Imagine an album full of those instrumental intermezzo's The Residents are used to put on their records. Now I love those weirdo eyeballs, but these small pieces of music I always found extremely boring: doodles, a cacophony of sounds without any point. So why for heaven's sake does the Russian group Roz Vitalis think it's a good idea to put these 'compositions' - I wouldn't call them songs - on more than half their album, in extended length on top of this? I'm sorry but this makes for one boring record. This is a shame because the handful regular tracks reveal a group which is able to play quite nicely, a bit in the vein of RIO-groups like for instance Karda Estra. No, I'm afraid Roz Vitalis won't make many friends among the readers of Background Magazine with this release. *- André de Waal (edited by Peter Willemsen) Where to buy? |
