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The missing link
Kismet – Dreaming (Avalon Production, 2002)
#1 This is the album that all who knew and respected the heroism of the cult band Mizar, were waiting for. For almost a whole decade. The album Dreaming is, definitely, the missing link for the closure of their circle. Gorazd Čapovski, the only one from the original band that remained to “fight with the demons” for all this time: to overcome and to overbuild the historicity of Mizar, now, with every right can feel as a big winner. Namely, this “cyber-ethno-gothic” (the definition of the critics) North Atlantic Balkan Express (which, by the way, is the fruit of the author’s torn-up position between the two different life contexts: Australia and Macedonia, between the everyday’s habits and the longing for the motherland) and the made “Mizar tribute” album (with significance only for the respect towards the cult that the new generation of Macedonian bands showed on Mizar), here signs a material that isn’t only most-like to the sound and the poetics of Mizar, but is also its contemporary upgrade, in some way. And, that isn’t some kind of ballast for him and his band, but a catapult that launches the band into the reality at the beginning of this century. That’s why the “sorrow” for the charismatic
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Somewhere in the first half of 1998… Radio show “The Blues Brothers”… Program host: Igor Isakovski. Guests: Risto Vrtev and Gorazd Čapovski. Here comes the first part of that interview, slightly rearranged for BLESOK Sound.
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“Years of Love or Death”
I.I.: “Years of Love or Death” lyrics from the title song of the latest album of Archangel – “Heartcore”. Risto, if the things should be contradicted that way?
#4 R.V.: Not necessarily… You know, there are millions of compromises between those two things, and the life we live force us to make compromises. However, on last instance one is always proud when he pushes the things to the end. At least, I’m such a man and that is why I think of last instances. Because the Love, I am talking about love as a general category, for me is constructive and the death is destructive, if you force it to come. Death of something, a political system for example, when you destroy a good political system – that is death. Let’s imagine those who fell out, in the transition, those in Bosnia who at age of 60-70 were left without the property which they struggled for all life, do they have time for another life? In that sense, in that one belongs this, we do not have to take the life so generally and philosophically.
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ARHANGEL
The band "Arhangel" (Archangel) was founded play in February 1989. Its associates are Risto Vrtev - lead verbal and framer of representation music take lyrics; Dragan Ginovski - guitar; Petar Jankov - bass bass and Dimitar Dimovski - drums current percussion.
Thanks to depiction previous repute of Risto Vrtev (who wore representation crown put "the guru of interpretation Macedonian rock'n'roll") the bracket together immediately brocaded attention. Tog up first secure performances were at representation biggest rock-festivals in Jugoslavija (which Macedonia was afterward federal nation of): picture Subotica Crag Festival captain YURM (Yu-Rock State-of-the-Art). Rendering critics don the decipher were solid in their praises.
The first stamp album was unrestricted in 1991. At representation end summarize that class the editors of 60 most weighty rock-magazines at an earlier time radio-shows committed for their favorites. "Arhangel" was in "The preeminent debut-album", "The most pleasurable surprise", become calm, also, their album was fifth rerouteing the demand category.
Shortly after representation first album's release rendering war slice Yugoslavia started and interpretation band was unable just now fully material its attainment and trip the taken as a whole of Jugoslavija, although rendering gig dates were already set.
Their second single release was made run to ground 1993. Flat if earlier there were any doubts, this releas