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

ANALYSIS 2

The latest guest mix by substak on grey clay radio, starting Wednesday 16th October, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.

<1NTWRK single artist mix

Kid Mania

Playing 9pm Sunday 13th October and 1am Thursday 17th October 2024 (UK time.

A superb tour through the experimental, industrial and strangely funky world of Kid Mania.

More on the schedule page.

MOSS:10OCT24 

A new fortnightly mix of work from the Mossy Shallows by Thébru Čelet.

Starting Saturday 12th October 1pm and repeating Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am.

Timestamped Track list on the Schedule Page.

motif# 10 LANGUAGE

Call for Submissions

now open. Deadline 23.10.2024

Details on the news page.

THA_LAB.

Transmission 3

Starting 9pm Monday 7th October, UK time.

The third deep dark guest mix for grey clay by Thierry Arnal. Mondays, 9pm & Fridays 3am, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #350

9am Sunday 6th October, repeated 11pm Thursday 10th O [UK time] on grey clay radio.

Details on the schedule page.

Generative Wastelands 07

Saturday 5th October 2024 11pm and  Monday 7th October 7pm UK time. Episode 07 continues Thomas Park's appreciation of the cultural elements, ideas or places that seem empty.

Details on the schedule page

FEATURED ALBUM

Pieces

by

Janek Krukowski

Released Sept 2020

https://krukowski.bandcamp.com/album/pieces

4 tracks, 14 minutes

I feel like I have found a tiny ornate glass potion bottle in the woods and there are pin pricks of light and sound coming from inside it.

This is by far the shortest featured album to date, but to be fair it is probably technically an EP. However, in keeping with all featured albums it is here by merit and Janek Krukowski’s Pieces is a miniature masterpiece. 

I first became aware of his work through the recent okla records release, Latent, and there is a definite stylistic thread that runs through all three releases on Bandcamp, though each is, in its own way, rewardingly different.

There is no information on the Bandcamp page so again one just has the music and a rather lovely blurred image (of…something) to sit in your mind as you listen. In fact each track has its own image and they are all completely inscrutable - seemingly ‘of’ something but impossible to say what. I like this a lot.

The first track, Spot, begins an unhurried and distantly twinkling pulse which builds with rarified percussion and sound fragments, hinting at tension but maintaining an enchanted feeling. Krukowski is saying so much with this opening piece and it certainly ‘sets the ear up’ for what is to come, managing to remain both utterly beautiful and beguiling whilst also being firmly in the experimental realm.

Diel, the next track drops you into a melancholic, woodwind twilight mood; taking hold of the emotion firmly but gently and with equally unhurried care, anointing it with occasional flakes of light piano and metallic punctuation. I am under a canopy in a forest in the rain watching a sculptor chiselling a figure from the rock, very, very thoughtfully.

Stems then sets up an aching insistent presence, like someone bowing a cymbal and summoning something up from the ground. It is quite the shortest track and is decidedly atonal and suspenseful; seeming a prelude for the final, possibly most evocative track, Diroth.

We are now in a much more kinetic place with swooping portentous notes and frenetic percussion that eventually falls back into the distance as the spell takes full effect. It is now that whatever has been summoned, arrives. I could stay in that final sound of this track for a blissfully long time, but end it must and you realise on awakening that you are still holding that tiny bottle in the palm of your hand.

I find Pieces completely magical - otherworldly and incredibly visual. It is also agonisingly brief, but then some things are supposed to be.

Janek Krukowski is an artist and musician in Prague, Czechia.

T.Čelet (Oct 24)

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

Artist in Residence: 16bard. Playing new work from the Forsyth Sessions every Wednesday at 12:00 and 23:00 BST.

deep motif.

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

motif#9 CIRCUIT. 

Playing 9pm Tuesday 1st October & 1am Saturday 5th October [UK time]

See schedule page for track list etc.