Ashtray Navigations - Running On Autokinetic

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5...according to our Brett on Thu 02 Apr, 2009.

Qbico time and we've got two whole Ashray Navigations LPs in the bag. Actually they're in a battered cardboard box but when someone buys them they'll go into plastic boxes for a little bit then when they're packed they'll go in crispy fresh cardboard boxes ready for post time. Then, and only then will they be bagged. Someone should probably make a documentary about the day to day runnings of this place, it'd be REALLY interesting! So the Ashtray Navigations LP I'm not reviewing (Monocycle Americain) is one of those fancy yet expensive hyperlimited ones that Qbico like to do and the other is Running on Autokinetic which has got a burger thing on the cover that's making me hungry. This isn't a band I've ever investigated in too much depth but I've always had the impression the fella did noiser stuff than the lengthy first tune on here, its blissed-out beauty totally reminded me of Vision Creation Newsun by Boredoms but with the intensity toned down until all that remains is a lazily relaxing groove with soundy light flying everywhere like someone's shoved a disco ball inside a prism. A couple of far harsher tracks which back up my preconceptions follow before we all get our snakes charmed by the Middle Eastern tooting of the final effort which happily marries his noise and psychedelic sides, settling them down in a little cottage next to the Nile so we can all watch as they raise a little family of pyramid-building alienfolk. Well good.

rec. in Leeds, June 2007

originally released as a CD-R, 100 copies only

side A
St.Rooster's lament
Feedback is

side B
Hiss lizard revisited
Fucking the hole in the money

"classic Ashtray Navigations, two hallucino-kinetic tracks each side"

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