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Artist: Nadja & Black Boned Angel
Album: Nadja & Black Boned Angel
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Playtime: 49:42 min
Genre: Ambient
URL: http://www.20buckspin.com/site/?page_id=314
Rip date: 2009-07-07
Street date: 2009-07-14
Size: 75.71 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 203 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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The idea for a collaboration between CanadaÆs prolific neo-doom duo Nadja and
New ZealandÆs pitch black droners Black Boned Angel was first hatched in
conversations between 20 Buck Spin and NadjaÆs Aidan Baker around the time
Nadja released their Truth Becomes Death EP on Alien8 Recordings in 2006. 20
Buck Spin ran the idea by Campbell Kneale of Black Boned Angel, who at that
point was unfamiliar with Nadja. After hearing their material, the
complimentary potential was realized, and the groups began their
cross-continental collaboration sending music back and forth digitally.
Time passed and both groups, along with CampbellÆs altar-ego Birchville Cat
Motel, were extremely busy releasing their own material. By the end of 2007
the collaborative effort had realized three fully formed tracks. One more
accessible track that included vocals called ôChrist Send Lightö was released
in 2008 as a CD EP on KnealeÆs own Battlecruiser imprint. The other two long
tracks were combined for a full length release for 20 Buck Spin. With the
album being a collaborative effort 20 Buck Spin also convinced two close
comrades, David DÆAndrea and Stephen Kasner, to collaborate on some artwork.
Again, artistic collaborations take a great deal of time, and finally in 2009
both art and music have finally come together for this much anticipated
release.
The two 20+ minutes tracks contained on this self-titled collaboration have a
less accessible vibe then the Jesu-like track on last yearÆs ôChrist Send
Lightö EP. There are no vocals to be heard. They are comprised in equal parts
of NadjaÆs fuzzed-out, lurching and hazy dream-doom, and BBAÆs razor-sharp
metallic riff-shards. Extended passages of riff-static noise bleeds one track
into the next while deep space eerieness looms ever present in the shadows.
Finally the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own self-created
black hole. This is the end.
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01. I (23:23)
02. II (26:19)
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