a 24/7 salad of dark electronic and obscure experimental sound

'Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.'

motif#14 LYNCHIAN Call for Submissions.

The submissions window is now open for the fourteenth motif show by Dogs Versus Shadows for which the theme will be, LYNCHIAN. See motif page for details.

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Reclamation 16 

9pm Sunday 16th February and 1am Thursday 20th February (UK time).

The next exploration in the Reclamation series for your dark delectation.

Track list on the schedule page.

MOSS:13FEB25 

Journey through Thébru Čelet's personal mix of new additions to grey clay radio from the past two weeks. (Bring sandwiches.)

First playing Saturday 15th February 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am (also UK time)

Timestamped Track list on the Schedule Page.

THA_LAB.

Transmission 05

Starting 9pm Monday 3rd February, UK time.

The new mix for grey clay by Thierry Arnal. Mondays, 9pm & Fridays 3am, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

ANAKRONISM 15

The beautiful, moody new mix by Signalstoerung, featuring the latest and upcoming sounds from artists on the Adventurous Music label. Playing 7pm Friday 7th February 2025 and 5am Monday 10th February 2025 (UK time) then repeated same days and times.

See schedule page for track list.

AFTERGEIST

The latest mix by AFTERVOLTER (aka Irving Paul Pereira) of his new album, AFTERGEIST.

Playing Thursday 13th February 5am and 12 noon (UK times). Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page

ANALYSIS 04

The first mix of 2025 by substak on grey clay radio, starting Wednesday 12th February, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.

motif#13 HOMESICK 

First playing 9pm [UK time] Tuesday 4th February and 1am [UK time] Saturday 8th February, 2025. 

A stunning show for you: the quality of work, Off. The. Scale!

Track list on the schedule page.

Generative Wastelands Episode 11

Saturday 1st February 2025 11pm and  Monday 3rd February 7pm UK time. (Repeated same days and times.)

Seemingly abandoned places, sonically explored by Thomas Park.

Details on the schedule page

FEATURED ALBUM

A FROG, A GUN AND A SAD MAN فيروس٢٠٢٠ ـ الضفدع ، المسدس و الرجل الحزين

by

VIRUS2020

Releases 20th February 2025 on The Unexplained Sounds Group. 

https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/a-frog-a-gun-and-a-sad-man

18 songs, 58 minutes

This is one of those beautiful, experimental, electro-acoustic albums that just oozes with atmosphere and emotion whilst remaining impressively dark. 

The fact that the artist hails from Tunisia is quite apparent from the very first moment, the whole album elegantly infused with North African voices, instruments and ambiences but definitely not restricted to them. 

The sleeve notes contain this this short legend:

"Heket, the frog goddess, symbolizing water and womanhood, has left this sad man in a state of sorrow, loneliness, and deep suffering. The frog, a constant reminder of his emotional turmoil, stands as a symbol of the complex relationship that has driven him to the edge. This sad man wavers between brief moments of hope and crushing despair, caught in a battle within himself. Some days, the glimmer of light keeps him going, while on others, the thought of a gun creeps into his mind—a symbol of escape, a dark desire to silence his pain and everything around him."

Suffering, emotional turmoil, dark desire… hello!

Voice and a pulsing drone open the album over  a background of incidental sounds which sets you up for what is to come. From here, plucked notes are swept up in calls, pipes and howls before delivering you to the door of, Hurt, an absolute gem of a track that really marks this album out as a unique one. 

Fake Gun also stands out with its ‘reversed tape’ feel of huge sadness and melodious pain. Occasionally during the album, what appears to be a saxophone comes to the fore but amongst the various other winded instruments it adopts a very unfamiliar guise, even when quite jazzy. 

There is nothing obvious about the use of traditional instruments here either. They come in for exactly the same level of sonic manipulation, often extruded with finesse to superb effect. At one moment distant Maghrebi industrial thunder, the next a ritual drone that looms and menaces over percussive incidents. Tiny voices, like scratchy radio, plead from the wilderness then, without you at first realising, you are plunged into a full on noise experience before this too is sliced back to the stillness of some interior setting in which ‘something’ is going on. Fabulously intriguing!

ft TZELLA ft ISMAEL -TASSILI is another of those tracks on this album that draws you in with voices. Not speaking Arabic, I just hear the sweetness, tone and poetry of sound in this beautiful language, which, offset by a drawling, lamenting loop, creates an enormous pathos. 

There are interludes with incredible waveform treatments too that spiral about the sound palette and act to pull all the different elements into a coherent whole. Some very subtle use of field recordings arise here and there but make no mistake - it is the experimental music making that carries the identity. 

ft Sarla-Don’t be maniac is an absolute treat for the ears; masterly recording and production set up at least three sound depths which all develop over time as intricately tweaked voices come and go in the foreground deliciously. 

Pounding and ringing out the end is Do you like Voodoo -  a suitably cacophonous finale of cinematic proportions that feels like an epic scene and hints at some kind of resolution. 

This album rampages, croons, beguiles and envelopes, but above all, it enchants. 

Virus2020 is the solo project of Rami Harrabi, a Tunisian artist born in 1989 in Sousse (TN), enthralled by Arab and north-African art, instruments, traditions and rituals.

T.Čelet (Feb 25)

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The featured album plays daily at 5pm, UK time.

EX!Zine

grey clay radio is proud to be featured in the first issue of EX! Magazine for Experimental Art (audio, visual, text, etc.).

The print version includes the 84-page zine (printed climate-neutral on recycled paper), the digital compilation, a download code for an exclusive album by Signalstoerung, and a surprise CD from the Attenuation Circuit label (for the first orders).

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zine-edition-1

deep motif.

Selections of past motif show tracks, playing for 2 hours, 3 times a week! See schedule page for more info.

motif 2024 - a compilation of tracks by K42DG3 made for grey clay's motif shows this year.

https://k43dg3.bandcamp.com/album/motif-2024

     motifs   

WHI Recordings present ‘motifs’, a compilation of tracks recorded specially for the ‘motif’ show on Grey Clay Radio.

https://whirecordings.bandcamp.com/album/motifs

Kῦμα Live - Henry's Dream

A grey clay radio special, featuring a single long form dark ambient live recording by Kῦμα. Playing 11am Tuesdays and Sundays (UK time) commencing 14.01.2024.

https://viridsounds.bandcamp.com/album/k-live-henrys-dream

Details on the schedule page.