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    Posted: June 14 2013 at 06:19
Kogaion was a Romanian Symphonic Rock band founded in1993.

Marius Baras - keyboards, vocals
Vasile Calin Filip - guitars, blockflotte
Mihail Comisaru - bass
Metin Osman - drums, percussions

They were active on the underground scene and released a self titled album in 1999. The album represents a selection from their much longer stage show called “The Castle” which unfortunately was never recorded entirely because no producer was interested in this kind of music. Kogaion’s album was self produced by the band.

The album is long out of print but the tracks can be heard on SoundCloud:

http://soundcloud.com/mariusbaras2013/sets/kogaion

Quote from Marius Baras (Kogaion leader):
"When we had our debut (October 1993) I was intrigued and almost amused. Suddenly a lot of people began to say that we had a lot of resemblences and influences - some of them claimed that we were inspired by Pink Floyd, some of them told about King Crimson, others about Gentle Giant, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull and Queen, and so and on, namig also a lot of rock groups that we’d never heard before. Of course we had influences, but not in the way that people think of. Personally I’m nobody’s fan, and I’ll never be. I’m “just” an artist.
That’s why I replied to them that it would be impossible for us to contain all these big legendary rock groups in one, isn’t it? The truth was very simple instead and to explain this (or to avoid their need to qualify art) I quote Oscar Wilde:
‘When critics don’t agree with each other the artist is fully satistied’.”


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Kogaion on discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/Kogaion-Fragmente-Din-Poemul-Rock-Castelul/release/3688396

Kogaion on Rate Your Music:

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kogaion/kogaion/



After Kogaion disbanded, Marius Baras continued to make music and released solo albums in various styles. Some of his solo work can be heard on his myspace page:

http://myspace.com/mariusbaras/

Thanks for reading and listening! Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 06:57
Excellent suggestion! This album truly is a hidden gem, one of the better and less well known Romanian prog rock albums, and definitely deserves some attention... it's out of print, but I'm sure copies could turn up from time to time, I hope it will be re-released at some point in the future. I would love to have heard the full stage version.
http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive+Folk
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 07:26
A couple of tubes to go with the suggestion:
 
 
 
 
Not too dissimilar to Sfinx - another fine (but much earlier) Romanian band who we have on here in Eclectic: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2344
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 07:33
Thanks yam yam - I was going to post those from home as I can't access youtube from work... Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2013 at 12:38
Nice one. Symphonic at times but also spacey and having a strong (Romanian?) folk influence, while the keyboards have that characteristic digital / Neo sound. Sfinx was moved from Prog Folk to Eclectic several years ago; I think the same reasons for Sfinx not moving to Symph would apply to Kogaion i.e. the psych and indigenous folk influences. Kogaion was also given the briefest of mentions in the Eclectic Team thread some five years ago - I think members leaving the site for whatever reason may have had something to do with the band not being discussed further at that time. Will ask the current Eclectic team to check it out.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2013 at 20:01
A few years ago I received several Romanian albums from my good friend Zsolt Enyedi, among which I found Sfinx (Already reviewed Zalmoxe) and also an album by Kogaian.

The identity of sounds is amazing, they have Symphonic roots but the most obvious element is the Eastern Europe Folk music.

I believe that wherever Sfinx is, Kogaian most follow them.

Great band

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2013 at 08:27
This can be used as the official web site - it's Marius Baras' web site, but it includes info on Kogaion also:

http://mariusbaras.ro/


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2013 at 05:08
Any updates about this?

Thanks!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2013 at 05:40
excellent band in top 5 prog bands my country ever had or will have
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2014 at 06:50
Anyone still looking at this or has it been rejected?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2014 at 06:55
Someone with access to the collab zone needs to work back through the Eclectic team thread to find out what happened with this band. Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2014 at 07:06
Still being evaluated on eclectic, it seems I'm the only one left voting Embarrassed If I remember correctly it didn't have enough samples for evaluating properly. Currently it has one Move and one Yes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2014 at 07:19
The samples are now available here:

https://soundcloud.com/kogaion-rock-band
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2014 at 07:20
^ Ok thank you for your help.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2014 at 21:09
If rejected please send it back ti us

Kogaion must not be out of Progarchives
            
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2015 at 05:49
We have just passed the 2-years anniversary of this request!

Long may it last! Thumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2015 at 04:08
Does anyone know if this was officially rejected?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2016 at 04:15
Still no news about this? It's been sooooo long....Ermm
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2016 at 06:42
A tough / controversial case in Eclectic Team ... alerted them again.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2016 at 21:50
Originally posted by amatala amatala wrote:

Still no news about this? It's been sooooo long....Ermm

We received the band two days ago, and even though we agree they are not Symphonic, we don't want to play ping pong with them.

Accepted in Symphonic.

If somebody got the info,. please write the bio.

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