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From the LP 'Structures And Light'
Friday 24th Feb
Touch Sensitive Records
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'Structures And Light’ is the first record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully - Girls Names)

“Here’s a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It’s made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication.”

Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of ‘Structures And Light’ is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio.
With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again - “It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music”.
Initially, it was for his personal consumption alone - selfishly indulgent.
In fact, this first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored.

“Day breaks: dig those fast linear movements and rhythms (‘The Fantasist’). Then fall for the unexpected guitar line in ‘Pursuit’; a gentle kind of cold wave optimism.”

The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of ‘Pyramid of Light’ by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. “It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe.”

“Night heals: there’s ‘pummelling repetition’ here too, for the club freaks or shut-ins. Slow, industrial shocks that give way to ‘Pyramid of Light’s stark new-age burst.”

Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: “These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria! and the proto-techno of pre-club music.”
Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing; the propulsive rhythms in 'Structures And Light’ reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle.

This is music to go away from and travel to.

“It’s a record for the present - full of gorgeous themes that dream unwired.”

Quotes: JC, Low Profile - Belfast 2017

Structures And Light

Group Zero - Zero Symphony

GROUP ZERO: PURSUIT (BLACK BONES DREAMS MIX)
TSR13DL - Digital Only
Friday 23rd February 2018

http://touchsensitiverecords.com/
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“We dream of night…”

In advance of the third 12” in their killer edits series, Touch Sensitive is delighted that the Black Bones production and DJ duo have carved up and reconfigured a track from Group Zero's 'Structures And Light' LP.

Initially, one of the album’s more inward looking tracks - glistening with “a gentle kind of cold wave optimism” - Black Bones rework “Pursuit” into a propulsive but out-there club cut.

“We wanted to lean the track more towards the club without losing it's essence. Familiar noises mixed with an unfamiliar end. A sort of lost on the dance floor fog at 5am when you should have really gone home a long time ago. The joy of being there slightly mixed with a melancholy that comes from knowing Monday comes too soon. That was the general vibe we were going for!”

The Black Bones story is born out of a shared obsession for crate digging and collecting weird and wonderful records from across the globe that spans decades and takes in various styles along the way. 
The Black Bones edits label was launched at the beginning of 2017, with the first 12” selling out in less than 48 hours. The ongoing series sees them exhume forgotten musical gems and tastefully retouch them for today’s dance floors. The duo are currently working on their debut productions.

Group Zero is the solo, electronic project of Cathal Cully (Girls Names). Collected from four years worth of work, ’Structures and Light’ - released through Touch Sensitive in 2017 - is both a study in Cully’s DIY roots and a new beginning which tilts heavily towards the more open-eared and left of centre dance floors.

Pursuit (Black Bones Dreams Mix)

Group Zero - Pursuit (Black Bones Dreams Mix)

Julie, have you seen 
What they’re saying on TV?
Patricia Phoenix sez
"Get back to acting school
Wash your curtains
And keep your hands to yourself,
Get your mucky claws 
Out of my lodgers"

In predictable style
The first card that I pulled out
Was the Devil, then Death
You’ve got to crack a smile 
Don’t you Julie?

The clock is ticking
So, what’s it going to be?

The psychic also said
You will sexually attract
Both women and men
And people clever enough to have bypassed gender

I Bet there was a Lynch
When you landed a lady
Cause being on the telly
Means you constantly adhere to
The standards which are set in Bury, Lancashire.

"Go down the aisle?
You wouldn’t catch me
Engaged in such behaviour"
The standards of which are set
In darkest Lancashire
In deepest darkest Lancashire

You live and you die
Alone in darkest Lancashire.

Our Julie Demo

Hush

Fears turned in a mix for us a couple of months ago and we're delighted to debut her latest single - Fabric.

The Irish artists take on contemporary pop is beautiful. Wistful, observant lyricism blends wonderfully with attentive pop sensibility and playful melodies on this latest cut.

It's a little more upbeat than what we've come to expect from Fears, yet maintains that same absorbing enchantment, exploring themes of personal anxiety and perception.

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You go where I go / I try to run but I feel like I'm in / slow motion / slow motion

I turn and you're there / talking to people that you think care about you / It's a fabrication of what you want to be true

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