S/D: Natural Snow Buildings

Now that Ba Da Bing are starting to give some of their stuff a wider release, maybe it's time for a thread for Natural Snow Buildings and the associated acts Twinsistermoon and Isengrind. If they're unfamiliar to you, Natural Snow Buildings specialise in rather dreamlike bucolic drones and folks songs that seem so delicate they could be woven out of spiders' webs and bring to mind the likes of Popol Vuh, Rameses III, Grouper, Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Lau Nau, Islaja, Vashti Bunyan and maybe a more fragile Flying Saucer Attack. They've been releasing lots of very beautifully packaged stuff in a rather clandestine way for a good few years now, so let's search and destroy their works. The new reissue of The Snowbringer Cult is just flat-out incredible, I say start there if you don't know them already.

I'm very interested in hearing this

Search last year's double CD, which flattened me:

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/natural-snow-building-a-haunting-they-will-go

I pre-ordered the complete Snowbringer Cult vinyl reissue, still waiting for it to arrive from Ba Da Bing. I had digital files from the original issues on Students of Decay (with all accompanying materials) years back and spent a lot of time with them. To be honest I haven't thought about this group in a few years but I consider them one of the best and most important outré groups going. Their homegrown style, digressions into drone/noise/ambient and the elaborate aesthetic/packaging of their releases seemed to anticipate and then embody the late-00s underground culture.

Yeah the various rereleases over here have been great. Both Marc Masters and I were all 'what the' when the first set came out, a mutual friend had to school us both! Happily so!

I heard "Santa Sangre Part 1" on a college radio station and was flattened, I assume that the other 6-7 hours of Daughter of Darkness is much the same and I wouldn't go wrong getting the whole thing?

No you would not.

I deliberately tried not to think about Daughter of Darkness as much as I wanted it, cos it was too much money for me and I knew that it would just be sitting on a shelf forever before I got round to listening to the whole thing properly. I might eventually crack though if I end this month with some money still in my pocket and if I can still find it (both kind of unlikely I know).

I still listen to the the Snowbringer Cult all the damn time, that and Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches would give you almost as much music but maybe a more varied introduction?

hallelujah, new nsb hoves into view:

http://nebula.wsimg.com/obj/MDE5RjBDQUM2MDNCQUNBMUNCRDk6YTJiNDUzYzM4OWE4NTgyMDc1OWNiZTM4MjU0NTg2ZWY6Ojo6OjA=

Natural Snow Buildings "Terror's Horns" LP (Ba Da Bing)

After a string of Natural Snow Buildings reissues, each more elaborate (um, longer) then the last, Ba Da Bing presents our first ever release of NEW material from the band. For a group known for it's use of horror imagery and lyricism, perhaps the most shocking thing of all is that this album clocks in at just under 45 minutes. If there ever was an album that served as the proper entry point for Natural Snow Buildings, Terror's Horns is it.
It would be a stretch to call this Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte's pop record, for Terror's Horns continues in the duo's tradition of combining many layers into sometimes blissful, sometimes contemplative, often menacing conditions. Stringed instruments trill, percussion gongs, feedback hisses and vocals maintain near monotone as if in a cultish trance. The songs still pride themselves on a slow development, and the album's progression lends the impression of descending down through the depths, past hidden cavities and chambers that you will never unsee once experienced. Featuring new artwork by Gularte which pays tribute to the backwoods horror of massacres involving chainsaws.

the one song they've made available from this is pretty rocking and direct btw:

https://soundcloud.com/badabingrecords/suntower

I'm obsessed with this band right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38V2cE0N-pI

Totally otherworldly in a way I've never heard before, and I've gone on the deep end of hippie stank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4aM2xlPC2g

The atmosphere they create here is so captivating ... haunting, intense, mysterious, and really disturbing when paired with Solange Gularte's cover art.

I realise it's not for everyone (and NSB being on there at *all* feels wrong somehow) but anyway: a bunch of Natural Snow Buildings albums have shown up on Spotify under the NSB Archives moniker. I'm hoping it's official and not something dodgy.

My god, this thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJV6RdwcAtM