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Brand new full length vinyl LP from Natural Snow Buildings' Mehdi Ameziane's solo project. This is the third vinyl release from Twinsistermoon since last summer's "The Hollow Mountain" LP and "Bride of Spirits" 7" which were both released on the excellent Dull Knife label. Following on from these two gems, as well as various obscure self released discs and CDs on Digitalis and Students of Decay, Ameziane's sound has grown somewhat darker at times with this brand new LP featuring nearly 50 minutes of new material.
The A side features 6 tracks, where as the B side is a huge almost 25 minute track. The opening track "Black Nebulae" is a gorgeously textured psychedelic drone based piece, followed by a short, quieter, guitar plucked piece with vocals, but no words entitled "1976". "Ghost That Was Your Life" is a stunning beautiful layered guitar piece with Ameziane's astounding beautiful vocals shining through. "Big Sand" opens as one of the darker pieces, with an occult feeling to its sound, swirling vocal drones, almost like a choir at times, and in come those stunning warm and distinctive guitar sounds with layered ghostly sound scapes, that haunt much of Ameziane's solo and NSB recordings. Half way through this track it fades into layered field recordings, drones, and distant chimes, the sound of this track at this point just has a real melancholy vintage sound, the last two minutes are again a change of sound with a slow plucking of guitar strings. "Desert Prophecy" returns of the sound of just Ameziane and his guitar, with some lo-fi electric riffing distortion in the background. Its pretty incredible to hear this and think that its from 2010, and not from the 60s or 70s. The sixth and final track on the first side is "Trailer", another beautiful somewhat lighter folk sound, which is interesting considering the following is the albums title track "Then The Ashes Fell'", a side long track which is a considerably darker and heavier than much of the rest of the LP, but it weaves in some beautiful lighter more reflective moments.
Pro Printed sleeves and labels. Heavyweight vinyl."
Side A:
1. Black Nebulae
2. 1976
3. Ghost That Was Your Life
4. The Big Sand
5. Desert Prophecy
6. Trailer
Side B:
1.Then Fell The Ashes...""
