Russian Prog Appreciation Thread

 

 

I purchased Aviva / Rokus Tonalis,  Disen Gage / Libertage, Lost World / 1st & 2nd in 2007. And I will buy Infront / Wordless, Little Tragedies / The SIxth Sense as soon as I can.

Also Karfagen's 2nd seems interesting ! I wish to get it

 

When I read Honganji his post I discovered that Russian band Aviva is still not added to Prog Archives. Here's a review about their debut-CD entitled Rous Tonalis I translated into English from the Dutch site Progwalhalla I also write for:

 

Aviva is a brandnew (2007) Russian musical project in which multi-instrumentalist Aviva is the prime mover, he plays Grand piano, keyboards, bass, samples and programmed drums and percussion. The instrumental music has strong echoes from bombastic keyboard driven prog like ELP and Japanese Gerard featuring a powerful Hammond sound, fluent piano runs and flashy synthesizer flights, very spectacular. The song The Valse At The End Of Times delivers a guest-musician on guitar, he gives a very powerful touch to the music with raw and propulsive guitar work. Some tracks sound quite experimental with soaring keyboards and weird voices. Although it's obvious that Aviva uses programmed drums and percussion, in  my opinion he did a decent job with it, I have heard lots of worse examples! If you like keyboard driven prog some experimental excertions, this is an interesting CD!

 

 

 

By the way Prog-jester, you can e-mail Hans from Progwalhalla about Aviva, I have borrowed that album from him.

Hello

 

for anyone in Canada you can get the new Gourishankar album through only http://www.unicornrecords.com/open.html