RMP "I Am a Stranger in the Earth"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: ArtBeat
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 21, 2020 (digital)
Tracklist: 

1. I Am A Stranger In The Earth (3:46) 

2. For The Sun Of Righteousness (2:52) 

3. On A Factory Of Broken Dreams. (7:20) 

4. Steps. Loneliness In The CrowD. (3:44) 

5. Something HappeneD To My Heart. (6:43) 

6. Blot Out All Mine Iniquities (3:06) 

7. Loss Of Watchfulness (2:38) 

8. Uphold Me With Thy Free Spirit (3:18) 

9. In Forest. А Matter Of ChoicE (5:00) 

10. Strange Area. Something's Wrong Here (6:37) 

11. Summer Haze. Lazy Dreams (3:35) 

12. Night Flight. Еxperience Of LevitatioN (5:15) 

13. X-Mas Child. Innocence And ExperiencE (3:10) 

14. Do Not Postpone For Later (3:04) 

Total Time 60:08

Line-up: 

Yurii Groiser – drums

Max Lokosov – bass

Vladimir Mikhaylov – guitars, percussion, drill, samples

Leonid Perevalov – bass clarinets, clarinets

Ivan Rozmainsky (Roz Vitalis) – keyboards

   With:

Dmitry Chichagov – additional keyboards [1], [9], [10], [13]

Anastasia Mikhaylova - voices

Philip Semenov – drums [9]

Ruslan Sobinin – melodica, acoustic guitar [10], additional electric guitar [9], bass [1]

Ksenia Vaganova – violin

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Roz Vitalis "The Hidden Man Of The Heart"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: Lizard Records (LIZARD CD 0136)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 30, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Someone Passed Over (2:18)
2. Passing Over (LP Version) (6:43)
3. Rhapsody Of Refugees (5:43)
4. Blurred (2:58)
5. Trampled By The Lion And Adder (1:35)
6. Thou Shalt Tread Upon The Lion And Adder (6:44)
7. Passing On The Line (2:02)
8. Disturbed By Jungle (1:56)
9. Jungle Waltz (5:02)
10. Wounded By The Lion And Adder (3:55)
11. Fret Not Thyself Because Of Evildoers (6:58)
12. The Hidden Man Of The Heart (5:13)
13. Some Refugee Passed Over (3:44)
14. Psalm 6 (LP Version) (8:32)

Total Time 63:23

Line-up: 
Vladimir Efimov – guitars
Alexey Gorshkov – trumpets, guitars
Ruslan Kirillov – bass guitar
Vladislav Korotkikh – flutes
Ivan Rozmainsky – keyboards
Philip Semenov – drums
Vladimir Semenov-Tyan-Shansky – guitars
   With:
Danila Danilov – synthesizers
Yury Khomonenko – percussion
Mark Makarov - mandolin
Leonid Perevalov – bass clarinet
    Les-Quartet conducted by Georgy Fyodorov:
Long Fam – violin
Valeriya Kondratyeva – violin
Vyacheslav Agabekov – viola
Sofiya Deynekina – cello

Reviews/Description

 It is most ambitious, grandiose and high-flying opus of the band. It is that this album extremely emphasizes strange combination of memorable/hooking melodies and sophisticated compositional structures with complex system of leitmotivs. Such combination of “familiarity and weirdness” is one of the trademarks of ROZ VITALIS.
Conceptually the album is about spiritual/creative constituent of a person in strange dynamics. Such constituent can be called “The Hidden Man of The Heart”. Often this dynamics can be tragic and dramatic when a person is faced with various temptations destroying his or her spiritual/creative constituent. A person can be Trampled and Wounded by such temptations which can be represented in the terms of The Lion and Adder, Jungle, or just Evildoers. Sometimes such person becomes Refugee in the Blurred and Passed Over. And then all that is left to do is to sing, to cry and to scream – in desperation – Psalm 6!
The style of "The Hidden Man of the Heart" – like any other ROZ VITALIS stuff – can be described as the "Unclassifiable Branch of Prog Rock". However, such tags as "Melodic Avant Rock", “Canterbury Gothic Prog” or "Between Sympho Prog and Avant Prog", are, perhaps, also partly relevant.
Music of ROZ VITALIS is about The Ineffable and The Unfathomable. In particular, it is about human aspiration for The Unapproachable Light. 

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Roz Vitalis "The Hidden Man Of The Heart"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Label: Lizard Records (LIZARD CD 0136)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 30, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Someone Passed Over (2:18)
2. Passing Over (LP Version) (6:43)
3. Rhapsody Of Refugees (5:43)
4. Blurred (2:58)
5. Trampled By The Lion And Adder (1:35)
6. Thou Shalt Tread Upon The Lion And Adder (6:44)
7. Passing On The Line (2:02)
8. Disturbed By Jungle (1:56)
9. Jungle Waltz (5:02)
10. Wounded By The Lion And Adder (3:55)
11. Fret Not Thyself Because Of Evildoers (6:58)
12. The Hidden Man Of The Heart (5:13)
13. Some Refugee Passed Over (3:44)
14. Psalm 6 (LP Version) (8:32)

Total Time 63:23

Line-up: 
Vladimir Efimov – guitars
Alexey Gorshkov – trumpets, guitars
Ruslan Kirillov – bass guitar
Vladislav Korotkikh – flutes
Ivan Rozmainsky – keyboards
Philip Semenov – drums
Vladimir Semenov-Tyan-Shansky – guitars
   With:
Danila Danilov – synthesizers
Yury Khomonenko – percussion
Mark Makarov - mandolin
Leonid Perevalov – bass clarinet
    Les-Quartet conducted by Georgy Fyodorov:
Long Fam – violin
Valeriya Kondratyeva – violin
Vyacheslav Agabekov – viola
Sofiya Deynekina – cello

Reviews/Description

 It is most ambitious, grandiose and high-flying opus of the band. It is that this album extremely emphasizes strange combination of memorable/hooking melodies and sophisticated compositional structures with complex system of leitmotivs. Such combination of “familiarity and weirdness” is one of the trademarks of ROZ VITALIS.
Conceptually the album is about spiritual/creative constituent of a person in strange dynamics. Such constituent can be called “The Hidden Man of The Heart”. Often this dynamics can be tragic and dramatic when a person is faced with various temptations destroying his or her spiritual/creative constituent. A person can be Trampled and Wounded by such temptations which can be represented in the terms of The Lion and Adder, Jungle, or just Evildoers. Sometimes such person becomes Refugee in the Blurred and Passed Over. And then all that is left to do is to sing, to cry and to scream – in desperation – Psalm 6!
The style of "The Hidden Man of the Heart" – like any other ROZ VITALIS stuff – can be described as the "Unclassifiable Branch of Prog Rock". However, such tags as "Melodic Avant Rock", “Canterbury Gothic Prog” or "Between Sympho Prog and Avant Prog", are, perhaps, also partly relevant.
Music of ROZ VITALIS is about The Ineffable and The Unfathomable. In particular, it is about human aspiration for The Unapproachable Light. 

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RMP "For the Light"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: ArtBeat (ab-cd-07-2017-121)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 01, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Wounded By The Lack Of Light. (2:16)
2. Keep No Thou Silence. (2:56)
3. A Dedication To The Floydian Sun. (4:00)
4. Create In Me A Clean Heart. (4:41)
5. The Thing In The Light. (3:14)
6. Dancing Through The Twilight. (3:05)
7. Delivered From The Snare Of The Fowler. (3:54)
8. Irish Shine. (2:51)
9. Coming Of The Troubled Waters. (5:48)
10. A Flower In The Smoke. (4:42)
11. For The Light. (10:35)

Total Time 48:02

Line-up: 
Yurii Groiser - drums
Vladimir Mikhaylov - guitar, bass, drill (2)
Leonid Perevalov - bass clarinets and clarinets
Ivan Rozmainsky (Roz Vitalis) - klaviphon (5, 6), Virus TI2 (3,7,11) and other keyboards
    With
Natalia Fyodorova - gusli
Anastasia Mikhaylova - voices

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Roz Vitalis "Psalm 6"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: September 11, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Psalm 6 (8:32)
2. Trattamento 1 (3:35)
3. The Prophet (6:03)
4. Denial Of Access (3:43)
5. Passing Over (7:07)
6. Trattamento 2 (4:16)

Total time 33:16

Line-up: 
Alexey Gorshkov – trumpets and acoustic guitar
Ruslan Kirillov – bass guitar
Vladislav Korotkikh – flute
Ivan Rozmainsky – grand Bluthner piano, electric keyboards and metallophone
Philip Semenov – drums
Vladimir Semenov-Tyan-Shansky – acoustic and electric guitars
   With
Yury Khomonenko – percussion
Leonid Perevalov – bass clarinet

Description/Reviews: 

“Psalm 6” is the concept EP-album about spiritual quest and emotional upheaval of human being in a situation of strong stress. The title track and “Passing Over” are designed to be in the forthcoming studio full-length album with some adjustments. “The Prophet” is the soundtrack to the very famous opus by poet A. S. Pushkin.
This album is “a wholesale artistic statement” rather than “a bunch of songs”. 33 minutes of sinking into the spiritual world of human being seeking truth in the times of trouble.

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Roz Vitalis "Lavoro d'Amore"

Country: Russia
Genre(s): Instrumental Symphonic, Avant Prog, Psychedelic
Label: Lizard Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 16, 2015
Tracklist: 
1 - The Acknoledgement Day - 4.31
2 - Lavoro D'amore - 4.32
3 - Unanticipated - 5.42
4 - Il Vento Ritorna - 4.03
5 - There are the Workers of iniquity fallen - 5.21
6 - Need for someone else - 6.44
7 - Invisible Animals - 5.11
8 - Every Branch that beared fruit - 4.37
9 - Ascension Dream (Peak version) - 3.45
10 - What are you thinking about? - 8.25
       Part I  - 3.09
       Part II - 5.16
11 - Ending - 3.09

Line-up: 
Ivan Rozmainsky – grand Steinway piano, harpsichord, Hammond RT-5 organ, Tesla Delicia mini 2, Elka Rhapsody 490, other keyboards, metallophone
Vladimir Efimov – electric Gibson guitar
Alexey Gorshkov - trumpet
Yuri Khomonenko - drums and percussion on 5, some drums on 3
Vladimir Semenov-Tyan-Shansky – electric Fender guitar, acoustic guitars, bass guitar on 7
Vladislav Korotkikh – flute and wind, low whistle on 8
Ruslan Kirillov – bass guitar, ukulele on 1
Philip Semenov – drums and percussion

Description/Reviews: 

The newest album “Lavoro D’Amore” starts the new stage of ROZ VITALIS biography. Like four previous full-length studio releases, "Lavoro D’Amore” album contains purely instrumental music. The sound in general is based on the keyboards by Ivan Rozmainsky who is permanent leader of the band, but drums, percussion, bass, electric and acoustic guitars, flutes and trumpet are also very important! This is the most “rockish” album of the band, and it was recorded completely without guests reflecting “concert power” of ROZ VITALIS. The style of "Lavoro D’Amore" – like any other ROZ VITALIS stuff – can be described as the "Unclassifiable Branch of Prog Rock". However, such tags as "Psychedelic Art-Rock" or "Between Sympho Prog and Avant Prog", are, perhaps, also partly relevant. Music of ROZ VITALIS is about The Ineffable and The Unfathomable. In particular, it is about human aspiration for The Unapproachable Light.
"Lavoro D’Amore" means Labor Of Love. What Are You Thinking About? What is it? Our answer is the following.
It is a metaphor of a person’s spiritual way. It is like a path from superficial knowledge to deepest insight. It is an analogue to the road into both the Unanticipated and Ascension Dream. It is a manifestation of both Need for Someone Else and Every Branch That Beareth Fruit. It shows space where There Are The Workers of Iniquity Fallen and Invisible Animals moved. It is a journey from sudden The Acknowledgement Day to Ending of the something very great.
It is just the Ostents of Love."

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Roz Vitalis "Overcoming-Up"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Instrumental Symphonic, Avant Prog, Chamber
Label: Mellow Records
Format: digital
Release date: August 27, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Overcoming-Up (4:21)
2. Madrigal (4:35)
3. Journey Of Possible Forgiver (6:47)
4. Serene Light (4:11)
5. Thorns Of Forgiving (7:23)
6. Claws Of Winter (Blizzard Paths) (20:54)
7. Overcome By Uplift (4:41)

Line-up: 
Ivan Rozmainsky - keyboards, percussion, samples, tenor recorder (4)
Vladimir 'Energoslon' Semenov-Tyan-Shansky - bass
Sydius (aka Igor Pokatilov) - guitar, samples (6)
Vladislav Korotkikh - flute

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Roz Vitalis "Patience of Hope"

Country: Russia
Sub Genre: Instrumental Symphonic, Avant Prog, Chamber
Label: MALS
Release date: September, 2012
Tracklist: 
1. Patience of Hope (6:43)
2. The Unfading Sun (The Loved Version) (2:50)
3. To Stir Up Your Pure Minds (3:10)
4. Seeds Fell Among Thorns (6:17)
5. The Forgiven Monday (3:36)
6. Gorgeous Cliff (1:35)
7. Mother of All Rain (4:28)
8. Confidence (5:53)
9. Dove il Sole E Meraviglia (1:57)
10. Touching Upon the Mystery (8:55)
11. The Unfading Sun (The Loving Version) (3:56)

Line-up: 
- Vladimir Efimov / guitars, keyboards
- Yuru Khomonenko / percussion, drums, accordion
- Ruslan Kirillov / bass
- Philip Semenov / drums
- Vladislav Korotkikh / flutes, harp
- Ivan Rozmainsky / piano, harpsichord, Hammond, keyboards, metallophone
- Vladimir Semenov-Tyan-Shansky / guitars, bass
With:
- Natalia Fedorova / gusli
- Dasha Kosatina / cello
- Grigory Maliev / clarinets
- Fyodor Mazhzhevelov / bassoon
- Ilya Rysin / trumpet, flugelhorn
- Roman Shilepin / sax
- Ilya Ten / cello

Description/Reviews: 

Style of the newest Roz Vitalis studio album titled "Patience of Hope" can be also described as the "Unclassifiable Branch of Prog Rock"; Avant Prog, Sympho Prog, Instumental are, perhaps, the most relevant tags. The conception of the album is about the essence and the mysteries of HOPE. In particular, it is about ability to keep in confidence and maintain endurance in the times of troubles. It is possible when human life has been penetrated with the Unfading Sun. (MALS)

Read reviews in English at progplanet.com and in Russian at soundvoyager.blogspot.com

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