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Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: Caeduceus and Black Sal Format: LP Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "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 theyre 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 Thurstons 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. Pink vinyl LP. . . . limited to 250 copies" -Memoirs of an Aesthete |
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Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: Johnny Fuckoff Minotour (Easter Exit 2) Format: CDR Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "....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 youll be surprised how fucked up it sounds - gawd bless technology for giving us so many options. Our most fun-packed CDR for a while. Limited to 100 copies" -Memoirs Of An Aesthete |
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Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: Snakestrings/Hollywood Taught You To Kiss Format: Double CDR Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "double CDR! two tracks each exceeding 40 minutes. Snakestrings (i.e. disc 1) is a trip through strings and soundboxes, Phil Todd plays esraj, kemence, electric sitar and guitars until the electronic instruments rebel and propel the whole thing into psychedelic overdrive. Hollywood Taught You To Kiss (i.e. disc 2) is based around another Todd/Crowley/Legard trio excursion. Dedicated to Sun Ra and Andy Warhol respectively. Limited to 99 numbered copies." -Memoirs of an Aesthete |
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Artist: CHURINGA CANARIES Title: Format: CDR Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Christmas basement blowout with UK underground meta-stars PHIL TODD (ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS)! ... PHIL LEGARD (XENIS EMPUTAE TRAVELLING BAND)! ... TIRATH NIRMALA SINGH! (ex-JOHN CLYDE-EVANS)!... and... ALEX NEILSON (DIRECTING HAND, SCATTER, JANDEK, every other fucking band in the country)!! Vintage analogue muck noise meets free jazz in the Sunny Murray/Ayler tradition, recorded direct to cassette while the irons were hot. Limited to 100 copies on vinyl-look CDR with print gocco screenprints and very nice they look too. Dont miss this one as it wont be reissued." - Memoirs Of An Aesthete. |
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Artist: NACKT INSECTEN Title: A Site Specific Piece of Avant-Garde Sound Art, Nothing To Be Worried About/Corridor Voyager (Quantum Odyssey II) Format: 7"/CD Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "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 Glasgows wonderful Instal festival, he was seen cradling a suitcase full of howling drone/noise aboard Glasgows 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 Insectens 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 Goldenlabs Fliss Horrocks and the inclusion of a genuine Glasgow tube train ticket completes this handsome package. Limited to 200 copies." -Memoirs Of An Aesthete |
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Artist: PUFF-PLAIN Title: The Pyrognomic Glass Format: 3" CDR Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "New astral mystique from Witchfynder Joincey (ex- WAGSTAFF, INCA EYEBALL, COITS, SCULPTRESS et al). Primitive psych-folk clonk and voices treated so heavily they sound like huge sheets of tinfoil cracking. "Research suggests that Puff is the current working nomenclature of Joincey, one of the most unfairly unheralded artists of the English Underground...the greatest visionary-outsider slabs since Jandek...Confusing." - Jon Dale (The Wire). |
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Artist: REYNOLDS, BEN Title: Third Tongue Meditations Format: 3" CDR Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Final wheel on the psychedelic wagon for you. Three tracks of blissful muck. In case you?ve been hiding under the fridge for the last 12 months, Mr. R is a citizen of the Glasgow (nee Stoke On Trent) and has been a recording artist for Time-Lag, 267 Lattajjaa, Ikuisuss, First Person, Foxglove, Pseudoarcana and others and you can see his happy smiling blue face at http://www.benreynolds.tk" |
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Artist: XENIS EMPUTAE TRAVELLING BAND Title: The Pyrognomic Glass Format: CDR Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "There is another longhaired droning Yorkshire citizen named Phil. The Memoirs "search and co-opt" policy ensures that we have to take action. So: this. Mr. Phil Legard has the debonair aura of Marc Bolan-meets-Tony Visconti circa early 68, and his music is similarly patterned after the more disorientating artifacts from the original Age Of Aquarius. Desolate folk plunkings, Krishna-on-a-vacation flute and a real melancholic lost-in-the-forest ayr of mysterie makes this a July winner. One for retiring to your alchemists laboratory-in-the-woods with a few test-tubes full of absinthe to. Do something real decadent like that, anyway. Five English pounds." - Memoirs Of An Aesthete. |
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Artist: XENIS EMPUTAE TRAVELLING BAND Title: The Pyrognomic Glass Format: LP/Booklet Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "The Xenis Emputae Travelling Band is Mr. Phil Legard of the halloweed 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." -Memoirs Of An Aesthete |