DEDICATION TO BIGNICK

Dedication To BigNick is the 12th album by band Roz Vitalis, hailing from St. Petersburg. The band plays chamber-rock, more, I'd say, on the chamber side. Indeed, I won't recommend this to lovers of the "rock"-side of progressive rock. I would surely recommend this to lovers of RIO and bands such as Art Zoyd, Univers Zero -- or maybe I should mention the "brighter" ones such as Rational Diet and Exploding Star Orchestra. That said, I'd definitely rather go and listen to the latter. I think the related project Compassionizer is also easier to get into.

The music has rich instrumentation and rewards careful listening; progressive for sure. It is a pleasure to shift the focus between different instruments and to be unaware of what is coming next. It never seems to get really emotional or "loud" but maybe it is not meant to. It does feel somewhat directionless this way, though. One particular thing I have issues with in classical and classical-influenced music is how quiet it often gets. Sure, it's not the notes but the spaces between them, I know, but I don't actually get it when the calmer part is physically hard to pick out. Reminds me of Deathspell Omega's "Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum", which is their most respected album here: you literally don't hear the quieter parts unless you turn the volume all the way up to the maximum! Maybe I exaggerate the problem for the case at hand, though.

But I digress. Such music is a good example of why prog is not "dead"; maybe too academic and impossible to just put on background, but definitely not the same formula round and round. Overall, another worthy effort by the Russian band. Good despite being promoted by bots! Favorite track Loneliness-Bringing Power.

PS. Mr Rozmainsky claims in the comments that all reviews are written by real people. Well, the reviews are obviously not written by real people, and the accounts spreading these word piles only rate his albums, so if he vouches for the "reality" of people behind them, the only way to read it seems to be that this is his friends generati...-sorry, writing reviews for him. This looks like an obvious conflict of interests to me. If you value the purity of the best progressive rock site over any artist, I suggest boycotting this band.

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