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15 YEARS OF ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS! 1994-2009
new releases from MEMOIRS OF AN AESTHETE june 2009
THREE new, much delayed vinyl LPs (have YOU heard of an international copper shortage?) and, surprise surprise, a CDR from Ashtray Navigations...read on....
XENIS EMPUTAE TRAVELLING BAND - THE PYROGNOMIC GLASS
vinyl LP plus chapbook...limited to 250 copies....£11
The Xenis Emputae Travelling Band is Mr. Phil Legard of the hallowe'ed borough of Yorkshire, England. He has been hard at work since 2001 making psychedelic folk-concrete inspired by the psychogeography and mythology of various secret regions of the British countryside. XETB has released plenty of CDRs and tapes over the years (all limited editions, long sold out etc etc) but, aside from one track on a Cold Spring Records CD, nothing at all in a "posh" format - something we at Memoirs thought we should do something about. We are, after all, classy folks and that.
Mr. Legard is also a writer on various occult and esoteric matters, his most recent publication being a contribution to the new translation of "The Consecrated Little Book Of Black Venus" (Waning Moon Publications). He also has several other music projects, most notably The Neon Death Slittes and Pneumonic Consort. He is also, for his many sins, a frequent collaborator in Ashtray Navigations.
"The Pyrognomic Glass" was originally released by us as a ltd. ed CDR back in 2005. By popular demand it is back, this time on vinyl, and including "Abital - or Conferences with the Genii of Nocturnal and Diurnal Dew in vii Chapters", a beautifully-printed 28 page chapbook by Mr Legard, most profitable to students of Natural Philosophy.
NACKT INSECTEN - A SITE SPECIFIC PIECE OF AVANT-GARDE SOUND ART, NOTHING TO BE WORRIED ABOUT / CORRIDOR VOYAGER (QUANTUM ODYSSEY II)
vinyl 7" & CD...limited to 200 copies....£10
Mr. Ruaradidh Sanachen has been getting a name for himself recently with his one man kosmische metal space ritual project Nackt Insecten, releasing plenty of limited edition "stuff" on a whole bunch of labels. In February 2008, as part of Glasgow's wonderful Instal festival, he was seen cradling a suitcase full of howling drone/noise aboard Glasgow's tube trains, and what a show it was - check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V5nrb6NLlo for a glimpse of the fun.
As Nackt Insecten's relentless sounds meshed in perfectly with the locomotive rumblings, I thought to myself what a fine 7 inch single it would make. And sure enough, over a year later, here it is. An explanation made by a member of the "audience" to a worried fellow traveller provides the title.
This package also contains a CD of new Nackt Insecten studio concoctions, a conceptual sequel to the recent LP on Blackest Rainbow Records. A real CD too, not a CDR! Cover art by Goldenlab's Fliss Horrocks and the inclusion of a genuine Glasgow tube train ticket completes this handsome package.
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - CAEDUCEUS AND BLACK SAL
pink vinyl LP....limited to 250 copies....£9
The latest in Ashtray Navigations' ongoing vinylization of our out-of-print CDR catalogue has this amped-up mindbender from 2007... yes, the one with the cute little doggies on the cover. Except now they're on the label and the vinyl is pink. And there is no cover, just a PVC bag so it matches the Red Culture reissue.
One side featuring a thick dinner of swirling tambouras, electric sitars and synths blasting out of tiny battery amp speakers wrapped in buzzing tinfoil (a description of the methodology here and not just the sound!). One side of clubfooted samba rhythms and twin guitar sustain overload which offers a key as to why Ashtray Navigations' set at Thurston's ATP a few years ago was roundly condemned as "Santana" in certain circles. Ashtray at its heaviest and most monolithic, though those words are often apply, I guess.
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - JOHNNY FUCKOFF MINOTAUR (EASTER EXIT 2)
CD-R....limited to 100 copies.....£5
....and a new one from easter 2009. Believe it or not, these are the first 2009 Ashtray Navigations recordings to be released, so there. And this is quite definitely the last in the "painted clamshells" series of CDRs (this time they are mostly yellow, fact fans).
Sort of a response to a review which described Ash Nav as "obviously Heldon-influenced"...news to me, but I decided to Go For It and prove the reviewer right.
But imagine a bunch of early 70s frenchmen playing all of their psychedelic records, all of their Ocora records and all their prog/fusion at once whilst angry drum machines beamed in against their will from an alternate future blast out very mutated hip-hop beats. Apparently Mr. R.Pinhas was an attendee at a Paris Ash Nav gig and is said to have remarked "I thought they only had pop music in England these days". This release may prove him right also.
This is also the first Ashtray release to be almost all digitally recorded....and you'll be surprised how fucked up it sounds - gawd bless technology for giving us so many options. Our most fun-packed CDR for a while.
postage:
UK: LP - £2.50 (£1 each after)
CD-R/7"&CD - £1 (50p each after)
europe: LP - £4 (£1.50 each after)
CD-R/7"&CD - £2.50 (50p each after)
rest of world: LP - £6 (£1.50 each after)
CD-R/7"&CD - £3 (50p each after)
for any sort of communication including paypal - nospam_ashtraynavigations(at)hotmail.com_
coming next.........
Ashtray Navigations - Insectdescent CD
The Piss Superstition CD
Ashtray Navigations/Kuupuu collab thing
"and in time.......... maybeeeeee others".......
Past releases:
these are nearly gone, email for availablity:
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS / STELLAR OM SOURCE / FAMILY BATTLESNAKE - HOW DO SIAMESE TWINS ARRANGE THEIR LOVE LIVES? (Editions Zero LP) £11.00
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - RED CULTURE LP (MOA LP 2)............ £7
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - TO YOUR FUCKING FEATHER'D WINGS (Gold soundz/Absurd cd) £8.00
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS- SKEWERED BY CLOUDS (memoirs of an aesthete) £5.00
A.N.- THE CREAM WHEEL (no label) £5.00
A.N.- SNAKESTRINGS / HOLLYWOOD TAUGHT YOU TO KISS (no label) £7.00
SURPLS PROVNCL HRBS (no label) £5.00
FOUR RAGA MOODS (revival) £5.00 CDR reissue of the 1st Ashtray CD from 1997. ltd.100
THOSE ARE PEARLS THAT WERE HIS EYES (revival) £5.00
A MONUMENT TO BRITISH ROCK (Smokers Gifts) £30.00
OCELOCELOT - SUPERPOULETMERDE (Smokers Gifts cdr) £5.00
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