HANDFUL OF SNOWDROPS - 1984 - The Complete Four-Track Recordings LP Cumbia another in a long line

another in a long line of mesmerizing drifts

The idea was to be confrontational – to evoke (as Tomata described in an early interview) a state of anxiety

At times heavy

no guest appearances and no tiny cymbals that go "pish"

HANDFUL OF SNOWDROPS - 1984 - The Complete Four-Track Recordings LP Cumbia another in a long lineIt finally took five years and two lineup changes for Handful of Snowdrops to release their debut album, the iconic Land of the Damned. While too many of the songs written during that period never made it to tape, some fortunately did. This is what we believed is first home recording from the second generation of the band with Jean Pierre as the lead singer. All tracks were recorded in a single day in a dark and humid basement using a beaten up TEAC 4