Name: Documenta-Miki by Documenta
Duration: 7 min 26 s
Description: The first track from our record Drone Pop #2 x

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Our KENZO collection for spring-summer 2016 follows the global traveler as she confidently collects an unexpected mix of elements.
She nonchalantly translates the souvenirs of her holiday adventures into her day-to-day wardrobe.
She always has her swimwear at hand as she might find a place to stop for a dip en route to her next destination.
She always has her swimwear at hand as she might find a place to stop for a dip en route to her next destination.
Carol & Humberto

KENZO WOMEN SS16 SHOW SOUNDTRACK BY JASON PIERCE

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

Documenta will release 'Love As A Ghost' as a digital download through Touch Sensitive Records on Friday 22nd July.

Originally appearing as the centrepiece of their 2015 album 'Drone Pop #1', the single version of 'Love As A Ghost' features additional inspiration and instrumentation from the tracks' producer, David Holmes.

Love As A Ghost's widescreen, spectral 7 minutes outlines a group enthralled with the endless possibilities of repetition, melody and rhythm; haunting the same sonic cathedrals as My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, and The Jesus and Mary Chain at their most ethereal.

Following a suggestion from Holmes, 'Love As A Ghost' is the first Documenta track to feature Roisin Stewart on lead vocals. Joe Greene (vocals, guitar) “knew it was her song as soon as I heard it. The sense of detachment yet feeling in her voice still gets me.”

“'Love As A Ghost' blows '60s girl-group Pop bubblegum as re-imagined by The Jesus & Mary Chain. An MBV see-sawing tremolo riff as drums suck backwards, their vacuum pulling everything with it. Like a goodbye replayed from memory, a retracing of steps. Trying to pinpoint where you went wrong.”
Rob Harris: testpressing.org

'Love As A Ghost' has gained airplay from 6Music's Jarvis Cocker and Gideon Coe alongside support from Tim Burgess (The Charlatans), A.R. Kane and more.

The release will be accompanied by select UK festival appearances and club shows:

Laverys Mister Toms, Belfast - 22nd July
Kendal Calling, Lake District - 28th - 31st July 
Electric Fields, Scotland - 26th & 27th August 
Festival No.6, Portmeirion - 1st - 4th Sept

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR007 | Download 
Release: Friday 22nd July 2016
Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com 

Love As A Ghost - single

Documenta - Love As A Ghost

Buy: http://po.st/LNTDavidHolmes

"Before Jon became the world-famous and respected composer he is today I had the privilege of doing some sessions with him. This is something that we started 8 or 9 years ago and the original idea was less than 90 seconds long. I always loved the feeling it gave me so I decided to develop it for this album as I felt it fitted into what I was trying to say. The words came last. This extract was shown to me by my friend (and one of Belfast’s finest actors), Lalor Roddy because he thought it had a lot in common with a short film I directed called ‘I AM HERE‘, which deals with family and reconnection in the afterworld. It comes from a book called AENEID VI, which was the last work Seamus Heaney translated before he passed; which made it even more special as I consider this to be a very Northern Irish-themed album. When I first read it I was stunned by the similarities and wrote a letter to Mick Heaney (Seamus Heaney’s son) asking for permission. The Heaney family gave me permission (which I am forever grateful for) and the next step was securing the voice of another Northern Irish great, Stephen Rea. A huge thank you to Stephen and the Heaney family for helping me make this happen. It was a perfect way to finish this album." - David Holmes

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Late Night Tales: David Holmes

David Holmes & Jon Hopkins ft. Stephen Rea - Elsewhere Anchises (Late Night Tales: David Holmes)

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"I received a phone call from BP Fallon the day before Henry McCullough’s funeral. He was heart broken having lost his dear friend and asked could he stay at mine after he returned from the funeral. After I picked him up from the train station he asked me if he returned early enough could we record something. I started working on the music that day and then I had an idea which was to record something about Henry and their relationship. When BP returned that evening I sat him down in front of the microphone and this happened in one take! We both knew we captured a very special moment that couldn’t have been created at any other moment - magic. "
- David Holmes

BP Fallon & David Holmes - Henry McCullough (Late Night Tales: David Holmes)

The Great Up Above from the forthcoming Eat lights Become lights LP 
Nature Reserve.

The Great Up Above

The opening track from the forthcoming album 'Watercourse' out May 26th 2017 via CF Records.

http://seapinks.bandcamp.com

Watercourse

Sea Pinks - Watercourse

For anyone without a Valentine this year, we present Blue Romance, a twisted love letter (in the form of a 3 track FREE DOWNLOAD EP!) from Belfast heart-throbs Phillip Quinn and Steven Henry, aka Charles Hurts and Hello Translinks?. Charles Hurts is Phillip Quinn on guitar and vox with Steven Henry on bass. Hello Translinks? is Steven Henry on programming/production with guest backing vocals on this occasion by one Phillip Quinn. Guys, get a room! 

Download the FREE EP here: http://cf-records.bandcamp.com/album/blue-romance

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Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Charles Hurts/Hello Translinks?

The first track from our record Drone Pop #2 x

Documenta-Miki

Drone pop from Belfast, Drone Pop #1 out now on 2 colour vinyl also available Drone Pop #2 on 2 colour vinyl. Video for Idle Hands.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKFTn30i4kw                                  Video for Chiaroscuro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5NZmLVBtj0                                                                                               Video for Last Transit Across The Sun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOaR30Hlj3k

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