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Posted: July 16 2010 at 10:53

I am glad you like it!

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Posted: July 16 2010 at 12:26

I've already started a topic for inclusion of this band so take a listen:

fragment of 19 minute long suite:

"Ffffaaahhh, seeko baaaaaa
Neeeeee toe, kare lo yeahhh
Sa sa sa sa saa! Fssss
Drrrrrrrrr bo ki!
Rapateeka! do go taaaam
Rapateeka! do go tchaa"

- "Atom Heart Mother" Pink Floyd/Ron Geesin

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Posted: July 16 2010 at 15:44

^The band is under evaluation, and it looks the process goes quite successful

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Posted: July 17 2010 at 01:50

Miona Babic and Deseir Deler ( twin sisters from Belgrade, Serbia):

http://www.myspace.com/deseirdeler

http://www.myspace.com/mionababic

Edited by ko - July 17 2010 at 02:36

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Posted: July 27 2010 at 07:54

Hi guys,I am from ex Czechoslovakia now Czech rep.Please check these out!!!!!
Kilhets(70¨s,80's experimental,zeuhl,rio)
Svehlik(similar to Kilhets)
Extempore
Zikkurat(Rio,experimental)
Pražský vyber(amazing band like Pere Ubu-Modern Dance) released album Straka v hrsti in 1982,btw it is qouted best album of all time in Czechoslovakia
Electrobus
Dvouletá fáma
Uz jsme doma (highly recommended,Samla Mammas influence with punkish roots,they started as one of the best punk bands in the history FPB and transformed to UJD))these guys were asked by The Residents to play 20 of their songs on 20th of October this year in Olomouc .They already played with The Residents Freak show in Prague.Great clip is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Ip76wb4dU Their shows will blow you away!I promise that.
The Plastic people of the universe.What else can you say about them,so much was written,I can imagine to live without thir music and their influence on the fall of communism.I am very proud what they achived,in their music you can here and feel the pain and pleasure at same time,their music was so heavy anticomercial and antisocialistic,almost scary I can't blame komunists scared of PPU,never found another similar group of people in music.,What thay have done you can call Heroic!I recommend The Plastic people of the Universe & Agon Orchestra - Passion Play cd.

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Posted: July 27 2010 at 08:16

zappadaddy wrote:

Hi guys,I am from ex Czechoslovakia now Czech rep.Please check these out!!!!!Kilhets(70¨s,80's experimental,zeuhl,rio)Svehlik(similar to Kilhets)ExtemporeZikkurat(Rio,experimental)Pražský vyber(amazing band like Pere Ubu-Modern Dance) released album Straka v hrsti in 1982,btw it is qouted best album of all time in CzechoslovakiaElectrobusDvouletá fámaUz jsme doma (highly recommended,Samla Mammas influence with punkish roots,they started as one of the best punk bands in the history FPB and transformed to UJD))these guys were asked by The Residents to play 20 of their songs on 20th of October this year in Olomouc .They already played with The Residents Freak show in Prague.Great clip is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Ip76wb4dU Their shows will blow you away!I promise that.The Plastic people of the universe.What else can you say about them,so much was written,I can imagine to live without thir music and their influence on the fall of communism.I am very proud what they achived,in their music you can here and feel the pain and pleasure at same time,their music was so heavy anticomercial and antisocialistic,almost scary I can't blame komunists scared of PPU,never found another similar group of people in music.,What thay have done you can call Heroic!I recommend The Plastic people of the Universe & Agon Orchestra - Passion Play cd.

The Plastic people of the universe, Pražský vyber and Uz jsme doma all are presented on Progarchives yet.

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Posted: July 27 2010 at 08:29

Kilhets http://www.artstudios.de/kilhets/

This is one of those documents I thought would never see the light of day. I first saw Kilhets in 1979 (it was their 3rd concert) in Prague, back in the days of strict control and secret police, when imagination could be expected to be treated as subversion. A vanishing rarity in the CSSR, Kilhets essentially played free improvised electric music, far from jazz, far from most anything - it was a home-grown laboratory for a new music, something the East-bloc wasn't supposed to have. With hoods and painted faces (whether part of a general alienation effect or a nominal disguise I'm not sure) three (later four) extremely talented musicians (all active more visibly in other bands) just made it up as they went along. On the continuum noise - silence all points were occupied; this was a music that came seemingly fully formed out of nowhere. What makes it doubly fascinating is that these players were not part of a fashion or a school - there was no other music like this in the CSSR, nor was there any ready public for it. Kilhets just played this way because they had to and, at least in the beginning, they also had to invent their own rules and aesthetic. In those days, concerts in the CSSR were few and far between, and each one was a special event. In 2 years Kilhets managed 8 performances, which was pretty good going, and five of them are contained here (1, 5 & 7 are missing). They are all very different and the ones I find most interesting are the first two and the fifth - which is the most conceptual and intense. The others have their moments (some may prefer them - there are even snatches of The Residents' songbook and a lot more quotes from the rock lexicon in them); they are clearly keeping on the move. However, this is not for everyone; you have to be interested or curious and ready to be bemused. That said, this is an important document and a significant piece of lost history that will need from now to be taken into account.

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Posted: July 27 2010 at 08:50

Snob.Pardon me.Mch Band.http://www.mchband.cz/fotoarchiv.htm

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Posted: July 28 2010 at 11:20

Djordje Ilijin Mojim ucenicima /"To my students"( Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia, album issued in 1983)

Sećanje na Mljet ("The Memories of Mlyet Island")

Nataši ("To Natasha")

My fav track by Djordje. I knew that he is at PA yet....just REVISITED

Edited by ko - July 29 2010 at 00:21

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Posted: August 01 2010 at 15:48

Back in the business. Were you having fun meanwhile ? Anyway, I'll try to finish my Czech suggestions, move them a little bit.

There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"

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Posted: August 07 2010 at 10:23

The best Prog album from Romania is Sfinx - Zalmoxe. I think Czech Republic is the most Progressive country from the former Eastern Block.

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Posted: August 07 2010 at 18:59

^ Except obvious choice of Poland. But I'm already working on beating Poland with PA artists per capita :-)

EDIT:

And as I can see, it has been done.

Poland has 38.000.000 for 92 bands
while
Czech Republic has 10.500.000 for 33 bands.

You do the math.

But Mr. O, why do you think that Czech Republic is the most Progressive country from the former Eastern Block ? You know some of our artists ? :-)

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Posted: August 09 2010 at 08:28

A lot of bands have been posted here so it became challaging to find one that's still new to the thread Thumbs Up

Here is Azra from Croatia.

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Posted: August 11 2010 at 08:39

Update on CZ bands -

C (Math Rock)
Klar (Psychedelic)
Vladimír Mišík & Etc... (Crossover)

have been cleared, I have written biographies and they will be added soon.

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Posted: August 13 2010 at 11:43

Marty McFly wrote:

But Mr. O, why do you think that Czech Republic is the most Progressive country from the former Eastern Block ? You know some of our artists ? :-)

There were so many professional Prog rock bands in the former Czechoslovakia.

My favourites:

Synkopy & Oldřich Veselý
Olympic
Collegium Musicum
Jazz Q
Blue Effect
Ota Petřina
Bohemia
Progress Organization
Václav Neckář - Planetarium
Dežo Ursiny
Fermata

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Posted: August 16 2010 at 16:09

So you know the good ones. Indeed, our country's music scene was quite big, despite all attempts to cease it. It's not bad even now, but 69-89 is somehow better than 90-10

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Posted: August 16 2010 at 17:34

Mr. O wrote:

Marty McFly wrote:

But Mr. O, why do you think that Czech Republic is the most Progressive country from the former Eastern Block ? You know some of our artists ? :-)

There were so many professional Prog rock bands in the former Czechoslovakia.

My favourites:

Synkopy & Oldřich Veselý
Olympic
Collegium Musicum
Jazz Q
Blue Effect
Ota Petřina
Bohemia
Progress Organization
Václav Neckář - Planetarium
Dežo Ursiny
Fermata

I don't think Olympic should be on the list.I would rather see there CK Vocal,Flamengo and more radical bands like Mch Band,Extempore or Svehlík.

My heroes are Frank Zappa,Ozzy Osbourne,The Plastic People of the Universe,Sun Ra and Mirek Wanek from Uz jsme doma

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Posted: August 17 2010 at 07:34

zappadaddy wrote:

Mr. O wrote:

Marty McFly wrote:

But Mr. O, why do you think that Czech Republic is the most Progressive country from the former Eastern Block ? You know some of our artists ? :-)

There were so many professional Prog rock bands in the former Czechoslovakia.

My favourites:

Synkopy & Oldřich Veselý
Olympic
Collegium Musicum
Jazz Q
Blue Effect
Ota Petřina
Bohemia
Progress Organization
Václav Neckář - Planetarium
Dežo Ursiny
Fermata

I don't think Olympic should be on the list.I would rather see there CK Vocal,Flamengo and more radical bands like Mch Band,Extempore or Svehlík.

Some time ago, I saw one guy informally suggesting Olympic. You know the same thing as I do, Olympic are Pop Rock, nebo taky bigbít hudba, but simply not Prog. But I was curious and listened album Ulice, which sounds little bit better, but I'm still not sure if they're Prog enough to get here.

They have better albums, worse albums, but some of them are more Prog, some are not. Which ones I should listen to ?

Švehlík - Stehlík - MCH Band, what's the relationship between these bands ? I saw last week's edition of Bigbít and it was about all these weird groups, Extempore, Žabí hlen, Švehlík ... very nice episode.

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Posted: August 30 2010 at 16:05

Hi Marty,

what do you think of this band:

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Posted: August 31 2010 at 05:41

Speaking about Olympic, they have the album trilogy: Holidays On Earth, The Street and The Laboratory. The music is very close to Progressive Metal, Symphonic Rock. But indeed, they got popularity in the late 60s as Big Beat band.