Vezhlivy Otkaz
iamthemorning
Pikapika Teart
Rational Diet
Uz Jsme Doma
Vezhlivy Otkaz
iamthemorning
Pikapika Teart
Rational Diet
Uz Jsme Doma
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
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I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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What exactly IS eastern Europe?
There is no border on the European map so I am puzzled.
Ex-Yugoslavia?
Greece? or is that Soutern Europe?
Czech reupblic/ Slovakia? hungary? I would qualify that as central Europe.
Does Turkey count as well?
All the bits that aren't Western Europe
THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS THREAD.
Personally I always think of Eastern Europe as everything that used to be in the Soviet Bloc but then that's probably my age. I'll go with the UN definition - Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
No really, you are just putting a bunch of consonants together and calling it a band.
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Politically speaking - and as others have noted, this could be age talking - there really wasn't a "Central Europe" as there is now. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland were all considered Eastern Europe. That said
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If central Europe is 'eastern Europe' and ex-Yugoslavia is ruled out then my absolute nr 1 is...
Iva bittova!!! For me the absolute queen of the avant garde.
<BIG GAP>
Rational Diet
<another big gap>
Vezhlivy Otkaz
PikapikaTeart (only 1 album but it is VERY good)
SBB
Before I opened this thread, I was thinking of asking to see a map of Europe.
I guess the vast majority of prog I like comes from England or the USA (and to a lesser extent, Scandinavia). I do like various world musics (though I hate that term), but I find myself interested in the more traditional music from countries than their take on prog rock. For example I love most types of Brazilian music, but I can take or leave the prog I've heard from there. YMMV.
Then try Iva Bittova and Rational Diet.
Iva Bittova incoprorates Moravian folk music into her own version of Avant prog.
Rational diet is a chamber rock group heavily influenced by ex-sovjet composers like stravinsky, Schnittke, shostakovich and others.
Both very much represent where they come from.
Cardiacs
The Sea Nymphs
Spratley's Japs
Mr & Mrs Smith & Mr Drake
Stars in Battledress
Iva Bittova
Gunesh
Barbaro
Fermata
SBB
M. Efekt
Korni Grupa/Kornelyans
Phoenix
Plastic People of the Universe
(all things) Iva Bittova
Vezhlivyi Otkaz certainly are runners up, as are Uz Jsme Doma. There are dozens and dozens of fantastic Eastern European acts.
Of the "classic era" names, I should have included Ruja from Estonia as well (although they are somewhat ambivalent to being considered "Eastern bloc"). Wonderful band before they went weirdo rockabilly from the mid-80s.
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