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Vitaly: Looking at the Stars

Composer Vitaly Zolotarev offers a fascinating biography - from Russia to the soundboard at Dawn Raid studios via Uzbekistan. He professes a long held interest in the celestial spheres, electronics and recording technology and this is an instrumental album combining and exploring these interests. There is an element of 'new age ghetto' to the disc, some of the woozy keyboard melodies are saccaharine. Many of the preset keyboard sounds are shrill and brittle and there are tunes informed by twee Euro-disco while the title track veers more to synthesised classical orchestration. On a positive note, individual sounds woven through the disc are interesting - the bleeps and blips of rogue satellites and alien craft (DJ CXL provides scratch breaks on Alien Party) though these are often subsumed by a central synth-harp motif. Two interludes (Breaking Up and Making Up) are comprised of otherworldly sound effects. Waiting and Night employ naked piano themes and benefit from having plenty of their own space to float in - these are the most affecting cuts here. This album may have its best application in an aromatherapy clinic. www.vitalymusic.com for more information.

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