Wax: Singles.EPs

Vladimir Cetkar – We Will Never End

Artist: Vladimir Cetkar
Title: We Will Never End
Label: Harmonia
Genre: Soul/Funk/Nu-Jazz

Mambo. Ballroom. Soul. Funk. Soft Rock. Jazz. Vladimir Cetkar’s EP We Will Never End at first listen could be stereotyped and then, there’s magic. Maybe record label Harmonia Productions knew all along that Berklee College of Music educated Cetkar (pronounced Chet-kar), was their ace in hole. The Macedonian composer and guitarist vocalized, arranged and conducted arranged six libidinously lustful tracks that are erotica for the soul and an aphrodisiac for the mind.

Title track “We Will Never End” opens like an unreleased song from Michael Jackson’s “Off The Wall” but breaks into a sound reminiscent of the Miami Sound Machine. In mere moments the listener listens to a cherry bomb become dynamite, with its pausing tribal dance influences, its call-and-response phrases, and Cetkar’s mellow and breathy tenor. The following track, is also very similar to the Dean Martin 1954 dubbed mambo hit “Sway” and then in an instant, sweeps to a jazzy lounge dance run. But its not until Cetkar hits full falsetto in “All For You,” that would make any pop contemporary bow out of competition. The smooth jazz influence laces the track like angel dust and gives the song wings. By far an effort that is superhuman.

The closing of the record is sound, there’s clarity, and above all, inner peace. There’s a distinctive and temperamental reality to it that makes a statement to the listener: all music is not meant for ringtones and dancing; sometimes it meant to just enjoy. With its jazz-techno upbeat “Ocean of Love,” Cetkar rose-tints the record’s musical vernacular in movement by placing a fun techno record where one may propose a jazz single be and makes the blood stand and salute.

Now that’s real magic.

- Marcus Scott

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