QUIA NESCIUNT QUID FACIUNT

Roz Vitalis is a Russian band formed in 2001, whose main composer Ivan Rozmainsky needs no introduction to the world of modern progressive rock. The band has many albums behind them, but they attracted special attention with the albums that were released through Lizard Records: "The Hidden Man of the Heart" (2018) and "Lavoro d'Amore" (2015). In 2023, they return with a new album called "Quia Nesciunt Quid Faciunt", which was also released through Lizard records. The translation of the album name is "they know not what they do", and the name is inspired by the horrible and negative vents in the world. As for the music, the band continues the series of successful albums, and we have a very high-quality album filled with many fantastic compositions.

Musical ideas lie somewhere between eclectic, chamber, RIO/Avant, symphonic prog and Jazz. Throughout the music, the band repeatedly combines interesting harmonics, repetitive notes and chord patterns, with very complex ideas, and in this way they get a combination of a very demanding authentic soundscape and an immensely atmospheric, even hypnotic landscape, which is based on a very disciplined approach. Mathematically precise variations of sound patterns produce the desired effect and pieces seem light-footed and intense at the same time. A somber, dark atmosphere is interspersed with more meditative passages, made up of gentle arpeggios, but all that changes and becomes bombastic with a much more sustained and aggressive rhythm section. The amount of work done on keyboards is immense but directly proportional to the wonder that these pieces generate, between dry breaks and interweaving with a guitar and trumpet that create heavy, dreamy, and slightly atmospheric parts. The music is densely layered and tantalizing to decompose and reassemble in one's mind, listening after listening, melodic drawings are clearly intelligible, the atmospheres are enveloping and the symphonic elements are fantastic, rich but unobtrusive or unnecessarily gaudy.

The emotional level through compositions is capable of sudden and passionate outbursts, moments of profound tension and restlessness, as well as unexpected sweetness in evoking confused, distant emotions. The passion, mixed with sweetness and a constant sense of emotional tension runs throughout the entire album. The music gradually twists into a kind of spiral in which we have continuous flows of sounds. All in all, he pieces are expanding every idea to the maximum. The music is introspective and mysterious, but always with a thread of suspense that however preludes more stormy solutions with sounds that begin to roll gradually, increasing their power. Turning melodies into musical phrases, and the small oscillations of the melody around the same axis make the compositions flowing and direct, perfectly outlining that complex and layered ideology that the band wants to show us.

"Premonition" in its nine minutes shows all the power of the band, it begins with a melancholic-chamber motif, which leads its melodic structure very briefly and then comes to the thematic resolution and the band overturns and brings first-class, astounding harmonic solutions and wild escapades that complement each other perfectly, so there are many musical solutions that will leave you amazed with diverse spread of surprises. The album flows through an immense abundance of powerful prog vitalities, there is melancholy, dark harmonies, atmospheric/hypnotic phases, and subliminally bubbling abysses in the powerful instrumental language of this inspired band. Every quiet and loud note is full of passion and this album deserves your time.