Greatest Imaginary Hits, by Ashtray Navigations

Greatest Imaginary Hits

by Ashtray Navigations

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Todd Wakefield Basically tripping balls until your nipples spin off your body and fly into outer space-

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Gatefold Vinyl LP with 4 CDs and download slip. Includes pithy liner notes from Matt Valentine, Henry Rollins, Jon Dale, and more.

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1.	Reg Presley Singing 10:30	buy track
2.	Mystery Beatbox 05:07	buy track
3.	What Next? 05:08	buy track
4.	Mushfinger Cadaver 06:11	buy track
5.	The Ultimate Mechanical Abrasion 06:13	buy track
6.	Comic Lever 05:35	buy track
7.	Irons 00:25	buy track
8.	You'd Look Good As A 5 Pound Note 11:49	buy track
9.	Deflection Music for Warheads 03:25	buy track
10.	There is a Ditch and There is a Pit 08:06	buy track
11.	Laminated Flower Like a Hardon 02:44	buy track
12.	Cinderella Stamps Outside Air 09:58	buy track
13.	Bottletrade Blues 11:08	buy track
14.	Just Another Waste of Sayonara 02:32	buy track
15.	Insect Descent Trajectory 12:01	buy track
16.	The Final Hit 11:22	buy track
17.	Sleeping Womb 01:58	buy track
18.	Tapwater Locomotive Pt. 3 08:28	buy track
19.	Incorporation Pop 06:55	buy track
20.	Licking Plastic Trees 06:03	buy track
21.	Bitter Lemon Licks 03:16	buy track
22.	Two Chimes for Tuesday 06:54	buy track
23.	Chalk Rock 05:20	buy track
24.	The Creamwheel Pt. 5 03:46	buy track
25.	One Year Medicine Head 04:29	buy track
26.	Whistling Tube 03:57	buy track
27.	Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue 06:26	buy track
28.	Bomb as a Foldout 04:07	buy track
29.	The Magic Legard 06:48	buy track
30.	Black Rabbit 04:38	buy track
31.	Swinging Knives 05:14	buy track
32.	History of Psychedelia 03:00	buy track
33.	Sanity Bubble 00:39	buy track
34.	The Awful Backlash 08:45	buy track
35.	Thursday 01:04	buy track
36.	Deader Neptune Thunder Creating West B 09:39	buy track
37.	Blues for Black Afternoon Pt. 2 06:29	buy track
38.	A Slot in the Bear's Head 02:07	buy track
39.	Loud Canary Tea 10:34	buy track
40.	Put His Head in the Toilet 09:14	buy track
41.	Who's Been Rocking My Dreamboat Pt. 2 06:25	buy track
42.	Manifesto 10:18	buy track
43.	Sponge 05:18	buy track
44.	Drain'd 05:22	buy track
45.	Insanity Bubble 00:33	buy track
46.	Detox Mr. Mustard 04:31	buy track
47.	Veins Beneath the Soil 05:48	buy track
48.	Trashcan Antidote #1 19:27	buy track
49.	Words from a Whispering Dragon Puppet 01:10	buy track
50.	Trashcan Antidote #2 20:59	buy track
51.	Canaryland 02:52	buy track
52.	Trashcan Antidote #3 24:52	buy track

about

27th Anniversary set for the multi-dimensional UK crew, led by Phil Todd and Melanie O'Dubhslaine. Nearly 6 hours of cosmic, psychedelic, mind-boggling sounds, featuring a newly recorded LP plus 4 max-length CDs curated by AshNav connoisseurs Rob Hayler, Henry Rollins, Pete Coward, and Neil Campbell. The CD's are drawn from AshNav's massive back catalog of mostly small run/private releases, covering activity dating back to 1994. Mining a deep well of thousand-yard stare psychedelia, Ashtray Navigations possess of one of the most exciting outre’ music catalogs of the contemporary era, matching the classics from any era in originality and straight-up bonkers fun. This epic release includes a full range of hypnotic jams, including sequencer-led cosmic workouts, drifty ambience, and a heavy dose of Phil Todd’s ripping, laser guitar leads. The gatefold LP also includes pithy liner notes from Matt Valentine, Henry Rollins, Jon Dale, and more.

“Enter the world of Ashtray Navigations, and things flip over and out pretty quickly. A languorous swoon for tabla and guitar swiftly jolts, by way of a brutish edit, into overamped squall; electronics pile up like rubble around crashing, descending sheets of copper; the four-track leaks bongwater and brown muck, while ferric oxide, chrome dioxide and cobalt fight a losing battle. An echoplex sweats it out in the corner of the room as Todd tears unruly tattoos from a dosed guitar, the amp huffing and heaving in protest. I still can't quite figure out exactly how Todd does what he does, and while I'm aware of some of the reference points, there's both magic and graft in the way he's piecing it all together. But you know what? I'm pretty sure Fritz Pfleumer never had this in mind.” - Jon Dale

"Phil. Well I am glad you're finally back from your place in Monaco and getting to work. The pictures of you with the polo mallet and the horses you sent were impressive, sure but when you sell yourself as an artist type and then are seen cavorting with those over tanned Euro trustfunders, it is alienating to your audience. You are, however, the only person I have ever met who has actually cavorted and that's why you will always be a mid-level god to me" - Henry Rollins

credits

released May 27, 2020

Tracks 1-6 - LP Performed by PHIL TODD & MELANIE O'DUBHSLAINE.
Expertly Recorded by DOMINIC CLARE at Declared Sounds Aug 2019
Some Overdubs and all Underdubs Taped at Ashtray HQ

Tracks 7-17 - ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS IMAGINED BY ROB HAYLER. performed by PHIL TODD with CHLOE JARVIS guitar (9) DUNCAN TULLOCH effects (10) CLARE LOUGHRAN piano (10) ANDY JARVIS field recording (10) MELANIE O'DUBHSLAINE synth (12)

Tracks 18-32 - ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS IMAGINED BY HENRY ROLLINS. performed by PHIL TODD with PHIL LEGARD flute and electronics (29) MELANIE O'DUBHSLAINE electronics (29) BEN REYNOLDS & ANDY JARVIS guitars (32)

Tracks 33-45 - ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS IMAGINED BY PETE COWARD. performed by PHIL TODD with PHIL LEGARD guitar, flute, and electronics (39) MELANIE O'DUBHSLAINE evolver (44)

Tracks 46-52 - ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS IMAGINED BY NEIL CAMPBELL. performend by PHIL TODD with MELANIE O'DUBHSLAINE synth, clarinet and electronics (48, 50, 52)
HILARY INSALL cello (50) ALEX NEILSON drums (50) PHIL LEGARD electronics (50)

Thanks to Bill Kellum, Neil Campbell, Rob Hayler, Jon Dale, Henry Rollins, Pete Coward, MV and eternally Melanie O'Dubhslaine for assistance with this here tombstone. Artwork by Phil Todd mostly.
Dedicated to all who have played in, played with, listened to, loved and loathed Ashtray Navigations over the last 200 years or whatever it was.

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