Artist : Kshatriy
Album : Slepok Soznaniya
Year : 2009
Genre : Ambient
Source : CD
Label : Muzyka Voln
Catalog : MV-II
Rls.Date : 2010-01-05
Bitrate : VBRkbps
Size : 90.89MB
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1. Put' Voina 6:37
2. Magic Forest 6:41
3. The Spirits 5:25
4. Loki 7:17
5. Lights 6:43
6. Hymn to Kali 6:37
7. Space Travel 8:50
8. Mother-Earth 7:48
9. Moment Istiny 6:06
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62:04
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The project Kshatriy appeared on the Russian post-industrial scene in 2004
and up to present has participated in several compilations, as well as
released some solo and collaboration recordings on limited edition CDRs.
Muzyka Voln presents the projectÆs first "professional" compact disk with the
album "Slepok Sonzaniya" (meaning "a mould of consciousness" in Russian).
This work is based on the concept of consciousness of a warrior, a galactic
warrior of light, bringing to world pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect
balance, a moment of power and might, a flight of freedom, love, serenity,
joy, light, unified time, eternal life, simplicity and bliss.
The music of the project can be described as fractal dark drone ambient with
lots of patterns, woven from various sonic fibres: synthesized drones,
processed field recordings, acoustic echoes and rhythmic loops. Calm and
profound, filled with resilience and hidden power, like an endless ocean of
tranquility, energy and beauty.
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'Slepok Soznaniya' is the first album by Kasatriy, who are active since 2004
and who had a couple of CDRs out. This new work is 'based on the concept of
consciousness of a warrior, a galatic warrior of light, bringing to world
pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, a moment of power and
might, a flight of freedom, love, serenity, joy, light, unified time, eternal
life, simplicity and bliss', which is indeed more than a CD could carry, me
thinks. To that end they use synthesizers, field recordings, acoustic echoes
and rhythmic loops. Dark ambient music is the result. At the core of the
proceedings is the almighty reverb unit. Every sound they produce, it seems,
is fed into the reverb, trying to achieve that gloom and doom sound. I must
say that is a pity. It kind of blurs the music quite a bit, making it into
one uniform mass of sound. Everything is pitched to grey and black. I assume
this would be a popular item among those who love all things ambient and
industrial, but I thought it was just alright. Nothing great, nothing bad
either. Quite alright.
FdW, Vital Weekly.