Roz Vitalis - The Thressunny Light Power

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Roz Vitalis - The Thressunny Light Power

Artist:	Roz Vitalis
Title:	The Thressunny Light Power
Label:	self produced
Length(s):	35 minutes
Year(s) of release:	2004
Month of review:	[03/2005]

Line up

Ivan Rozmainsky - music, keyboards, winds on 1, programming on 1, percussion on 1
Nadezhda Regentova - voice on 1, music on 1
Vladimir Polyakov - keyboards on 1, music on 1
with
Sergey Laskin - music on 3, samples on 3

Tracks

1)	The Threesunny Light Power	24.05
2)	Astral Mule	3.05
3)	Destroying The Paradise Of Smiles	8.06

Summary

More electronics from Russia.

The music

The Threesunny Light Power is the very lengthy opening title track. It opens with church organ, and has elements of a hymn: there are vocals, which are a bit of the hesitant kind. Plenty of bird like vocal effects, as if a church was abandoned and taken over by various feathered friends. Although the vocals seem to be there to establish a kind of sacred feel, it does not really work. The music in between the organ parts are a bit quirky, a mockery of stateliness. It consists of flute, piano and keyboards. Melodically, the music is fine, with a bit of dissonance thrown in. The quirky frolicness stays throughout, especially when the music becomes more percussive. There is plenty going on here though, although the programmed drums give the music a very automated feel. There are likenesses to people such as Hal Darling, and the late Brian Hirsch. Notwithstanding, I like the music most when the church organ sets in, or the mellotron, or the piano, which amounts to the final seven minutes of the track.

Astral Mule is way shorter, and has aspects of Mule by Deep Purple. The sound is a low one, majestic in a way and certainly highly mysterious and sinister. A good example of tense soundtrack music. Destroying The Paradise Of Smiles is the closer, another dark, ambientish outing. That is, until we come to the RIOish percussive parts, which makes the song come out rather mechanical. The final part has the church organ coming back.

Conclusion

A mixed bag of electronic material. The epic track has both church organ parts, but also a rather long passage with frolic keyboards, and rather weak vocals (for the kind of vocals they use). Astral Mule is tense soundtrack music, nicely dark and majestic. The final track is a RIO inspired combination of the two.