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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2008 at 10:26
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2008 at 10:34
I had my first taste of Yugoslavian Prog today with Modra Rijeka from Indexi.
 
Brilliant ... I will have to go looking for more! Thumbs%20Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2008 at 13:04
Finally I have a few seconds (and there are no thunder and lightning!) So that I inform you about my latest acquisitions of former YU Prog (bought Saturday morning in record shop in Nova Gorica, Slo):
 
1) Bijelo Dugme: "Eto! Bas Hocu!"
2) Josipa Lisac: "The Platinum Collection"
3) Grupa 220: "Nasi Dani"
4) Grupa 220 & Drago Mlinarec: "The Ultimate Collection"
5) Vlatko Stefanovski: "Kula Od Karti"
6) Leb I Sol: " Kolekcija 1983.- 1989. (5 CD box with: "Kabalak", "Tagenta", "Zvucni Zid", "Kao Kakao" and "Putujemo")
 
Tomorrow afternoon I put the titles not present in PA, also because Grupa 220 (first group of Drago Mlinarec) I like too much and I want to do immediately review and Josipa Lisac is too good in the old songs!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2008 at 17:52
Super, waiting for your reviews... Thumbs%20Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 09:50
Originally posted by Seyo Seyo wrote:

Super, waiting for your reviews... Thumbs%20Up
 
thanks, Seyo!
 
FORMER YUGO PROG IS SUPERB!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 12:32
Today I've inserted:

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Nasi Dani (by Grupa 220)
in Drago Mlinarec discography And I produced a review:
 
and:
In this moment I listen to for the first time the 2nd CD... Great music... but I have to evaluate it better!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 12:53
Hm, never considered Nasi Dani for inclusion because it is not solo by Mlinarec, but band Grupa 220 album. On the second thought it is very important album in exYU and has enough proto-prog qualities to be included.

Thank also for adding Josipa's compilation CD! Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 14:39
Originally posted by Seyo Seyo wrote:

Hm, never considered Nasi Dani for inclusion because it is not solo by Mlinarec, but band Grupa 220 album. On the second thought it is very important album in exYU and has enough proto-prog qualities to be included.

Thank also for adding Josipa's compilation CD! Clap
 
Thanks, Seyo!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2008 at 15:11
My last Ex YU review is this:
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2008 at 06:38
Thanks Mandy!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2008 at 09:39
an interesting BIJELO DUGME - Sta bi dao da si na mom mjestu is this:
 
5%20stars This is a terrific record, in my humble opinion. I have the recent remastered cd issued by Croatia Record and I have to say the audio quality is really superb. The album is made of seven tracks, between 2 and 7 minutes, curiously with longest titles each as it's common in the first part of the band's discography.

Sta Bi Dao... is the second record of the yugoslavian glory Bijelo Dugme, a band that justly can be considered at the top of the rock classic experience in that area. One of the members is also well known in the western countries: it's a certain Goran Bregović who was then at electric guitar.

Musically, the album deserves its own place in this site. It's a sort of mix between heavy prog and balkanic rythms thanks also to the wonderful vocals of the singer Željko Bebek.

The opener is particularly strong and it's a short but intense ride toward a pompous majestic crescendo thanks to heavy guitar and moog synthesizer. Wonderful and exciting the final part. The keyboards element is not dominant and it's based, for the most part, on hammond organ. Fortunately, moog appears here and there giving tinges that only a heavy prog band knows how to do.

Balkanik roots are also quite evident in the track Hop-Cup which is built upon a folkish rythm even if not too far from the general mood of the album. This is probably the most interesting quality of the record (rectius of the band) and it shows its apotheosis in the self titled closer which features all the best: choral, pompous and majestic heavy prog alternating with softer parts with some sparse mediterranean flavours (the keyboards-flute-effect reminds me of traditional arias from Neaples). Marvellous and sad vocals for the band's high manifesto. Acoustic guitars in the opening and final sections give the sense of that pastirski rok (sheperd rock), expression used to describe their music during the seventies.

The middle part of the album continues the similar formula of the explosive opener: Ne Gledaj Me Tako... and, above all, Požurite Konji Moji are simply superb and very well performed. Great heavy guitar riffs helped by fabulous moog impulses. Bekrija Si, Cijelo Selo Viče is perhaps the less original of the album due to its rock-and-roll clear inspiration. Another excellent number, though.

My final evaluation is justly high. When you listen to such a thing you cannot really deny it has to be called a classic. In my opinion it's even better than the acclaimed (and excellent too) Bitanga i Princeza. That's for its more refined heavy prog sound which is far from coming close to a true prog related item.

The band is still active but I think Bregovic is out. Some weeks ago I saw in Histria posters of their actual tour in Croatia... the tour is titled... Sta Bi dao...haven't got the opportunity to see them performing live. What a pity. These guys really rock!

(written by Andrea Cortese, my friend)
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2008 at 01:10
Thanks, Mandy!!Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2008 at 10:20
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Thanks, Mandy!!Tongue
 
Since I discovered the progressive music of the former YU I could not do without love and promote it.
Certainly it must be said that in many countries is not easy to find albums of Yugo Prog (and in general album of artists/ bands of former YU countries).
 
Thanks also to my work Prog Italian today is loved and appreciated. I hope one day might happen the same for the former YU Prog. Also because deserves great respect!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2008 at 07:34
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! :( 
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Originally posted by Seyo 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! :( 
 
Wise words, Seyo!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2008 at 12:19
I've read the reviews. Very well done, Mandy.
 
I'm intrigued by Eto! which I missed during my latest holydays in Histria.
 
I hope to write and cast my review on Bitanga i Princeza soon. I find that Sta bi dao... is slightly superior than that 'cause its purest rock-heavy prog vein and a less commercial vein. It is still a powerful and wonderful record and I think I will rate it with 4 stars at least.
 
I also want to review the latest Leb i Sol record Itakanataka but I have't got enough time to listen to it deeply.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2008 at 12:31
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

I've read the reviews. Very well done, Mandy.
 
I'm intrigued by Eto! which I missed during my latest holydays in Histria.
 
I hope to write and cast my review on Bitanga i Princeza soon. I find that Sta bi dao... is slightly superior than that 'cause its purest rock-heavy prog vein and a less commercial vein. It is still a powerful and wonderful record and I think I will rate it with 4 stars at least.
 
I also want to review the latest Leb i Sol record Itakanataka but I have't got enough time to listen to it deeply.
 
Watch... I also discovered Pejakovic as soloist... Lately has thrown in Folk... Good music... But POPs.
 
Then I discovered Severina... POP... But %20 (Zdravo Marijo, Dallas Records, 2008) is write (not all song) and produced by Goran Bregovic! The style is POP with some Balkanian Folk athmospheres. Nothing of special but Severina is too sexy woman!
 
 
my other two Severina release in my possess are:
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2008 at 13:39
Ah, please Mandy, this is prog rock site! Try to keep these things as far as possible from here... Thumbs%20Down
Yeah, she is sexy but that's about all you should know about her Censored
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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2008 at 04:44
Originally posted by Seyo Seyo wrote:

Ah, please Mandy, this is prog rock site! Try to keep these things as far as possible from here... Thumbs%20Down
Yeah, she is sexy but that's about all you should know about her Censored
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.
 
Uhm... Ok! (But I'm noticing that in this thread write only three persons: I, you and Andrea C.!!!
This is the real problem, not if I have promoted music that has nothing to do with the Prog spirit!)
 
Severina music please me! HeartHeartHeartHeartHeart
Severina please me! HeartHeartHeartHeartHeart
 
And... Yes, this is a Prog site. But when I discover musicians who have talent ... I like to report them. Thumbs%20Up
 
In any case: Prog never die in my heart! Thumbs%20Up
 
P.s.: I hope that you have understood what I wanted to say with the post that has generated all this discussion!
 
P.s. 2: End of this discussionLOLBig%20smileTongueEmbarrassedSmile!
 


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