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poito 
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Joined: December 12 2015 Location: Madrid Status: Offline Points: 4 |
 Topic: former east europe prog bandsPosted: June 18 2016 at 16:06 |
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Hi there,
Here is an old prog-head. Never posted before, but I'm using the page and writing reviews for a while (under the name poito). I was born 4-5 years later than I should to catch the great prog explosion back in late sixties, but as soon as I realized that music would be with me all my life, I raced to recover all of it. I soon became a son of underground Canterbury, Soft Machine, Caravan, Camel, and also the masters, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Tull, Floyd, etc. A few years ago I realized that the web, and in particular this Prog Archives was giving me an amazing opportunity to learn about many bands I never heard of before. To me, finding a new prog band of my like is as a lotery prize, and lately I'm winning every day. I'm now enjoying new Prog music as I never thought it could happen. I grew up with only a bunch of prog bands, and I used to listen quite a lot of Rock and other stuff, but we now have access to thowsands of progs from everywhere. It is simply a miracle. By nature I am a explorer, so in music; I like to expore bands from the Eastern Europe, and found amazing jewels such as Celelalte Cuvinte from Romania, Siddartha from Eslovenia, After Crying from Hungary, or Scandinavian bands like ACT, or some unsuspected sites as Cuba, with the great Anima Mundi, Lazuli and Gens de la Lune from France,etc. I'm really eclectic, near all prog styles, plus rock, jazz, anything, feed my mind everyday, but if someone out there can give a hint on bands from the old Eastern Europe (not recent but classic in their countries), I'd be grateful. Cheers Oscar
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20847 |
Posted: June 18 2016 at 16:12 |
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Uz Jsme Doma from the Czech Republic and Vezhlivy Otkaz from Russia are probably my favorites.
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 35804 |
Posted: June 18 2016 at 16:45 |
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From Romania, this is a major favourite track of mine:
It's off Marius Popp's Panoramic Jazz Rock (1977) and is the most prog track off the album (thanks to Harmonium-ro for recommending it to me years ago). Edited by Logan - June 18 2016 at 16:47 |
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NotAProghead
Special Collaborator
Errors & Omissions Team Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 7852 |
Posted: June 18 2016 at 20:36 |
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I believe best discoveries are the ones your did by yourself. Our fellow collaborator Moris made very helpful listing by country: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51596.So you may choose country, select bands, read reviews, watch YouTube etc. Probably you'll find some bands of your dreams.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 35804 |
Posted: June 18 2016 at 21:05 |
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Filter by country might have been disabled at that time for top albums, but we did lose the country page, and my former teammate Moris did do great work with that.
It's much easier now, I think, to use the filters in top prog albums to find albums and bands of interest (especially as classic bands are wanted) -- in case Poito has not used this, though I would expect he has: http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?salbumtypes=1#list You can choose multiple countries, multiple years, favourite subgenres etc. I have actually received a ton of fantastic recommendations from members of this forum, and many of those have been the greatest"discoveries" I've made, but different people have different experiences. It helped that people already had a good idea of the kind of music I like (and don't like) or understood the kinds of music I was specifically looking for, but I've also had some quite unexpected recommendations of types of music I haven't delved into or requested which turned out to open up new worlds of music to me. I'm always looking for recommendations in music/film/books/ television etc., and always hoping to turn somebody on to something I like (then it becomes more of a shared experience than discovering things in isolation, if you know what I mean -- a more sociable event, so to speak). Edited by Logan - June 18 2016 at 21:29 |
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NotAProghead
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Errors & Omissions Team Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 7852 |
Posted: June 18 2016 at 22:11 |
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^ Filter by country's still disabled.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 35804 |
Posted: June 18 2016 at 22:29 |
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Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 35804 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 00:36 |
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Here'a a better list of much of Eastern Europe over late 60s through 70s years, since I did that to test it, since I thought filter countries had worked for me again for quite a long time (works perfectly for me).
http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=1979&syears=1978&syears=1977&syears=1976&syears=1975&syears=1974&syears=1973&syears=1972&syears=1971&syears=1970&syears=1969&syears=1968&syears=1967&scountries=55&scountries=155&scountries=162&scountries=167&scountries=168&scountries=218&scountries=211&scountries=212&scountries=191&scountries=194&scountries=199&scountries=203&sminratings=1&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=1&smaxresults=250&x=59&y=8#list Edited by Logan - June 19 2016 at 00:40 |
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Sagichim
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 29 2006 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 6632 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 02:33 |
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Off the top of my head here are some bands from eastern europe that I love
Modry Efekt Solaris Fermata Locomotiv GT SBB There are more that I can't remember now... |
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Guldbamsen
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Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 08:05 |
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^Great recs Sagi. I was about to list the very same artists with the exception of Lokomotiv GT, whom I never seem to remember
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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NotAProghead
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Errors & Omissions Team Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 7852 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 08:29 |
No OMEGA albums in the list.  Listing by country in my opinion is much more helpful.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 35804 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 12:44 |
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That's only because I did not include Hungary in the multi-listing (I did say much of Eastern Europe). Normally when I use it I just do one country at a time, though I do like multiple years and genres (the more one inputs, the more chance of personal errors and time-outs). It was really more to demonstrate how to use it, mostly to test it because you said it was still disabled, and to show that it works for me (and has for quite a long time). I tried Hungary and Omega certainly came up. Moris' list is still very useful to find all bands from a country -- using both is handy.
Edited by Logan - June 19 2016 at 12:46 |
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NotAProghead
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Errors & Omissions Team Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 7852 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:06 |
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Thanks, it's clear with Omega now.  Edited by NotAProghead - June 19 2016 at 13:07 |
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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ALotOfBottle
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: February 17 2016 Location: Lublin, Poland Status: Offline Points: 1990 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:08 |
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Some Polish goodies:
SBB Niemen Nurt Dom (Polish/Hungarian/German, but the name means House in Polish) Michał Urbaniak Laboratorium Klan Other: Lokomotiv GT Syrius Plastic People of the Universe (saw them live last year) Just bear in mind that, culturally and geographically speaking, Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic are Central Europe rather than Eastern Europe. In my opinion at least. Edited by ALotOfBottle - June 19 2016 at 13:09 |
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Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
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HosiannaMantra
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: May 14 2016 Location: Croatia Status: Offline Points: 206 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:23 |
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My favorites:
Omega - Hungary Fermata - (Czecho)Slovakia Sfinx - Romania In Spe - Estonia Phoenix (although most of their music is folk inflicted hard rock) - Romania Time (first album), Korni Grupa, Indexi (those two varied from pop singles to decent prog material), Smak - former Yugoslavia Also, there were some awesome jazz-rock and fusion groups in Yugoslavia (mostly Slovenia and Macedonia): Presmestje Leb i Sol Sončna Pot Izvir September Begnagrad Quatebriga
Oddelek 8 Edited by HosiannaMantra - June 19 2016 at 13:25 |
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Mascodagama
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 5111 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:39 |
I think Cantofabule is the best Phoenix album for a prog fan, a mixture of space rock, hard rock and folk that is very well blended. Excellent stuff. Mugur de Fluier is good too but is just as you describe, hard rock with some Romanian folk elements.
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WeepingElf
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 18 2013 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 373 |
Posted: June 19 2016 at 14:23 |
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East Germany had Stern Combo Meißen, Lift and Electra.
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... brought to you by the Weeping Elf
"What does Elvish rock music sound like?" - "Yes." |
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Flight123
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 01 2010 Location: Sohar, Oman Status: Offline Points: 1399 |
Posted: June 20 2016 at 05:42 |
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It might be worth browsing this:
http://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RM&Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=OST |
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timothy leary
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Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: June 20 2016 at 10:09 |
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timothy leary
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Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: June 20 2016 at 10:18 |
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