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NATURE

Senmuth

 

Experimental/Post Metal

2.05 | 3 ratings

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2 stars About 2 minutes of sitar and harmonics, "Above" introduce the metal noise of "Tur". I have listened to this album a higher number of times respect to other Senmuth's albums, and while I have to say that taken alone Tur is a good track, I have controversial fellings about this album. I'm probably too familiar with Senmuth's music so there's no more surprise for me.

This album is a step back to the origins. The flavour is still ethnic, but the sounds are more metal oriented than in the previous albums. It's not the industrial metal of his beginnings but it's halfway and the newage stuff is not present this time.

This is probably the reason why this album doesn't make a lot for me even if it contains some very good moments so that I can't call it "poor". "Alibek" is a good track in its more ethnic and melodic moments. The problem is that I can't distinguish it from "Amanauz which comes after a short sitar interlude.

The first real highlight of this album is "Crystal", a short piece of classical guitar over a soft drumming base. This is one of the reasons why I was initially thinking to rate it as a good-but- non-essential album.

Another interesting track is "Dombai. Interesting, not special.

The classical guitar is back on "Stars", a very athmospheric track but the one closer to the newage side of Senmuth. The songs featuring the classical or acoustic guitar like "Sulahat" are the best things of this album. All the rest is the usual Senmuth. Too usual to be exciting.

With over 80 albums released, it's not a pity if you miss this one.

2 stars

octopus-4 | 2/5 |

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