Description:	Self released CD in digipack on Memoirs of An Aesthete
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Memoirs Of An Aesthete
	Price:	£9.29
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Brian on 11 March 2010.

Ashtray Navigations is Phil Todd and guest cohorts. He's from round these parts (West Yorkshire) and is rapidly becoming synonymous with brilliantly epic, sludgy soundscapes & vast psychedelic noise sculpting. This catchily titled CD on his own DIY imprint is as caustic as the furthest reaches of the Astral Social Club or the ricocheting sonic feedback overload of Skullflower. Quite how he manages to layer this filthy, ascending distortion with such absorbing detail i'll never know yet the first number relentlessly evolves into a shitstorm of feedback whilst a lunatic UFO comes in half way attempting to suck the sonic cloud up, churning madly in its frantic determination! Sympathetic is the key and my ears are treated to some excellent analogue Komische action that has raw feedback tendrils trailing from its old-skool underbelly. 6 tracks in all, showcasing a rough, rugged & tantalising imagination from this region.

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Sound clips for Dirt Mummies and Bloody Amps and Blood Mummies and Dirty Amps by Ashtray Navigations: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Memoirs Of An Aesthete, n/a, £9.29.

What their label says...

Digital re-inscription of the "Dirt Mummies and Bloody Amps" LP which appeared on Freenoise back in 2006, plus the "Blood Mummies and Dirty Amps" tape on Goldsoundz which showed up a couple of years later, both long sold-out. They always belonged together in mutual bliss, so here they are. First CD on the Memoirs sub-label Revival Records.

"sub-aquatic synth bubble, busted-up cassette-tape hiss and distorted electric guitar hover that sounds like a mythical god banished from the realm of light and trying desperately to clamber his/her way out of a dark bottomless void where time itself stands still." -James Blackshaw, Foxy Digitalis

 "Todd's mastery of everything even remotely in tune with psychedelia is here in its spangled, sprawlin' glory though he never shoots even so much as a backwards glance - Ashtray Navigations are pushing on into the 41st century and bucking "revivalism" so hard I got saddle sores" - Outer Space Gamelan

"Ashtray Navigations remain the best interstellar rock band in that genre’s never-ending dystopia."- Scott McKeating, Rock-A-Rolla