ROSES FOR A GENERAL

Excuse me, please, I must to write this: this album is very weak, maybe the notion "horrible" would be better. It probably should not been located at ProgArchives because it is completely not "progressive", but it really is on the list of ProgRelated sub-genre. I used the word "horrible" but You should not imagine any kind of noise, thrash-metal bluster or cacophony. Each fan of Progressive rock in each fragment of this album can easy foresee which harmonic phrase will be played in three minutes. Each note on the album is strictly predictable, each one track is sweet, trite and superficial, to a some level it is similar to modern pop-songs, like e.g Hannah Montana. When You imagine a simplified and secondary version of Vangelis, Kitaro and especially Jean-Michele Jarre productions from their weakest periods (but I must defend Mr Laza Ristovski - "Roses for a general" was recorded in 1984), however without their mellodic inventory, then You can understand my emotions. It is pretty to listen to but only as ambient during shopping or during waiting for a plane. All tracks are composed by Laza Ristovski and played by him on a keyboard. All keybord-bass lines and programmed drum lines are as primitive as possible, melodies are unoriginal and impossible to remember. I have never heard any other Author's albums, but I am sure, that they are much better. One and half star.