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Topic: The Yugoslavian Appreciation Lair
Posted By: GKR
Subject: The Yugoslavian Appreciation Lair
Date Posted: July 23 2015 at 11:24
Its just me that loved (almost) everything from the former Yugoslavia?

They have quite remarcably well rated albums - in their genres almost among the best of PA, for example: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2208" rel="nofollow - Buldozer , http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1479" rel="nofollow - Time , http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2364" rel="nofollow - Izvir and http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1689" rel="nofollow - Leb I Sol . But I also love those more underrated lie http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1550" rel="nofollow - Smak , http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1291" rel="nofollow - Korni Grupa , http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2473" rel="nofollow - S Vremena na Vreme and http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2133" rel="nofollow - DRAGO MLINAREC , great composer, sadly with only a few reviews.

So, what do you think of the Yugoslavian prog?


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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 06:49
So do IHug

Love it.

What I own is from these bands:

- Bijelo Dugme;
- Buldozer;
- Leb i Sol;
- Time;
- Smak;
- Korni Grupa;
- September;
- Tako
- Drugi Nacin;
- Nepocin;
- Indexi.

My personal favs are Bijelo Dugme, Indexi, Smak and Leb i Sol.



Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 06:55
...

plus a bunch of compilations featurings many other artists from the 70s/80s.


Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 07:37
This is a terrific heavy prog record!Thumbs Up





Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 07:44
The whole tetralogy TITS-ASS-LIPS-EYES from Bijelo Dugme should be highly praised by proglovers!


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 09:32
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

The whole tetralogy TITS-ASS-LIPS-EYES from Bijelo Dugme should be highly praised by proglovers!

Tottaly agree! LOL

I'll check them!

What a good coletction. Drugi Nacin indeed are a interesting band, but the other records, besides the first are so disapointing...

Smak is incredible, Leb I Sol and Bildozer also... but do check out Drago Mlinarec, what a underated guy!


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Posted By: Todd
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 10:21
I'll have to look into Drago and Bijelo.

My favorites from the 70’s are Indexi, Smak, Leb i Sol, and Korni Grupa. I love Pop Masina's debut and S Vremana too.

From Serbia, Eyot is making excellent music now.

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http://gnosis2000.net/ratertodd.shtml" rel="nofollow - My Gnosis Ratings



Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 10:35
Looking into their PA page... high rated their albums... going to check out.


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 13:37
Korni Grupa from Belgrade. This is original studio recording from 1969; actually this is the very first Yugoslav prog epic and it was re-released on the compilation Not So Ordinary Life (2005).







Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 14:43
Interesting music! I dont think I get Korni Grupa besides their album better rated in the PA list.

Talking about epics:



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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 15:03
The self titled album by Time is my favourite Yoguslavian album. I can also mention Hobo which has a good one and only album.


Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: July 24 2015 at 17:11
Love it. My personal best: Indexi, Smak and Leb i sol.


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 00:51
Nepočin from Zagreb.



Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 00:52
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

The whole tetralogy TITS-ASS-LIPS-EYES from Bijelo Dugme should be highly praised by proglovers!

Clap Thumbs Up













Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 10:17
I'll make a Bijelo Dugme marathon, then.

About Napocin: great sound and WHAT IS THAT FRONT COVER, UH?


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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 15:39
It looks like a knight... well sort of


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 16:15
And a brain-car... with a line over there... something in the lyrics to explain the mess, perhaps? Dunno.


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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 20:33
Igra Staklenih Perli and Hobo are the only Yugoslavian bands I have in my vinyl collection. They are fantastic, esp. ISP.


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 23:35
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Igra Staklenih Perli and Hobo are the only Yugoslavian bands I have in my vinyl collection. They are fantastic, esp. ISP.
 
Smile Thumbs Up
 
This one with Far Eastern influence is my fav song from that only one Hobo's album:
 
 
 
 
And my fav by Igra Staklenih Perli (which means "The Glass Bead Game" as the band was named after the famous novel of Hermann Hesse who was very popular writer among the kids here in 70s).
 
 


Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 27 2015 at 02:59
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

The whole tetralogy TITS-ASS-LIPS-EYES from Bijelo Dugme should be highly praised by proglovers!

Tottaly agree! LOL

I'll check them!

What a good coletction. Drugi Nacin indeed are a interesting band, but the other records, besides the first are so disapointing...

Smak is incredible, Leb I Sol and Bildozer also... but do check out Drago Mlinarec, what a underated guy!

I'll be travelling to Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland the next month so I'll be looking for some new purchase.


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 28 2015 at 13:16
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

(...) http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2208" rel="nofollow - Buldozer  (...)
 
My favourite song by them is Dobro jutro, Madamme Jovanović ("Good Morning, Madamme Jovanović") 1977, from Zabranjeno plakatirati ("Posters Forbidden") the album.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 28 2015 at 13:24
Indeed a great song, from a great album, from agreat band!

I always tough that Buldozer vocals were remarcably close to those of Blue Cheer... maybe in the pitch? Dont know, but I made that conection (nothing to do with the music, only the vocal).


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 28 2015 at 13:50
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

(...)  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1689" rel="nofollow - Leb I Sol (...)
 
Rebus and Kumova Slama ("Milky Way") (1979), my favourite jazz-rock instrumentals by Leb i Sol. The first one would be great for acoustic piano lovers, while second video is a perfect one for Minimoog lovers...
 
 


Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 28 2015 at 15:37
The first three albums by Leb i Sol are so wonderful.

Besonacko is still good (no keys unfortunately) while Sledovanje is a sort of compromise... the least favourite btw.

And yeah Stefanovski is a top notch guitarist


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 29 2015 at 06:22
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

The first three albums by Leb i Sol are so wonderful.

Besonacko is still good (no keys unfortunately) while Sledovanje is a sort of compromise... the least favourite btw.

And yeah Stefanovski is a top notch guitarist
 
I'm not a fan of Leb i Sol as a trio. I do love a few songs by them as a trio but that's all. However, as you already said as well, their first three album are really great.
 
My favourite one from Leb i Sol 2 (1978). Nikola's minimoog here is just amazing in that interplay with Vlatko's acoustic guitar.
 
 
 


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 29 2015 at 07:50
Dont forget this gem Wink



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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 29 2015 at 08:21
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

Dont forget this gem Wink

...And live version as a trio from 1982 Thumbs Up
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: July 29 2015 at 08:23
My fave track from their 2nd work is Marija.




Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 31 2015 at 03:26
During the recording sessions of their second ('ass') album in AIR Studios at Oxford Circus in London, 1975, Bijelo Dugme was recorded one song in English. It was not released before 1981 when it was released as a promo single for the journalists as a part of promotion campaign for their 1981 album Doživjeti stotu. Thanks to Youtube, it's here now:
 
 
 
Smile
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 10:51
Galija, Prva Plovidba ("First Sailing") (1979)
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 02:13
Kad misli mi vrludaju ("When my thoughts run free") is the debut album by Aerodrom released in 1979. It was recorded in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, and mastered in Ludwigsburg, West Germany. At the album are two "hits" released as the single also; that's the title (opening) track and Kraj tebe u tami ("Near you in the dark"); Yugoslav record companies sometimes asked the prog bands for one or two mediocre songs as supposed "commercial hits" that to find the place on an album, though at rest of LPs the bands had freedom to do what they wanted. 
 
 


Posted By: Altairius
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 03:18
The prog scene over there was definitely good. Some favorites:

Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Josipa Lisac, Kornelyans (Korni Grupa), Leb i sol, Den za Den, Tako, Indexi, Time, Igra Staklenih Perli, Begnagrad


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 03:30
More ("Sea") from Modra rijeka ("Blue river") LP by Indexi (1978)








Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 15:47
Smak - Maht tema
from album Stranice naseg vremena (Pages of Our Time)




Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 01:43

Always loved this little gem thats not a pretentious one but Radomir Mihajlović Točak proved himself once again as the best prog guitarist in Continental Europe.
 
 
 
 
 
and THIS cover of Ellis' classic.


Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 03:10
Originally posted by Komandant Shamal Komandant Shamal wrote:

/.../Radomir Mihajlović Točak proved himself once again as the best prog guitarist in Continental Europe.

... together with Vlatko Stefanovski.

Two more gems:







Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 04:55
Biblijska tema  ("Biblical theme"), Tema za šargiju  ("Saz theme") and Nada ("Hope"), three songs by Yugoslav prog folk band S Vremena Na Vreme ("From Time To Time") from their s/t album, 1975.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 06:36
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

More ("Sea") from Modra rijeka ("Blue river") LP by Indexi (1978)







"More" is the zenith of the "Modra Rijeka" albumClap.


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 09:10
Apartman 69 was a prog band from Belgrade who released only one album in 1983, Seti se moje pesme ("Remember my song"). Not in Prog Archives yet. Probably because nobody suggested them yet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 09:28
Aerodrom and Galija are on my wishlist!

I've been searching for them on shops in Histria and Fiume/Rijeka since 2007.

Bijelo Dugme, Leb i Sol and Smak are very easy to find. In fact they're in the major league of yugoslavian prog (like PFM, Le Orme, and Banco are in RPI).


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 10:10
I always though that Drago Mlinarec would be my favourite Yugoslavian artist... but Smak is stealing his post. I dont stop hearing them.


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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 10:22
Yeah, Smak are great. I only have the debut and Crna Dama.
I'd like to find a copy (on cd) of " http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7308" rel="nofollow - Stranice Naseg Vremena ".


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 10:37
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Yeah, Smak are great. I only have the debut and Crna Dama.
I'd like to find a copy (on cd) of " http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7308" rel="nofollow - Stranice Naseg Vremena ".
Remastered CD of Stranice našeg vremena is released in 2008 on major serbian record label PGP RTS http://www.discogs.com/Smak-Stranice-Na%C5%A1eg-Vremena/release/4086714" rel="nofollow - http://www.discogs.com/Smak-Stranice-Na%C5%A1eg-Vremena/release/4086714
 
 
 
By the way, my favourite track from Stranice Našeg Vremena ("The Pages of Our Time") the album from 1978.


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 11:05
I love albums with great openers Big smile


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 11:32
^ A nice live version from their Belgrade's concert, 2012.
 
 
 
Smile


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 11:48
Indeed! Thumbs Up


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 11:57
Originally posted by terramystic terramystic wrote:

Originally posted by Komandant Shamal Komandant Shamal wrote:

/.../Radomir Mihajlović Točak proved himself once again as the best prog guitarist in Continental Europe.

... together with Vlatko Stefanovski.

Two more gems:





If you like Zajdi Zajdi, try also this Smak's drumless instrumental Ukor ("Blame"); Točak's guitar is "crying" here; actually, the song ("Blame") is dedicated to Lazar Ristovski, Smak's original line-up keys player who passed away:
 
 
 
Moving, isn't? That's Balkans.
 
 
 


Laza Ristovski (RIP) played some stunning Hammond organ solo in a live version of Šumadijski Blues in this ancient tv documentary "Smak in America"; they played one-off gig in NYC in 1976 and this live version is from there; from 7:52 to 15:45 at video with some nice panorama-footage of sunny Manhattan (btw, fits very nice with the music so don't miss it):





Smile




Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 12:23
Legendary Croatian guitarist Josip Boček (Korni Grupa) must be mentioned in this thread; the first video is from Stefanovski's Belgrade concert in 1993 where Boček and Točak were both his special guests. Here are both that unplugged version of Boček's prog instrumental Dinamit  (with Točak and Stefanovski) and the original studion version of Boček's solo song that was released as A-side of THE single in 1975.
 
 
 
 
 
Boček with his Belgrade's prog band Korni Grupa in the epic song Put za istok ("Way to East") released 1972 at their self-titled album.
 
 
 
 
Smile
 
 
 


Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 02:37
... sorry guys but I have to get back to Leb i Sol:

"Infinity" and "Sledovanje"... any thoughts?

I took both off the shelf the last week and I've been listening to them since then.
Better than I recalled.

Pazi da Pazis and Mirko are very good (from Sledovanje).




Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 14:26
From the first solo album Ko zna ("Who Knows?") (1979) by Miki Petkovski, the keys player of Smak (Crna dama era). The members from Smak and Leb i Sol have played on his debut.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 02:53
Dah were a prog band formed in Belgrade in 1972 - this is a song from their second lp [never released on cd]:
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 08:28
^ Don't forget these gems, Prohujalo sa vihorom ("Gone With The Wind"), and the title the song from their 1974 debut album Veliki Cirkus ("Big Circus") Smile
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 08:31
Korni Grupa, Jedna žena ("One Woman"), live 1987.
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 10:30
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

(...)  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2364" rel="nofollow - Izvir (...)
From their album released in 1977.
 
 
 
 
 
 
This song is titled after The Wanderer Went Through The Atom Age the book by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matej_Bor" rel="nofollow - Matej Bor .
 
 
 
 


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 10:43
Izvir is a fantastic group! Sadly only one album... :/

Do they have conection with other groups? Members playing in other bands, etc?


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 11:36
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2596" rel="nofollow - Predmestje , the title track from their 1981 album Kamasutra.
 
  
 
 
 
Aleja ("Esplanade") from Hazard the album, 1980.
 
 
 
 
 
 
A title track from their 1977 album titled Brez naslova ("No Title")
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 11:50
Nice! Thumbs Up


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 13:15
Three intrumental, progressive electronic solo tracks by Smak's original line-up keys player Lazar Ristovski (RIP) :  Beyond the Horizon (from his Merge the album from 1982), 2/3,  and my favourite track by him, amazing Nebo nad Beogradom ("Belgrade Sky").
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: August 08 2015 at 01:05

my favorite two songs by Time. "Za Koji život treba da se rodim", 1972, & "Život u čizmama sa visokom petom", 1976.

 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 09 2015 at 12:17
Instrumental tracks from Tako' debut (1978) and second album (1980).
 
 
 
 


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 09 2015 at 15:41
Time is a strange band to me. Sometimes I liked them so much and its all masterpieces, sometimes its just "ok". Dont have any clue why this feeling. LOL


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Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 00:12
^^^^ i understand what you mean. for example i love to listening to Time's "Wild Goose" [released in 1975] in the morning and i dont have a clue why:
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 02:01
Three songs by Korni Grupa's EP from 1969:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 07:32
Originally posted by Komandant Shamal Komandant Shamal wrote:

^^^^ i understand what you mean. for example i love to listening to Time's "Wild Goose" [released in 1975] in the morning and i dont have a clue why:
 
 
 
What a great, track. Now I think its all masterpieces!


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Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 08:19
By the way, listening to what Svetonio posted... did you guys dont think that should have be a "Yugoslavian Progressive Rock"? In the same manner as RPI?


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 00:13
Sončna Pot ("Sunny Way"),  Hrepenjene ("Longing") and Žarek ("Ray") from their s/t 1979 album.













Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 00:59
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

By the way, listening to what Svetonio posted... did you guys dont think that should have be a "Yugoslavian Progressive Rock"? In the same manner as RPI?
No, not in the same manner as RPI. RPI is a subgenre which still exists even today, as same as Italy LOL
Though, I think that PA should have the national sections; e.g. English Prog, U.S. Prog, German Prog, Polish Prog, ex-Yugoslavian Prog (only for the bands that gained popularity in Tito's Yugoslavia) and so on, instead of the present sections; people gonna labeled the bands anyway in their reviews, posts, blogs...


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 01:21
Heavy Prog band Oko ("Eye") and two tracks from their 1976 album.
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 01:44
Heavy Prog band Pop Mašina ("Pop Machine"), from their live album released in 1976 with a material recorded in 1974 and 1975.
 
 
 
Povratak zvezdama ("Back to Stars"), from their 1974 studio album.
 
 
 
 
Uspomena ("Memory"),  from B-side of their 1977 single.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 09:26
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Though, I think that PA should have the national sections; e.g. English Prog, U.S. Prog, German Prog, Polish Prog, ex-Yugoslavian Prog (only for the bands that gained popularity in Tito's Yugoslavia) and so on, instead of the present sections; people gonna labeled the bands anyway in their reviews, posts, blogs...


http://www.progarchives.com/Bands-country.asp?country=203" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/Bands-country.asp?country=203


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 09:57
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

By the way, listening to what Svetonio posted... did you guys dont think that should have be a "Yugoslavian Progressive Rock"? In the same manner as RPI?
No, not in the same manner as RPI. RPI is a subgenre which still exists even today, as same as Italy LOL
Though, I think that PA should have the national sections; e.g. English Prog, U.S. Prog, German Prog, Polish Prog, ex-Yugoslavian Prog (only for the bands that gained popularity in Tito's Yugoslavia) and so on, instead of the present sections; people gonna labeled the bands anyway in their reviews, posts, blogs...

Oh, yeah! Forgot that Yugoslavia is no longer a country LOL

Seeing what was posted above kind solve the problem, right?


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 10:21
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

By the way, listening to what Svetonio posted... did you guys dont think that should have be a "Yugoslavian Progressive Rock"? In the same manner as RPI?
No, not in the same manner as RPI. RPI is a subgenre which still exists even today, as same as Italy LOL
Though, I think that PA should have the national sections; e.g. English Prog, U.S. Prog, German Prog, Polish Prog, ex-Yugoslavian Prog (only for the bands that gained popularity in Tito's Yugoslavia) and so on, instead of the present sections; people gonna labeled the bands anyway in their reviews, posts, blogs...

Oh, yeah! Forgot that Yugoslavia is no longer a country LOL

Seeing what was posted above kind solve the problem, right?
Nevermind. It was just my idea that the PA bands and solo artists to be archived by their country of origin, not by a sub-genre what so often leads to confusion. Thus, on the PA front page and on the lists instead of the names for sub-genres, that you see e.g. Brazilian Prog, Mexican Prog and so on. Get it?


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 12:23
Ahhhh, got it...

well... this would solve some problems and bring new ones... I'am not exactly against, since some genres are driven by nationality as RPI and Krautrock (almost)...

But then, putting Gentle Giant and Pink Floyd in the same thing...

boxes and labels... quite annoying, uh?


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 22:30
Originally posted by GKR GKR wrote:

Ahhhh, got it...

well... this would solve some problems and bring new ones... I'am not exactly against, since some genres are driven by nationality as RPI and Krautrock (almost)...

But then, putting Gentle Giant and Pink Floyd in the same thing...

boxes and labels... quite annoying, uh?
Yea, of course, both Gentle Giant and Pink Floyd should be in supposed English Prog section, but with those multiply tags for each band at their PA' pages. A combination of tags with already existed PA' genres names (as a heritage of these pages' good ol' times, plus two new tags and that would be "chamber prog" & "gothic prog") that links to PA' genres definitions but also that determine the band' style at best. So, instead of those definitions that are now on the top of everything, instead of those definitions which are in fact pretty fantasized assumptions as e.g. "crossover prog" which, during the time, is fallen to the tag for "awful" prog that is a charming melodie and easy thrill, instead of those genres that often create a ping-pong party among teams and so on, it should be that at PA' home page that a reader comes across some interesting & true stories and the historical facts about English Prog, ex-Yugoslavian Prog, German Prog; not "Krautrock" what should be just one of tags due to the fact that the term at present day means 'motorik psych' (almost) only, although perhaps that krautrock the term should go out of official use at PA as a term that was actually originated by some not very imaginative English journalist in the ancient times and what always sounded disparagingly regarding the great bands as Can or Popol Vuh; I could imagine how I or somebody else from ex-Yugoslavia should feel if an unimaginative London's journalist called ex-Yugoslavian progressive rock bands, for example, "slivovitzrock" LOL
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 23:41
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igra_Staklenih_Perli" rel="nofollow - Igra Staklenih Perli
 
 
 
This is a live album released in 1991 with a material recorded at the gigs that they were played since 1976 til 1979.


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 12 2015 at 23:02
Begnagrad was a first-class avant-prog band formed in Ljubljana, 1975. These magnificent tracks, that sound fresh and not dated even today, are from their s/t album from 1982.































Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 14 2015 at 04:50
Especially for the lovers of Avant, I'd like to mentioned in this thread the Tickmayer Formatio, a band from Novi Sad. This is Tickmayer Formatio' second album that was created as a mix of avant-garde jazz, rock & classical music, and released in 1987:






Personnel: Dušica Polovina: viola; Milan Vrsajkov: cello; Antonio Gaai: cello; Borislav Čičovački: oboe; Branislav Aksin: trombone; Stephen Grencsó: alto saxophone, flute; Mihály Dresch: tenor and soprano saxophones, flute; Geröly Thomas: percussion; Djordja Delibašić: percussion; István Kovács Tickmayer: piano, harmonium, melodica


Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 14 2015 at 07:04
Slivovitzrock, I'll name my children with this. LOL

From Begnagrad, some moments of the acordeon remind me the tradicionalists from my region...

Very very interesting Tickmayer Formatio, I'll give it more attention.


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Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: August 14 2015 at 23:23
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Three songs by Korni Grupa's EP from 1969:
 
 
 ^^^^IMO "Magčna ruka" ("Magic Hand") is the best song of Korni grupa ever and probably one of the best songs of 60s Continental Europe Prog overall.
Sadly, the singer Dalibor Brun was left the Korni Grupa quickly after.


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 16 2015 at 23:43
Djordje Ilijin was a leader of already mentioned Belgrade's band Tako, and these tracks, Mojim učenicima ("For My Students") and Sećanje na Mljet ("Remembering The Mljet Island"), are both from his 1983 solo album Zabranjeno prisluškivanje ("Eavesdropping Is Prohibited"). The album was re-released on Italian prog label Mellow Records.
 
 
 
 
Personnel: Djordje Ilijin (all instruments) and Vladimir Furduj (from Korni Grupa) (drums).
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 17 2015 at 00:17
Spominjem se antimaterije ("I Remember Antimatter") by Mladi Levi, the band from Ljubljana. This is a nice live version recorded at the Boom Festival, Ljubljana, 1972.
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 17 2015 at 00:24
The longest prog epic in Yugoslav Prog, almost 27 minutes; 1941 (feat. Dado Topić & Josipa Lisac) by Belgrade's band Korni Grupa was released in 1971.
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 17 2015 at 01:01
An interesting prog folk (based on Balkans traditional music) track Na Rekama Vavilona (the lyrics taken from Psalm 137, commonly know as "By the rivers of Babylon") by Anastasia, the band from Skoplje; the track is from their 1988 self-released album at cassette, and then officially re-released as a vinyl LP in 1990.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 17 2015 at 02:29
The longest epic (instrumental) track by Smak is Put od balona ("A Baloons Path") from their debut album released in 1975.
 
 
 
 
The track was a regular part of their set-lists for the gigs in 70s.


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 17 2015 at 02:40
Solo album by Smak's lead guitarist R.M. Točak, from 1976.
 
 
 
Must be listen in its entirety.
 


Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: August 17 2015 at 22:14

September and their tracks "Za tvoj rođendan" ("For Your Birthday", 1979) and "Noć kradljivaca" ("The Night of the Thiefs") from a live compilation recorded @ Boom Festival in Belgrade 1976:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 18 2015 at 05:13
Nirvana was a heavy prog band from Zagreb; they were active in early 70s.







Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 18 2015 at 05:33
A great prog folk song with a sitar intro, by trio Dag from Belgrade (1974)





Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 18 2015 at 05:47
A beautiful symphonic rock song from solo album by Željko Bebek, the singer of Bijelo Dugme, 1978
 
 



Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 18 2015 at 06:09
Sarajevo's heavy prog band Teška Industrija ("Heavy Industry"); here are three songs from their debut album released in 1976:









Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 19 2015 at 02:24
Belgrade's legendary progressive rock band Opus must be mentioned in this thread. These nice songs are from their only one album released in 1975.














Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 19 2015 at 06:06
I'am not answering, but I'am listening! Too much good stuff! Thumbs Up


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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 19 2015 at 13:07
Heavy Prog with awesome female vocals; that's already mentioned Zagreb's band Nirvana with Zagreb's singer Zdenka Kovačiček; the track is from live recorded LP Boom Pop Fest '73.





Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 20 2015 at 11:27
Hej Ti  ("Hey You") by Indexi, live at second Boom Festival, 1972.
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 21 2015 at 11:29
An eclectic prog song titled Na gora ("At Mountain") released by Brevijar from Skoplje, in 1990.
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 22 2015 at 01:27
A nice vocal jazz-rock track by Smak sung in English (Metter of Love, 1978)






Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 23 2015 at 05:13
Under the name "Kornelyans", Korni Grupa in 1974 was released one album titled Not An Ordinary Life, sung in English, for Italian market only. These two songs are my favs from that album:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 24 2015 at 00:47
 Faraoni were a band formed in 1967 in Izola, Histria, and these are songs from their debut EP released on the major label Jugoton in 1970:









Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 26 2015 at 15:59
From Yugoslav version of Hair musical, 1969; that play at Belgade's Atelje 212 theatre was very influenced on Yugoslavian prog and rock & pop music in general.





From wiki:

Quote (...) Another notable production was in the former https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" rel="nofollow - Yugoslavia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade" rel="nofollow - Belgrade ), the first Hair to be produced in a communist country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_%28musical%29#cite_note-51" rel="nofollow - [51] Directed by local female producer-director https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Trailovi%C4%87" rel="nofollow - Mira Trailović https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_%28musical%29#cite_note-lemon69-52" rel="nofollow - [52] and attended by president https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" rel="nofollow - Tito , the Belgrade production was a favorite of authors Rado and Ragni, with Ragni declaring "there's no middle class prejudices here". Local references in the script included barbs aimed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong" rel="nofollow - Mao Zedong as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania" rel="nofollow - Albania , Yugoslavia's traditional rival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_%28musical%29#cite_note-Horn103-43" rel="nofollow -


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_%28musical%29" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(musical)



Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 27 2015 at 11:02
Smak' singer Boris Aranđelović died today in Rotterdam at 67.
 
 
 
...Somewhere from afar
I hear the tambourine
By Moon's river
Gypsies come
Somewhere from afar...
 
...If I die now
Buy tambourine
Play me softly...
"
 
From above song Daire ("Tambourine"), 1977
 
RIP Boris



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