KEMET HIGH TECH. PART I: ARTEFACTS

Kemet is the original name of the ancient Egypt, and today is a sort of esoteric movement called Kemetism.

The new with this Senmuth's album is that even if with the usual middle-eastern ethnic instruments it sounds more metal. The guitar solo on "Sarcophagus Mystery" is backed by distorted guitar and is excellent. In few words, this time instead of making an ethnic album with the addition of drones and heavy guitars, Senmuth has made a metal album with ethnic instruments.

Many times I thought about which album coul dbe suggested as start point to the huge discography of Senmuth. I haven't listened to all of them yet, but up to now this is surely one of the candidates. This is probably the first time when the two souls of Senmuth are well joined together.

The better parts are the most powerful. In general I prefer when Senmuth explores the electronics. In some albums he sounds quite close to Tangerine Dream, but in this album the metal element is very well exploited and things like the middle section of Archaic Sphinx are exciting. In particular this song has also an uptime tempo that would probably fit well into a rave party but in this context results very powerful and energetic.

A special mention goes to "Meidum Wsr" which has an hypnotic rhythm, with an unusual bass like a rub-a-dub. One of the highlihts.

From a melodic point of view, the best composition is "In The Red Pyramid, but there are other tracks wich deserve to be mentioned: the excellent "Museum Of Antiques" and the powerful "Glance of Amenemhet III".

This is surely an album above the usual level of Senmuth so I give it a star above the average