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Moris Mateljan

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Member since: 6/14/2006 • Forum posts: 4153 • Last visit: 5/17/2021 9:10:30 AM EST
Location: Croatia

Progressive Biography

I joined this website in June 2006, started reviewing in October. Hopefully, my reviews are providing some insight - although they're telling more about myself then about the actual music. I hope someone will find my reviews useful, as well as my contribution to the forum and this facility in general. But it helped me too: I learned a lot. Not only about the music; I also improved my knowledge of English, as well as my writing skills. My oldest reviews are inconsistent and a bit naive, but I really doubt I will edit them any time soon; let them stay and be a silly roadmark of my own progress.

I'm from the south-east, a corner of Europe, on Adriatic Sea, surrounded by typical Mediterranean landscapes: lovely corner of the planet, but not the best place for progressive rock enthusiast. Political storming, swamps of history made this area passionate and vulnerable, and a bit cynic. I'm trying to squeeze the best of it for the improvement of my life.

Music is my biggest passion. I hate it passionately. Only the lonely sparkles of it are charming, even astonishing - like a star in a empty cosmos.

I enjoy variety of musical styles; most of them from the 20th century. My favourite musical instruments are keyboards (any non-digital ones, from the Steinway Grand Piano to Hammond C3 to analogue synthesizers) and I am trying to be a collectioner. As I am passionate more than rich, my collection is not very huge. I'm also playing guitar, bass, mandolin, balalaika and basically anything with strings and without a bow. I'm bleeding my passion in the band that will see a light of a day one day. If you know a interested label, let me know.

My other passion are books and motion pictures; and if I have to cherry-pick from those two art forms, that will be Science Fiction, the bravest literary form done by humans. If I have to zoom even deeper, that will be something called anti-utopia.

I also like art nouveau and Raphaelites; the first one in painting, sculpture, applied art and mostly in architecture; from neo-classicism to novecenta.

Something else, a thing or two: a good comic book, I'm with mainstream here: mostly Italian school: Martin Mystere, Dylan Dog, Allan Ford. I can get to a level of sophistication such is Pratt's Corto Maltese or Foster's Prince Valliant, but these journeys are unfortunately less than occasional.

Amateur philology, when one is willing to debate: origins of Indo-European languages. Subtractive synthesis, for those rare ones Who Know.

That's all I have to say about myself right now.

Peace.

Moris Mateljan

Reviews distribution by sub-genre

	Sub-genre	Nb of reviews	Avg rating
1	Prog Related	65	3.12
2	Prog Folk	29	3.66
3	Symphonic Prog	24	3.67
4	Proto-Prog	22	3.36
5	Jazz Rock/Fusion	21	3.57
6	Eclectic Prog	17	3.24
7	Canterbury Scene	12	3.33
8	Rock Progressivo Italiano	10	3.50
9	Crossover Prog	10	3.90
10	Psychedelic/Space Rock	8	3.13
11	RIO/Avant-Prog	8	3.63
12	Progressive Electronic	7	3.86
13	Post Rock/Math rock	6	3.00
14	Heavy Prog	6	3.50
15	Various Genres	4	3.25
16	Progressive Metal	2	2.00
17	Experimental/Post Metal	2	2.50
18	Zeuhl	1	5.00