Ashtray Navigations - Sgt Peppers Mystery Four Twenty Hex Aurora Toilet

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 15 Oct, 2009.

That Phil Todd Ashtray Navigations chappie has a new CD out this week called 'Sgt Peppers Mystery Four Twenty Hex Aurora Toilet'. Yeah I know....The music on the album is all analogue with all acoustic instruments aside from from a vintage synth. So you get harmonicas, drones and wooshes and some skittery wavey noises which are making me feel a bit gippish. Skittery noises aside I'm quite enjoying this (the droney synth bits are very Italian horror...) though I'm not sure where the whole Beatles thing comes into it. I think it could all be possibly based around the last 30 seconds of strawberry Fields but I'm sure I've got that wrong. It's not massively easy to tell and to be honest the majority of folks reading who want this probably won't even care. I could just be writing rabbit rabbit rabbit a lot of times until I start to sprout long fluffy ears and sharp pointy teeth. Bits are psychedelic, other bits are more industrial sounding,some drone, some Italian horror as I said earlier.. there's literally something for everyone here. 100 copies on CDr only.

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With a title like that, all our chances of being taken seriously by the world's most respected sound art publications are blown, but never mind... This new CDR is intended to be the inverse, the reverse and converse of the recent "Johnny Fuckoff" side - this time we are all-analogue, all acoustic instruments besides a 1979 vintage rare Technics analogue synth, very non-rock. A lethal overdose of harmonicas and juddering sound waves. The last 30 seconds of "Strawberry Fields" on a filthy old cassette recorder being swung around your head a million times backwards. Our own Rock Band game console is very much not in the works. Hope you can dig it.

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