Proggin' in communism: Prog in ex-Yugoslavia

Neither are Blue Oyster Cult, Radiohead and other bands but they are still on the site

These bands are not entirely prog yet they have had a prog background and/or were influenced by it. I just posted electricni orgazam as a general idea of the rock music seen in SFRY, i'm well aware that They have nothing to do with prog :P

Nice to see this little thread again. I kept researching around and I'm glad I contributed to get a few older bands here like Na Lepem Prijazni, Miha Kralj and some unknown rarity Dzejbi which I couldn't find any info about. The more I go through history though I don't think there will be anything new prog coming up for the ex-country anymore, not that I won't be coming back to that music, I love a lot of it (I am still waiting though for response from the team on Vladimir Furfuj who made nice fusion after Korni Grupa).

Here's some stuff by a band Don that I found labeled as prog rock but it's a bit cheesy for me; I do I think it has a bit different 80's flavour than art rock bands of the same era (which I like better). Check it out, maybe someone will see some more merit in this.





And I know we're limited on this threads but I do think the 80's still have some hidden if not prog, but nice experimental stuff more related to new wave.





And for something way way back, one single from Kameleoni had a rather nice vintage psychedelic flavour, it's pretty cool,  I hoped it would lead to better things as this kind of stuff proto-prog bands are made of, but they just made beat singles.



Some of them went into Boomerang but I think it's a bit light to be prog.



You were compiling quite of info here Weirdamigo, hope this blog continues

Interestingly, I never thought of Yugoslavia as a "communist" country. I know for a fact that Yugoslavians were never in the Warsaw Pact. I believe they were free to travel abroad and to go to church. The agriculture was in private hands and the businesses ran like employee-owned enterprises in the West rather than being controlled by the Party functionaries. 

True? False?

 

Edited by Argonaught - November 22 2012 at 15:17

The Great Duck wrote: I've also heard stories of people losing their jobs if they went to church, or getting imprisoned for singing nationalist songs. Fortunately, the regime didn't restrict musical creativity that much, which resulted in a plethora of great bands forming in Yugoslavia. I don't know about agriculture and the businesses,...

Edited by Svetonio - November 24 2012 at 06:35

Of course! I know that so many wild drunks have to spend few days in jail because they were screeming Ustani bane or Vojvodo Sindjelicu in death of the night and wake up everybody in a block. Now it's free to do it and now it's an awesome choir that you can't imagine 

Edited by Svetonio - November 24 2012 at 12:21

Hahha, I'm well aware četniks were pro-fascist b*****ds (and I should note I'm a Croat, so I don't support četniks in any way, just to clear that). It's just that they were pro-Allied for a while, but then joined the Germans (although, the German ultimate aim was to eventually disarm them; the Italians were the biggest supporters of the četniks, which led to many protests from both the Germans and the NDH authorities, although both would also collaborate with some četnik units). But as I undestand it, there were several četnik factions in Yugoslavia - the ones led by Draža Mihailović were supported by the Allies until 1943, when they realized that the četniks fought for power in Yugoslavia against the Partisans, rather than collaborating with them against the Axis.
OTOH, the ones led by Kosta Pećanac were Axis collaborators from the very beginning, I believe. But we're getting too off-topic here...

EDIT: That last picture is of četniks with an ustaša officer, right?


Edited by The Great Duck - November 24 2012 at 13:42