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The Winter Ray

Natural Snow Buildings · 2004

• Scores: Noise 3, Unease 4, Complexity 2 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Folk, Experimental Folk, Psychedelic Folk
• Mood: wintry, hazy, ghostly
• Sound: lo-fi recording, tape hiss, acoustic guitars, drone, whispered vocals, hypnotic repetition, long songs

The Winter Ray is a self-released double CD-R by the French duo Natural Snow Buildings, issued in a limited edition in 2004 with 25 tracks across two discs, the longest running more than 13 minutes. The track titles point to conspiracy theories and mind control, with names such as "Dark Side of Behaviourism", "Mae Brussel" and "Over Mt. Weather". The band is tagged as free folk, drone, lo-fi and psychedelic folk.

Track list

1. Overture (2:01)
2. "I Don't Know What Psywar Is" (7:14)
3. Dark Side of Behaviourism (6:13)
4. Broadcast (3:00)
5. Microchip Little Children (9:09)
6. The Fake and Sad Lonely Gunman (8:46)
7. Mae Brussel (2:28)
8. Counterinsurgency (5:43)
9. Experiments on Monkeys (3:01)
10. Toward a Psychocivilized Society (4:56)
11. Broadcast (1:57)
12. Places of Detention (5:00)
13. Unmanned Helicopters and Microwaves (9:14)
14. Falling Space Laser Nikola Tesla (7:42)
15. Over Mt. Weather (5:21)
16. Brighton Beach (6:50)
17. Fishing Hole (1:06)
18. Dead Horses (13:10)
19. Ethyl Bromo Acetate (13:31)
20. Bloody Snow (4:04)
21. Inside Mt. Weather (5:11)
22. I Was Always Cold (13:35)
23. The Winter Ray (4:30)
24. Dead Horses (by the Sea) (2:19)
25. The Exhausted Meteor (2:32)