The eclectic/avant/sympho-prog band Roz Vitalis informs about the release in 2018 of new album "The Hidden Man of the Heart" by Italian label Lizard Records.
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This album is most ambitious, grandiose and high-flying opus of Roz Vitalis at the present moment. It consists of 14 tracks and lasts 63
minutes. Various keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, flute and trumpet are
supplemented by exotic kinds of percussion, mandolin, bass clarinet and
even string quartet! It is that this album extremely emphasizes strange
combination of memorable/hooking melodies and sophisticated
compositional structures with complex system of leitmotivs. Such
combination of “familiarity and weirdness” is one of the trademarks of Roz Vitalis.
Conceptually the album is about spiritual/creative
constituent of a person in strange dynamics. Such constituent can be
called “The Hidden Man of The Heart”. Often this dynamics can be tragic
and dramatic when a person is faced with various temptations destroying
his or her spiritual/creative constituent. A person can be Trampled and
Wounded by such temptations which can be represented in the terms of The
Lion and Adder, Jungle, or just Evildoers. Sometimes such person
becomes Refugee in the Blurred and Passed Over. And then all that is
left to do is to sing, to cry and to scream – in desperation – Psalm 6!
The style of "The Hidden Man of the Heart" – like
any other Roz Vitalis stuff – can be described as the "Unclassifiable
Branch of Prog Rock". However, such tags as "Melodic Avant Rock",
“Canterbury Gothic Prog” or "Between Sympho Prog and Avant Prog", are,
perhaps, also partly relevant.
Music of ROZ VITALIS is about The
Ineffable and The Unfathomable. In particular, it is about human
aspiration for The Unapproachable Light
The band will be glad to receive reviews of this album!
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