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.


