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ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - To your fucking feather'd wings

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Absurd # 42 / Gold Soundz gs#21 Release Year: 2004 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Das britische low-fi / drone / improvisations-Projekt von PHIL TODD, sehr „neuseeländisch“ klingt das und rauh-atmosphärisch, wenn sich konkretere Klänge allmählich in einem low-fi & feedback-Nebel auflösen. Sehr schön das lange dritte Titelstück .... “Although it's not a daily question for me, I must admit I sometimes to wonder about some people. People whose work I strongely admire but that somehow seem to disappear. Where are they hiding? One such person is Phil Todd, aka Ashtray Navigations. A few years ago he had a stream of releases, mostly on CDR or very limited vinyl, but I don't recall seeing something new from him. So you can't believe how delighted I was to see this new sign of life, a real CD under the banner 'To Your Fucking Feather'd Wings' - and I wasn't the only since two labels are responsible for this release. Maybe I missed a couple in the recent years? In case, Ashtray Navigations play lo-fi guitar noise, recorded on probably the shittest means around. All in good order to get that signature Ashtray Navigations recording sound. I imagine Phill Todd in his garage, with his guitar and maybe two effect pedals, a fuzzy amp, a cheap microphone and an old reel to reel tape-recorder, playing the guitar with fingers, brushes, toys or pieces of scrap metal. Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic fool. There are three tracks here, the first two are quite short, but the title piece is some forty-five minute epos of guitar scraping. Noisy but minimal, sort of like a solo garage version of the 'Theatre Of Eternal Music'. In these long pieces, Ashtray Navigations are at their best. Lengthy psychedelic lofi guitar improv noise. Quite a mouthful, but worth every penny. Welcome back.” [FdW / Vital Weekly}