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

motif#10 LANGUAGE. 

The new and utterly outstanding motif show from Dogs versus Shadows, coming 9pm Tuesday 29th October & 1am Saturday 2nd November [UK time]

See schedule page for track list etc.

Samhain Special 

Some might say grey clay is spooky enough already but despite that all day (9am-11pm uk time) on 31.10.2024, a special selection of archive tracks will play that have a word such as 'witch' or 'ghost' or suchlike in their title. Also featuring DOLLGARM's haunting new release, Lost Night!

The veil is thin my children.

Coming soon...

In November...

PROTOTYPING 40 years of one of a kind making

(Part 1.) A new special feature on the music of Oliver Schoeffler, spanning the last 4 decades. Full details on the schedule page. 

<1NTWRK 

Reclamation 12  - guest DJ mix on grey clay radio

9pm Sunday 27th October and 1am Thursday 31st October (UK time)

The next effulgent ‘chapter’ of the <1NTWRK Reclamation series on grey clay radio. Two hours of sonic peregrination for your soul to surf on this dark, moist night.

More on the schedule page.

MOSS:24OCT24 

Another snapshot has been taken of the last two week’s new additions to the grey clay schedule (aka the Mossy Shallows). 

Here for you, another 90 (ish) minute mix by our very own Thébru Čelet, for your earthly delight.

Playing Saturday 26th October 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am (also UK time)

Timestamped Track list on the Schedule Page.

An invitation to contribute to Miss Canine Hoe's sound project...

    On Earth

Information and the online form  here.

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #351

9am Sunday 20th October, repeated 11pm Thursday 24th October [UK time].

Details on the schedule page.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

QIÏLŌPTH Guest Mix by AFTERVOLTER

From Irving Paul Pereira (aka AFTERVOLTER)a special mix of his latest album CYTOXCIS including unreleased tracks and mixes. Playing Thursday 19th September 5am and 12 noon UK time. Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page