Cover of Fern Kinney's 'Love Me Tonight'

promise
               to 
                    Love.

Mixed & Mastered by Ella & Florian Zwietnig of UMA

Love Me Tonight (Fern Kinney Cover)

Lena Platonos - Shadow Of Blood

edit of chiemi manabe's "untotooku" (1982) by JAZ
out 11 january 2016 on GODMODE
faculty series #02
entergodmode.com

JAZ is John Zahl, an Episcopal minister and cosmic disco DJ
soundcloud.com/j-a-z-1

Chiemi Manabe - Untotooku (JAZ Edit) [GODMODE]

MAYA – SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK / DISTANT VISIONS
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005

A late night voicemail from Cherrystones: “Phone me! I’ve got something killer! It might not make sense at first but it’ll suck you in...”
After hearing the outsider psych of ‘Distant Visions’ we are suitably hooked and the wheels are in motion to reissue the music of Maya from 1975.

It’s at this point we realise we ain’t even heard the A-side yet! Turns out it’s the heaviest heartbreak jam going…

Following on from 2015’s acclaimed Critical Mass compilation, Cherrystones and Touch Sensitive come together again to proudly present a lost masterpiece from the U.S. hard rock and psychedelic underground.

Fully remastered and faithfully reproduced on limited 7inch vinyl with additional insert featuring lyrics and notes from Burk Skyhorse Price (Maya) and Cherrystones.

Two tracks of timeless, heartfelt outsider music.

“In the drying up world of unknown homemade underground rock sounds, there never fails to be at least one scurrying rodent running for cover; bug-eyed under the flashlight of the modern-day sonic adventure seeker. Nearly all the LPs have been brought to the surface. More recently rabid fuzz and loner sound explorers are rubbing elbows with Northern Soul speed-freaks in the deep cold, hour-eating world of coverless 45s to seek out what could be seen as the final frontier of no budget, big dream and no fan base homemade local vulnerable Rock ’n’ Roll.

So what do we have here? A UK discovered and repressed Ohio private nuclear soul bomb by Burk Skyhorse Price with his Maya unit from the shadows of Cincinnati Ohio, in the music-world turmoil years of 1975.

The single has all the ingredients: songs about heartache, bubbling synths, alien feelings, proto-punk, backwards feedback, isolation.

Two lengthy songs of two different moods: “SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK” a "Fuck You!” to all partners that want you to join the Real Estate game and turn in your misfired Envelope pedals for a suit and tie; rendered musically in a raging underground punk damage mode.

But I think the small band of freaks that have heard Maya’s lone 45 agree that its the pro-Alien sad dirge of “DISTANT VISIONS" that gets the pen scratching the history books for another legendary entry. This reflective afternoon delay lurker makes me wonder what happened AFTER the fade out to "Visions”. 
Maybe the homemade air siren blew out the studio?
Regardless, here is a big dreaming band that left quite a brief one-two punch to the face of the industry that had no place for their punk and lonely sound poems. Funny but fitting how they have finally found a home forty years later and many continents away. Solid homemade damage here, touching AND sensitive, albeit crushingly loud.”

John Olson (Wolf Eyes / American Tapes / Third Man Records) Michigan, 2016.
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Tracklisting:

Side One: Synthezoid Heartbreak	
Side Two: Distant Visions

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005 | 7inch / Digital
Release Date: Friday 26th February 2016
Mastering / Restoration: Stephen Quinn, Analog Heart 
Cut: Mike Grinser, Dubplates & Mastering

Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com


Maya - Synthezoid Heartbreak

Mag & The Suspects ‎– Erection

The System - Find It In Your Eyes (4:35)

Hermès Women FW2017

From Lindstrøm's upcoming album release 'It's All Right Between Us As It Is' out worldwide October 20th via Smalltown Supersound/Feedelity Recordings.

Learn more here: http://smarturl.it/sts320

Lindstrøm - Bungl (Like A Ghost) feat. Jenny Hval

Zenit - Waitin' [1986]

Buy / stream: 
lnk.to/coveredingloria

Pop-not-slop:
https://open.spotify.com/user/deek-recordings/playlist/7f4uYQCSG8rFCRQPmiIL3z

Suzanne Kraft - Nordsee

Not punk, but still hits that sweet spot in DIY pop. Kind of reminds me of Animals & Men (UK, 1978-82). This is from Holland, in 1981. Recently re-released by German label Discos Transgénero in a nifty artful colored vinyl edition (50$CAD). This song is so "gold" that it automatically becomes an instant must-own classic. The new release comes with the band's more ambient pop experiments, and none of the euro-accented, half-spoken half-sung vocals of this single. I'll be drinking from the bottle containing this lightning.

Mag & The Suspects ‎– Erection

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