Ashtray Navigations (Boston Debut!)

Thursday, November 5th at 9pm
Spectacle
$8. All ages.

Ashtray Navigations (rare stateside appearance!)
Jason Lescalleet

“Ashtray Navigations are an English psychedelic noise project
centered upon Phil Todd, active since 1991. Sometimes referred to
as “Ash Nav”, the group operate out of Todd’s home in Stoke-on-
Trent, England. While the music evades easy categorization 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 LaMonte Young.’ Reviewing Todd’s 36th album, The Love
that Whirrs, critic Larry Dolman wrote ‘Trash drone, free skiffle,
new electric raga, sun blindness music, call it what you will,
this is a powerful statement.’”

http://www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations