ENIGMARDEN
Roz Vitalis
•RIO/Avant-Prog
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Studio Album, released in 2005 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Destiny Dethroned (4:44) - Klara Metelkova / all recorders {soprano and alto) except [8], Peruvian native flute [6, 14], lead vocals [5, 7], harmonica [2, 8], music [1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14] CD Independent Thanks to felonafan for the additionEdit this entry |
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ROZ VITALIS Enigmarden ratings distribution
(17 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(18%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(18%)
Good, but non-essential (41%)
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The album is another hard-to-get-into listening experience through the composing skills of Rozmainsky and his multiple influences.The base remains an organ-driven Classical Music with a monster symphonic sound and plenty of synthesizer moves to make it even more grandiose and almost frightening.This is blended with a fair amount of Ethnic sounds through the use of flutes and clarinets, thus creating a very dark and haunting sound close to Soundtrack Music.Imagine a mix of a more bombastic GOBLIN sound with the archaic stylings of OUGENWEIDE and you'll propably get the picture.The music suddenly shifts from pompous and nervous organ movements to soft and elegant flute and clarinet parts and the album at moments succesfully reaches the aesthetics of a normal orchestra.On the other hand though this whole project becomes too excessive, too cinematic and almost painful along the way, with little diversity to offer, while its running time is too long to easily get through it.
To rate ''Enigmarden'' is very hard.I get a feeling though that a live performance of this kind of music has a lot more chances to be appreciated than simply some spins of a CD-R at home.Recommended only to fans of Classical/Avant-Prog with strong Ethnic orientations.
COLLABORATOR PSIKE & JR/F/Canterbury Teams

The use of recorders on this one brings visions of high Andean tribes in Peru or Chile offering a glimpse of the high heavens around Machu Picchu and subtly of South American progsters such as Los Jaivas at times, but the highly complex avant approach that dominates always brings the listener back to a unique and utterly bizarre sonic garden where classical and jazz influences always lurk one measure away. In a way, the wind instruments with the chimes makes me thing of European conquistadors in the New World at the time of the great fall of traditional cultures. Much of the content on ENIGMARDEN is actually based in intuitive improvisations. The tracks "Ah Ty, Nochenka", "Heartcrying", "Gentle Spring of Spring" and "Precautionary Motive" were recorded in real time and stand exactly as they emerged upon the first recordings. While there are many world ethnic musical sounds heard on this, when the female vocals appear they convey a high vocal register operatic feel to the album and this is particularly true when the polyphonic organ runs create a classical European feel.
This is another great release from ROZ VITALIS but i have to say that it is less captivating than the previous and following albums for the most part. While i really like the folk aspects, i simply don't find this music to be as intrinsically well designed as the previous offerings. Yes, there are lots of organ offerings, lots of time sig changes, lots of classical leaning workouts that are somewhere between church music and funeral precessions and bring a healthy dose of melancholy. I simply opine that music this complex needs some sort of cohesive glue to bring the whole thing together. Being that the tracks are totally divorced from any sort of continuity, it all feels like a drunken roller coaster ride with everything just feeling like a random parade of sounds that don't ever deliver any sort of pay off. Perhaps it's the low budget production that limits the variations in timbre and instrumentation. While this may have worked for the previous albums where there was a unifying feel to the whole shebang, here something is missing. While the individual tracks are noteworthy of being brilliantly composed although not as captivating, i just find this release lackluster in comparison. Not bad by any means but my least favorite release by ROZ VITALIS thus far.
Latest members reviews
What's good in ROZ VITALIS is that they keep changing their musical style with each album.
Sometimes just a little and sometimes the change is for worse. This album is quite a mix and
is more diverse than any of their previous works. Gone are the high spirits of their previous
album, the mood
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Report this review (#1038558) | Posted by XPEHOPE3KA | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 | Review Permanlink
This album contains both dissonant and ordinary-listener-friendly elements.
On the one hand, the two opening tracks are very dark (but the first one is more
listenable due to clarinets solos). The title track and the last track are the most
progressive ones. Such tracks are not for those who pr
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Report this review (#58870) | Posted by snow_camel05 | Friday, December 2, 2005 | Review Permanlink
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