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It was again winter, cold and sometimes (but not like last
year) without electricity, water and baths with no bubbles in our gRey
city without a river. Despite that, this wasn’t a weird dream for us or a
source of depression for our music. It seems that the situation which was
suffocating during the album ‘Polaroid’, wasn’t leaving
any bad impressions on us
any more. Did we bEcome
immune from this constant source of depression? We understood that the lack
of those perhaps basic things, was not fit enough for us to achieve the
sensitivity threshold of our creativity.
However, it looks like the endless inspiration that Prishtina gives us is
simply inevitable for incorporation into our music. Even during the lowest
temperatures that reach deep into the marrow. We were in love with PrishTina
more than ever.
‘The girl from Tirana’ was also a co-passenger in our trip, therefore it was
also imposable to avoid the inspiration with sweet Tirana colours. This
album is a virgin symbiosis of PRishtina
and Tirana. At last….
We know perfectly well that it dOesn’t
deserve it, but this time we are going to dedicate more than one paragraph
to the music of mass consumption which is freely permeable to clandestine sounds
ranging from the most scary ones known by nature. We’d just like to point
out that these ‘boat imported sounds’, mainly pseud-oriental in their
nature, continue to preoccupy and worry us. However, these retarded whispers
that some call turbo-folk, but which are capable of digging black
holes in the brain, continue to strengthen our ideal of producing
non-commercial music, which comes out of us sincerely, naked – LAKURIQ. |
As we
promised after finishing our first album ‘Polaroid’, during the
winter of 2004 RetroVizorja
produced its second album ‘Lakuriq’. The work for this album started
based on the abovementioned ideal. Our institutions were again indifferent
and as a result we were forced to encourage ourselves to see the
"Scottish
dragon" again, which made as decide to publish several more songs for the
sake of our fans.
There were two air-travelling devIce
types of trips this time. One of them was again abnormally long and
exhausting while the other one was luckily quite short. Next time maybe
there will be no need for these trips and instead we will save that energy
for live concerts for you.
In “Lakuriq”, RetroviZorja
has shrunk by one of its first members but on the other hand it has been
enriched by our
special guest Elina Duni who left outstanding impressions on us in every
aspect. This album is characterised by a higher dose of our positive energy,
which we hope will reflect to you too.
We thank all those who had the courage and nerves tO
support us during this whole time but most of all we thank our fans.
We would also like to thank
Zana Shehu, DoRian
Ahmeti, Ergin Kuke, Valon Jusufi, Penar MusaraJ,
Fani Kuke and Justin, for their support and whom we forgot to personally
thank in our album cover due to the usual idiotic procedures involved during
the ‘plastification’ of the
Album. |
