NAYLOR - GUITARIST FOR PAUL KELLY, THE CHURCH AND THE ROCKWIZ ORKESTRA, AND SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST WITH BELOVED MELBOURNE BAND EVEN - IS SET TO LAUNCH SOUNDTRACKS VOL 2 WITH HIS NEW BAND SPACESHIP ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17.
SOUNDTRACKS VOLUME 2 IS OUT OCTOBER 20.
FIRST SINGLE "SPACESHIP" IS OUT NOW.
"Many of my favourite moments on stage are when I get to focus solely on the electric guitar" - Ashley Naylor
Ashley Naylor guitarist for Paul Kelly, The Church, the RocKwiz Orkestra and a host of others, and guitarist, songwriter and singer of beloved Melbourne band Even, is breaking out on his own in late 2023 as he enters a new phase focused on instrumental guitar music.
Taking inspiration from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Dicky Betts, Peter Frampton, Eddie Hazel, David Axelrod and more recent artist such as AIR and Spiritualized, Naylor's new music, which will be performed live by his new 4-piece band Spaceship, is featured on his forthcoming instrumental solo album Soundtracks Volume 2, out October 20 on El Reno Music.
Soundtracks Volume 2, which has been preceded by the 8-minute single "Spaceship", will be Naylor's second volume of instrumental guitar music and will be his first solo release since Even's acclaimed 2021 ARIA Top 20 Double album Reverse Light Years. It won't be the first new release of 2023 to feature Naylor's remarkable playing though; most notably he appears throughout The Church's latest album The Hypnogogue, which was his first album with the iconic group he joined in 2020. Naylor also played on Paul Kelly's recently released cover of the Sunnyboys' classic "Alone with You", and also appears on the new ARIA Top 10 album Hey Dawn by up & coming Australian alt-country superstar Fanny Lumsden. He has also helped ready for release a new album Centaurus - out November 3 - by The Ronson Hangup, another long-term project which he fronts alongside former Anyones singer and songwriter Steve Pinkerton.
Naylor, who in 2021 featured on Vika & Linda's #2 ARIA charting album The Wait, and Paul Kelly's #1 ARIA charting Christmas Train and toured with both PK and the sisters nationally, has had a frantically busy year, involving a lot of touring with both Paul Kelly and The Church. The Church in particular has provided Naylor with a momentous time this year: having undertaken a 21 city, six week with the band in March & April, he is currently in the midst of a second US Church tour, taking in 26 cities in 5 weeks. As the release of Soundtracks Volume 2 approaches, he has his sights set on space - inner and outer, wherever his playing will take him - and is getting his instrumental guitar head on. Stay tuned.
ASHLEY NAYLOR'S SOUNDTRACKS VOLUME 2 IS OUT 20 OCTOBER 2023 ON EL RENO MUSIC
Soundtracks Volume 2 and is available for pre-order on the El Reno Music Bandcamp site now.
elrenomusic.bandcamp.com/
Ashley Naylor by Jon Baxter.
