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Psychedelic Paul 
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 Topic: Prague Archives - East European ProgPosted: November 11 2019 at 12:00 |
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All of your Eastern European prog favourites from behind the former Iron Curtain (and not necessarily from Prague) including:-
Albania Belarus Bulgaria Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Moldova Poland Romania Russia Slovakia Ukraine Former Yugoslavia (incl. Bosnia-Herzegovina; Croatia; Macedonia; Montenegro; Serbia; & Slovenia) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 31 2022 at 06:25 |
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tamijo_II
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Posted: November 11 2019 at 13:02 |
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Pretty cool video from Romanian Negură Bunget - really like the tribal touch in this track |
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Posted: November 11 2019 at 15:11 |
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Also from Hungary, I like Korai Öröm: From Uzbekistan, I like Fromuz: From Poland, I like Lizard: From Transylvania Romain, I like Tunderground: From Serbia, I like Tripcycle: ...plus countless others.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: November 11 2019 at 15:36 |
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Thanks for all of the video postings from the near east and further afield in Uzbekistan.
I was going to call this blog the "Eastern European Prog-Rock Appreciation Thread", but I thought "Prague Archives" had a nice familiar ring to it.
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tamijo_II
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Posted: November 13 2019 at 08:30 |
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Agreed
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: October 21 2022 at 08:39 |
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As you know, I'm always Hungary for more prog, and having recently had a Czech through some of the best prog that Eastern Europe has to offer, I've Moldova my choices and come to the conclusion that Hungarian band Solaris are one of the best bands of all, with their five albums of Symphonic Prog all Polished to perfection.
  1984: Solaris - Martian Chronicles - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbiPA7oGv3BsnrVHczj4EzYmG712EY-0A 1990: Solaris - Solaris 1990 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhH0kH1xRKY 1999: Solaris - Nostradamus Book of Prophecies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVCDE1maec 2014: Solaris - Martian Chronicles II - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZMdZospH5hdn7EQSqzg8w5D0UpszP3f 2019: Solaris - Nostradamus 2.0: Returnity - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lvqVkxg33PeYjLtxqE68hFBxfeMvOPD3Q |
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David_D
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Posted: October 22 2022 at 04:18 |
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You keep on suprising me, Paul, how much you've been around with your threads, and I'm very glad of this one as well. My fave Prog albums from the former "East European" countries are: Czeslaw Niemen (PL) - Enigmatic (1969), Niemen Aerolit (1975), Katharsis (1976) Marek Grechuta & Anawa (PL) - Korowód (1971) Skaldowie (PL) - Krywań Krywań (1972) Budka Suflera (PL) - Cień Wielkiej Góry (1975) SBB (PL) - 2: Nowy Horyzont (1975), Welcome (1979) Indukti (PL) - S.U.S.A.R. (2004) Riverside (PL) - Out of Myself (2003), Second Life Syndrome (2005) Lunatic Soul (PL) - Lunatic Soul (2008) Fermáta (Slovakia) - Pieseň z Hôľ (1977) Collegium Musicum (Slovakia) - Divergences (1983) Solaris (Hungary) - Marsbeli Kronikak (1984) Kornelyans (Serbia) - Not an Ordinary Life (1974) Phoenix (Romania) - Cantofabule (1975) ”Arsenal” Ensemble (Russia) - Svoimi Rukami / Created with their own Hands (1983) The “Gunesh” Ensemble (former USSR) - Looking At The Earth (1984) Vespero (Russia) - By the Waters of Tomorrow (2010) Edited by David_D - December 31 2022 at 10:19 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Posted: October 22 2022 at 04:47 |
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^ Thanks for the list. I'd completely forgotten about Greece, mainly because I'm old enough to still think of Eastern Europe as being the former communist countries of the old Soviet bloc (ie. Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; East Germany; Hungary; Romania; Poland; & Yugoslavia)
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Posted: October 22 2022 at 05:55 |
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I guess, you're not the only one. |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Posted: October 22 2022 at 06:14 |
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These are some of the great bands I've discovered so far on my prog journey around Eastern Europe:-
Abraxas (Poland) After Crying (Hungary) Collage (Poland) Horizont (Russia) Karfagen (Ukraine) Little Tragedies (Russia) Locomotiv GT (Hungary) Lunatic Soul (Poland) Omega (Hungary) Quidam (Poland) Riverside (Poland) Satellite (Poland) SBB (Poland) Solaris (Hungary)
Strangely, I haven't yet found any prog from Prague, or anywhere else in former Czechoslovakia.  Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 22 2022 at 08:59 |
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Posted: October 22 2022 at 09:38 |
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12 Szabo, Gabor Macho Hun 1975 11 Aphrodite's Child 666 Apocalypse of John Gre 1972 11 Fermata Fermata Svk 1975 11 Fermata Huascaran Svk 1977 11 Flamengo Kure V Hodinkach Cze 1972 11 Igra Staklenih Perli Igra Staklenih Perli Ser 1979 11 Kolyadin, Gleb Gleb Kolyadin Rus 2018 11 Korai Öröm Korai Öröm Hun 1995 11 Methexis Topos Gre 2018 11 Modry Efekt Modry Efekt & Radim Hladik Cze 1975 11 Modry Efekt Svitanie Cze 1977 11 More Experience From Acid Dreams Pol 1997 11 Plastic People of the Universe Kolejnice Duni (Rails Rumble) (1977-1982) Cze 10 Ciccada Harvest Gre 2021 10 Fermata Piesen Z Hol (Songs from Ridges) Svk 1976 10 Igra Staklenih Perli Soft Explosion Live Ser 1978 10 Igra Staklenih Perli Vrt Svetlosti Ser 1980 10 Jolly Joker & The Plastic Beatles of the Universe Heavy, Funky, Boxing n' Roll Cz 10 Kornelyans Not an Ordinary Life Ser 1974 10 Korni Grupa Korni Grupa Ser 1972 10 Leb I Sol Leb I Sol Mac 1978 10 Leb I Sol 2 Mac 1979 10 Metamorphosis Dip Cze 2002 10 Methexis The Fall of Bliss Gre 2012 10 Namyslowski, Zbigniew Winobranie (Wine Feast) Pol 1973 10 Narajama Vytancuj chmury Cze 1996 10 Narajama V Tom Vine Je Nalhano Cze 1997 10 Plastic People of the Universe Pulnocni Mys (Midnight Mouse) Cze 1986 10 Plastic People of the Universe Bez Ohnu Je Underground (Live , Prosinec 1992) Cze 10 Rational Diet Rational Diet Blr 2007 10 SBB SBB I Pol 1974 10 Szabo, Gabor High Contrast Hun 1971 10 Szabo, Gabor Small World Hun 1972 10 Szabo, Gabor Mizrab Hun 1973 10 Szabo, Gabor Rambler Hun 1973 10 Szabo, Gabor Nightflight Hun 1976 10 Vespero Fitful Slumber until 5 A.M. Rus 2015 10 Vespero Shum-shir Rus 2017 10 Weedpecker II Pol 2015 10 Weedpecker III Pol 2018 10 After Crying De Profundis Hun 1996
there are a few in my list: Flamengo is Colosseum-ish Fermata is excellent JR/F at first then veers symphonic after 78 Modry Effekt (changed names a few times) is also JR/F Plastic People is more like Velvet Underground . Edited by Sean Trane - October 22 2022 at 09:44 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: October 22 2022 at 10:17 |
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Posted: October 22 2022 at 11:32 |
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Thanks to Sean Trane for reminding me of Hungarian guitar maestro Gabor Szabo. I've been a big fan of his ever since discovering his wonderful albums on YouTube about ten years ago. I especially Love his gorgeous album of radiant Sunshine Pop in the style of The Mamas and the Papas and The 5th Dimenson. Let the Sunshine In!
 1967: Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers - Wind, Sky and Diamonds - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mbFca54em_LOcNHfV4XH_RVCSTt9di5vI |
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His masterpiece is 1973's Mizrab, which closes with a cover of Seals and Croft's "Summer Breeze" from the same year it was originally released!
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Thanks for all of the great suggestions from David, Sean & Cindy for additions to the Prague Archives playlist below. This whopper of an update is very much a work in progress as there's a large number of bands to add to the list, but hopefully you'll bear with me and Czech back later whilst I Polish up on my knowledge of East European prog. Talking of Whoppers, I'm feeling Hungary now. "Do you want fries with that?"  Abraxas Neo Prog Poland 1996-1999 Absurdcus Eclectic Prog Romania 2011-2017 Actual Music Quartet RSM Post Rock Russia 2007 Acute Mind Progressive Metal Poland 2011-2020 The Adekaem Neo Prog Poland 2015-2021 Aerodrom Prog Related Yugoslavia 1979-2019 Aesthesys Post Rock Russia 2011-2020 Afion Prog Folk Croatia 2008-2020 Apple Pie Neo Prog Russia 2007-2013 Appleseed Crossover Prog Poland 2010-2014 April Rain Post Rock Russia 2013-2021 Apteka Space Rock Poland 1990-2012 Aquarium Prog Folk Russia 1981-2020 Archangelica Crossover Prog Poland 2013-2016 Argo Crossover Prog Lithuania 1980-1985 Arlekin Neo Prog Ukraine 2014-2021 Arlon Neo Prog Poland 2013-2015 Color Crossover Prog Hungary 1978-1982 Colorstar Space Rock Hungary 1998-2019 Laren D'Or Crossover Prog Hungary 1997 Laszlo Benko Progressive Electronic Hungary 1982-2012 Laszlo Hortobagyi Indo Prog/Raga Rock Hungary 1989-2016 All done!  Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 10 2023 at 10:39 |
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Posted: November 07 2022 at 16:08 |
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Latest Addition (discovered literally five minutes ago):-
ARTIST GENRE COUNTRY YEARS ACTIVE
Modern-Rock Ensemble Neo Prog Ukraine 2016-2019 |
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Latest Addition (I only discovered they were from Russia this morning)
 ARTIST GENRE COUNTRY YEARS ACTIVE I Am the Morning Crossover Prog Russia 2012-2019
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Latest Additions (discovered this morning) Antony Kalugin Symphonic Prog Ukraine 2008-2022 Mister Robot Symphonic Prog Russia 2020-2021
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Latest Addition (with thanks to Grumpy)
 ARTIST GENRE COUNTRY YEARS ACTIVE Special Providence Progressive Metal Hungary 2007-2017 With fifty artists currently in the Prague Archives playlist, that leaves me just two cards short of a full deck, so what's new?
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Iva Bittova & Dunaj from Brno, Czech Republic, RIO/Avant, active since 1986 with some interruptions, apparently they even have a 2022 album out, which I haven't heard yet. Their debut album is phantastic, see below. Also later work and Iva's solo albums are well worth checking out. (Does the link work? If not click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BfIaS1AKOI&t=21s ) Edited by Lewian - November 26 2022 at 10:05 |
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