the best possibly DIY way. Sound system issues? Check. Cheap cider? Check. Wonderful music all day/night? Check. Great friendly people enjoying themselves? Huzzah! A few photos that came out "ok".....

EKOPLEKZ live @ Wyrd Wild West 2023. First time seeing him perform live, loved it! And I was quite drunk happy dancing.

Swine live in EPS store, doing their wonderfully improvised things.

Me, Plague Arish and Steve Muhmur at the bar

Kemper Norton - Sirens (From the album "Toll" which I purchased from the merch table, of course, but you can also find it via Manchester's Front & Follow label)
Swine - Ah Those Endless Trances (From the live at EPS EP, recorded in the EPS Project Space Yeovil store, October 2021. I massively enjoyed their live performance in the store and I hope it gets released at a later date, warts and all. An improv duo from Somerset I believe, fusing home made drone instrumentation with jazzy skronks. This recording from the same space a couple of years previous...)
Hedra Rowan - YESTERDAYS ASSURANCES MEAN NOTHING TO US NOW (from the album "This Beautiful Moment Sours" which is a proper eclectic album from the US based sound artist. Some guitar loopy bits, some experimental electronic noises, and I chose a weird drone thing to play)
T. Jervell & ChromaDots - Dag 2 (Faksfjord - Fragsfjord)
T. Jervell & ChromaDots - Frag 5 (Faksfjord - Fragsfjord) - 2 short tracks from the new album out on Steep Gloss, yay, I think I play something from this label every month on the show. Such is the forever quality).
Don Mackerel - Tears On My Pillow (from the album "Tears on my Pillow". Frequency hammering chaos ensures as the big Don is back in the house. Burselm Crypt represent).
Don Campau - Too hot For Hands (Electric Cottage Compilation 04)
Thomas Park - Rite Cycle (Electric Cottage Compilation 04) - 2 more short tracks, this time from the Electronic Cottage compilation coming straight out of the USA from no other than scene legend Hal McGee.
Hannya White - I call you, tonight (from the new EP, "I call you another name" which is released next week and I cannot wait to hear it all. A forever fan of her beautiful strangeness. If you support one new release this month, choose this one).
Green Tea - Rabid Aura (from the Snowblower LP out on New Forces. I wrongly credited this track to Snowblower on the show, apologies! I blame the fact that the album is so white hot savage that I lost all sensibilities. New Forces, you know the drill. And this is probably the calmest track on the album. Ha)
Xosar - Realm ov Chaos (The Possessor Possesses Nothing, great album from a couple of years back that can be found in a remastered bandcamp state here. Its like listening to a techno trance ritual forged from industrial noise whilst summoning demons. Super powerful stuff that makes you wanna dance and lose it in an angsty way. Hot. Recently active on Instagram again - I hope for new sounds from her soon!
Vasectomy Party & Chefkirk -Surrealistic God Laid Down (from the album " Will Power and Personal Magnetism Vol. 2" just out on Forever Escaping Boredom, my favourite Florida based niche DIY noise label. Big shout out to Hal Harman himself for posting this out to me recently, and I finally got issue 7 of his amazing DIALTONE AGGRESSOR zine).
Soloman Tump - Contiguous 3 (new weird stuff from me!)

Thats all for now - a couple of interesting things in the pipeline which hopefully come off soon! Including, the possibility of a live show.

Soloman Tump - Bun Rights

The wonderful Human Geography Recordings released a few of my tracks under the name "Bun Rights" and I'm very proud of this one. It's the second of their C-15 series, the first being released by the wonderful Stonecirclesampler but you should also check out other excellent releases from the likes of Black Hair Rolled in Dried Blood, QNDFK and Liminal Haze which have all featured on previous episodes of my Tump Clump radio show.

So anyway, you can grab a final copy of the tape here if you are quick, or the digital, and both come with a bonus track recorded from the same session:

https://human-geography-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/bun-rights

My text for the label to stick under the release;

Soloman Tump - Bun Rights

Recorded at home and in the field May - July 2023.

Field recordings from across Dartmoor, UK.
Sounds composed through no-input mixing, resonant instruments Geiger Lab (thanks to Plague Arish) and homemade scrap metal instruments, all connected through various effects pedals.

Side A - Bun Barrow
Field recordings from visiting Bun Barrow and the nearby Blackslade Ford. It is meant to be summer, yet the weather is abysmal.

Side B - Shewte Rights
No input-mixer drones and collapsing feedback. A response to the wild camping ban - which has since been lifted. Not that we stopped anyway. Leave no trace; create only memories.

Side C - Knave-Go-By (digital bonus track)
An additional recording spawned from the recording sessions, named after the village, which is sometimes thought to be on Dartmoor yet is located in Cornwall. A real outsider.

Photo is from near Meldon Quarry, Dartmoor. Nature reclaiming the steel that we put there years ago. '

Thank you for having me Human Geography Recordings! I really like the aesthetics of your label and the exciting sounds that you are putting out there.

Thursday, 14 September 2023

Wyrd Wild West 2023 - Yeovil City Limits

This weekend I shall be visiting the mighty Yeovil for a day and night of experimental sounds!

https://wyrdfest.co.uk/ - come find me if you are there. What a great line-up. Have been wanting to catch Ekoplekz live since forever, probably my most played/supported artist over the past 5 or so years. Looking forward to it all. The full day/night is stacked full of greatness so please support if you are able.

I have made some 3" CDr's featuring some new Soloman Tump sounds which I hope will find a new good home with likeminded individuals. Was fun getting back into making DIY merch again! Hope to do some more soon.

Solomon's Tump exists

The Tump Clump Episode 27

Wow that month went quick. I think it was because the sun kinda came out again and it feels like proper summer.

And then I suddenly realised I needed to pull together a new radio with a couple of days notice,.. but luckily I have a ton of new music at my disposal from which to collate an hour of dismal sounds for you,.

The Tump Clump Episode 27 - First broadcast 07/09/2023.

LINK: https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-070923/

01 Plague Arish - What happened to the shorts weather- - 01 Sunscreen 1

02 Claude & Ola - uume - 22 uume 22

03 Juhyo - StaticSound Live - 03 Buka

04 Itching - Complexities - 03 regular dust

05 Stonecirclesampler - Pymthek Menhirs (C-15#01) - 01 Out at Sea

06 Territorial Gobbing - This Is How I Win - 01 This Is How I Win

07 Seven Seven - LIGHTS OFF - 01 ACT 1

08 Plague Arish - What happened to the shorts weather- - 05 Sunscreen 5

09 Claude & Ola - uume - 05 uume 5

10 Strange Devicers - Orchid Terrace Preface - 08 Tangled Hexagon

Maybe i'm getting lazy but i'm not gonna link all the individual tracks for you this time. I'm sure you know how to use a search engine. It's all out there!

This month, I was super glad to play the track by Territorial Gobbing called "This is how I win" which, in its full glory, its a monstrous 26 minutes of looping wooziness that takes you on a lethargic trip through a deserted town, 1970s Yorkshire. Or something like that. I call it a dismal masterpiece.

Other highlights this month are a couple of tracks from Uume by Claude & Ola, a wonderful already recently released by the Tone Burst tape label. Grade A improv sciffle.

Plague Arish provides a couple of short tracks that break from his usual long form ethos - keep up the great work!

Strange Devicers is a new project on Steep Gloss, probably one of my most frequently played labels on The Tump Clump, such is their excellence in curating experimental collaborations.

After featuring a track by Juhyo last month, I did a bit of digging and found a digital only EP by them featuring live "interlude" tracks. So happily I feature one of those tonight.

Seven.Seven hails from somewhere in Australia and I think I got hooked up with this release via checking out a tumblr link maybe? Remember Tumblr? Well, I always like digging in weird places for weird sounds and this one is good so yeah.

Also... Itching! I love this project. I seem to have amassed quite a few tapes and CDr's over the years without even realising I have an Itching collection. Great works, and all samples from the household cat mangled into noisy oblivion. Wonderful.

Last track to mention on tonight's show is by Stonecirclesampler, the kinda mysterious folk history project of ethereal electronic sounds. This comes courtesy of Human Geography Recordings and their new C15 series of tape releases. Keep an eye on that series for some great stuff still to come soon! Nudge nudge wink wink. Maybe.

Thanks again for Soundart Radio @ Dartington Hall for hosting me. I love it.

More come soon.

Thursday, 10 August 2023

The Tump Clump Episode 26

This month I open with a recent recording from myself, because why not, it's my show. It was recorded in response to the thoroughly rubbish weather we experienced in July. Dammn you, jet stream!