: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Ashtray Navigations & Anla Courtis : Album.......: Protozoic Rock Express : : Label.......: Public Eyesore Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Noise : Catnr.......: PE144 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2021-07-21 Str.date....: 2019-07-09 Quality.....: 300kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.publiceyesore.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Part I 10:47 2. Part II 11:44 3. Part III 21:53 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 44:24 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 99.72 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: While most musicians measure time with beats, for the duo of :, : Phil Toddùknown as the main force behind the prolific Ashtray : :' Navigationsùand Anla Courtis (known as a member of Reynols), ': ,: their complicated, collaborative drones have their own subtle :, : rhythms that slowly form crests and dips; itÆs more like the : :' breathing patterns of whales instead of the hummingbirdÆs ': ,: heartbeat of, say, pop music. The new album Protozoic Rock :, : Express was compiled from recordings made between 2004 and 2010 : :' in Leeds (U.K.) and Buenos Aires, Argentina, which are the ': ,: respective homes of Ashtray Navigations and Courtis. The gentle :, : unraveling and slow reveals provide a soundtrack for strange : :' meditations and also aural Rorschach inkblot test mind-movies; ': ,: armchair psychologists doing self-analysis can likely amuse :, : themselves by trying to understand why these sounds inspire the : :' personal, fabricated visions that they do. For example, the ': ,: 22-minute ôPart IIIö uses tones that resemble the rising and :, : falling pitches of disaster sirens, like those that provide : :' warnings for tsunamis and tornadoes. Interestingly, when these ': ,: tones are overlaid, they create tension, but thereÆs enough :, : space to zoom in on individual tones, which have their own odd : :' tranquility to them. Atop the drones are some lightly popping ': ,: soundsùexploding transformers, miles away?ùdistorted guitars, :, : ominous rumbling and synthetic non-human yells that evolve into : :' screams. Just a few peaks emerge within the long piece, like ': ,: when the tone pitches climb to their highest notes (an old :, : musical trick for representing an emotional peak) or when there : :' are quicker variations in tones. On ôPart Iö, thereÆs a blurry ': ,: sound-fog, made with drones or vibrating pieces of metal, with a :, : few sharp details that sparkleùtinny tinkles, squeaks or shakes : :' of hand-held percussionùlike potentially salvageable shards, ': ,: temporarily illuminated in a giant landfill trash heap being :, : manipulated by bulldozers. ôPart IIö could be a bizarro universe : :' raga, with what sounds like harmonium drones along with string ': ,: and oscillator drones, with a slow envelope effect being just :, : one driver for its atypical cycles. Things happen on both a : :' micro and macro level, and regarding the albumÆs immersive ': ,: experience and potential psychological mirror, your results may :, : and should vary wildly : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 1 \/