Yugo-Prog Appreciation Thread

Time Istina mašina ("Truth Machine") (Time LP, 1972)

 

Time Istina mašina ("Truth Machine") (live in Zagreb, 1987)

 

Korni Grupa Moj bol ("My Pain") (Korni Grupa LP, 1972)

 

Korni Grupa (feat. pre-Time Dado Topić) Slika ("Picture") (B-side of 7-inch single, 1970)

 

Sadly, somebody removed this footage with full-song that is 18 minute long, and there's only this now on YouTube, actually in two parts

Korni Grupa (feat. pre-Time Dado Topić) Prvo svetlo u kući br. 4 ("The First Light In the House No.4", live in Belgrade 1969, part I)

 

Korni Grupa (feat. pre-Time Dado Topić) Prvo svetlo u kući br. 4 ("The First Light In the House No.4", live in Belgrade 1969, part II)

 

Smak Put od balona (instrumental) (Smak LP, 1975)

 

Bijelo Dugme Pristao sam biću sve što hoće (official TV video with a children choir, 1980 )



transl.

I've agreed to be everything she wants

I've agreed to be everything she wants
here I am selling my soul to my devil
and I will remain just a black dot
after this game when they break me
when they peacefully break me.
I've agreed to be everything she wants...
La la la la la la la la la la

I thought beasts were afraid
of this fire that follows my trail
and I thought that.
And now I wear whatever they make me
nothing will be named after me
nothing will be named after me

I've stopped counting misconceptions
I have no one to return home to
As long as I sing, so long I exist
Past friends, future friends
Remember me by my songs
Remember me by my songs.

 

Bijelo Dugme Sve je to od lošeg vina (live with Belgrade's Symphonic Orchestra, Belgrade's Pionir arena, 1979)



transl.

Bad Wine
don't trust me tonight?
every time I'll offer you more?
don't trust me when the guitar is playing?
and the rain is falling from golden heights?
this is all because of bad wine?

don't kiss me tonight?
there will be tears, verses will run???
don't listen to me little girl, cause you will hear?
things I don't want to say and that are not true?
this is all because of bad wine?

don't look at me like that?
until the dreams of the people ...??
I will fool myself?
the heart offers more than what he can? vise no = vise od?
and more than what his destiny is?
this is all because of bad wine?
this is all because of bad wine?

 

Bijelo Dugme Šta bi dao da si na mom mestu ("Playing the part") (live in Belgrade's Pionir arena, 1975)




This is my favourite song by Bijelo Dugme, aside of their really great, proggy ballads, of which I am a big fan; on the bottom of the page no. 1 in this appreciation thread, I've already posted a really fantastic English version of this fantastic Yugo-Prog song. English version was recorded in 1979 in a London's studio, and ex-Alan Parson Project's vocalist DaveTownsend wrote the lyrics, as the band planned to release a 7-inch single for then British market of the 7-inch singles, but had to give up of that - I presume that they failed due to New Wave histeria those days - and it was two years later released just for promo 7-inch single which printed in a small number of copies only to be given as a gift to Yugo-rock journalists on a cocktail party organized for them by the band.

 

Indexi Negdje na kraju, na zatišju ("Somewhere of the end, at lull") (Indexi LP, 1972)

 

After Belgrade's Korni Grupa in 1974 recorded and released in Italy an album on an Italian label, for Italian and European market, a year after that the major Serbian record company PGP released it under licence in Yugoslavia, as PGP got that licence for free as well, due the fact that PGP already had the contract with the band. No Serbian version of lyrics, though.
Sadly, Italian label didn't gave any penny for marketing and the album was therefore selling poorly. Though, the album is excellent Symphonic rock of that era, with songs (two songs are over 10-minutes long prog-epics) that are full of keys that played by the leader of the band Kornelie Kovač, a classically educated composer and musician who was graduated on Sarajevo's Academy of Music, on Classical composition and piano; at Not An Ordinary Life the album his baroque-like synths are often in interplay with majestical guitar work by Josip Boček - founder member of the band and one of three greatest guitarists of Yugoslav progressive music - other two are R.M. Točak (Smak) and Vlatko Stefanovski (Leb i Sol). I strongly suggest that this album should be heard in its entirety, so - voila!

Korni Grupa Not An Ordinary Life (full-album, 1974)

 

Favorite is Igra Staklenih Perli.I like the whole scene though.
Indexi - Modra Rijeka on shoplist.

 

Indexi More ("Sea") (Modra rijeka LP, 1978)

 

Indexi Jutro će promijeniti sve ("Morning Will Change It All) (7-inch single, 1968)

 

Indexi Plima ("Tide") (7-inch single, 1969)

 

Indexi Svijet u kome živim ("The World Where I Live"") (7-inch single, 1971)

 

Indexi Da sam ja netko ("If I'm Somebody Else") (7-inch single, 1970)

 

Indexi Balada ("Ballad") (7-inch single, 1972)

 

Biska 16 (untranslatable word) is B-side of Smak debut 7-inch single released 1974. A heavy riff based Progressive rock at its best!

 

Surely one of the best progressive blues-rock tracks from the Seventies; "Blues in the Park" from Smak s/t debut LP, 1975

 

Igra Staklenih Perli Drives (full album, 1978)



01. Warriors ( 13:02 ) 00-13:02
02. Return ( 7:25 ) 13:02-20:27
03. Crazee-Lazee ( 6:20 ) 20:27-26:47
04. Drives ( 16:31 ) 26:47-43:18

 

Igra Staklenih Perli Vrt svetlosti ("A Garden of the Light", same-titled LP, 1980)

 

Smak Gore dole ("Up & Down") (7-inch single, 1979)

 

There was some nice degree of enthusiasm for jazz-rock / fusion in former Yugoslavia. This is a phenomenal and only album by 4-piece instrumental band Den Za Den from Skoplje, released in 1980.



For the fans of the 70s fusion of Return to Forever, Brand X and Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Unfortunately, this masterpiece has never been re-released on CD.