Your top 7 pre-1990s Eastern European albums?
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Topic: Your top 7 pre-1990s Eastern European albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your top 7 pre-1990s Eastern European albums?
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 11:58
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We're talking here about progressive music, and my top 7 is something like (chronologically): Marek Grechuta & Anawa (PL) - Korowód (1971) Kornelyans (Yug) - Not an Ordinary Life (1974) Phoenix (Rom) - Cantofabule (1975) SBB (PL) - 2: Nowy Horyzont (1975) Niemen Aerolit (PL) - s/t (1975) Fermáta (CSR) - Pieseň z Hôľ (1977) Solaris (Hun) - Marsbeli Kronikak (1984) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 18:22
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One album per band. Riverside- "I.D.Enity" Poland 2023 Oblimy Doschu- "Son-" Ukraine 2017 "SBB- "Karlstad Live"- Poland 2001 (from 1975 concert) Pesniary- "Gusliar"- Belarus 1979 Deposed King- "One Man's Grief"- Hungary 2023 Roz Vitalis- "The Hidden Man of the Heart"- Russia 2018 Yesterdays- "Saint-Exupéry álma" = Romania 2022 |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 19:34
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I think I only own 2 that meet the criteria Vezhlivy Otkaz - s/t (89) Igra Staklenih Perli - s/t (79) ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 02:42
Besides, small correction. Yesterdays is not a Romanian band. It's a Hungarian band 50/50 based in Romania and Hungary. Anyway, I'm not in the right mood to list a top 7, so I'm gonna list just one album, which I think is pretty overlooked, whenever the Eastern Europe topic comes up. Iraklis - Se Allous Kosmous (Greece, 1976) ------------- 
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omphaloskepsis wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 04:03
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Didn't we do a thread like this a couple of years back? 
Surprised you only mention them as an afterthought In the same line: Radim Hladik & Blue/Modry Effekt. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 04:53
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I know I've forgotten some, but these are all great: Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust (1971) Russia - seems he's French:) Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia - Czekając na kometę Halleya (1985) Poland Sergei Djokanov - The Green Desert (1985) Bulgaria Бумеранг [Boomerang] - St. (1983) Kazakhstan Kolinda - Kolinda 2 (1977) Hungary Osjan - Roots (1983) Poland Gonda Sextet – Sámánének (1976) Hungary Gunesh - Looking at the Earth (1984) Turkmenistan |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 05:26
Igor Boris Wakhévitch - Born May 12th, 1948 (Gassin-Saint Tropez, France) What's more, a while ago I tried looking up information about Igor Wakhevitch's roots due to his familiar sounding Slavic last name, hoping he might be of Polish heritage, but I couldn't find anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -------------
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 05:50
| ^No I'm wrong. I checked all the others, but that was "from memory":) - I thought he had just moved to France. But It's Igor's father who was born in Russia. I'll find an alternative. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 07:25
I would certainly find it as interesting. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 07:50
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The only one in my collection that meets the criteria is: V'73 "Seven Pieces for Keyboards, Bass and Drums" - 1973 Hungary ------------- "Instrumental music is an expression that words can never capture." -- Peter Baumann |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 08:04
"Yeah, I know. I'm guilty. I understand that. I knew it was a crime. I did it anyway." -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Johnny Depp as Hunter Thompson answering Gary Busey's traffic cop. https://movie-sounds.org/comedy-movie-sounds/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas/yeah-i-know-i-m-guilty-i-understand-that-i-knew-it-was-a-crime-i-did-it-anyway |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 09:43
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 09:48
Eastern?! No. South-east?! yes. I don't know if it counts. I would not put them in a list like this though (when or if i make a list here). 
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 10:38
With that being said, I wouldn't include countries such as Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, as they are clearly part of Central Asia. -------------
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 10:49
I think some people might think they're in Europe because they were part of the former USSR, but (obviously) just a part of USSR territory was European. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 10:52
| ^I'm wrong about those - as I included countries once part of Sovjet Union without really thinking about it. In regards to Greece you'll get a differnt answer depending on where you're from - and where you read. Where I live Greece is most defenatly seem as part of Western Europe. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 10:52
I think we're supposed to pick our examples geographically. And by this criterion, Greece is South-Eastern. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 11:19
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Greece is politically very Westernized. In Poland, where I live most people I've met, consider their homeland a Western European or Central European country. :p BTW, I think that in the case of Europe, south-eastern counts as eastern. It's not like the case of East Asia vs. Southeast Asia, where you operate at much much broader areas of land and sphere of influence gaps. -------------
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 11:41
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I think a lot of the confusion over what is and isn't Eastern Europe has much to do with the remnants of Cold War politics from the 20th century. Here in the U.S., countries that were in the USSR's "sphere of influence" were often just called Eastern Europe. Hence, that's why we never thought of Greece being a part of that. Geographically it makes no sense as a lot of those countries would either be in Western Europe or Central Europe. My own rough estimate of where the midpoint between east and west would be, kind of looks like it would pass through the Baltics and western Ukraine. I'm probably wrong since Europe is such a complicated land mass with peninsulas popping out all over the place. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 11:46
Good point, so I remove Gunesh from my list. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 11:52
| ^ Especially when it's about music of the (near)past, I tend to think music from "behind the iron curtain". I won't bother changing the bands I selected. I'm fine with my misunderstanding as I think it's more interesting that way. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 11:52
I didn't include them in my top 7, but I do now instead of Gunesh. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 12:06
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I've used the pre-1990s political definition of "Eastern European", so whatever think of it geographically or regarding cultural influences, I haven't included Greece. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 12:37
That was almost 4 years ago, and there are a couple of very significant differences in the OPs of these two threads. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 27 2025 at 05:40
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^ The previous thread was for all favourites and not just top 7, all-time and not just pre-1990s, and it didn't include Poland, while it included Greece in any case. Anyway, this is what you listed then with relevance for this thread: 11 Fermata Fermata Svk 1975 11 Fermata Huascaran Svk 1977 11 Flamengo Kure V Hodinkach Cze 1972 11 Modry Efekt Modry Efekt & Radim Hladik Cze 1975 11 Modry Efekt Svitanie Cze 1977 11 Igra Staklenih Perli - Igra Staklenih Perli Yug 1979 11 Plastic People of the Universe Kolejnice Duni (Rails Rumble) (1977-1982) Cze 11 Szabo, Gabor Macho Hun 1975 ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 27 2025 at 08:10
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1. SBB - Pamiec (1976) 2. Michal Urbaniak's FUSION - Atma (1974) 3. FERMÁTA - Pieseň z hôľ (Songs from Ridges) (1976) 4. LABORATORIUM - Modern Pentathalon (1976) 5. JAZZ Q - Pozorovatelna (The Watchtower) (1973) 6. JUKKA HAURU - Episode (1975) 7. FERMATA - Huascaran (1977) Honorable Mentions: JUKKA TOLONEN - The Hook (1974) (recorded in Sweden) POP WORKSHOP - Vol. 1 (1973) (recorded in Sweden) Michal Urbaniak's CONSTELLATION - Super Constellation (1973) (recorded in Germany) MICHAL URBANIAK - Paratyphys B (1973) (recorded in Germany) SOLARIS - Marsbeli Kronikak (1984) SBB - Memento Z Banalnym Tryptykiem (Memento with a Banal Triptych) (1981) MODRY EFEKT - Modry Efekt & Radim Hladik (1975) MODRY EFEKT - Svitanie (1977) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 28 2025 at 04:19
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I don't understand why to include a couple of Finns, but otherwise very nice, Drew, thank you. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 29 2025 at 06:16
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Finland just seems . . . out there! FAR east! Though I'm pleased to see JazzMusicArchives coming to life, except for a very few number of bands (Mahavishnu, RTF, SBB, Fermáta) it seems that there is a downplay or negation on PA with regards to the influence Jazz and Jazz-Rock Fusion played on the development and push toward progressive rock! I just had to chime in. My way of trolling, I guess. Je m'excuse! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: July 29 2025 at 09:01
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Jazz Q - Symbiosis Imants Kalniņš - Dzeguzes Balss ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 29 2025 at 09:07
| I'm hoping at some point to check out East and Omega in particular. There's actually quite a bit out there even from this era. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 29 2025 at 09:19
My OP asks for progressive music, so Jazz Rock/Fusion is very fine with me. Edit: But you haven't maybe listed your top 7. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 29 2025 at 09:52
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^ I can also wonder if not the pre-1990s Eastern Europe was stronger in Jazz Rock/Fusion than Progressive Rock. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: July 29 2025 at 10:32
Omega - The Girl With The Pearl's Hair (org. "Gyöngyhajú lány") https://youtu.be/SNLsmh_otYs ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |