Roles We Play is the debut album from Evol Ai - part musical conglomerate project part persona - encompassing a decade long tapestry of music and genre-bending ideas.

We invite you to the musical journey which can also serve as a self-inquiry session, metaphorical reflection of our life journey, where we constantly switch identities and roles, which we play out on the stage of our life. Roles We Play reflects this fact of life thru genre-bending, switching and blending, musical twists and turns, which can break or make our day....But we don't own these roles, no more than space owns the phenomena manifesting in its embrace.

Psychological effect is not guaranteed but if you listen from beginning to the end, it could induce an insight into our internal family system of roles....since Roles We Play is a conceptual album, like a movie if you like...like a life if we are honest....mountains and valleys...

Timbral-wise - Covering a wide musical spectrum - from meditative Setting The Mood and The Missing Beat, thru brokenbeat and trip-hop vibes of Not Knowing, Evolver and Waterstep, continuing via contemplation of stress in Styles Of Stress, getting laid-back with Rutina or experimenting with soundscapes on Sam's Playground and So Many Things, to finally climax with a progressive driven dance tracks of Escalate and Qualia 6, and finish with some uplifting mood of quirky feel-gooders Coming Home and Thank U - it is a journey.

May you be happy & free of suffering ;)

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Roles We Play (LP)

To evolve we may have to let go of our attachments to feeling, form and various kinds of beliefs and worldviews swinging within our perception. The role of the evolver.

Alan Roposa - drums and synth programming, guitar, lyrics
Martin "Martian" Dezman - vocals, lyrics
Peter Lebar - bass guitar

Mastering by Gregor Zemljic (Earresistible Mastering)

Evolver (Part I & Part II)

As we traverse the ebb and flow of live, our idea of how things should be often comes in conflict with how things actually are. Needless to say, escalations of all kinds ensue. The role of the escalator.

Alan Roposa - drums and synth programming, guitar
Vesna Potokar - vocals
Aleksander Varga - bass guitar
Peter Oslaj - keyboards
Maj Meden - solo guitar

Mastering by Gregor Zemljic (Earresistible Mastering)

Escalate

The flow of the water thru ups and downs in the stream of life. The role of the Flow

Alan Roposa - drum and synth programming, guitar, percussions

Mastering by Gregor Zemljič (Earresistible Mastering)

Waterstep

Routine, we can't live without it, yet constantly struggle with it. How to find a balance? The role of the routine

Alan Roposa - drum and synth programming, guitar
Januš Aleš Luznar - vocals, lyrics

Mastering by Gregor Zemljič (Earresistible Mastering)

Rutina

There is always something missing in result when conceptual mind has its expectations. So when we expect 8 beats, there may be only 7 there. The role of the seeker.

Alan Roposa - drums and synths, guitar

Mastering by Gregor Zemljič (Earresistible Mastering)

Roles We Play

The Missing Beat

Intro to the album. Role of the waking wanderer, dawn of light, the twilight between the old night and the new day.

Alan Roposa - drums and synth programming, guitar, vocal
Peter Lebar - bass guitar

Mastering by Gregor Zemljic (Earresistable Mastering)

Intro aka Not Knowing

Evol Ai - Roles We Play debut album OUT NOW!
contact: an.qualia@gmail.com

Be well and wish you happiness, peace and joy ;)

Evol Ai contributing members and musicians:

Alan Ropoša - production, arrangement, guitar, synth guitar, percussions
Aleksander Varga - bass guitar
Peter Lebar - bass guitar
Peter Oslaj - keyboards, vocals
Maj Meden - acoustic & electric guitar
Alja Bulič - poetry and vocals
Ana Bardorfer - vocals
Vesna Forte - vocals
Janus Ales Luznar - vocals
Tomaž Marič - vocals, guitar
Martin "Martian" Dezman - vocals