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NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS - Daughter of Darkness

Format: 6 x CD-BOX
Label & Cat.Number: BaDaBing! BING-088
Release Year: 2013
Note: proper releases now available of this 5 x MC Box from 2009, the French cult duo with their great emotional "hand-played" & highly effected low fi drone mantra sound (often with a strong psychedelic / 70's touch), a very hypnotic combination of harmony & noise, full of repetitive loops, waving feedbacks and magic overtunes... "droning guitars, tribal percussion, ritualistic singing and colliding woodwind"; hand-painted box with sticker, inlay, lim. 500
Price (incl. 19% VAT): €36.00
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"Ba Da Bing’s latest reissue of Natural Snow Buildings’ obscure releases draws from their five-cassette epic Daughter of Darkness. The cassette version was limited to 150 copies, and a mind-blowing release like this deserves more widespread availability. Daughter of Darkness came out in early 2009 and delves deep into Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte’s music at its most grandiose. Most tracks breeze past the ten-minute mark, and some don’t slow down as they pass 20 minutes. Along the way, Natural Snow Buildings’ orchestrated soundscapes fully engulf the listener, with their droning guitars, tribal percussion, ritualistic singing and colliding woodwinds. Sit down for a full listen to this release, and one might find one’s self noticeably older when finished, albeit damned wiser. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this six-disc CD box is a sister to the 300-copy 8xLP version, only available through mail order. The CD version also contains two bonus tracks from Daughter of Darkness V, a separate cassette that was released at the same time as the original set. When these are gone, they’re gone. The discs are housed in a hand-painted box that sports one of a variety of images befitting the sonic spectacle within. No two are exactly alike. How do we keep it so fairly priced, with such a bounty to offer? That, my friend, shows just how much we care about your happiness." [label info]

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"In past reviews of other records from psych-folk duo Natural Snow Buildings, we often mentioned that theirs was a sound that would benefit being unrestrained by the restrictions of format, the sort of epic jams that could and likely should go on for ever and ever and ever. And while that's still likely not possible, this SIX cd set is about as close as we'll get. And as we predicted it totally suits their sprawling soundworld.
Originally released as an insanely limited five cassette set in 2009, Daughter Of Darkness has now been reissued on cd, still pretty limited, just 500 copies, but thankfully a chance for everybody who missed out the first time around (including us!) to get lost in these epic sonic drifts. And epic they are, no tracks shorter than 6 minutes, most closer to 20, or 30, a handful 40+, but again, these sorts of amorphous psychedelic drifts are meant to unfurl and unwind leisurely, lush, majestic slowburns, even from the very first track, the title track that opens up disc one, you'll immediately understand, a swoonsome, softly undulating, buzz drenched ur-drone, steel string shimmers over warm chordal swells, tangled melodies in the distance, shards of feedback, lots of overtones, a weirdly wonderful sound that manages to be both nearly static, a hazy tranced out drone, and yet in constant motion, slowly transforming and morphing before your very ears, lulling you in, and then wrapping its warm musical tendrils around you, until you're nearly totally enveloped, and believe us, you will have absolutely no desire to extricate yourself.
It would be difficult to describe the sound of NSB, or to go track-by-track with such a description, but imagine a warm, minimal, psychedelic folk, blurred and smeared into something more abstract, into hazy, gauzey drifts of dreamlike sound, a glancing listen reveals warm shimmers and softly kosmische drifts, but dig deeper, and let the various layers wash over you, peel back melodies, and textures, dig deep and get lost in a dense world of carefully constructed sound, a sound that seems to draw equally from seventies acid folk, and modern avant garde minimalism, from Eastern ragas, and experimental noise music. Each track a dizzying concoction of abstract vocals, of buzzing strings and buried melodies, of epic soaring string like majesty, and fuzzy riffy psychedelia, ritualistic and trance-like, abstract and melodic, moody and mesmeric, seven plus hours of utterly divine, deep listening drone-folk kraut-psych dreaminess.
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Includes two bonus tracks NOT on the vinyl version (which was mailorder-only direct from the label, sorry), each cd in a stickered sleeve, and all housed in a hand painted box, every one unique!!" [Aquarius Records]