Ashtray Navigations

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Icing Sugar Ceiling Rain 03:04 Tools
Mysterious Starling Island 02:45 Tools
Mysterious Starling Music 04:41 Tools
Teeth of the Rat 02:33 Tools
Mysterious Starling Museum Music 05:40 Tools
The Soul of Man Under Socialism 11:18 Tools
Psychedelic Psamosa 15:20 Tools
Darwin's Seal, Animal Tracks and Bones 10:01 Tools
Sho Shin Sky Poem 09:52 Tools
Swastika'd Angels Will See to Your Ruination 14:39 Tools
(Another) Hour of the Grubber 14:39 Tools
Bellow Organs Spine 03:00 Tools
A Crimson Coin 03:00 Tools
Hey Sunflower Motherfucker 09:00 Tools
Spray Two 13:41 Tools
history of psychedelia 03:00 Tools
She's Like Black Glass On a Pinball Table, Threatening the Love That Whirrs 12:19 Tools
a skeleton wearing boots 04:42 Tools
wolves cone muzzle 03:53 Tools
The Pete Nolan Effect 03:51 Tools
Dead X-Mas on Earth 05:04 Tools
lick due north 03:58 Tools
Untitled 02:18 Tools
And The Profit And The Loss 20:30 Tools
Singing Along With the Drone 05:46 Tools
alex and ben communitas 25:58 Tools
Ourobouros Carved Flute 04:06 Tools
menthal 05:15 Tools
Cassette Redemption 03:37 Tools
Smoke & Mirrors Fucking Shit 00:00 Tools
With Fine Clinking Magnets 17:50 Tools
Cold Lemon Door & Side Table 00:00 Tools
Mushfinger Cadaver 06:52 Tools
mailshot slot 02:10 Tools
Expanded Blues for Martin Denny 07:05 Tools
fried stars 03:11 Tools
Discoversion Of America 00:00 Tools
Phaser Like A Block Of Salt 21:51 Tools
ray-o blues power! 01:50 Tools
Miss Goldenrod 1977 08:08 Tools
What the Lice Decide 01:59 Tools
august falls 03:25 Tools
Infinite Robot Porno 03:04 Tools
Arrow Thru the Boogie 01:29 Tools
there is a ditch and there is a pit 08:06 Tools
Throw Up in the Sky 17:59 Tools
The Thickening Whist 02:38 Tools
Smokeballoon Cloud Circle 03:36 Tools
We Moved All The Plates To The Middle Of The Room 00:00 Tools
Easter sunday 06:28 Tools
gnomeleft 04:43 Tools
Point Thine Ears 00:00 Tools
chalk rock 05:21 Tools
The Slow Spectral Progress Of The Soap Bubble 03:14 Tools
peories 14:41 Tools
the slither season 19:24 Tools
Lord Motor 05:32 Tools
Grasshopper To Borderline 10:04 Tools
Birds That Have Shit in the Trees 07:48 Tools
a volumn 04:30 Tools
Good Fight Over a Woman 00:00 Tools
Lazy Boredom 06:44 Tools
The Mirror Disco Replica 05:32 Tools
loud canary tea 10:35 Tools
Jungle Sam Katzmann 01:50 Tools
Just Another Waste of Sayonara 00:00 Tools
haight-ashbury legal 22:27 Tools
granite phalli 07:16 Tools
"Nazi Bomb" Fireworks 11:59 Tools
Prescription sunglasses 08:08 Tools
how can i hand you a diamond? 19:41 Tools
Window Kiss 06:04 Tools
skylark in a cake 14:53 Tools
Anonyms 04:50 Tools
like 12 xmas dinners stacked on top of each other 04:54 Tools
the compliant 03:23 Tools
greased whistle 11:48 Tools
An Older Lover, The River 19:11 Tools
Manufactured (Rainbank Holiday) 03:36 Tools
Diamond Fin Shark His Home Is the Ocean 00:00 Tools
to your fucking feather'd wings 46:17 Tools
Quite Village 03:11 Tools
Seventies Concorde Proboscis 02:11 Tools
you'd look good as a 5 pound note 11:50 Tools
the sweet salamander 06:56 Tools
The Mirror Image Ran Away 04:16 Tools
Fog Bottle Morning 02:11 Tools
the final hit 11:22 Tools
chalk rock (t.v. version) 05:13 Tools
Free Air 04:43 Tools
Reel 19:07 Tools
UASP 05:32 Tools
rock hair exotic 19:49 Tools
Black Rabbit 04:38 Tools
Crawling to Zero 07:27 Tools
Old Treasure Bucket 04:46 Tools
A Dustprint 03:11 Tools
Bethesda During the Rain 01:24 Tools
Solo - Circle - Flower Asha 02:23 Tools
Insideoutside the Dream 05:12 Tools
Cointelpro Electrique 05:23 Tools
Jeremelu 03:12 Tools
Shiptalk 04:37 Tools
Progressif Glamortune 04:53 Tools
First Kiss Amateur Theme 04:36 Tools
New Paint For Antisilence 07:27 Tools
Bethesda Before the Rain 01:51 Tools
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue 06:27 Tools
Bethesda After the Rain 07:00 Tools
The Banian Tree 20:30 Tools
Croak Song 12:24 Tools
Drown Some Sorrow 02:11 Tools
untitled 1 02:18 Tools
Solo / Point 03:14 Tools
Yellow Lights And White Lights At Twilight Electricity St. 03:03 Tools
The 6 a.m. Grit Wagon 02:55 Tools
Beechwood Piss Crescendo 04:22 Tools
Theme from Tristes Tropiques 03:11 Tools
Before and After the Machine 05:06 Tools
Mind Trophy 08:28 Tools
untitled 2 08:28 Tools
plastic sky 04:03 Tools
Side A 09:25 Tools
plastic air 06:10 Tools
plastic sea 06:31 Tools
Inside Your Mouth the Elephant's Trunk 10:09 Tools
<... It Sure Is> 08:23 Tools
Tin And String 03:52 Tools
Eagle Crash 04:16 Tools
Marxfactor 10:09 Tools
Caeduceus 15:57 Tools
Sleeping Womb 01:50 Tools
Side B 09:34 Tools
Veins Beneath The Soil 05:48 Tools
Day of Thor 10:07 Tools
Manifesto 10:18 Tools
The Winking Halogen/Devil/Lazy Screens/Bunnys with bullets in their mouths 13:26 Tools
Soft Sculpture Mountain Machine 13:26 Tools
Snorting Money 03:34 Tools
Just The Regular Kinda Sea Please 08:06 Tools
And Pianos Have Teeth 22:19 Tools
Black Sal 12:00 Tools
untitled 01 41:28 Tools
Vacant, Engaged & Misfit 07:15 Tools
Brick Boutique 13:41 Tools
The Whirlpool What Was 10:07 Tools
Why Jimi Never Did a Commercial 09:18 Tools
Afternoon of a Yorkshire fawn 09:18 Tools
Hell-o-phoon 15:48 Tools
The Car Ears 15:32 Tools
untitled 3 09:24 Tools
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? 09:17 Tools
Live at Tehuacan Fest. (side A 07:32 Tools
<Rail Between> 18:04 Tools
Stranded In the Tea 15:32 Tools
#2 02:44 Tools
Cadava Don'twakeme 01:29 Tools
Wren Became A Wimpy Bar 09:46 Tools
#1 05:53 Tools
two chimes for tuesday 06:54 Tools
Sotto Voce Krispy Oto 06:28 Tools
Side B Moringtown Spasm/My Year Beats Your Week 07:15 Tools
Ayr 01:45 Tools
#3 03:47 Tools
Synopsis of Space 15:26 Tools
egg carton street 00:35 Tools
The Magic Legard 06:48 Tools
Cobra 02:13 Tools
Las Piquetas de los Gallos Cavan Buscado la Aurora 11:36 Tools
Mist Picture Visuals 13:53 Tools
Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes 48:41 Tools
Liquid Robot Love 29:31 Tools
Standing In the Sea 15:48 Tools
The Devil's Cracked Toes 19:41 Tools
Let Her Sing Dirges to Her Dead God 02:13 Tools
tiny victories 07:18 Tools
Cock & Balls on the Face of America 39:03 Tools
Maypole Engine Over 11:13 Tools
Live at Tehuacan Fest. (side B 07:39 Tools
untitled 02 09:00 Tools
a four foot banana 02:11 Tools
#4 06:24 Tools
Live at Whrb Radio, Cambridge, 12:16 Tools
Untitled 03 03:51 Tools
Comic Lever 22:33 Tools
Photographing The Waterfall 01:29 Tools
Bound Her Feet Like Magic Snakes 05:59 Tools
pond life brick 01:39 Tools
Slow Batteries for Birthday Amps 13:34 Tools
Snakestrings 40:10 Tools
#5 04:05 Tools
#6 13:53 Tools
Blues for Black Afternoon 14:44 Tools
The Ashtray Navigator 01:29 Tools
Laminated Flower Like Broken Hardon 02:44 Tools
The Salome She Always Threatened To Turn Into 01:58 Tools
might as well join the fucking circus 01:03 Tools
The Reclusive Season 06:36 Tools
Put His Head in the Toilet 09:14 Tools
Tuba Isn't Funny (Bathroom Return) 14:44 Tools
Low Down Witchin' 07:01 Tools
Railroad Poet 24:58 Tools
Electricity St. Wings Wetted Vertically 02:25 Tools
One Year Medicine Head 04:29 Tools
Rubber Jelly Ugly Mask 03:26 Tools
Toothbrush Loving Touch 15:01 Tools
Swallow The Newt 01:43 Tools
st. rooster's lament 18:27 Tools
Licking Plastic Trees 06:03 Tools
cheap calibration xpress 10:52 Tools
untitled 04 19:41 Tools
More The Mania 03:16 Tools
feedback is 04:38 Tools
With Rocks In The Necropolis 04:38 Tools
Essence Of Phantasma 14:54 Tools
26th december 1996 22:33 Tools
Aborted In The Crimson Flood 06:56 Tools
hollywood taught you to kiss 44:23 Tools
Sugar Head Music With Sines 58:30 Tools
Djibril Diop M One 05:23 Tools
24 hour wallpaper "longhaired Drag" 01:54 Tools
hiss lizard revisited 04:02 Tools
fucking the hole in the money 15:20 Tools
Royal Yorkshire Ultrasonic 04:58 Tools
September Directory 03:04 Tools
Transfer 23 08:11 Tools
a slot in the bear's head 02:07 Tools
Bitter Lemon Licks 03:16 Tools
Ipod Catastrophe 07:44 Tools
Evil Ashtray Ponies 05:23 Tools
Swinging Knives 05:14 Tools
My Night With Jaws 02:15 Tools
Cobridge Red Church 00:57 Tools
Harmonica Head 16:21 Tools
Trashin' Hoops 07:17 Tools
Serious Telephone Music 04:46 Tools
In The Catacombs 07:00 Tools
My Year Beats Your Week 07:23 Tools
<...Rail Between> 18:04 Tools
Held To 15:37 Tools
Cracking 14:54 Tools
Dirty Bottles Filling Up (With Blues Electric) 22:26 Tools
Another Hour of the Grubber 22:26 Tools
Lark Tries Ice 01:44 Tools
Wirecutters In The Sand 04:47 Tools
Tail 01:01 Tools
Sigil 6 17:53 Tools
26th february 1997 23:03 Tools
Flute Fell Forever 15:37 Tools
Mantica Horn 02:23 Tools
^ 01:47 Tools
theres no film just a whole in the ground 02:10 Tools
The Awful Backlash 08:45 Tools
Ride a White Swan 07:00 Tools
the less I see myself, the better 07:00 Tools
before and after "emotional rescue" 00:00 Tools
baby your fresh as a whistle 06:58 Tools
The Trauma Of Bad Haircut 02:23 Tools
Train 1 01:03 Tools
Rushes 02:14 Tools
Charity Punks 05:39 Tools
Dedicated to the Sensory Armada 15:00 Tools
Psychedelic Emaciator II 03:04 Tools
The David Lochary Story 26:01 Tools
Insect Descent Trajectory 12:01 Tools
Kirkstall isle-of-plenty 03:26 Tools
The Silent Sinking Of The Seagull 04:28 Tools
Joke in the Nose 02:04 Tools
Bubba O'Meiser 05:39 Tools
Guile and Volition 01:48 Tools
worus from a whispering dragon puppet..."Baby please don't stay" 01:20 Tools
Afterblurring Scramble 01:48 Tools
Centre Of It (Distortion Dub) 24:37 Tools
Lark Crying 04:11 Tools
Morningtown Spasm 01:41 Tools
Orange Glowing Stone 06:57 Tools
Sponge 05:18 Tools
Orange Matter Custard 08:41 Tools
Croak Clay Frog 02:06 Tools
The Trail Of The Long Wet Mystery Fruit That Dropped Into The Lion's Mouth 01:56 Tools
The Encoded Language Of Television 04:11 Tools
Stick Brial 02:26 Tools
This Day In This Nose 09:36 Tools
Call For Teleportation Device 04:49 Tools
Monocycle Americain 04:11 Tools
Drain'd 46:20 Tools
Chased By A Cow's Skeleton 15:18 Tools
Mirror as a Layer 02:00 Tools
Dom.S.H. 14:10 Tools
Have You Made New York Dirtier Today? 32:13 Tools
Cosmetic Bed 02:13 Tools
Whistling Tube 03:58 Tools
Sleepship 01:48 Tools
Fleetwoodmac Shoes 01:48 Tools
Slow Cagey Dream 01:47 Tools
Portions 08:08 Tools
My Night In An Anarchist Bordello 20:02 Tools
Tooth Theories 16:12 Tools
The Ubiquitous Nint 13:41 Tools
7 Veils (Drum Dub) 14:28 Tools
Erased By Ornithology 06:19 Tools
Secretaries Of The Future 06:03 Tools
Incorporation Pop 06:55 Tools
Why Did The Bourgoisie Stop Wearing Hats 07:16 Tools
No Hardons in Heaven 02:14 Tools
Nascent Boutique 51:28 Tools
Visor 51:28 Tools
Spray 20:02 Tools
Bloodclots Have Passed 06:58 Tools
Nihilistic Surfboard 01:56 Tools
garagefound 03:29 Tools
untitled 4 19:41 Tools
Toilet Training 43:27 Tools
Hex Aurora Harmonikashow 03:17 Tools
Faxing 04:28 Tools
C C Cyanaida 04:21 Tools
Gel Diver 04:21 Tools
Centre Of It 13:41 Tools
Old Robots Are Advancing Towards the Cascade 03:02 Tools
Ourobourds Carved Flute 15:18 Tools
The Flower Seller's Daughter Turned to Liquid in the Spring 04:42 Tools
old bridge hands 00:58 Tools
Djibril Diop M Two 05:54 Tools
Loose Monkey Lips 08:47 Tools
All Bound For Morning 04:06 Tools
Hammering The Boat 31:00 Tools
Tomb Is Over the Arcane Mower 02:42 Tools
The Soul Of Man Under Socialis 11:21 Tools
Ororscope 04:58 Tools
Lord Mötör 04:31 Tools
let her sing dirges to her dead god whom rightminded judges condemned and who suffered his violent and ignominous punishment 02:13 Tools
I Am Bacchus the Delivery Boy 02:27 Tools
deflection music for warheads 03:25 Tools
Blue Route 02:13 Tools
Born In A Bag 02:13 Tools
Blue Corn Of An Evening 03:28 Tools
Biparticular Amplifried 03:28 Tools
National Glass 08:17 Tools
Plastic 59:55 Tools
Loads 08:08 Tools
Raga Mood 1 41:28 Tools
nazi bomb fireworks 11:02 Tools
Direct Input Marx Hobgoblin Llandudno 03:11 Tools
(Lost Under Glue) 08:08 Tools
Side 1 02:42 Tools
Live At WHRB Radio, Cambridge, USA 02:42 Tools
Tradebottle Blues 11:02 Tools
Moonfried Marshmallow Eyesockets Signific Indifference 03:29 Tools
02 - Diamond Fin Shark His Home is the Ocean 03:29 Tools
Moringtown Spasm/My Year Beats Your Week 03:29 Tools
Vain Arrow 43:27 Tools
Sweeping Song 20:09 Tools
Bomb as a Foldout 04:07 Tools
driving a dirty car full of all kinds of junk 05:54 Tools
Sho Shine Sky Poem 02:18 Tools
What Next 02:18 Tools
Why Not / Robot Vices 41:28 Tools
Side 2 03:25 Tools
Raga Mood 2 03:26 Tools
Raga Mood 3 03:46 Tools
Live at Tehuacan Fest. (Side A) 07:32 Tools
Live at Tehuacan Fest. (Side B) 07:39 Tools
B - Phaser Like a Block of Salt 21:52 Tools
C.B. Equals Current Bag 04:25 Tools
Sheen Gun 02:18 Tools
Shakuhachi House 32:13 Tools
Sticking Crannog 32:13 Tools
Note to the Porcelain Ghost 07:23 Tools
Fake Aeroplane 15:03 Tools
I Know it Contains the word "snow" 03:05 Tools
The Pink Margarine Cubes (live at Hebden Bridge Inkfolk 9/08/2015) 05:39 Tools
Sellotape Island 41:28 Tools
Outside Toilet Blues 03:28 Tools
Bang! We Lost It 03:26 Tools
As I Go Rumbling Round 08:08 Tools
Raga Mood 4 08:08 Tools
Blowwing 08:19 Tools
Outside Air 01:31 Tools
Guzzardland 01:31 Tools
Fluctuating Obelisk 01:31 Tools
Leaves Falling Up 07:28 Tools
Untitled 6 13:10 Tools
Untitled 5 03:46 Tools
The Wonderwingz Are Spreading 01:31 Tools
Ventilating Haze 13:10 Tools
Sleep : The Rain Which Turned Itself Off 01:31 Tools
Mere Rock 02:18 Tools
mist lingue 03:28 Tools
Cante Jodido Lookalike Contest 08:08 Tools
And The Shruken Heads Shall Nod In Unison I 05:36 Tools
Theoreticalpond 10:55 Tools
strawberries and ice 21:21 Tools
bottletrade blues 11:08 Tools
Beast Series 14:19 Tools
The Winking Halogen Devil / Lazy Screens / Bunnys With Bullets In Their Mouthes 13:20 Tools
She's Like Black Glass On A Pi 21:21 Tools
Skewered by clouds 36:10 Tools
Nihilistic Surfbored 18:27 Tools
A Cake Full of Pliers 02:13 Tools
Punks Never Look In The Mirror 36:10 Tools
The Everlasting Last 02:18 Tools
Tapwater Locomotive 1 02:18 Tools
The Horse Has Wet Its Neck 02:18 Tools
Horn Progress Affectation 04:31 Tools
Natives Eating Drumstix 04:21 Tools
a cake full of pliere 19:45 Tools
Cassetten-Collage 24:27 Tools
The Soul of a Man under Socialism 05:36 Tools
And The Shruken Heads Shall Nod In Unison III 17:15 Tools
The Silent Sinking of the Sea Org 04:27 Tools
I Lay My False Teeth... 07:15 Tools
And The Shruken Heads Shall Nod In Unison II 05:39 Tools
How Th Throw Things 11:08 Tools
the less I see of myself, the better 13:20 Tools
Darwin's Seal, Animal Tracks A 14:19 Tools
Swastika'd Angels Will See To 14:19 Tools
part one 14:19 Tools
The Spontaneous Heart & The Assassin Mind 14:19 Tools
Drown Some Sorrows 14:19 Tools
Where Fortune Smiles Bewares 01:05 Tools
Tapwater Locomotive 2 08:28 Tools
Water Boiling Stare 08:28 Tools
Lost Nosferatu a/k/a Now You're a Bat 03:27 Tools
26th December 22:23 Tools
Ultifoam 04:06 Tools
Butch Med USA 07:23 Tools
Sanity Bubble 03:27 Tools
My Life In The Bush Of Tories 03:27 Tools
The Mandala With The Sawtooth Head 03:36 Tools
Mist Lingus 03:27 Tools
Music From A Half-Remembered... 09:57 Tools
aim: to get beyond nihilism by revaluing combat 19:45 Tools
Not Sorry 12:26 Tools
01 Tapwater Locomotive side A 19:45 Tools
Insanity Bubble 09:24 Tools
Tapwater Locomotive 3 09:24 Tools
Eyes That Can Boil Water 09:24 Tools
Theme of Abomination Rock 09:24 Tools
one miilion pleasurecards all painted white 02:10 Tools
Bill Stickers & Sons Presrvation... 09:24 Tools
Every Day's a Holiday In England 04:27 Tools
Mayflower Asha 09:24 Tools
Solo/Point 07:15 Tools
perspective boy thursday 10:55 Tools
The Trial Of Dr.Spock 31:14 Tools
Teetotum Moan 07:09 Tools
Locharism 02:10 Tools
psychadelic psamosa 02:10 Tools
-16 13:20 Tools
One Million Pleasurecards All Painted White 02:10 Tools
Fluctuants/Fuhrers Ball 13:20 Tools
Infinite Celing Feeling 14:19 Tools
2 13:20 Tools
fluctuatin obelisk 31:14 Tools
1 11:20 Tools
Metal Roach 07:23 Tools
...and His Adventures In The Enchanted Land Of Cosmicmush 11:20 Tools
Hover Kraft Rok 11:20 Tools
Solo/Circle 11:20 Tools
Monday 02:10 Tools
A Skull Made Of Salt 17:15 Tools
Manufactrd. (Rainbank Holiday) 17:15 Tools
02 Tapwater Locomotive side B 31:14 Tools
Mood 1 02:10 Tools
Mysterious Starling Museum Museum 31:14 Tools
Line Fade 04:06 Tools
Who's Been Rocking My Dream-Boat? Pt. 2 02:10 Tools
3 31:14 Tools
tuning the sawtooth skulls / feedback coda 09:57 Tools
Why Did The Bourgoisie Stop Wearing Hats? 09:57 Tools
The Trauma Of A Bad Haircut 00:00 Tools
There's No Film Just A Hole In The Ground 02:10 Tools
Tuesday 12:26 Tools
A Carbine Is A Beautiful White Bird 12:26 Tools
Manic Gap 12:26 Tools
^16 12:26 Tools
Mood 4 02:10 Tools
The Hog's Head 02:10 Tools
The Ever-Circling Skeletal Kestrel Guitar 02:10 Tools
Mood 3 02:10 Tools
The Winking Halogen Devil / Lazy Screens / Bunnys With Bullets In Thier Mouths 02:10 Tools
Who's Been Rocking My Dream-Boat? Pt. 1 02:10 Tools
Mouth 31:14 Tools
Horn Progress Affection 04:31 Tools
[untitled] 04:31 Tools
Animalinterior 32:07 Tools
Eine Kleine T-Shirt Musik 32:07 Tools
Sansui Rama (Pour l'Esprit du Walkman Rouille) 00:00 Tools
Back to Commieland 18:05 Tools
National Grass 18:05 Tools
4 09:57 Tools
Fuzz Socket 12:26 Tools
3463_21st century blues 12:26 Tools
Friday 12:26 Tools
Thursday 12:26 Tools
Magenta Field 12:26 Tools
Subterranean Head Of An Ostrich 12:26 Tools
Saturday 12:26 Tools
Saturday 12:26 Tools
Meter Breed 12:26 Tools
Solar Majority 12:26 Tools
Cold Dripping Of The Infinite Rock Tap 12:26 Tools
History of Heavy Grease 12:26 Tools
I Know It Contains The Word Snow 12:26 Tools
This Day This Nose 12:26 Tools
Mirror Licking Face 12:26 Tools
A2 - Ourobouros Carved Flute 04:06 Tools
Canaryland (For K. Mizutani)/New Irons 12:26 Tools
How To Throw Things 12:26 Tools
A1 - Dead X-Mas on Earth 05:04 Tools
She's Like Black Glass on a Pinball Table, Threatening the Love ... 05:04 Tools
Part 2 05:04 Tools
The 6am Grit Wagon 05:04 Tools
Ashtray Navigations - Track01 04:06 Tools
Ashtray Navigations - Track03 04:06 Tools
Mood 2 04:06 Tools
Tapwater Locomotive side A 04:06 Tools
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Ashtray Navigations is an English psychedelic noise group centered upon Phil Todd, active since 1991. Colloquially referred to as Ash Nav, the group operate out of Todd's home in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, from which he also ran the record labels Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers and, subsequently Memoirs of an Aesthete. The project has also released music through labels such as Siltbreeze, Jewelled Antler, American Tapes, Menlo Park, E.F. Tapes and Freedom From. Whilst the music evades easy categorisation due to variations in sound, approach and personnel, it often incorporates extended droning and lengthy guitar pieces. James Blackshaw described the Ashtray Navigations sound as "sub-aquatic synth bubble, busted-up cassette-tape hiss and distorted electric guitar hover that sounds like a mythical god banished from the realm of light and trying desperately to clamber his/her way out of a dark bottomless void where time itself stands still". The Wire's David Keenan has described Phil Todd/Ashtray Navigations as "a trashcan antidote to La Monte Young". Reviewing Todd's 36th album, The Love that Whirrs, critic Larry Dolman wrote "It's a pretty mammoth piece of work - almost 80 minutes of music spread out over six heavy tracks. They tend to start as intense sun-blinding drone-fields, but if you hold on tight for a minute or two and adjust yourself to these new conditions, you'll start to notice a wealth of detail, provided by a real band of ringers. Todd has Alex Neilson (Directing Hand, accompanist with some Jandek live performances) on shimmering, fracturing percussion and Ben Reynolds on raga-style guitar and banjo. (Also, one Melanie Delaney appears on one epic track, playing reeds & tapes.) Trash drone, free skiffle, new electric raga, sun blindness music, call it what you will, this is a powerful statement.". Although Todd still records solo, most recent Ashtray Navigations titles and live shows have been undertaken by a duo of Todd and Melanie Crowley or by a trio of Todd, Crowley and one other, often Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band) although the lineup has also been joined at one time or another by Alex Neilson, Bill Kouligas (Family Battle Snake) and Ruaraidh Sanachan (Nackt Insecten) - the latter two can be heard on Backstage Education a limited four-disc document of Ash Nav's 2007 summer tour. Their discography is extensive, with many limited releases on cassette and CDR formats: albums with a wider distribution include Four Raga Moods (which was followed-up several years later by Four More Raga Moods), The Love that Whirrs, To Your Fucking Feather'd Wings, Dirt Mummies & Bloody Amps, You Cannot Tell Cigars.... and Use Copenhagen 69 Guitars and Park Drive Circular Effects Pedals Exclusively. http://www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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