Persona Grata - progressive rock (Slovakia)

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Edited by Persona Grata - October 08 2013 at 17:02

Sounds reasonable for Prog Metal to evaluate.

Hi Guys, 

This is awesome!

Persona Grata - Bio

Persona Grata is a progressive rock group formed in Bratislava, Slovakia. The band, known for their signature sound and original material, is bringing a new quality to the Progrock Genre. Influenced by groups such as Yes, Dream Theater and contemporary Muse, the band has developed a sound focused on melody and complex rhythms, which has evolved from the above inspirations.

The band was formed in 1999 when the keyboardist Adam Kuruc and the solo guitarist Martin Huba joined and the band and since that time Persona Grata went through various stages; members were changing, technology was changing and most of all the musical taste of band members was evolving in different directions 

It just happens to be, that the music Persona Grata creates and loves can best be described as “Progressive Rock”. As in their opinion “there is no other genre that holds such immense possibilities, so expressive and enabling  to work with such contrasts”. Persona’s music is full of rhythmical structures and odd-time grooves. Combined with raw energy it offers excitement which is - according to band members - very hard to achieve while playing any other type of music and gives great freedom of musical expression. 

Persona Grata started to work on the debut album Reaching Places High Above couple of years ago. Once the whole concept was finished, the band was constantly rethinking arrangements, adding and removing layers, minimizing and expanding different parts until finally a demo version was finished from a production standpoint. Professional mix and master gave a final touch to the current sound of the album, which was officially released in August 2013.

Recently PG went thru major changes. Band’s keyboard player was offered an unique opportunity as a music composer in the film and game industry which he decided to pursue and therefore had to leave the band. Shortly after, solo guitarist followed his own musical career. 

Finding the right band members that could stand up to the legacy of the previous ones proved to be a real challenge. Nevertheless, not long after that the right people were found:  Matej Miklos – a composer, keyboardist and an amazing performer  and Peter Luha – a man with  stunning guitar technique, great feeling and experience.

Persona Grata immediately started to work on the following album – as a first thing finished up the new single Forevermore as a showcase of the new formation and band’s new sound.

Members:
MARTIN STAVROVSKY - vocals, rhythm guitar
PETER LUHA - electric guitar
MATEJ MIKLOS – keyboards
JAN STENO - drums and percussions
TIMO STRIES - bass guitar

Links:
www.personagrata.sk
www.facebook.com/personagrataband
www.soundcloud.com/personagrata
www.youtube.com/personagrataband
iTunes: http://bit.ly/14UspLJ
CdBaby:http://bit.ly/1ahSxAQ


Album cover art

Edited by Persona Grata - December 04 2013 at 04:40

I added that studio album, thanks for addition of Personal Grata !!! 

Hi Guys, thanks a lot for adding us, we re gonna share it right away...
Glad you liked the album!

PG

^ No problem. 

BTW, I had to edit the album entry again as after your editions question marks appeared in place of some Czech diacritic letters. With one exception, though... The site doesn't want to accept the letter "Š" in the name of Ján Šteňo so I had to replace it with plain "S".

Yeah this diacritics is very confusing anyway. Thanks for fixing it