{"id":525,"date":"2010-06-06T18:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/?p=525"},"modified":"2011-04-15T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T04:00:18","slug":"a-review-from-funprox-review-may-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"A review from Funprox Review (May 2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not hearing Russian  music daily, but the artists that I&#8217;ve come across  \tso far are usually to my liking. Not that I want to generalize Russian  \tmusic, there is plenty of variety within their underground scene. <strong> Roricat<\/strong>, a  \tnew name for me, is certainly no conventional act. The two members  Julica  \tRorica (voices and &#8218;magic&#8216;) and Eugene T (guitars and machine) weave  minimal  \tbut lovely carpets of sound. <em>Uki Uki<\/em> gives me the impression of a  winter  \talbum, which is enhanced through the white cover and photos of winter  \tlandscapes.<\/p>\n<p>The music is at times a bit abstract, but never devoid of feeling.  Soft  \tfloating guitar sounds, long drones, some bleeps, an occassional human  \tvoice, a few synth lines&#8230; Most of the slowly evolving instrumental  songs  \tare very dreamy. Especially the second one, <em>She Dives With Fireflies<\/em>,  is  \tvery beautiful, it&#8217;s a <em>&#8218;common underwater love story&#8216;<\/em>. All songs are  \tdescribed on the digipack sleeve in a few words or sentences. Although  the  \tmusic seems to be rather serious, the song descriptions are playful.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few songs that I like a bit less, like <em>Washu Theme<\/em>, an   \texperimental track with many bleeps reminding of computer games. This  one  \tdrives me a bit crazy. But this is an exception, most songs convey a  lot of  \tspacious atmosphere, like <em>Perverted Magic User<\/em>, which is also a bit  \tpsychedelic, through the organ-like sounds. The music is slightly  \tmelancholic, but never oppressing and with a lot of air. At times <strong> Roricat<\/strong> sounds estranging, but then again the soothing sounds and drones make  you  \tdrift away.<\/p>\n<p>The song <em>Ice-Cold Blood<\/em> is quite melodic, driven by a slightly  rocking  \tdistorted guitar. But <em>Luna<\/em> slows the pace down again, taking you to a   \tstarry night. <em>Taina <\/em>is quite spacy, dedicated to <em>&#8218;a great computer game  &#8211;  \tUFO by Microprose&#8216;<\/em>. I must confess I never played it, though I used to  be  \thooked on another game from the same makers: &#8218;Microprose Soccer&#8216;. But I  am  \tdrifting away now, and the music is taking me to remote corners  already.  \tLike <em>Astral Creeps Hunter (For Edward)<\/em>, a nice minimal composition  with  \tsparse low guitar sounds and some eerie electronic effects. Although  it&#8217;s  \tnearly summer I&#8217;m still captured by these icy Russians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>This cd was reviewed by HD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not hearing Russian music daily, but the artists that I&#8217;ve come across so far are usually to my liking. Not that I want to generalize Russian music, there is plenty of variety within their underground scene. Roricat, a new name for me, is certainly no conventional act. The two members Julica Rorica (voices and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[39,45],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-roricat","tag-uki-uki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}