Prague Archives: East European Prog

Now I've listened to half of "Friend or Foe?", but I better not T..Talk about what I think. 

ACTUAL MUSIC QUARTET RSM   A classically-trained foursome from Russia who make what they call "actual music", but here at Prog Archives, we call it Post-Rock. Not a bad album if you ignore the unlistenable fourth track, which is somewhat challenging for my conservative tastes. 

AESTHESYS    Aesthetics concerns the principles and appreciation of beauty, and if you're in the mood for some soothing post-communist Post-Rock, then look no further than the aptly-named Russian band Aesthesys, and listen to them make beautiful music together. 

AFTER CRYING    The best thing to emerge from Budapest since The Blue Danube and the second-best-known Symphonic Prog band from Hungary. Ideal music for listening to after chopping onions. 

ALAMEDA 5    A spaced-out band from an unpronounceable town somewhere in Eastern Europe, so if you guessed this band are Polish, you guessed correctly. They're as spacy and spicy as Polish sausage, so if you like the sound of tripped-out Space Rock, then Alameda 5 are right up your galaxy.  

Amazing band and the Jerzy Antczak solo albums are stunning as well

ALTERNATIV QUARTET    Beware of vampires, as this post-communist Post Rock band are from deepest, darkest Transylvania, but at least there's no need to fear Ceausescu and his dreaded Securitate, as this band came along twenty years after the fall of the Romanian communist regime. Alternativ Quartet came to national attention in the Stuffed Sock festival (presumably the Romanian equivalent of Pop Idol) in 2009, but they remained virtually unknown in the rest of the world. Until now, that is. 

AM FOST LA MUNTE SI MI-A PLACUT     I Climbed the Mountain and Loved It, is the intriguing English translation of this Romanian band's name. This Post-Rock band are no strangers to Metal Archives and they also won a Romanian Metalheads Award for best new band, so if you like your post-communist Post Rock on the heavier side, then this is the band for you. Their music is probably not worth climbing a mountain to hear though, in all honesty, as they sound like so many other Post Rock bands of the same ilk, so it all gets to be much of a sameness. Anyway, with that said, their latest 2022 album hasn't yet made its way onto ProgArchives, so you can hear it here first on this blog - if you so wish.