are there any Russian prog bands?
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Topic: are there any Russian prog bands?
Posted By: Aaron
Subject: are there any Russian prog bands?
Date Posted: December 07 2004 at 11:41
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any good ones?
Aaron |
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: December 07 2004 at 11:46
| Horizont, I believe is Russian. Summer in Town is a beautiful recording. Read Peter's review, he hits the nail squarely. |
Posted By: Prog_Bassist
Date Posted: December 07 2004 at 17:58
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RUSHian? eh?eh?eh? eh?
eh? ------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: December 07 2004 at 19:45
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Russ, Ian and Frenchie ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: December 08 2004 at 06:15
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Horizont most certainly, also check out their second album recorded a couple years after Summer In Town, The Portrait Of A Boy - which suggests that with the success of the first record, the Soviet bureaucracy allowed Horizont access to a completely different set of instruments giving them a more modern if hasher synth sound. Strictly Horizont recorded these albums pre-glasnoz so they would have been called a USSR band - and so with broadened horizons of the former USSR I also suggest Gunesh: a Turkmenistan group - the drummer of who attracted Peter Gabriel's attention in the late 80's. There is an interesting Central Asian take on prog with their first album, which occasionally suggests a rocked up Shakti, but they were to go slightly techno in the second. I think the Russian label Melodica has reissued both the Horizont and Gunesh albums in the last 5 or 6 years on CD.
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danbo wrote:Posted By: Emperor
Date Posted: December 08 2004 at 07:10
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Good day to all! Regarding the question I've just joined this forum today The thing is that I'm just from Russia (Moscow) and I can say something about the music from here. Unfortunately, the total most you can hear here is... eeeh... I even don't know how to call it easily... You better don't listen anything from post-USSR without suggestion of the man who listened it. In another case you can get a huge nervous breakdown, because there's not Rock Music (in right sense) at Russia at all! Yes, I've heard some good words about Horisont and also the Band named Dialog, but never heard their records - it's quiet impossible to find them here, because nobody likes Progressive Music (even simply good Rock Music!) in this country! Only several exeptional persons... But I can recommend to you really excellent band from Estonia - In Spe - they recorded a couple of wonderful albums at 1983 and 1984. I have these rare records on MP3 format... And especially I recommend to all Prog-Fans two instrumental albums of Vitaliy Menshikov's (who's the owner of very large Prog resource http://www.progressor.net - www.progressor.net and also the collaborator of several other large sites including GEPR) band by 2002 and 2003. He plays bass and some guitars on both albums and also is the composer of some part of the stuff. The 1st one is named Al-Bird SODOM & GOMORRAH OF 21TH CENTURY (2002), and the 2nd project is named X Religion DANCES ON GOBELINS (2003). Both albums are absolutely original (you won't find any comparisons with "Giants" - Yes, Genesis, KC, JT, Gentle Giant, etc), innovative, fool of MUSIC, ARRANGEMENTS, IDEAS, IMPRESSIONS, technical features and virtuosness, improvisations, etc. I mean both albums are created in best traditions of Progressive Rock.
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And as I know those two bands were collapsed more than 15 years ago...Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: December 08 2004 at 07:15
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Hail the Emperor! Welcome to Progland. I have consulted Vitaly's Web site several times in the past and found it very good. Thanks for the tips on the albums - I'm definitely going to follow up on them.
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Posted By: Emperor
Date Posted: December 08 2004 at 07:28
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 08 2004 at 14:39
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Welcome Emperor, Good to have you here, I haven't noticed anyone else from Russia in the forum. No relation to Penguin12 I take it! (Emperor Penguin, gettit?)
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Posted By: Emperor
Date Posted: December 09 2004 at 02:27
Hi, Easy Living! ;) Hasn't really anyone from Russia ever been at the forum?! And what's the Penguin 12?
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Posted By: zappa123
Date Posted: December 09 2004 at 04:51
| Penguin 12 is from Antarctic. |
Posted By: Emperor
Date Posted: December 09 2004 at 07:10
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The band from Antarctic??!??!??!??!?! :-) :-) :-) :-) So how do they play music???? It's so cold there to move fingers! ;-) ------------- I Prophesy Disaster... |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: December 09 2004 at 07:19
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Welcome Emperor. I hope you enjoy your time here and get used to the 'unusual' brand of humor that resides upon this site The Emperor.....Isn't that another name for Beethovens 5th?
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Posted By: Emperor
Date Posted: December 09 2004 at 07:22
Hi, Sigod! Emperor is my constant nick on some forums :-) It was at once when I listened VDGG's H to He and the song EMPEROR IN HIS WAR-ROOM... ;-) I really enjoy by the site and forum! But what's unusual with my humor? :-) ------------- I Prophesy Disaster... |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 09 2004 at 10:40
No, the stirring 5th Symphony is sometimes known as the "Victory" symphony, as the opening motif (da da da daaaaa") is supposedly similar to the Morse code signal to attack, or go ahead, that was used by the Allies on D-Day.
Pedantically, Peter ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Hello, Sigod, you funny guy!
The "Emperor" is an informal name given to one of Beet's concertos, but I have heard that it was not, as often supposed, dedicated to then Emperor Napoleon (Beethoven was said to be furious when ol' Nappy crowned himself emperor) nor did Beethoven call it that. He rarely gave his works names, and though his 5th Piano Concerto has been referred to as the "Emperor" since his time, Beethoven had no admiration for emperors, or the nobility in general. A pianist colleague of the composer seems to have given the piece its sobriquet in honour of its majestic sound -- not for any connection to any actual emperor.
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 09 2004 at 15:27
Penguin12 is one of our younger, but enlightened members. You can learn all about him here. http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=58 - http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=58 It wasn't your humour Sigod was referring to, it was the humour of other members of the site! It can sometimes be an "acquired taste"! |