CORNELIU CEZAR - Ziua Fără Sfârșit LP Power Pop

CORNELIU CEZAR - Ziua Fără Sfârșit LP Power PopComposer Corneliu Cezar (1937 1997) was a distinctive personality within the Romanian post 1960 avantgarde: a visionary of music, a thinker and a prophet, a richly gifted artist also active with writing, poetry, painting and astrology. Cezar was an activist rediscovering the natural resonance of sound within a different historical context and he embraced the recovery of authenticity as a reaction against the artificialized culture of serial doctrines.

while inverting the trope of the “sad dude singer accompanied by a homogenous girl-sound

" This eclectic sampler of 20 "tips of the tongue"—from outsider synth to psych-folk to broken rock 'n' roll

who will be hooked and then hungrily consume it

emotional mess we’re often in as a method of upending the power structures who need things to be perfect

esoteric synth asides in the label’s time-honoured tradition

‘Don’t Wish’ was inspired by a jazz chord progression that was a favourite

The Dead C's trio of LPs in the middle of their harsh 90's reality served for many as entry points to the band

sometimes crashing and burning

The album opens with an arrangement of “Arabian Nightingale” from Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell’s seminal reunion album

for which the Berlin quintet plus one has created its own genre in 2024: apm – alien pop music

amongst numerous other accolades

There are moments in these pieces that feel like stepping out at twilight as a single nightjar begins its song