Quelle chouette ambiance (Vol.4)

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022EGGS
Paper Dollhouse
Aeonflower
Cassette/Digital

An exploration of warped, dream like atmosphere and taught, noise-ingrained electronics, Paper Dollhouse has evolved from the solo work of Astrud Steehouder into an expansive, cinematic project now involving visual artist Nina Bosnic. Recorded with a stronger focus on electronic processes and with a deeper, light starved aesthetic, Aeonflower’s emboldened use of crushed-noise dynamics takes the London-based group’s debut A Box Painted Black  frame into darker, murkier and more thrilling territory.
Aeonflower is the slow decent of a newly discorporated spirit into a fogged, neon lagoon, a drowned world still lit. If the first LP was a box of raw secrets with hints of obscured folk roots, Aeonflower is the endless rain of expression, experience and change. On this outing both artists’ vocals are expressive, forgoing complex lyrical concerns for minimal text invested with emotive power. Opener Oracle bleeds into Stand, the first of Steehouder’s haunted vocals, a fragile minimalism augmented with barren guitar. Helios sees a drum machine kick and ride cymbal pin down an dark, enveloping vocal duet until Psyche obliterates it all with billowing noise, a thrilling shock to the system. The swirling synths and suppressed emotion of Your Heart peak in the centerpiece Diane, a shadowy piece highlighting Steehouder’s minimalist approach. Side two acts as a mini-suite, with Diamanda Galas-inspired vocal abstractions and walls of sound coming down with stand out ambient track Black Flowers. Dark and light interplay beautifully on album closer Siren, a turbulent if ambiguous build -up of harmony and noise.

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Paper Dollhouse - Helios

Healing U softly

Taken from "Inji", out June 29th 2015.

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Lady's In Trouble With The Law

LA Priest - Lady's In Trouble With The Law

Taken from C Duncan's forthcoming four track EP which is released on FatCat records digitally on the 19th of February.

C Duncan - Pearly - Dewdrops' Drops

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 - Distant Visions

1 - D.K. - EVENING SHADOWS

The Conservation Of Energy is taken from the forthcoming Vanishing Twin album on Soundway Records. 

Vanishing Twin - The Conservation Of Energy

The title track from Jon Bap's 'Let It Happen' double EP - out now on Fresh Selects: http://bit.ly/FSX-011

Written, Produced, Mixed, & All Instruments Performed by Jon Bap
Lyrics by Marissa Caggiano
Self portrait painted by Jon Bap

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Let It Happen

Jon Bap "Let It Happen"

DEBUT S/T ALBUM OUT: 9/23/16 on Beyond Beyond is Beyond

When Drakkar Nowhere rows itself out toward the exploratory sonic sea upon which their debut album so gracefully sails, it’s not just that their destination is undefined; it’s that the very concept of a destination, as reflected in their music, is itself something indefinable. Drakkar Nowhere capture the wind in their sails with a sound that’s boundless, expansive and, perhaps, guided only by the light of the sun and stars.

That Drakkar Nowhere ended up somewhere at all is itself more a result of circumstance than careful course-charting. The history of the album traces back to the summer of 2012, when Daniel Collás and Morgan Phalen, on tour with the New York-based Phenomenal Handclap Band, found themselves creating new music in the kitchen of a rented apartment in Stockholm, Sweden. Their new project caught the ears of nearby musicians, including members of Dungen and The Amazing, and before long, this extended family of international musicians were recording the songs that would firmly put them on the path to nowhere – Drakkar Nowhere, that is. 

Both Collás and Phalen took inspiration from their Swedish surroundings – in particular, the enchanted forests that surround the neighborhoods of Bagarmossen and Midsommarkransen. And given the talents and histories of the collaborating musicians, it’s no surprise that the ever-evolving shadow of what we might broadly call Swedish psychedelia should perfume the proceedings as well. Collás and Phelan also took the recordings to New York and Los Angeles, where new surroundings and influences could intertwine into the musical flora and fauna. When in LA, the band even got a hero of theirs, unsung 70s singer-songwriter Ned Doheny, on board for “Higher Now.” Some light was recently shed on Doheny’s music from the 70s when Numero Group released the Doheny compilation Separate Oceans a couple years back. To those who have discovered his fantastic body of work, his warm, breezy Malibu vocals are instantly recognizable on “Higher Now.” 

One thing is surprising – and what makes the Drakkar Nowhere album one that benefits from repeat listens – is how unobtrusive all of these influences are on the album’s ultimate sound. Drakkar Nowhere present a combination of influences – cosmic jazz, syrupy soul and mutated prog among them – in such an effortless manner that they don’t really feel like “influences” at all. As a result, Drakkar Nowhere have built an album that may have listeners ears recalling the crystalline harmonies of the Brothers Gibb more often than it does Träd, Gräs and Stenar.

No destination, no influences – just nowhere. And in the hands of Drakkar Nowhere, it’s clearly the place to be. - Ryan Muldoon


Drakkar Nowhere - Higher Now (featuring Ned Doheny)

from the album Skiptracing, coming August 26 on Stones Throw Records http://stonesthrow.com/mildhighclub

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Skiptracing

on vinyl

Mild High Club - Homage

'Life's Dancers' (Floating Points Remix)Out Now -
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Taken from 'Life's Dancers' 12" released 2nd September 2016 via Ninja Tune.

'Patience' Out Now - 
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Life’s Dancers

Life’s Dancers (Floating Points Remix)

Off the debut album, The Visitor, out October 21st on Fat Possum Records / Fresh Selects

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The Visitor Tracklisting:
1. Intro – Earth Birth
2. Honeycomb
3. Fairweather Friend
4. The Visitor
5. Gramma Honey
6. Portrait of Tracy
7. Nobody Other
8. Francisco

Kadhja Bonet Tour Dates:
8/21 – Los Angeles, CA at Saint Heron
8/28 – Pula, Croatia at Dimensions Festival
9/17 – San Francisco, CA at The Independent

Kadhja Bonet - Honeycomb

On October 7th, Telephone Explosion will be reissuing Bruce Haack's 1970 masterpiece "The Electric Lucifer". 

To celebrate, we made a very limited run of 10" back patches. Both the patches and the record available separately, or as part of our "Bruce Haack Super Paack", which contains all three Bruce Haack / TER Lp's & the back patch: http://goo.gl/mNmae2

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Pre-orders ship in early September!

Bruce Haack - Program Me

f(l)ight

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Under Your Always Light

Our new album Häxan is out Nov 18th worldwide via Smalltown Supersound and Nov 25th in the US via Mexican Summer!

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Jakten genom skogen

Graham Nash - Better Nights (Social Disco Club Edit)

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