Persona Grata - progressive rock (Slovakia)
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Topic: Persona Grata - progressive rock (Slovakia)
Posted By: Persona Grata
Subject: Persona Grata - progressive rock (Slovakia)
Date Posted: October 08 2013 at 16:58
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Hello we wanted to use opportunity and submit ourselves to PA Persona Grata is progressive rock group based in Slovakia. Our debut album "Reaching Places High Above", composed some time ago was recently mixed & mastered in a studio and finally released. It is available for streaming on https://soundcloud.com/personagrata/sets/reaching-places-high-above" rel="nofollow - https://soundcloud.com/personagrata/sets/reaching-places-high-above  Album is distrubuted digitally (iTunes/Amazon) as well as a physical CD via our website. More information on the album you can find under this link: http://personagrataofficial.tumblr.com/album" rel="nofollow - http://personagrataofficial.tumblr.com/album Musician profiles and band's bio: http://personagrataofficial.tumblr.com/band" rel="nofollow - http://personagrataofficial.tumblr.com/band Social media: www.personagrata.sk www.facebook.com/personagrataband We are working on new material at the moment. One of the new songs is called Forevermore. You can watch it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPMP6MMFFg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPMP6MMFFg and stream on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/personagrata/forevermore" rel="nofollow - https://soundcloud.com/personagrata/forevermore Thank you for considering our band for PA ------------- http://personagrata.sk |
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Posted By: alienshore
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 13:38
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i think that their studio release Reaching Places High Above is very good progressive rock album in a first european league!!! |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 14:01
| Sounds reasonable for Prog Metal to evaluate. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 14:16
| it does indeed, thanks PG and Patrick, the prog metal team will evaluate |
Posted By: Persona Grata
Date Posted: December 03 2013 at 13:59
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Hi Guys,
did you get the chance to evaluate PG for getting some tiny tiny space on progarchives? :) In the meantime we gathered some reviews if that helps http://personagrataofficial.tumblr.com/press" rel="nofollow - http://personagrataofficial.tumblr.com/press Thanks Marta PG ------------- http://personagrata.sk |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: December 03 2013 at 14:08
Yeah, the Prog Metal team completed the evaluation with four straight 'yes' votes: http://progfreak.com/Persona-Grata-157690.html?path=pa/recent" rel="nofollow - http://progfreak.com/Persona-Grata-157690.html?path=pa/recent . You are thus cleared, and will be added to the site in due course. 
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Posted By: Persona Grata
Date Posted: December 03 2013 at 14:11
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This is awesome! Thanks Guys :)
------------- http://personagrata.sk |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 03 2013 at 18:06
| Hey Marta, if you want to speed things up you can submit a bio and picture here |
Posted By: Persona Grata
Date Posted: December 04 2013 at 04:21
 Persona Grata - Bio Persona Grata is a progressive rock group formed in The band was formed in 1999 when the keyboardist Adam Kuruc and the solo guitarist Martin Huba joined and the band and since that time Persona Grata went through various stages; members were changing, technology was changing and most of all the musical taste of band members was evolving in different directions It just happens to be, that the music Persona Grata creates and loves can best be described as “Progressive Rock”. As in their opinion “there is no other genre that holds such immense possibilities, so expressive and enabling to work with such contrasts”. Persona’s music is full of rhythmical structures and odd-time grooves. Combined with raw energy it offers excitement which is - according to band members - very hard to achieve while playing any other type of music and gives great freedom of musical expression. Persona Grata started to work on the debut album https://soundcloud.com/personagrata/sets/reaching-places-high-above" rel="nofollow - Reaching Places High Above couple of years ago. Once the whole concept was finished, the band was constantly rethinking arrangements, adding and removing layers, minimizing and expanding different parts until finally a demo version was finished from a production standpoint. Professional mix and master gave a final touch to the current sound of the album, which was officially released in August 2013. Recently PG went thru major changes. Band’s keyboard player was offered an unique opportunity as a music composer in the film and game industry which he decided to pursue and therefore had to leave the band. Shortly after, solo guitarist followed his own musical career. Finding the right band members that could stand up to the legacy of the previous ones proved to be a real challenge. Nevertheless, not long after that the right people were found: Matej Miklos – a composer, keyboardist and an amazing performer and http://www.peterluha.com/" rel="nofollow - Peter Luha – a man with stunning guitar technique, great feeling and experience. Persona Grata immediately started to work on the following album – as a first thing finished up the new single http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPMP6MMFFg" rel="nofollow - Forevermore as a showcase of the new formation and band’s new sound. ------------- http://personagrata.sk |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 05 2013 at 04:18
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Done: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8575" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8575 . You can add your album now.  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: alienshore
Date Posted: December 05 2013 at 08:04
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I added that studio album, thanks for addition of Personal Grata !!!
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: December 05 2013 at 23:20
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I listened to the album yesterday. Liked it very much.
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Posted By: Persona Grata
Date Posted: December 06 2013 at 03:04
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Hi Guys, thanks a lot for adding us, we re gonna share it right away... Glad you liked the album! PG ------------- http://personagrata.sk |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 06 2013 at 15:20
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Thanks, some editions applied - let's start discussing the music in another thread and thanks to Tuz for adding |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 06 2013 at 17:06
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^ No problem. BTW, I had to edit the album entry again as after your editions question marks appeared in place of some Czech diacritic letters. With one exception, though... The site doesn't want to accept the letter "Š" in the name of Ján Šteňo so I had to replace it with plain "S". ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 06 2013 at 17:53
^ that reminds me of typical album addition/edit problems  - thanks again
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Posted By: Persona Grata
Date Posted: December 07 2013 at 03:50
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Yeah this diacritics is very confusing anyway. Thanks for fixing it
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