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    Posted: June 18 2016 at 16:06
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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 16:12
Uz Jsme Doma from the Czech Republic and Vezhlivy Otkaz from Russia are probably my favorites.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 16:45
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 20:36
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 21:05
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).



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 22:11
^ Filter by country's still disabled.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 00:36
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 02:33
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 08:05
^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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 12:44
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.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:06
Thanks, it's clear with Omega now. Smile

If memory serves me well, long time ago when opening the list of bands starting from any letter (A, B, ...) countries were clickable, and after the click we could see the list of all bands from the country on PA, regardless of the genre. Then this feature gone. I guess that's why Moris made his listing by country.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:08
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.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:23
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


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 13:39
Originally posted by HosiannaMantra HosiannaMantra wrote:

Phoenix (although most of their music is folk inflicted hard rock) - Romania

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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 14:23
East Germany had Stern Combo Meißen, Lift and Electra.

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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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