The Fates - Sheila-She Beats In My Heart

Geri Baird - Backside Of The Desert

Fresh from supporting Stealing Sheep on tour in the UK last month, Gwenno has remixed Stealing Sheep's track 'Not Real.' 

Not Real - Gwenno Remix of Stealing Sheep

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

Japanese jazz fusion pioneer Ryo Kawasaki gets the reissue treatment on a new 'Selected Works' collection from @nunorthernsoul.

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/03/29/premiere-ryo-kawasaki-hawaiian-caravan/

Ryo Kawasaki - Hawaiian Caravan (STW Premiere)

taken from «Spagat der Liebe».
out on May 6th via Trouble In Mind and Cargo Germany.

Geschichten aus erster Hand

Opening cut from the Near Me ep released digitally today.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/near-me/id1101914090
https://pro.beatport.com/release/near-me/1750685
http://www.junodownload.com/products/das-komplex-near-me/3069268-02/

DAS KOMPLEX - OPENWORK SOCKS

Support: http://radi.al/Hream
Follow: https://www.facebook.com/doughreamblunt
More info: https://www.doughreamblunt.com

Doug Hream Blunt learnt to play music at the age of 35, by taking an adult class in the late 1980s. The class was organized by a high school music teacher and his wife, and held in their small garage in the Golden Gate Park neighborhood of San Francisco. The other students of the class became Doug’s band members, while his teacher joined on vibes, and his wife on bass. To promote his music, Doug would play acoustic, solo shows for patients and elderly people at a hospital where he worked as a nurse’s aid. On a few occasions, he also brought the other students together to play on the City Visions Public Access television show.

My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt: Featuring the Hit Gentle Persuasion

Doug Hream Blunt - Gentle Persuasion

Buy / stream: 
lnk.to/coveredingloria

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

Suzanne Kraft - Nordsee

From the Near Negative EP available December 15th, 2017 from Western Vinyl

"Monday Give Me Monday" showcases Art Feynman's signature grooves, krautrock slink, and staccato bounce, all captured on his trusty four-track cassette recorder.

Earlier this summer, Art Feynman released his debut full-length album Blast Off Through the Wicker and toured the US with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier. Pitchfork describes him as "a cool purveyor of coked-out dub-kraut." Consequence of Sound calls his debut a "funky, psychedelic slice of afro-pop" and Tiny Mix Tapes regards it as an "analog masterpiece."

In 2018 Art Feynman will return with his sophomore LP that takes us even further into his motorik and afrobeat inspired world of sound.

Near Negative

Art Feynman - "Shelter"

Holger Czukay & U-She - La Premiere (Mudd's Ode To Phreek Mix)

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Art Feynman - "Shelter"

Western Vinyl

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