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

motif#13 HOMESICK - Call for Submissions.

The submissions window is now open for the thirteenth motif show. Details and submission rules on the new motif page!

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.

Details on the schedule page.

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

ξïdoloch

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

Playing Thursday 16th January 5am and 12 noon (UK times). Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page

MOSS:02JAN25 

Straddling the years, the next MOSS mix, rounding up the new arrivals on grey clay radio for you in one 96 minute dream.

Playing Saturday 4th January 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am (also UK time)

Timestamped Track list on the Schedule Page.

Generative Wastelands 10

Saturday 4th January 2025 11pm and  Monday 6th January 7pm UK time. (Repeated same days and times.)

Thomas Park's exploration of potential of outwardly abandoned places marches forward into 2025.

Details on the schedule page

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #356

9am Sunday 12th January, repeated 11pm Thursday 16th January [UK time].

Details on the schedule page.

ANAKRONISM 14

The superb new mix by Signalstoerung to kick off the new year, featuring the latest and upcoming sounds from artists on the Adventurous Music label. Playing 7pm Friday 3rd January 2025 and 5am Monday 6th January 2025 (UK time) then repeated same days and times.

See schedule page for track list.

For January 2025...

Starting 09.01.2025

PROTOTYPING 3: 40 years of one of a kind making

(Part 3 of 3.) The final part of Oliver Schoeffler's retrospective, spanning the last 4 decades. 

Playing Saturdays 3am and Thursdays 7pm UK time. 

Full details on the schedule page.

Now released by Broken Bottle Productions.

motif#12 TRANSIT. 

9pm UK time, Tuesday 7th January 2025. Repeated Saturday 11th January 1am then same days and times throughout the month.

motif is back! A wondrous, inventive mix of original work by 20 artists, expertly spun by Dogs versus Shadows.

See schedule page for track list etc.

FEATURED ALBUM

Circo Pobre

by

Passepartout Duo

https://passepartoutduo.bandcamp.com/album/circo-pobre

Released 15th July 2022

5 tracks, 49 minutes. 

It has been an absolute joy discovering the music of Passepartout Duo since they first contacted grey clay late last year. Their approach to sound and composition feels fresh and curious and each release seems to have a fabulous story, reflecting perhaps their constantly nomadic life of perpetual touring. 

Circo Pobre is far from their latest album, but as the release notes describe, it is a work which traversed quite a bit of time and certainly continents in its creation.

Passepartout Duo also create their own instruments and on this album, a device they call the Chromaplane features. I have seen photographs of them with it and it’s definitely a cool-looking bit of kit, and clearly a very versatile and expressive element of the sound. Yet they don’t come across as typical ‘gear heads’ at all. Instead seeming to have arrived in the experimental world via a more musicianly route - making their own instruments then more of a sign of an overarching ‘from scratch’ mentality.

Circo Pobre is a Chilean expression meaning ‘a situation in which you might need to fill the shoes of presenter, tamer, and trapeze artist all at once in order to finish the show.’ The self-reliance and independent spirit implicit in it speaks volumes about this album and its creators. 

Scene now set, onto the album. The first 4 tracks, titled Parts I - IV, are studio recorded and the fifth is a live recording captured in the Paracas National Reserve in Peru. The album opens with a 10 minute long piece which is slow, gentle and melancholic and at first evokes church organ music, though the frequencies are all subtly interfering and ever so slightly distressed. Tones start to swell stridently, their envelope abruptly cut off here or there as the track builds in intensity. It is both a sweet and yet oddly unfamiliar entrance. 

From here the sense of sweetness continues but with a much faster tempo and flutey arpeggio which has its notes teased and tweaked along the way until breaking into a wonderful sloping sequence combination that gradually breaks up and slows to the end. 

Suddenly the pace is upped again in Part III with a restless up front percussion rhythm that is peppered with little lifts and snatches and then deepens to occupy a much bigger space before arresting unexpectedly and departing into the distance, slowed and more tonal. Just remarkable!

The final studio recorded track sets up a phased drone introduction upon which flurries of notes and slow attack tones pounce and eventually develop into repeated melodic structures which are themselves then joined by bird-like characters as the whole piece falls into a slow, lulling pulse to the end. 

Track 5 (live recorded) is a performance of Part I. It is 3 minutes longer and has a whole different intensity to it; seemingly more brooding and building to its climax with more gruffness and attitude seeping in. The melancholic now has another edge to it. As bookends to quite a varied album, this is such a good closure and gives the whole experience a balance and completeness.

I would have loved listening to Circo Pobre if I didn’t know anything about it at all, or who Passepartout Duo were.  However, in this case everything that is revealed about it only seems to make it more enjoyable.

Passepartout Duo are pianist Nicoletta Favari (IT) and percussionist Christopher Salvito (US/IT). Seeking to make their instrument creations available for use by a wider audience, their invention called the Chromaplane was also launched as a product in collaboration with Berlin-based synthesiser manufacturer KOMA Elektronik in 2024. 

For UK-based listeners they will be performing live along with Inoyama Land in February in Cafe OTO, London and Strange Brew, Bristol. Links in their BC page.

https://passepartoutduo.bandcamp.com/music

https://passepartoutduo.com

T.Čelet (Jan 2025)

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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.

THA_LAB.

Transmission 4

Starting 9pm Monday 2nd December, UK time.

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

Details on the schedule page.

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

OUT NOW -  Upon Waking - the new release and limited edition cassette EP by Kῦμα and Disorganism.