Yugoslavian/East European progressive

Dear fellow members.

As a member of this forum from Croatia which is former Yugoslavian republic I recommend all  prog rock bands from former Yugoslavia like:

1.Time:  Time 1 (1972) + Time 2 (1974)  from art to hard prog great arrangments and vocals.

2. Drugi Nacin/Nepocin - Albums Drugi Nacin (1975),  Svijet po kojem gazim(1977) under the name Nepocin.  HArd prog with flutes and high pitched vocals- 1st LP is between J.Tull, Wishbone Ash (Argus) and Deep Purple with Gillan- 2nd LP inder the different name is great Hard Prog LP with nice guitar and flutes work.

3. Yu Grupa  -1st  and 2nd - POwerul trio combination of hard  and folk rock in Balkan way.

4.Korni Grupa- 1st LP (1972), Not an ordinary life (1974), Mrtvo More (1975), 1941 (1979) .   Long tracks- complex arrangments- brilliant musicians-original approach.

5.Folk prog bands  like Trio Dag, Porodicna Manufaktura,Sedmina,  Kladivo Konj In Voda and Tomaz Pengov.

6.Many others like   heavy psych of IGRA STAKLENIH PERLI , or  BULDOZER

   DAH, IZVIR, OPUS, POP MASINA,  SMAK, TAKO and many others.

Have a nice day.

Mike

 

Yes, Tako has 2 albums   Tako 1 (1978)  i "U vreci za spavanje"(1979) both  fully progressive with dominated organs and melotrons-slightly sympho fusion overtones.

KOrnelyans is ENGLISH name for Korni grupa which they used on "Not an ordinary life" LP which has been issued nad recorded in ITALY and sung with English lyrics.

MIke

I would like to say that Leb i Sol (in english Bread & Salt) is pretty prog rock, more exact, fusion jazz + folk rock. It's one of the greatest bands from Balkan and Stefanovski is one of the best guitar player of the world. John McLaughlin in some parts was instructed by him. McLaughlin prefer etno style music.

Maybe I'll put some words in cyclopedia and few mp3..

Cheers!!

Listening to a compile of East European prog ... mainly ex-Yugo .... Druci Nacin, Korno Grupa, Nepocin, Smak ... good stuff ...

Anyone got a Top 5 list of Yugo/East European prog albums ... I've great things about Tako

Many years ago I visited Croatia (half a year before the problems started badly) and bought a lot of LP's: agaiin and again I asked for music like Pink Floyd and Genesis, nobody knew the term progressive rock! Only Leb I Sol was a kind of progrock, most was more commercial rock, I will search for those albums, cannot find them at this moment.

Time is great, wonderful Hammond organ play, a bit Sixties undertone.

By the way, I hope Plitvice has survived the problems from the war, one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world with all those trees, wooden paths and cascades!

Has anyone heard of the band Mech from Poland?  I know that's more Central Europe than East, but I have two of their albums Tasmania and Bluffmania which are pretty good and unique.  They were both put out in 1983 which if I'm not mistaken was the period of the rise of the Solidarity movement and the imposition of martial law.  Interesting that they were able to write progressive rock music through all this turmoil.  

Time,Smak,Yu grupa,Leb i Sol,Buldozer,Korni Grupa,Partibrejkersi,EKV,TEK and maybe more of them are the best bands of Yugoslavia.

Who would know that Malaysians listen to Yu-Rock or anything from the Balkans.Cheers for that!!

Seyo wrote: What is TEK? Never heard...

Me neither

erik neuteboom wrote: By the way, I hope Plitvice has survived the problems from the war, one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world with all those trees, wooden paths and cascades!

Fortunately Plitvice survived, I've been there 2 years ago, really wonderful place.

Bijelo Dugme, of course. There is no point in listening Yu rock and not starting with Bijelo Dugme since they are the most popular rock band, kinda Yu Beatles and great deal of the rock is done using them as a referent point. Their music has lot of folk and symphonic, space and punk elements can be found as well. In fact, their music has so much folk that because of that they are considered commercial in Yugoslavia, i.e. environment where that kind of folk is much more popular than rock. In other environment folk elements actually make their music look less commercial. Go here and download "Kad bi bio bijelo dugme", and tell me what do you think - and that's only the beginning of their story.

Also Indexi, Galija are not mentioned here yet.