VITALY
Looking at the Stars
(c) (p) 2006 Vitaly Zolotarev
10tks/50mins

What will you see
In the endless expanse of stars?
Whose song in their phantasmal lights
Are you predestined to hear?...

Whenever you happen to be, at whichever world’s end you are predestined to find yourself there you are and there a boundless sky and a luring, flickering glitter of far stars are as well. You need only to raise your head and gaze at the night sky, and here they are luring you, waiting for you and their light is blessing your way. You just should pluck your courage up and glance at the bluish black sky in which endless emptiness all your sorrows and fears will disappear, and you will find strength to go on living and creating…

“Looking on the Stars” is the music of night meditations and aching loneliness that is strangling your throat and squeezing your heart. These are tunes of tender reminiscences and a frightening uncertainty of the future. In Vitaly’s music there is a suffering caused by some loss and an intolerable sadness of a parting when you have to bid your farewell to the past and you realize that something shall go away from your life for good together with this past and these people. And on parting, however hard you try to brace and console yourself, you leave a small part of your soul forever… And things that happened to be will never recur again… And a clear perception of all this will never leave you in peace… You accept a cruel inevitability of partings and can do nothing with it. And you would like to rush through icy cosmos expanse where amidst unknown and dazzling beautiful stars you will perhaps find again all your beloved to whom you had already said goodbye for ever and ever…

The first thing I would like to say about the “Looking at the Stars” album is that Vitaly is a brilliant melodist. His music is harmonious and arranged correctly from the compositional standpoint. It is emotional and sincere. Moreover this music is very personal, it cannot be taken for any other music. The use of various modern techniques cannot jam the beating of the composer’s living heart.

The “Looking at the Stars” album goes back to the best works of present-day masters of electronic music belonging to the European school such as Dom F. Scab, Frank Van Bogaert and Ron Boots. And at the same time Vitaly creates his own special style. His expressiveness imparts a special charm to the album, making it part and parcel of all-earth, universal music in which the most different and outwardly contradictory trends are deeply intertwined.

The “Looking at the Stars” album is a glaring example of modern electronic music.

Serge Kozlovsky
http://sergekozlovsky.com

P.S. Translated by Tatyana L. Permyakova.