ambient, electronica, experimental, art rock, breaks, folk, indie rock.

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Graeme Miller
Comet In Moominland
(FKR111) Finders Keepers Records

Release date: 3rd June 2022

From deep in the heart of Moomin Valley, frozen in time for many midwinters passed, comes a genuine treasure chest of never heard Moomin melodies and instrumental comet songs composed for the continued animated adventures of our Fuzzy-Felt freak folk friends who disappeared from UK TV pastures in the mid-1980s. From the top of the Hobgoblin's Hat and the bottom of Snufkin's satchel, original Moomin's composer Graeme Miller (The Carrier Frequency) kindly shares this patchwork selection of spellbinding sound poems and percussive peons made using the very same selection of ocarinas, kalimbas, miniature squeak boxes, Waspy synths, cornflake box shakers and a seemingly endless array of talent and lo-fi home studio trickery.

Regarded as one of the most enigmatic, beguiling and haunting imported children’s programmes to ever grace UK TV screens, The Moomins was one of the first-ever commissions by Anne Wood (The Teletubbies) who ingeniously replaced the original Polish/Austrian/Finnish soundtrack with homemade music experiments by unknown post-punk theatre students Graeme Miller and Steve Shill (aka The Commies From Mars) who after the screening of two unforgettable series in 1983 and 1985 were left in eager anticipation of rescoring further Moomin adventures with new melodies, arrangements and sound designs which then lingered in the ether waiting until the Groke awoke and Snorkmaiden sang once more. With future felt adventures screened exclusively in Poland and Germany for many years (often as feature films) these unheard recordings are the only genuine musical sequel to the bizarre UK version of The Moomins and stand as important inclusions the Graeme Miller's own portfolio of theatrical theme music and sound installations as part of The Impact Theatre Cooperative including collaborations with artists and writers such as Russell Hoban. Witnessed in fragmented form during a short run of incredible rare live screenings at The Barbican Theatre and various film festival this record marks the first time this music has been heard in its original full-length form, free from sound effects, dialog and whimpers of euphoric joy and nostalgia from those who have continued to crave the company of our Moomintrolls and their mysterious music over the last five decades.  

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Comet In Moominland

Raft Journey

Graeme Miller - Raft Journey

This project began as a collaborative sound art commission for Dublin Digital Radio titled Tirdreacha/Krajobrazy/Landschaften/مناظر الطبیعة in collaboration with Tom O'Dea and participants based in Berlin, Warsaw and Bethlehem. These songs were composed from found sounds recorded on ferries across the Irish and Atlantic Seas, with lyrics and vocal arrangements developed and written over a series of shows in Dublin, Berlin and Lisbon. Spoken word adapted from Kate Chopin's novel 'The Awakening'.

Labyrinthine Thread

Knowing you by heart, 
at least that's what you thought

Focus (folk version)(meditative demo)

J, Angelina Nonaj - More Room to Breath In
Buttechno - Ambian August
Princ€ss - WoW
Yangze - No Body Host (Ghost)
Rec - Prius Lover Song
Ben Bondy - The Only Part of You That I Ever Really Needed
Ultra Violet - Soli City
Box5five - Sell A Door
Genus Aix - As One So Torn
James K - Subliminal Burn
Jonnnah - Soma's End
King Softy – Believe
XENIA REAPER - MxB
Florian T M Zeisig - 85805
Ulla - Smile
Mu Tate - When they’re with you always

Photo: Berlin 2024

The Next Kingdom LP (SER001)

seamless ~ episode °1

Collecting all sorts of odd parts and particles on the way (home), r'd'p't'v slips through the cracks.

r'd'p't'v @ Kiosk Radio 21.02.2025

Kontext 002 with Triš

written and produced by @sashawasaalcatel 
mastering — max_von_der_goltz
cover photo — Mykyta Korniienko
design — @buttechno
Special thanks to micro.sport

Not too Alive

time turner

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/prosthetic-sentiments-11-svarte-greiner
https://www.cerpintxt.com/boundarycondition
https://miasmah.com/recordings/svarte_greiner.html
https://iklectik.org

 prosthetic sentiments

prosthetic sentiments 11 – Svarte Greiner

Springtime sweetest treats giveaway! Desire and bliss, love and fantasies for free. Join us, dear friends! x x

Intro
The Freuding Thing (1969)
queen's routine - in both hands
tamao ninomiya - backlighting (demo)
EDA BROWN - Sunset Hotel「夕陽のホテル」
CS + Kreme - Corey
Les Petites Filles modèles (1971) (Dream One)
i Extra Bleu Ciel ! - Wounds Rule
Bruce Langhorne - Leaving Del Norte
Stasis - Sound File Nos_ 7
フリーダム昼子(freedomhillko) - ”住みたい！“ Live at 七針 on 8/31,2024
Ein (@ein.garden) - fulual 2r memora
slowfoam - Grief Rituals
nagahori25 - 幾度でも
It's Happening! TV Show /w The Unclaimed
Even As We Speak - Bizarre Love Triangle
College Girls (1968)
birdsbirdsbirds - My Friend Is Talking About It
Masahiro Takahashi - Minamo
Hayao Miyazaki on his irritable nature (from ""10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki"")
Piero Umiliani - Lady Magnolia
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Close Chorus
Les Petites Filles modèles (1971) (Dream Two)
___
Friends Like Us - Sweet and uncanny music selected with love by Andrii Hrachov and Iryna Bodnar.
 
Friends like us
Should be ready
To approach infinity —
To enter heaven’s gate..
___

Station Station est une webradio associative qui émet 24/24 et 7/7j, basée à La Station - Gare des Mines. Pour écouter le direct : www.stationstation.fr nous suivre : www.instagram.com/stationstation_radio/ - https://soundcloud.com/stationstation - www.mixcloud.com/Station_Station_radio/stream/

Friends Like Us #55 w/ Bad News From Cosmos

obsessing again

Places I've Been

Armagnac : music to enjoy with a drink

Dead by daylight interlude

Para One - Renaissance

Graeme Miller & Steve Shill
The Moomins
FKR090
LP/CD/MP3

Pre-order the album here:

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Imagine, if you will, a foreboding homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music Portastudio soundtrack for a Polish-made animated fantasy based on a Finnish modern folk tale and created for German and Austrian TV, composed in 1982 by two politically driven post-punk theatre performers from a shared house in Leeds!

To even the most perspicacious and adventurous of alternative music fans the genuine bloodline of this previously unreleased record already begins to sound like an entire record collection in one sitting. It would be surprising if this project's ambitious and exotic credentials didn't tick at least one box on your musical matrix and without one drop of unnecessary nostalgic hyperbole this project already sounds like the perfect fantasy record that you've never heard. Alternatively we could just say The Moomins and, for many, things would instantly begin to make perfect sense.

From the same social landscape as Gang Of Four, The Mekons and Impact Theatre Co-operative - armed with a Wasp synthesiser, an ocarina and a cassette of the Robinson Crusoe music taped off the TV, Graeme Miller and Steve Shill used minimum means for maximum mayhem, instilling over 35 years of dreamlike illusory fuzziness and freakiness into the memories of a generation of school age TV addicts waiting for the next 5 minute fix of outernational fuzzy felt folklore. Collected here, all in one place for the first time, Finders Keepers in close collaboration with the original composers finally bring the original homemade micro-melodies and reintroduce them to a musical landscape where fans of vintage electronics, concrète tape effects, pocket percussion and domestic synths are finally ready to be reunited with the magnetic music of Moominvalley.

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Para One - Renaissance

Para One

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