Your top 7 pre-1990s Eastern European albums?

We're talking here about progressive music, and my top 7 is something like (chronologically):

                 Marek Grechuta & Anawa (PL) - Korowód   (1971)
                 Kornelyans (Yug) - Not an Ordinary Life (1974)
                 Phoenix (Rom) - Cantofabule (1975)
                 SBB (PL) - 2: Nowy Horyzont     (1975)
                 Niemen Aerolit (PL) - s/t   (1975)
                 Fermáta (CSR) - Pieseň z Hôľ (1977)
                 Solaris (Hun) - Marsbeli Kronikak (1984)


Edited by David_D - 6 hours 14 minutes ago at 12:10

I think I only own 2 that meet the criteria

Vezhlivy Otkaz - s/t (89)
Igra Staklenih Perli - s/t (79)

Didn't we do a thread like this a couple of years back?   

David_D wrote: One more, important for me to mention: Fermáta (CSR) - Pieseň z Hôľ (1977)

Surprised you only mention them as an afterthought

In the same line: Radim Hladik & Blue/Modry Effekt.

Saperlipopette! wrote: I know I've forgotten some, but these are all great: Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust (1971) Russia

Is he Russian? The bio on this site says:
Igor Boris Wakhévitch - Born May 12th, 1948 (Gassin-Saint Tropez, France)

What's more, a while ago I tried looking up information about Igor Wakhevitch's roots due to his familiar sounding Slavic last name, hoping he might be of Polish heritage, but I couldn't find anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edited by Hrychu - 12 hours 54 minutes ago at 05:30

Hrychu wrote: ...I'm not in the right mood to list a top 7....

I would certainly find it as interesting.

Hrychu wrote: omphaloskepsis wrote: One album per band. Riverside- "I.D.Enity" Poland 2023 Oblimy Doschu- "Son-" Ukraine 2017 "SBB- "Karlstad Live"- Poland 2001 (from 1975 concert) Pesniary- "Gusliar"- Belarus 1979 Deposed King- "One Man's Grief"- Hungary 2023 Roz Vitalis- "The Hidden Man of the Heart"- Russia 2018 Yesterdays- "Saint-Exupéry álma" = Romania 2022 "Pre-1990s." I think that the OP wanted to imply the period when Yugoslavia, East Germany and the USSR still existed. :P From your list, only the SBB and Piesniary albums count. Besides, small correction. Yesterdays is not a Romanian band. It's a Hungarian band 50/50 based in Romania and Hungary. Anyway, I'm not in the right mood to list a top 7, so I'm gonna list just one album, which I think is pretty overlooked, whenever the Eastern Europe topic comes up. Iraklis - Se Allous Kosmous (Greece, 1976)

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Edited by omphaloskepsis - 10 hours 13 minutes ago at 08:11

Saperlipopette! wrote: Hrychu wrote: Anyway, I'm not in the right mood to list a top 7, so I'm gonna list just one album, which I think is pretty overlooked, whenever the Eastern Europe topic comes up. Iraklis - Se Allous Kosmous (Greece, 1976) Is Greece Eastern Europe though?

Eastern?! No.
South-east?! yes. I don't know if it counts. I would not put them in a list like this though (when or if i make a list here).

Edited by Cristi - 8 hours 34 minutes ago at 09:50

Hrychu wrote:    I wouldn't include countries such as Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, as they are clearly part of Central Asia.

I think some people might think they're in Europe because they were part of the former USSR, but (obviously) just a part of USSR territory was European.

Hrychu wrote: Cristi wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Hrychu wrote: Anyway, I'm not in the right mood to list a top 7, so I'm gonna list just one album, which I think is pretty overlooked, whenever the Eastern Europe topic comes up. Iraklis - Se Allous Kosmous (Greece, 1976) Is Greece Eastern Europe though? Eastern?! No. South-east?! yes. I don't know if it counts. I would not put them in a list like this though (when or if i make a list here). I think it is absolutely Eastern Europe. Not just geographically, but the Greek cultrural sphere heavily influenced the area that today is known as Eastern Europe. Another thing that links Greece with the rest of Eastern Europe is the shared legacy of the Christian Orthodox Church.

I think we're supposed to pick our examples geographically. And by this criterion, Greece is South-Eastern.

Edited by Cristi - 7 hours 32 minutes ago at 10:52

I think a lot of the confusion over what is and isn't Eastern Europe has much to do with the remnants of Cold War politics from the 20th century. Here in the U.S., countries that were in the USSR's "sphere of influence" were often just called Eastern Europe. Hence, that's why we never thought of Greece being a part of that.

Geographically it makes no sense as a lot of those countries would either be in Western Europe or Central Europe. My own rough estimate of where the midpoint between east and west would be, kind of looks like it would pass through the Baltics and western Ukraine. I'm probably wrong since Europe is such a complicated land mass with peninsulas popping out all over the place.



Edited by progaardvark - 6 hours 41 minutes ago at 11:43