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Roz Vitalis : The Threesunny Light Power (RU,2004)**°
The 24 minute title track by the group as a Trio is stylistic in between progressive, symphonic, acoustic, and in the first minutes because of the use of keyboards perhaps even Gothic.
We hear organ / keyboards/ flute/ female voice quietly and nicely and melodically building up. Then it becomes more melodic, in a much more symphonic way (perhaps it’s ok to describe it as being closest to Gentle Giant or something like that). The bells like sounds here and there would have been a bit nicer with real bells, but in general I must say all sounds, composition and the final execution is really good. This long track will receive airplay later. The second track is doomy, filmic, gothic thriller music. Strangely enough it says it is inspired by "the Mule" from Deep Purple, something which I didn't recognise at first. Also the last track starts with darker sounds, very filmic and with a descriptive atmosphere. With these elements I wondered whether the design of the written name of ‘Roz Vitalis’ not deliberately is, like various doom and metal groups, designed as fitting on a Satanistic or downwards pentangle structure, and wondered whether there was any angle hidden there, but there wasn't. In the contrary the symbol used under the name is an anchor, which brings the energy down to that point too, but for it is associated with a Christian cross it also works more, -Ivan says-, like "anchor in the sea of chaos" or something like that, which is in fact a different goal, also musically. To avoid the confusion I changed the colours of the group's name on the scanned cover into a lighter colour. In that way it confirms the idea of bringing the atmosphere up at the end, uplifting the anchor into a goal of the light side as a matter of speaking...The second half of this last instrumental is also more melodic, using keyboards mostly.
Although here the group is a keyboard duo, I can notice here at most that the group actually is lead as a one man band (Ivan Rozmainsky). I guess at least the last two tracks are mainly composed for and on keyboards. I personally still think that when a fuller group’s sound performance is being used (with more instruments, and more variation) the compositions come over better. I suggest an investment in a more multi-arranged project in the near future because perhaps then the potential comes over completely, with also even more variations in sounds he tries to achieve with the means he had here.
Some explanations by Ivan about the "The Threesunny Light" title and cover :
It refers to an oblique suggestion of "Trinitarian light". Three tulips on front-covers are the whole ("still life with tulips"), but, at the same time, each and every tulip is unique, original, has different length, and different "degree of openness". The idea is that simultaneous coexistence of diversity (plurality) and unity. All elements are the part of the whole, but each and every element does not loose its individuality, originality. This idea is reflected in the polyphonic character of 24-minute title-song, where all melodic lines are equally important and develop. The “threesunny light power” is in some way inspired by some kind of combination of Christan and flower power hippie ideas, idealistically spoken.
The name Roz Vitalis itself comes from Latin meaning "The Living Water" (or, perhaps, "The Alive Water"), as the letting flow well in writing. It is indirectly inspired by Rozemainsky’s surname.
Earlier releases : "Per Crucem Ad Lucem" 2001, "Nice Edge" (EP) 2001, "L’Ascensione" 2002, "Painsadist" (EP) 2003, "Lazarus" 2003, "The Threesunny Light Power" (EP) 2004
