Radium Girls by Christian Fiesel

This is an aftermath of a bigger project which started as a collaboration with Rocco Müller as FM.tronica about the aftermath of Chernobyl, Ukraine 1986. We collected tons of ideas and as often, a lot of pieces didn't were discussed further for a variety of reasons. This is were the idea for this album began. I collected tons of ideas and little miniatures. A bit in the style of my musical forefather Roedelius, the small bits assembled into a greater picture concerning the after effects of radiation.
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and one in Waterbury, Connecticut, also in the 1920s.

Every sound has its own story. And each story can be completely different. That said, Christian Fiesel is trying to cross all borders of electronic and experimental music. His interest is not about being into a specific genre but to dare anything at least just once.

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