Within the Russian post industrial scene Kshatriy is no new name as it started in 2004 and has made several CDR’s and compilation appearances. Slepok Soznaniya is its first professional release on Muzyka Voln a label being part of Zhelezoboton.

Slepok Soznaniya means “A mould of consciousness” and is based on the concept of a warrior bringing light and knowledge to the world. Its dark ambient is multilayered with dark drones and skilful sound patterns woven from various sonic fibres and processed field recordings together with calm rhythmic loops. A relax atmosphere breathes from the music and has a calm feeling giving rest to the muscles. In fact it has all to be a great album but I got bored after a while and was figuring out what was the cause of this.

In the enormous bulk of ambient releases coming in a constant flow it gets difficult to distinct, being different and original. It is al drones hissing and oozing mixed with field recordings and synthesizer melodies. It is difficult to say what makes an ambient album qualitatively good or interesting. Apart from challenging sounds, interesting compositions and daring sound patterns it needs atmosphere and the feeling it summons are important ingredients. Kshatriy finds it self in a dangerous gap. Compositional it is al sounding pretty well with its dark electronic drones and interesting rhythmic patterns and loops together wit a lot of field processed recordings but it does not get a grip on me. Kshatriy is lacking atmosphere and depth which makes Slepok Soznaniya into a superficial album. It also does not sound very original and the feeling I have it heard all before comes up soon. Still Slepok Soznaniya is not a bad album.