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PRIMA 001CD
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Twinsistermoon is the project of Medhi Ameziane, one-half of the French duo Natural Snow Buildings, who claims "Twinsistermoon songs are often captured on a one take/good take basis; almost unfinished in a sense, like a sketch." Together or solo, however, Ameziane and his partner in Natural Snow Buildings, Solange Gularte, have a proven talent of constructing carefully dense and wonderfully composed albums, weaving a beautiful tapestry of acoustic and electronic instruments, vocals, and non-traditional instrumentation. This third album as Twinsistermoon is a perfect example. Then Fell The Ashes... is an incredible album, originally released in 2010 on LP by Blackest Rainbow. Ameziane is in top form as a composer and arranger, incorporating delicate guitar, chilling soundscapes, field recordings, chimes, swirling vocals, and the perfect balance of distortion and noise from song to song. This CD edition features slightly updated mixes of the music and one bonus song, "A Fallout Shelter For Memories."
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BRR 170LP
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"Brand new full length vinyl LP from Natural Snow Buildings' Mehdi Ameziane solo project. This is the third Twinsistermoon release since 2009'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, various obscure self released items and CDs on Digitalis and Students of Decay, Ameziane's sound has grown somewhat darker at times with this LP featuring nearly 50 minutes of brand new material. The A-side features 6 tracks, where as the B side is complemented with 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 gutar 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. It's pretty incredible to hear this and think that it's 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 album's title track, 'Then The Ashes Fell', a side long track which is a considerably darker and heavier track than much of the rest of the LP, but it weaves in some beautiful lighter more reflective moments. Pro printed covers and labels. Heavyweight vinyl."
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