DESCRIPTION:
Released in 2009 on 20 Buck Spin.

Nadja is an experimental / drone / ambient duo from Canada. Black Boned Angel is a guy named Campbell Kneale from New Zealand who makes very dark, atmospheric, experimental, drone music. The recorded one track before this release called "Christ Send Light" (EP).

This album took some listening to really get into. I guess the main theme of this album is try and describe, with music, Satan being thrown out of the heavens, him tearing a horn on a cloud and bathing in the mixture those two elements created.

The album starts off rather gently, with this gradual undercurrent of electronic noise slowly rising to the surface. A buzzing guitar suddenly comes roaring from the surface, coupled with huge swathes of fuzzy feedback and all kinds of high pitched harmonics and radiant, staticy sounds. This carries on for the majority of the album, slowly swirling and shifting tones and frequencies. Lots of hiss Percussion is used very sparsely.

The over all feel of this album was of a long, gradual, monumental crash. All the sounds were reminiscent of something crumbling, something sacred getting slowly torn and all these radiant sounds come cascading out. It feels very big and momentous.

A fairly good album, if you're a fan of the genre. Progresses fairly subtly after the initial loud guitar interjection. The final song does seem to repeat itself a little too much towards the end. A minor complaint. Lots to get lost in here for fans of subtle sound changes and subtle sound changes happening just beneath the surface of a song.

Recommended.

3.8/5







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