Yugoslavian/East European progressive

Mandrakeroot wrote: I have bought 'Endless View' By bodan Arsovski. The music of this album is a photocopy of Pat Metheny music!

Have not listened this one, do you mean "photocopy" in a positive or negative sense?

I'm really enjoying the album 2005 by Korai Orom, who I believe are from Hungary.

^^ Moris' recommendations are great, but there are many more interesting music acts in all former YU republics, not all could qualify as prog but nonetheless.. I personally like (I grew up with it) post-punk and new wave scene of early 1980s, but also some of the underground music  in late 1980s.

I'll do!

Hi Moris,

Edited by Andrea Cortese - June 25 2008 at 14:08

Mandrakeroot wrote: Seyo wrote: OK, I just had to warn you...     We miss! In any case I have to admit that even Gibonni produces good music (not Prog... But even Heavy Metal... And with its previous experience...).   The fact is that I love music of the former YU and when I see some photos in the CD cover ... Why not try to hear something of different?   Also in ZLATKO PEJAKOVIĆ PJEVAT ĆE SLAVONIJA , 2006   is not present one second of Prog (9 songs in 10 are re-arranged traditionals). But I find it a great CD!     Certainly I listen also Immortal and similars but... All good music is worthy of being heard!

MG, Mandy, you really started listing some bizarre artists! I guess it sounds exotic to your ears, but it has an effect on me like recommending Garth Brooks to an American

It seems you are often in Histria..next time when you or some your compatriots arrive, pop in for a cup of coffee or beer...now I live in Parenzo!

However, if you're interested in not necesserily prog, but good rock of ex-Yu,  here are a few recommendations:


Gustafi, a nice blend of tex-mex rock and Istrian folk music!


Atomsko Sklonište/Atomic Shelter, nice Black Sabbath style hard rock bordering prog!


Vještice, a bizarre combination of Croatian continental folk and weird post-wave rock. Debut album recommended. Prog, too.


Demolition Group, a Slovenian heavy prog with jazzy brass section.


Haustor: a new wave/world music band. Their "Treci svijet" ("Third World") is the best Croatian rock album ever. Period.


If you like new wave with artsy attitude, Serbian IDOLI is not to be missed.


Letu Štuke, IMHO  the best contemporary Bosnian band. Very eclectic pop rock!

And for the end, two candies from Istrian peninsula:



Franci Blaskovic: a bizarre noise/avant songwriter that is recording on average three albums per year, for the last 20 years. His mixture of languages and Istrian dialects is equally undecipherable to both Italians and Croats!


Tamara Obrovac & Transhistria Ensemble: extraoridnary jazz/world music comparable with Sardinian jazz-folk scene, with moments of unique prog-folk complexity, comparable only to Gentle Giant!!






Edited by clarke2001 - June 25 2008 at 07:21

OK,

Ah, please Mandy, this is prog rock site! Try to keep these things as far as possible from here... 
Yeah, she is sexy but that's about all you should know about her
And Bregovic did produce more than one horrible things in music, including some with Dugme.
There is good pop music and there is cheap pop industry products. This is not good pop music.

I've read the reviews. Very well done, Mandy.

Edited by Andrea Cortese - June 16 2008 at 12:20

Seyo wrote: That's why we are here to try to promote less known prog music all around the world and to uncover some oldies but goldies from the past. Yugoslavia (and probably many other "eastern countries") were not too open to the western audience back in the days of "cold war", so it is interesting to dig out some very good but almost unknown artists. I will personally try to listen to some major east european bands from that era too. And can you imagine I don't even know much about Italian prog - I have one Le Orme album and that's it! :(