My Light, My Flesh (Endless Desperation Productions)

 “My Light, My Flesh” is the first full length album of this British duo formed in 2002, which after four demos and almost five years of silence, finally release this first full length under the underground Russian label Endless Desperation Productions. Kairi started as a Dark Ambient project formed only by Kairi Parker-Shikari, who lately decided to include Doom Metal elements into his music, resulting into the actual proposal we can hear at “My Light, My Flesh”…Kairi deliver here six tracks of an ethereal and obscure mixture of Dark Ambient and Doom Metal, where the prominent use of keyboards leads the whole music during the 44 minutes the album lasts, the Doom Metal elements can be found fractionated along the entire opus in shape of crawling guitars, slow pulsating drums and some deep growling vocalizations which adds obscurity and mystery to the whole soothing, yet intriguing proposal… “My Light, My Flesh” is a very varied and eclectic album, there’s much more on this album than just Ambient or Doom Metal, you can even find intense moments of intriguing beauty in the finest vein of bands such Dead Can Dance…  there’re some weak passages where the composition seems to become a little intuitive and not as elaborated as the rest of the album, resulting in some minor moments of monotony, which become specially noticeably at the mid section of the third track, but overall the whole album sound pretty fluid, interesting and coherent… The whole album presentation is interestingly obscure as the hypnotic music requires, while the production of this work is very clear and solid, allowing to fully appreciate the textures and shades of this multidimensional opus… “My Light, My Flesh” is an interesting opus that will certainly catch the attention of those into the Dark/Black Ambient and into the most experimental side of the Doom Metal sound as well… (AP)