Hello...so "Navigare", out now on Miasmah, is all grown up and has finally flown the nest....here are a few reviews about the albums first steps:
http://slowdivemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/simon-scott-navigare.html
Vinyl lovers take note *Different final track on this:
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=233667
another cd review:
http://mapsadaisical.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/simon-scott-navigare-miasmah/

Many thanks to all who have bought my album...it means everything to me!

French review: http://ondefixe.over-blog.com/article-simon-scott-navigare-38150857.html


Aquarius Records review (Highlight of the week!):
http://www.aquariusrecords.org
SCOTT, SIMON Navigare (Miasmah) 
"Ah, Miasmah! After the likes of Elegi, Jacazek, and Kreng, we're pretty much automatically interested in any new release on Norway's Miasmah label. Like this one. Add in some bits of trivia, like that Scott was once the drummer for shoegazers Slowdive, and that this disc features a guest cameo from another Miasmah artist we love, Jasper TX, and we're already pretty intrigued. We also weren't at all surprised, but certainly pleased, by the gentle swells of ambient sonics that seep sleepily from the speakers when one hits play. The first two tracks, "Introduction Of Cambridge" and "Under Crumbling Skies", are blissfully replete with quiet hum and shimmering textures, forming into and out of drifting diaphanous melodies, blurry and melancholic. Some sparse, slowed down drum skitter adds a touch of Bohren to the proceedings in the first track, while the second employs a glorious chorus of angelic drones, that graces one's ears again and again throughout the disc.
Then, suddenly upping the volume, the third track "Flood Inn" seemingly enters into a subterranean realm full of soft fuzzy distortion. Quasi-industrially rhythmic, with a distant tolling bell heard amidst the crackle, this is ambience of the heavier (but not harsh) variety, almost like something from a Nadja or Jesu album.
Having given warning of a more sinister side, the disc continues on, with seven tracks more, being a beautiful blend of dreaminess, drone and distortion. There are almost pop songs hidden here, with buried rhythms and barely-there vocals (in one instance contributed by 12K's Sanae Yamasaki, aka Moskitoo), electronic treatments rendering the sound sources (guitar, sitar, violin, cello, flute, field recordings, voice, ???) all one lush, hushed, beautifully bleary, gorgeous warm bath of song-like drone...
It's a moodier, shoegazier take on Pop Ambient perhaps, certainly something that fans of Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Final, Jasper TX, and of course those other Miasmah wonders should check out"!


Radio Mix for Fluid: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2009/10/simon-scott-exclusive/

So I am still out and about gigging this autumn/winter....UK in November and at Plateaux Festival in Torun, Poland on 19th, a solo show...Rafael Anton Irisarri providing visuals then 20th as The sight below who I play guitar and sometimes sing for. We are on after Lawrence English and before Fennesz and will be playing tracks I co-wrote for the new TSB album.
Berlin on the 4th December at Club Maria looks like fun and I am also in Dortrect near Amsterdam/Rotterdam on Sunday 6th Dec. If I have time I may try to finish a 7" single I am recording with Nils frahm at his Dunton Studio in Berlin. I also have a remix on the new "The Sight Below "Murmur" EP...and will be also releasing a 12" next spring featuring 4 tracks that I wrote immediately after I finished Navigare. It is called "Traba" and is out on Immune recordings who are US based.
I hope to start work on my second album this winter.
Stay warm....see you in the future.