Kogaion (Romania) for Symphonic Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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’.”

More links:

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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yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5823	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

cacha71 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 31 2007 Location: Planet Earth Status: Offline Points: 326	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.
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amatala Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: January 01 2008 Location: Brussels Status: Offline Points: 66	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’.” More links: 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!
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