| 1 |
| I Wish I Could Drown The World In Reverberation (4:18) |
| 2 |
| To Breath Underwater (4:42) |
| 3 |
| Frozen Rose (1:29) |
| 4 |
| The Vampire Of Suburbia (10:25) |
| 5 |
| Demonized Nature (4:21) |
| 6 |
| Burn The Place Of The Heart (2:05) |
| 7 |
| The Bitch Is Dead (2:45) |
| 8 |
| Ojibway Ghost Trail Song (4:10) |
| 9 |
| Cruel Brother (5:57) |
| 10 |
| Komuzo (2:50) |
| 11 |
| In Anatomical Order (1:34) |
| 12 |
| Comets (3:02) |
| 13 |
| When Stars Glide Through Solid (6:08) |
| 14 |
| Amikuk (3:37) |
TwinSisterMoon is the solo project of Mehdi Ameziane, one-half of the fantastic Natural Snow Buildings from Vitre, France. (Accompanist Solange Gularte is here in spirit, providing the meticulously hand-crafted art work which conceals the disc, and the most reasonable explanation as to why this little miracle is limited to only 30 copies.) Where Natural Snow Building’s latest
‘The Dance of the Moon and the Sun' holds an entire galaxy of sounds in its two discs, the songs of ‘When Stars Glide Through Solid’ flicker from a single firmament of acoustic guitar and Mehdi’s androgynous voice, tastefully embellished with a few stringed knick-knacks and a few mixing effects. Signaling this tangential relationship, lead-in song “I Wish I Could Drown the World in Reverberation” suggests the Kranky essence of NSB’s ‘Dance’, though through a tapering aperture as the drone symphony compartmentalizes into discrete components of percussion, guitar, keys; come track 2, “To Breath Underwater”, we have quickly arrived in the intimacy of a single star in this Constellation where the hush of Mehdi’s Vaseline microphones and self-harmonizing sounds like Sigur Ros unplugged (and though his lyrics are in English, the heavy reverb of the recording make each word near impossible without aid of the lyric sheet). The voiced hook of “The Vampire of Suburbia” makes it an early highlight, with Mehdi’s dark, warm picking smartly embossed as it vanishes in swells of bass. With quasi-occultist lyrics, he compliments the shaggy mysticism of Vashti Bunyan and The Tree People, as well as current folk-acolytes Espers, Feathers, and Fursaxa: “Demonized Nature” is another endulgant melody, a bohemian dance of banjoline and tambourine like one from White Magic’s debut EP; “The Bitch is Dead” could very well be a on-the-fly cover of Lubelski or Nadler; “Komuzo” suggests a scraping, spooky singalong in the dark vein of HRSTA. Latter tracks “In Anatomical Order” and the behemoth “When Stars Glide Through Solid” return to the cosmic abstractions of Windy and Carl and Labradford - the former seemingly a drone variation on the melody of Duran Duran’s “Save a Prayer”, the latter evolving into a jubilant drum and banjo revelry befitting Cerberus Shoal in full band formation; banjo miniatures “Comets” and closer “Amekuk” come laced between the two, reifying Mehdi’s fit in songs of all sizes. ‘When Stars Glide Through Solid’ is a color-labelled, blue-bottom CDr, housed in an embossed, double-thick handmade envelope with hand-lettering and drawings (the cover image an unusual Matt Groening-like bunny character), a thick, hand-lettered lyrics insert, and a beautiful ink print on hand-made paper, all bundled with a satin ribbon and star charm. Recommended without reservation, if you can get yr hands on one. (
self-released CDr, available where ?); Solange solo work coming soon!)
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