zjedmir - crossover prog

Zjedmir (stylized zjedmir) first started creating music in summer 2023, and would go on to release various cheap-amateurish projects mostly inspired by more poppy songs, however by gradually learning more about music and getting used to it. He started to make more experimental and proggier music, beginning in august 2024 with 𓀬媌, continuing in march 2025 with an untitled album (1), and another one in may 2025 (2). These more recent albums are more explicitly inspired by bands such as Gentle Giant, Triana, King Crimson. With influences from RPI. Almost all tracks fall on the short side with the songs not lingering for long on melodies and themes.
Every song is made on a 0 euro budget and zjedmir is currently only 16 years old.
Often these songs are in collaboration with others, especially on vocals.
(i dont like self-glazing but i guess i have to,,,)

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^ Thanks for the suggestion. I had a listen to you first (untitled) album, and it's certainly unusual stuff, being mostly a mix of fairly stripped back jazzy and avant styles, I suppose. Unfortunately however, without a physical release of some kind available to purchase, or an album available for download from iTunes, Bandcamp or a similar platform, we can't consider you for inclusion on PA. The suggestion really needs to be moved to Unsigned Bands until you have an official release of one or more of your albums available for purchase somewhere.

^ Hey, don't get ahead of yourself - I only said we'd consider you for inclusion on PA if you had it available for download. Your music has to be evaluated by a team of collaborators and approved by at least 2/3 of them before it can be added here.

No worries. Any particular reason why you made it 'free download' rather than 'name your price' (which is essentially the same thing for those who choose not to pay anything)? There is an element of uncertainty regarding whether or not our evaluation teams would consider an entirely free release for evaluation, this needing to be a unanimous decision in favour of doing so by all the team members, and subsequently cleared by admins.

See this site policy and guideline for more details, the text of which I'll copy here anyway:

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