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HORIZANT is cool. Prog from Soviet days. Started in a tractor factory!

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I have a bunch of Russian prog in my collection. Those already mentioned include:

Pikapika Teart

Diversion Voice

Vespero

Iamthemorning

Some that I didn't see mentioned are:

Human Factor (elements of post rock, similar to Hydria Spacefolk):

Lost World Band (violin prog)

Rozmainsky and Mikhaylov Project (RMP)

Shalash

Woon Deadn wrote:

There's one of the greatest things the USSR did. The pre-1917 Russian state had around 75% of peasantry. The Soviet power took all those uneducated illiterate people and de facto made them the nobility, 'cause, for example, neither Tolstoy nor Dostoyevsky intended their literary works to be read for peasants or lower classes. Here, at the Soviet schools, former peasants, current peasants, children of the peasants studied War And Piece with all those pages in French translated below on the page. The former noblemen had en masse proved their arrogance, ignorance and other bad features - so, God (or, if you like, fate) swapped the ruling classes a bit. Those who had been previously nothing, became... well, not everything, not quite the ruling class, but the middle class indeed. Engineer was the most popular and widespread and common Soviet profession. Most of them certainly came to the cities from the villages and towns.

I tend to go off-topic, I agree.

Anyway, there was a 1987 pop song called "I see my village in my dreams". Or so, I'm not a professional interpreter, after all. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of Soviet citizens saw themselves in this song:

Sergey Belikov has a great voice. His proggier (probably Queen-influenced) track "Nocturne" also stood the test of time well:

Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)

ah second album by Horizont is like symphonic music - but played on these strange synthesizers, very unique with some dramatic story to imagine. Sepsis had nice jamming psych style with loud bass a la Yes.

From symphonic/electronic oddballs I like:

Boris Petrov - Memory 1986

and let's not forget about Russian King Crimson Wink

Biocord - High Skies 1995 (more tracks to find on YT)

Edited by HarryAngel746 - May 26 2020 at 13:05

David Tukhmanov's 1975 epic album is worth mentioning here, too - this is definitely prog, it was even mentioned in GEPR:

Zvuki Mu sometimes gave incredible performances:

Edited by Woon Deadn - May 27 2020 at 05:28

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Woon Deadn wrote:

Speaking of the earlier, Soviet times, there were some people floating in and out all around the very essence of progressive rock, so to say.

Speaking of the ancient era, there were tricky tunes like this one:

Hey is this Svetonio?

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

^^ You'd better listen and read before calling the guy "new Svetonio". Censored

Most of the videos he posted in this thread belong to significant bands/artists in the USSR. You may like these songs or not, but they are already classics.

Edited by NotAProghead - May 26 2020 at 16:33

Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)

A few weeks ago, I bought the CD Close Grip by The Gourishankar. Very interesting music ! Smile

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I have a couple of cds by The Gourishankar as well as stuff by Little Tragedies, Sunchild and Karfagen. So far I really have only heard Karfagen and a little bit of Little Tragedies. Both are very good. I haven't gotten around to the others yet.

Sunchild and Karfagen are from Ukraine. Wink