New Daughters of the Sun song released
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The word "shamanistic" is a descriptor fraught with peril. It can invoke images of the ridiculously psychadelic or the unfathomably ethereal.
But don't let modern perversions of the term distract you from Daughters of the Sun. This long-standing and ingloriously ink-starved local band has been turning out experiments wild enough to twist the ear and familiar enough to tap the toe, and in anticipation of their new album Ring, which releases on April 25th at the Hexagon Bar, an excerpt from their new song "The Long Way" has quietly surfaced on their Myspace page.
Daughters of the Sun performing "Whale's Blood" live in March of 2008.
The song is aptly named-- the excerpt itself is a healthy three minutes long, in which time it establishes a circular stroll through its simple fundamentals like a monk's walking meditation. Shakers, hand drums, chanting guitars, the spectral shade of a vocal moan looming in the back of the mix-- the song lolls over its few syllables like a mantra. Multi-instrumentalism, a shining trait of Daughters of the Sun, is in full force here. Some of the parts you'll be able to identify (the percussion and maraca). Others, though, seem to arise out of the song's low hanging fog only momentarily, and under such deep camouflage, that you'll be left wondering if that was an oboe you heard, or just a passing voice.
It's enchanting stuff, just the sort of thing to whet the appetite for the forthcoming album. The show should be just another in the Daughters' long string of great performances. Featuring Vampire Hands and upstarts Leisure Birds in support, it's a show that begs an early arrival. Between Leisure Birds' hallucinations of the American blues and Vampire Hands' doom and gloom pop rock, the opening bands should provide the perfect overture for the musical embrace of Daughters of the Sun.
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