Ashley Reaks shares 13th album “Winter Crawls”
Ashley Reaks – Winter Crawls
‘Winter Crawls’ is the 13th solo album from prolific English musician, collage artist and writer Ashley Reaks. Writing and recording started in 2018 but was repeatedly interrupted and delayed by divorce, relocation, the Covid-19 pandemic and a string of chronic health conditions. ‘Winter Crawls’ is the first of Reaks’ albums to feature the polyrhythmic talents of drummer Rob Hirons, which nudges the material into a more ‘proggy’ sonic soundscape, whilst retaining the genre-hopping influences of previous albums.
Influences include Stranglers, cut and paste, Rip Rig And Panic, bebop, Captain Beefheart, collage, Magazine, post-punk, Yes, Ivor Cutler, religious imagery, The Pop Group, Gee Vaucher, psychedelia, Gabriel-era Genesis, Dada, nature books, Devo, Francis Bacon…
‘Winter Crawls’ is available to stream and buy at ashleyreaks.bandcamp.com
Bio at ashleyreaks.bigcartel.com/music
All links and social media at linktr.ee/ashleyreaks
Ashley Reaks - Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards
Lucy Mizen - Vocals
Nick Dunne - Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, Guitar Solos
Joel Purnell - Saxophones
Rob Hirons - Drums
Dan Mizen - Percussion
Recorded and mixed by Dan Mizen
All words and music written by Ashley Reaks 2023
Cover photograph by Ashley Reaks
‘an incomparable talent and a true original, a man who often borders on genius' - Louder Than War (UK).
'Reaks flaunts the kind of maddening genius usually reserved for Dutch impressionists who puncture their ears' - Penny Black Music (USA)
