Ashtray Navigations

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

A new offering from Phil Todd, the one man noise machine that is Ashtray Navigations. This 4 track EP has a minimal front sleeve and a nice colour collage on the back. Each track has textural differences that sit really well with each other. 'Sea 2' was recorded back in the glorious year of 1996 and was released in 1997 under the name of As Inivomous in a edition of 7 copies... but now its back!! Under the feed back soundscapes lies a rather haunting quality which is prevalent in most Ashtray Navigations records, and noisemanship (?) that is second to none. This EP is out on the Revival label and is limited to 100 copies. I would say that track 4 is the stand out track, ambient noise with a bossa nova rythym track..ace! All in all another great offering from Ashtray Navigations...a brooding little recording.

Reissue of a 1997 CDR on the Ignivomous label, originally limited to only 7 copies. Dug this out and spun it recently and it sounded good so here is a second edition (on the Revival label, naturally). Some have said that this early-ish Ashtray side is highly reminiscent of what young folks with looper pedals are doing these days, except that looper pedals didn't exist in those days. Or I couldn't afford them. Swirling waves of compressed analogue muck with an eye to "structure".

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