PEACE LIVE

As it turns out... ROZ VITALIS "Peace" is not a peaceful album at all! This live record is the very definition of musical catharsis; waves of emotion, layers of sound with the only constant being change. The magic here is the ambience, the ominous sounds, the use of flute, smooth keyboards and other contrasting elements laying on top of the growlind sound generated by the rythm section, lots of toms and deep basses in this record. Very heavy moments here and there too, distorted guitar all over the place, sometimes very dissonant and ugly (the best kind of ugly, of course) and sometimes surprisingly bluesy and chill. A real ying-yang-ish record, darkness in light and light in darkness can always be found. These guys do have their own sound and the chemistry live is there, it really is. I strongly recommend this one. Reminds me of Discipline with twists of fusion and the upsetting feeling of inminent danger. As the church organ solo of this record states: "Sorrow and Hope", no other words can describe it better.