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



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

CRYOGENIA-ECOISIS 

New Guest Mix by AFTERVOLTER

From Irving Paul Pereira (aka AFTERVOLTER)a special mix of his upcoming album CRYOGENIA-ECOISIS. Playing Thursday 12th December 5am and 12 noon (UK times). Repeated weekly.

Details and legend on the schedule page


ANALYSIS 3


The latest guest mix by substak on grey clay radio, starting Wednesday 11th December, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.


motif#12 TRANSIT Call for Submissions

Submissions are now invited for the 12th motif show on grey clay radio, theme: TRANSIT, and we'd love to hear from you.

Details on the news page.

     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


<1NTWRK Single Artist Mix

     S L D E   

9pm Sunday 8th December and 1am Thursday 12th December (UK time).


A fabulous tour of recent work from this fascinating artist.


More on the schedule page.


ANAKRONISM 13


A swirling and atmospheric new mix by Signalstoerung featuring new sounds from artists on the Adventurous Music label. Playing 7pm Friday 6th December and 5am Monday 9th December (UK time) then repeated same days and times.


See schedule page for track list.


In December...

Starting 05.12.2024

PROTOTYPING 2: 40 years of one of a kind making

(Part 2 of 3.) Continuing the special feature on the music of Oliver Schoeffler, spanning the last 4 decades. 

Playing Saturdays 3am and Thursdays 7pm UK time. 

Full details on the schedule page.

Soon to be released by Broken Bottle Productions.


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.


MOSS:05DEC24 

The latest snapshot of the last two week’s new additions to the mossy shallows all in one continuous mix!.


94 minutes of beautiful experimental bliss to roll yourself up in like a coccoon.


Playing Saturday 7th December 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am (also UK time)


Timestamped Track list on the Schedule Page.


Generative Wastelands 09

Saturday 7th December 2024 11pm and  Monday 9th December 7pm UK time. An especially fascinating episode of Thomas Park's investigation of seemingly abandoned places.

Details on the schedule page


now playing

FEATURED ALBUM:

Adhesion

by

Freight Cell

Released 27.11.2024

https://freightcell.bandcamp.com/album/adhesion



This is one single 40 minute piece and you are either going to like it all, or you’re not, in probably the first 30 seconds. I experienced instant love.

On the release notes it says, ‘Freight Cell focuses on minimal, repetitive, abstract dronescapes that slowly evolve and fluctuate over long durations…’ and yes, it is exactly that. 


But sooooo much more.


The artist described it to me as immersive and this immediately resonated as Disorganism’s last release was ‘an immersion’ and I think we both know what we mean by this. You might too if you’re reading this - a feature write up in a niche internet radio station for obscure and experimental sound and music, but one can’t assume.

There is no information or story accompanying Adhesion, so what you are immersing in is entirely your own perception and Freight Cell’s gorgeous, warm, pulsing dronescape. As expansive as it is intimate. 

For me, it is an eternal joy of this area of music and sound that you regularly come across things you just have to learn how to apprehend. Something gets its hook in you; calls to your unconscious and slowly or instantly, gets under your skin. Like one day realising a person you’ve ignored for years is actually totally beautiful.

As a very small child, I remember long drives home from family visits across London at night in the 70s, curled up in a blanket in the back of my parents’ VW Beetle. The lovely rear air-cooled engine beneath my head emitting that special sound, along with the rhythm of the road, to which I would eventually fall asleep. Adhesion takes me back there, but it could equally take me back to being submerged in the super warm water of the Hydrotherapy Pool with the vaguely metallic throb of the pump, low rumbles and strange echoey noises.

So, just as the reader brings as much to the text as the text brings to the reader… hearing, immersing in this requires you to open some inner place, memory or state and let the sound in. The only literacy required is your own wordless, sensory language, and 40 minutes to enjoy it in. (Headphones recommended.)


Go, immerse. Submerge. It doesn’t get much better than this.



Freight Cell is a project of UK sound artist, Fletina.


https://fletina.bandcamp.com



T.Čelet (Nov 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 UK time.

motif#11 RUPTURE. 

A really dark, dystopian motif show from Dogs versus Shadows, playing 9pm Tuesday 26th November & 1am Saturday 30th November [UK time]

See schedule page for track list etc.

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.

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 #354

9am Sunday 1st December, repeated 11pm Thursday 5th December [UK time].


Details on the schedule page.


new additions


13.12.2024 Upon Waking - the new release and limited edition cassette EP by Kῦμα and Disorganism.

https://viridsounds.bandcamp.com/album/upon-waking

13.12.2024 From 2021, the beautiful Epigrams by Passepartout Duo.

https://passepartoutduo.bandcamp.com/album/epigrams

12.12.2024 A fascinating soundscape exploration - Mati Pirsztuk's Mitternacht. Released on Off.

https://stilll-off.bandcamp.com/album/mitternacht

11.12.2024 Our dreams dwell over the horizon. Paper Sunset - the new album by Black Hair Rolled In Dried Blood.

https://blackhairrolledindriedblood.bandcamp.com/album/paper-sunset

10.12.2024 Tracks from the album Azalea by Bagaski added to the mix. Released on See Blue Audio.

https://bagaski.bandcamp.com/album/azalea

09.12.2024 Singing Stones (Volume 1) by Snowdrops. Released on Gizeh Records.

https://snowdrops.bandcamp.com/album/singing-stones-volume-1-2

09.12.2024 A couple of cheeky ones from Session 46 (Live @ Quarterhouse Lates) by Pleistocene Megafauna.

https://pleistocenemegafauna.bandcamp.com/album/session-46-live-quarterhouse-lates-free-download

08.12.2024 Welcome to f5point6 with this their latest release on See Blue Audio, A Random Sequence of Events.

https://f5point6.bandcamp.com/album/a-random-sequence-of-events

08.12.2024 Your Guilty Conscience by the anonymous BRMC. Released on Drama Recorder.

https://dramarecorder.bandcamp.com/album/your-guilty-conscience

07.12.2024 Mightily appropriate for some of us in SW England today! I The Storm by Simon McCorry. Released by See Blue Audio.

https://simonmccorry.bandcamp.com/album/i-the-storm

07.12.2024 From Hungary, Obscured Instinct and the pale Folklore by Kokum. Released on Eighth Tower Records.

https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/obscured-instinct-and-the-pale-folklore

06.12.2024 A very warm welcome to Leipzig's Schwarzer Tag with the album contrafact.

https://schwarzertag.bandcamp.com/album/contrafact

06.12.2024 Headset and Settings by poborsk. Released by Point Source Electonic Arts.

https://poborsk.bandcamp.com/album/headset-and-settings

05.12.2024 Prophetically incisive, America Decides by Alinovsky (feat. Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock) Released on the Off record label.

https://stilll-off.bandcamp.com/album/america-decides

05.12.2024 New from Thierry Arnal, INERTIA RESHAPED.

https://thierry-arnal-music.bandcamp.com/album/inertia-reshaped

04.12.2024 The absence of cellos by Down Chamber, from the play 'The Absence of Everything' by Katherine Orozco-Verderber.

https://downchamber.bandcamp.com/track/absence-of-cellos-2

04.12.2024 The latest release from quiet details, Exotopia by Sanger and Sanger.

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/exotopia

03.12.2024 textures -  an exploration of the perception of texture by Bruno Bernard

https://brunobernard2.bandcamp.com/album/textures

03.12.2024 No Birds in the Sky - another superb track from Miss Canine Hoe.

https://misscaninehoe.bandcamp.com/track/no-birds-in-the-sky

03.12.2024 The first of two additions today from Osaka's Miss Canine Hoe - the strangely powerful N.I.M

https://misscaninehoe.bandcamp.com/track/n-i-m

02.12.2024 A very warm welcome to Colonial Skyway with this their most recent release, Until Satellites Collide.

https://colonialskyway.bandcamp.com/album/until-satellites-collide