Ashtray Navigations - Cante Jodido Lookalike Contest

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ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS: "Cante Jodido Lookalike Contest"

"The Jodido triangular live sound of Ashtray Navigations (...lamf) caught upstairs in one of Leeds' very most exotic wallpaper dens. The walls dripped honey and yet we did not make too much of a mess. Features Melanie Delaney (Sculptress) and Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band) as well as "the usual".

Very 'eavy, very 'umblin'." (Phil Todd)

This live trio release, under the steadily hazed-out helm of Phil Todd, sees Melanie Delaney and Phil Legard hitch a lift with the Ashtray Navigations brand. In the centre of this twenty-minute rip is a guitar part that is trying to avoid slipping down the cracks of its imposed mutant buckling. A fiery jazz-rock heart glows white hot in a rising hiss of radio abuse, bursts of yellow noise and sounds full of eastern promise from the seventies. Eventually Todd finds a foothold and hoists himself onto his metaphorical cairn, sending out six-string bagpipe vibes through air as thick as space cake. These passages of euphoric storm make it all the more difficult to understand why he chose such a thoroughly unpleasant word as Ashtray for this project. [Scott McKeating]

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