(Progressive Rock) Jozef Skrzek - Ojciec Chrzestny Dominika - 1980, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

J. Skrzek Ojciec Chrzestny Dominika is probably his most proud solo effort, right in a period of strengthening his old habits and fine tastes into an individual art. It’s a complex album, by default as well as by touch, giving a progressive satisfaction, but also showing that Skrzek’s music is not resumed to clear or steady tones – which means a more or less awe-inspiring and generous experience. The classic feeling of music and rock can’t un-relate, at least in some way, to S.B.B.’s full storm of music and classic prog (down the 70s), but Skrzek, the master-keyboardist and the visionary composer, writes, as soloist, in a good distinct way. Plus, right on this album, his means are vibrating quite different flavours every couple of minutes, reuniting afterwards the essential into a clean, mature, aroused (at times) and pronounced music – with lyrical inspiration from J.Matej, Skrzek himself offers a slick formidable range of instrumental music, with styles being a natural feeling of music and motion.

Ojciec Chrzestny Dominika deserves a walkthrough – most ideal, though, it’s an album to be fully discovered by each.

Zacmienie Slonca An organ introduction, with a pretty clear symphonic (or orchestral) surround and sound, propulses a first theme of lyrical and vocal qualities, being a lovely tune, but, as genre, a pop (with some kind of sense that could be called western) refined song.

There's a first climax, with some heavy guitars making the music heavy, rock (I even feel like Led Zep are riffing) and, generally, with an artistic incense.

After about 5 minutes since the beginning, the music's back in some strange, harmonic, heavy atmosphere, with windy voices, symph basses, a ragged harmonica and a general intermittent mood. Some orchestral harmonies are back, they can be called new-age, if you think of, let's say, Wakeman's classic (and well-produced) fantasies and concepts. But I'd call "something" from it a mixture of symphonic and art rock-ish.

8 and a half minutes past and there comes a first sample of more popular and suave rock, along new-age artificial small sense. A bit of vocal fantasy or amorality evolves again, keeping this movement as tight as possible within neo-symphonic and pop-fusion. A bit of Polish poetry is flourished, naturally (or, least to say, the lyrics and language are very consistent, it can occasionally find a simple folk dark root).

Nothing particularly happens till an abrupt "complication" and "rhythm spandle", mark 13 minutes, that can be called pop, rock slippery composition or a new-age powerful dance. But, yet again, it sounds more artistic. Or difficult, as to contrast the previous melancholic, oozy harmony melody.

The finale itself is not my favorite kind of an instrumental flabbergast, but it fits an Art Rock kind of composition - and it has all the common elements that, so far, shined; new-age, neo-symph, guitar emotional fizz, atmospheric fantasy and "drama sounding". Essentially, this first movement, very much into fantasy or simple intensities, is keen to the symphonic (or neo-symphonic) passionate compositions.

Toczy Sie Kolo Historii The first minutes start mildly with a flow, though in a way we can count it as artistic. A bit of synthesizer atmosphere does the trick, revising some new-wave with a bit of melody rock.

The main theme (or the first of the main themes) has, at first, a choral impulse, but then draws into a beat 'n' rich rock influence, something that, along with the vocals themselves, resembles Pink Floyd. In the background, there remain some melodic/artificial synthetic effects. This entire passage is, in my opinion, the most interesting when it is multi-layered or gives a more heavy impression. It is, therefore, not perfect, but only powerful, art rock mixing neo.

The intermezzo between these deep thoughts (here, it is marked 8 1/2 minutes) is already not surprising, generally it fits new-age and atmospheric rock. But right here I also hear a bit of personalized fusion, since within all the complex synthetic surround there's a guitar (or a bass guitar) gorgeousness. The fantasy lines are back, in heavy rhythms.

10 minutes mark brings the first Alan Parsonish moment that can be fully recognized, but all the music and melody idea(l)s could count for a neo-symph disusing tune. A second theme significantly arises, being full of harmonica rock, melody rock, powerful (but popular) lyrics and oozing dreamy fusion. In my opinion, the most unprogressive moment the album has.

The finale is something dolce, nothing spectacular, but again more artistic than usually taken or felt like. Some conceptual themes burn slowly one more time, other gearing melody express the end of a complex album. Variety is also a sole quality.

Not a masterpiece by regular patterns, Ojciec Chrzestny Dominika is nevertheless a huge album in Skrzek’s solo career. It can count often.

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