Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Twinsistermoon
Then Fell The Ashes…

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£9.99


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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 distrotion 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. Heavyweight vinyl housed in deluxe heavy thick card tip on jackets. Edition of 979.” – BRR. 


Twinsistermoon
When Stars Glide Through Solid

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

CD
£7.99


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Much-anticipated deluxe reissue of the most talked-about and terminally unavailable release from Mehdi Amezianes of Natural Snow Buildings’ solo Twinsistermoon project. Originally released as a handmade self-released CD-R in an edition of approximately nada in 2007, originals now change hands for big money and it has gathered a reputation as *the* Twinsistermoon release. It’s hard to argue. The set ranges from the stunning opener, “I Wish I Could Drown The World In Reverberation” that marries Rossi-era Ash Ra Tempel-isms to breathless vox and huge walls of shimmering soft-focus F/X through classic space whisper-style acid folk w/depth enough to drown in complete with classic acoustic/guitar shape shifting ala your favourite pastoral late-60s/early-70s stone and imagery that would make Jean Rollin blush. Additionally, this issue comes with a bonus track exclusive to the CD edition. Run of 500 copies. Recommended. 

Isengrind
Modlitewnik

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£14.99


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“Debut vinyl release from Natural Snow Buildings' Solange Gularte's solo project, Isengrind. Modlitewnik continues Solange's fantastically far out occult psych-folk-drone trip outs, 12 tracks across the length of this LP, considerably shorter pieces in comparison to her work with Mehdi in Natural Snow Buildings, Isengrind retains a certain amount of the sound of the duo, but it is a whole other beast, in many ways much stranger and darker, but still hauntingly beautiful with some fantastic blissed out vocal drones, dreamy guitars, and psyche soaked dark drone zones. Heavyweight vinyl, housed in a pro-printed full colour fold over sleeve with all 4 panels featuring stunning artwork by Solange, the inside of the cover is especially spectacular. One time pressing of approx 400 copies.” – BR. Long out of print.

Isengrind
Night Of Raining Fire

Blackest Rainbow Recordings BRR-225

LP
£9.99


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Bewitching new solo LP from Solange Gularte aka one half of French acid folk experimentalists Natural Snow Buildings. Night Of Raining Fire comes adorned with Solange’s weird post-Darger cartoon artwork that serves to underlines the overall “Lost Girls” atmosphere. The sonics are beautiful, somewhere between Hosianna Mantra-era Popol Vuh, the sunbleached acid folk of Linda Perhacs and the haunted European exploitation soundtracks of the late Jean Rollin, with an impossibly ancient and otherworldly atmosphere. Plus the album really *sounds* great, with lush raga/drones hovering over distant blurs of reverb and singing up-front strings while Solange’s vocals melt all over them. Gorgeous. Edition of 500 copies. 

Various Artists
Menagerie 2

Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat

LP
£13.99


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Edition of 500 copies compilation LP with exclusive tracks from Akron/Family, Joanne Robertson & Matthew Ashworth, Wand, Natural Snow Buildings, Married In Berdichev, Moon Duo, The See See and Seadog. Comes with a full colour zine featuring artwork by Jake Blanchard, Pete Fowler, Andrew Rae, Will Sweeney, Sarah King, Olange Gularte, James Trimmer/Mirt and Mat Pringle.

Natural Snow Buildings
Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches

Ba Da Bing Records BING-077CD

3xCD
£18.99


Much-anticipated reissue of one of the most whispered-about works from this enigmatic French acid folk duo: Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches was originally issued in an edition of only 22 copies in 2008 but this makes widely-available a singular instalment in this on-going saga. Much more dilated than the bulk of their more song-orientated material, this set crosses dense string drones with rising and falling folk melodies, like a Manson Family mass with settings by Dolly Collins, Alan Silva and Tony Conrad. Indeed, this feels closer in spirit to the works of UK folk wraiths like Forest and Stone Angel than any kind of obvious song-based tribute, channelling the witchy atmosphere and the reverse stylings of the era via a fantasy of remembrance.