Birds of Nazca - Héliolite

 

 

Birds of Nazca - Héliolite
Self released – 2023
Rock, Instrumental, Psych, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ****

It was one of the albums that went with me on that little holiday in Scotland. And it was one of the albums that went on repeat during and after the trip, causing me to take yet another trip. For the  instrumental heavy goodness straight out of Nantes, France can make you see all sorts of visions. It’s the brand new Birds of Nazca EP called Héliolite... And still can't get enough of it! So, only logical that we could not control ourselves and had to write that little blurb for the May Doom Charts. From Nantes, France comes instrumental duo Birds of Nazca. And on their newest release Héliolite they once again give us that delicious heavy fuzz, heavy psych, heavy stoner and high energy doom! This time around the sound has grown richer, thicker, and fit for a narrative about deep diving into a mine for emeralds and diamonds. Cause with restraint and precision, the short intro and three tracks shine and glisten like that dark rock pressurized for ages and ages until it shatters into millions of precious drum fills and riffs! Three tracks that give you everything you need. And for the Doom Charts Mixtape I suggested using the Inti Raymi track, but we perhaps should have suggested closing track Gugcumatz. The track named after the Mayan, feathered serpent god, that created the world, and is the carrier of the sun across the sky, starts of with these highly atmospheric sounds, which suggest movement and something bubbling underground at the same time. That sundried, shimmering hot, yet full of life guitar tone than sets everything properly in gliding motion. Bone dry almost speaker boxing drums turn it into a more totem punching rock song, before stonerrock bordering on sludge reminiscent riffs take you into a different subterranean section. And that windswept middle section, reminding you of how it started and bringing it full circle before they minutely build it up again towards that end push. Where the feathered serpent gets to bite its tail one last time…  (And did we mention yet that they sell white band shirts!?)

(Written by JK)

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