What prog band did you recently discover?

Yokono is a four-piece instrumental experimental rock band from Belgrade (Serbia).

Since its beginning in 2011, the band has been interested in true sound through live studio recording sessions, which has altogether affected the improvement of the band's music fashion as well as its approach to live exhibitions.

I just recently discovered Yokono, thanks to Svetonio from the Steve Hoffman forum. His instructive topic, "Ambient Rock Appreciation Thread," is actually where I dig this rather good Serbian underground group.

Here are two instrumentals taken from their debut album, "Bigz Live Studio Sessions," which was recorded in Bigz and released on Bandcamp in December 2018. 

There is a story behind it. Bigz was a government-owned but abandoned printing house and has served for years as a unique alternative cultural centre in downtown Belgrade, located in an originally beautiful Bauhaus-designed building built before World War II (see picture).

 

 

 

The recordings were made there. Many young Belgrade's bands practiced there, some very good recording analogue studios were there owned by enthusiasts, and many visual artists had their studios in the Bigz as well; it was something like a hippy commune, hence Bigz even brought a so-called New Belgrade scene of experimental rock, but the investment-urbanism-oriented mayor kicked them all out and sold the building to some private clinic from abroad, which will most likely tear it down and build more of a mockery of glass and steel.

 

However, the recordings and videos from Bigz, like these, will remain. Yokono stuff is available on Bandcamp, and I highly recommend it.

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We have many nice rock/metal prog band here in Hellas.

Here is a fun video from 2021.

We really have to add them to the Archives !!!

you seem to have a few so I've added the 2 Arlekin albums as they are more likely to be up my street 

I'm always doscovering new bands and thinking 'why haven't I heard of these guys before?!'. Anyway thanks for the recommendation.
 

I actually like their last album the best Kleptomania. It was a belated release that was only finished after the band split up . It's closer to the alt rock sound of early 00's Porcupine Tree and could have been a small influence on Steven Wilson I suspect.

The album you refer to is Six. Quite a unique album I think but not for everyone. Little Kix (their 3rd) is by far their weakest album and would fit your description better I believe.

Catchy, fun and intricate stuff.

https://amskray.bandcamp.com/album/die-happy

Strange thought for me ... music is everywhere, and it's always about my recognizing it or not ... I can't exactly listen to it all, but some seems easier than others for me, but in the end, I have never, in 55 years, thought of it as discovering a band ... as much as it was about  how I related to the music itself, and how it affected me ... and some of these details you remember a lifetime. I can still remember the first minute I heard TD and how it scared me senseless ... I went right back to my headphones and Space Ritual. And later how so many bands confused my sense of organization in my head ... and that, in the end, was my greatest teacher of all in studying directing for theater and film. It wasn't about something that was designed ... it was about the experience of the moment, as free as possible from anything that was the rule of the design. 

And a lot of music, ended up doing things that film had been doing for over 10 years in terms of experiments ... but it in the past 20 years, it's like no one knows film, theater or any of the arts, consequently everything is just a song with a number attached to it.

It's not about me discovering it ... in the end, I say that it discovers me, as I wonder all over the universe and things hit me on the left, or the right ... or in the front and back .... but my "mental" acknowledgement of the music, art, or event, is often a lot less important than the experience itself ... 

Take the Bardo, ... you gonna tell me that you have to discover the doors, before you get to them? That's not how it's written ... the doors are there the whole time, but are you ready to see them and go through them? That's how I look at many of these things ... aside from the fact that I tend to say that there are no doors or dragons ... it's our imagination that creates "challenges" so we can feel like we are using our smarts and intelligence!