QUIT

After recording "Opera" album in late 1985, Ristovski re-joined his old friends BIJELO DUGME and remained their loyal keyboardist until their demise in 1989. Additionally, he worked as a sought-after session player for many different pop artists. In 1993 he came up with a cassette-only album titled "Quit".

Ristovski here covered several songs, mostly hits by Simon & Garfunkel, including one Mozart theme! Wait a minute! - synthesizer keyboards and "The Boxer"? Hmmm, will not do for me. These songs are fairly melodic and sweet sounding by themselves, making no big room for experiments. What you can do with them is to make them into a Muzak, and that's exactly what Ristovski did on "Quit". Ten times boring listen. Twenty times and at one point you will probably stop noticing it has been played at all. The only two songs worth hearing are "Over My Borntown" (what an English!) and "Lavori".

The former would re-surface on later CD albums as "Nebo nad Beogradom", while the idea of covering S&G repertoire would expand to the whole disc in 2006. This all gives me bad signs of lack of creativity and of making "sweet" instrumental music for "housewives".

PERSONAL RATING: 2/5