Love this song! I love the effect on your voice , it has that retro vibe it sounds beautiful!  

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

Some new sequences. Less music, more atmosphere, samples and noise around me.  

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Artwork: Masha Maroz

King of Swamp

Just a little experiment after hearing all the other 8x slowdowns; personally i think it's fantastic.
Note: I do not own nor create this track, full credit goes towards Cher for making such amazing music over her long career!

Cher-Believe 800x slowed

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https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-de-auto-rhythm

August 2018: It’s already been three years since Domenique Dumont made its entrance in the music world with a debut EP named Comme Ca. Despite a seemingly very quiet musical activity (the opening song to Antinote’s compilation Five Years Of Loving Notes was the only song released by the band in 3 years) a few things have changed in-between these two summers: Domenique Dumont is no more the mysterious lone French producer we introduced last time but a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, which has been collaborating with “an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied” (sorry, but it sounds like there’s still some mystery in the air, and, again, we’re just as clueless as you might be), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a definitely pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together in Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.

The record probably begins where Comme Ca ended: frantic but light drum programing backbones a solar and slightly melancholic melody on Le Début De La Fin (“the beginning of the end”). However, the scope gets enlarged as soon as one reaches the second tune, Quasi Quasi, or Quand, on the flip side, perhaps the most overtly pop-rock oriented song on the record with its Mediterranean guitar and emotional bridge.

The road towards the apex of the record, Le Soleil Dans Le Monde, is a narrow and windy one, punctuated by toy instrumentals like Ono Mambo Haiku or the Donkey Kong Country-friendly Message Of The Diving Bird; however it never departs from its original tongue-in-cheek attitude. It’s quite pleasant to imagine these eight “miniatures” as field recordings from an enchanted world of pop music designed by some Pierre & Gilles’ disciples – or are there
musical interpretations of half-mechanical, half-organic creations from a certain Otto Rhiesem (who might have inhabited the Locus Solus villa)? There might be no definitive answers to this second set of riddles by Domenique Dumont.

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DOMENIQUE DUMONT - LE SOLEIL DANS LE MONDE

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Valentina Magaletti and Julian Sartorius maintain a dialogue of irregular tempos and off-kilter percussion on their first collaborative record titled Sulla Pelle. 

Valentina is a force in the world of electronic and experimental music - working with Tom Relleen under Tomaga, jazz/pop band Vanishing Twin, the collective ‘UUUU’ with a couple of releases on Editions Mego, as well as various collaborations with the likes of Nicholas Jaar and Raime/Moin to name a couple. 

Julian Sartorius is a denizen in and of the beat – he's collaborated with artists such as Matthew Herbert, Shahzad Ismaily, Sylvie Courvoisier, as well as touring worldwide and widely through Europe with his solo show on the bill with the likes of Deerhoof, Faust, and Jaki Liebezeit. It’s apparent that time is not perceived in an ordinary manner by Julian – he's released a “Beat Diary” consisting of 365 beats and, on a daily basis, adds an element to his collage and modifies an 8-second audioloop under the project called Morph. More recently, he played percussion on the track ‘Firesmoke‘ on Kate Tempest‘s new record ‘The Book of Traps and Lessons‘. 

Sulla Pelle chisels away at your headspace at varying velocities with a harmonious flow - at times gently carving out channels that dramatically flood with syncopated kick drums and shifting propulsive beats. It’s as much about monotonous playing as it is about those moments where it seems as though every vertebra branches into tentacles and antennas ricocheting hits in foreign symbiosis.  

Rasping prepared drums that traverse the body into all sorts of ceremonial throttles, hedonistic arm flails, primal cheer at every incipient dynamic accent. This raw and sparse drumming and percussion record sees Valentina and Julian cueing each other in on interlocked ratchets and clanks with different mallets and metalwork from Malcom Catto’s studio on top of modular tinkering and occasional distant subdued ramblings.  

Sulla Pelle will be released end of August digitally and on vinyl with artwork by Benjamin Kilchhofer.

Valentina Magaletti & Julian Sartorius - Sobaka

Conceived of for the inaugural event of the new ZUZEUM exhibition space in Riga, "La Fin du Monde" is a 45-minute piece of music by the artist ELVI (@elvisoulsystems) who employs relatively primitive methods of sound source modulation in order to create his own worlds often devoid of the source material to the naked eye. In this case — premiered as the introduction to the event held on December 28 of 2019 — ELVI deforms the popular song "The End of the World" as performed by American singer Skeeter Davis in 1962. 

The piece is both a Farewell and a Hello — a transition of sorts and a somewhat trance-inducing meditation that can be perceived in various ways — depending on the space and the listener. We shall never be as young as now yet we've never been as aware. Somehow.

LA FIN DU MONDE by ELVI

Track from the album "People on Sunday". Released on 13 November 2020 via The Leaf Label

People on Sunday

Listen in to the next installment in our Accidental mini mix series with some old and new goodies by recent signee on the label Abby Lee Tee. 

Featuring tunes from Accidental artists Dominic Voz, Julian Sartorius, Kirk Barley along with new discoveries Teebs and Guy Birkin, or the OGs Ahmad Jamal and Beatminerz the mix flows perfectly with Abby's signature ambient intricacies, accompanying smoothly the beginning of the week.

Full track list via our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.

Abby Lee Tee – Accidental Mini Mix

PLAVAY. Hydrodance is a sound installation in the form of an audio meditation created by OMMA and curated by Anna Politiko. This work was commissioned by Zuzeum for its inaugural exhibition We Aim to Live. The word 'plavay'(плавай) means 'to swim' in Russian, and reflects a transient state of meditation. 

OMMA says of her work: “Due to the effects of synesthesia (a neurological condition that causes one to experience senses differently – one might hear colours or taste words), I hear water and the blue colour as smooth, sinusoidal waves of sounds, opposite to noisy or sharp vibrations. This whole audio piece delivers different moods and vibrations. I wanted to reveal the phases of nature, all hydro elements: low and high tides, wind, sea birds, and underwater creatures. The piece conveys the feeling of ‘underwaterness’ through sound filters. Some elements of the composition were recorded with Playtronica’s TouchMe device when I was playing with conductivity in the water. ”

The PLAVAY. Hydrodance meditation hour* invites audiences to become entangled with water on a quantum level while surrounded by art. Water flows through us, it unifies all beings. By fostering interconnectedness through meditation, we gain new ways of feeling, seeing, and understanding.

Sound artist OMMA (Olga Maximova) studied jazz piano at Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. OMMA has an innovative and playful approach to music. Outside of performing and recording, OMMA is the co-creator of the tech project Playtronica, which turns everyday objects into musical instruments. She has staged solo synesthetic exhibitions in collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Foundation Louis Vuitton, L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and Erarta.

PLAVAY. Hidrodance by OMMA

Introducing our first guests of 2021 – Victoria Feldman and Tomas Berzins, founders of the young French fashion brand, Victoria/Tomas. Join along with our host, Godfrey Deeny, to find out the story behind the brand, dynamics of being an independent fashion label in today’s age and the how they’re incorporating sustainability and gender equality in their brand’s DNA.

Episode 28: ‘The New Age of Fashion’ with Victoria Feldman and Tomas Berzin EN

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Improvisation, performance
there is my sketches and soundtracks for movies.

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