30/06/05
I'll be away for a few weeks - so if you want to order anything,
take a look at Boa
Melody Bar first, or be prepared to wait! :o) Also, straight
from the desk of Memoirs of an Aesthete:
MEMOIRS OF AN AESTHETE summer muckbasket '05
We're back up and running after a horrible couple of months
(family catastrophes, cashflow hassle, technical hitchery
et al), here's the new hot selection. All of these are diamonds,
no lie. Anyway.
THE DIRECTING HAND - LOVE WILL WASTE MY BODY
(CDR)
The first "solo" CD by Mr.Alex Neilson of Glasgow,
who has been getting his name in the papers a bit for his
collaboration work with RICHARD YOUNGS, ALASTAIR ROBERTS,
JANDEK, VIBRACATHEDRAL, ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS, MIRROR and a
whole floorshow of others, plus his superb band SCATTER. The
first DIRECTING HAND shows him to be no mere sideman (scoff
that idea out of the window NOW), with four long sound assemblages
which blend free jazz, psych noise and the alluring drone
of Scottish traditional music. Features Ben Reynolds, Phil
Todd (ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS), Chris Hladowski (SCATTER), Luke
Younger (BIRDS OF DELAY) and others whose names are illegible
(you'll see). Very "there". Don't miss this one.
Five English pounds
XENIS EMPUTAE TRAVELLING BAND - THE PYROGNOMIC
GLASS (CDR)
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.
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - WHO'S BEEN ROCKING
MY DREAM-BOAT? (CDR)
For the special surprise and delight of those poor neglected
souls who think Ashtray was "better in ye olde days"
(yeah, these people do seem to exist.give them a ha'penny)
we present a digital relaunch ing of this ramshackle vessel
from '96. Two pieces for electronics from a cassette release
on Italy's Less Than Zero label. Also includes a violin and
synth track revived from a split cassette (with Japan's SUKORA)
which Betley pooped out the same distant year. So you get
76 minutes worth, kids. Ashtray at its most minimal, akin
to the sound you hear just before you fall asleep face down
under a canal bridge (don't try this at home - the CDR is
safer). And you can wake up to a whole sugarfresh morning
with the new 3inch CDR
listed below. Five English pounds also.
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - AURORA GREASE SWEETROCKET
(3" CDR)
Latest basement clacker from The Nav. Blown tape levels, idiot
rock n roll (with moron mantra drumming) and the shimmering
of a sexy mile-long windchime in space. It's a bit like smearing
sugar all round the inside of your mouth and going into the
park to hand out fireworks. And its not even Xmas yet! Holy
fuck. Four English pounds.
BEN REYNOLDS - MORE TONGUE MEDITATIONS (3"
CDR)
Like "Rocket Fuel" coffee (anyone remember that
stuff?), this is exactly what it says on the packet. A sequel
to the prolific Mr R's previous Memoirs volume "Great
Tongue Meditations". Dream tones, psychedelic wavering
and the haunting voices of the Stoke On Trent power grid will
keep you smiling through this half of the cake. Will he make
us a Tongue Trilogy? Time will tell. This will sure be sufficient
for now. Four English pounds.
Still available:
001: BEN REYNOLDS & ANDY JARVIS (CDR)
5.00 gbp
twin acoustic guitar open tuning meltdown from Andy (SCULPTRESS,
ANNA
PLANET, A WARM PALINDROME) and Ben (THE WOW) like basho playing
free jazz in the mirror.
003: VINCE EARL & THE VALIANTS songs
the neighbours tortoise (3" CDR) 4.00 gbp
Stewart Treize nee Walden (A BAND etc) and Phil Todd tackle
the works of
Fleetwood Mac and make lovin' fun enough to send Jeremy Spencer
scuttling
back to the Children Of God.
009 : ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - SOME CAT LOST
IN HIS OWN PICTURE 7"
six interweaving tracks recorded leeds easter 2004. dictophone
cut-up while
catsitting, tabla volley, junkyard folk, bare wall howl and
fast musical
chairs with the legs falling off. ideal for any witches jukebox,
provided it
runs at 33. ten years of ashtray navigating spawns a lost
kitty instead of a
monster. you may have been king of the jungle back in africa,
but in this
circus you're just another bozo. edition of 170 copies. four
english pounds
and fifty english pence plus postage.
012: BEN REYNOLDS - GREAT TONGUE MEDITATIONS
(3 inch CDR) 4 english pounds
New 19 minute scorcher from this hotly-tipped young guitarslinger
from York,
a recent Ashtray collaborator with releases on First Person
and Foxy
Digitalis. Best known for his open-tuned acoustic cobweb weaving,
but here
Mr. Reynolds concentrates mainly on an inspired ringing out
of the imaginary
electric overhead cables which connect the boroughs of Stoke-On-Trent
and
Yorkshire. Edition of 100.
The other Memoirs will be back in stock eventually,
when we've coped with
this lot and replenished some supplies
Postage :
UK : postage included in above prices
Europe : 1 gbp first item, 50p each after
Rest of world: 2 gbp first item, 1 gbp each after
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