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Yesterdays

Yesterdays is a Hungarian symphonic progressive rock band based in Cluj Napoca, Romania.

Its musical style has been compared by various reviewers to Yes[1] [1], Quidam [2], Pat Metheny[3], Anna Maria Jopek [4], Eclipse (from Brazil) [5] and Genesis [2]

Biography

In 2004 the band won its first First Prize at the Félsziget Fesztivál's Talentum competition in Targu Mures (Romania).

In 2006 it released their its album, Holdfénykert (Moonlit Garden) on a small Hungarian record label: Rockszerviz. This first edition was sold out in 6 months. The band played in the Netherlands at the ProgFarm Festival[3][4][5] (4 November 2006, Bakkeveen, The Netherlands).

In February 2007, Yesterdays and Rockszerviz Records organized the first MiniProg Festival (Budapest, Ship A38) in Budapest with two other bands: Flamborough Head from the Netherlands and ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks' Harmony In Diversity (U.K.).

After some member changes the band worked on some new songs, a 20 minutes long epic for the upcoming Colossus Magazine/Musea release The Spaghetti Epic III and on a 5 minutes progrock hit with Jonas Reingold, the bassist of The Flower Kings, for Dante's Inferno (a new Colossus/Musea project CD box).

In 2008, Holdfénykert was re-released by the famous French label, Musea Records. The CD came out as an "Enhanced and Remastered" edition, with some multimedia bonuses.

In July 2008 "It's So Divine" from the Holdfénykert album reached position 23 on "City FM 106,2" (Romanian Radio) National Top 30 Hit Chart.[6]

    • The Spaghetti Epic III. was a project CD with 3 bands involved [6], each band had to write a 20 minutes long progressive rock epic inspired by Sergio Corbucci's famous tragic western movie called "The Great Silence"

This CD was released in January 2009 by Musea Records

    • Inferno was a 4CD project with 34 involved bands from all around the world [7] and thematically it is based on Dante's Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. Yesterdays did its contribution with two guest musicians: David Speight (current drummer of ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks (U.K.) and bass guitar player of the The Flower Kings: Jonas Reingold.[7]

This CD was released in December 2008 by Musea Records

    • Purgatorio was a 4CD project too with 34 bands composing 34 songs based on the canto's of Dante. Purgatorio is the second part of the Divine Comedy. Yesterdays did a song based on Canto XXX.

This CD was released in October 2009 by Musea Records

Currently the band is working on its second album and their third contribution to Dante's Divine Comedy: Paradiso.

Band members

  • Horváth Linda - lead vocals
  • Bogáti-Bokor Ákos - guitars, keyboards, vocals
  • Csergő Domokos - drums
  • Enyedi Zsolt - keyboards
  • Kolumbán Zoltán - bass guitar
  • Kecskeméti Gábor - flute

Discography

2009, Oct: Various Artists - Dante's Divine Comedy - Part II - Purgatorio (Musea Records FGBG 4836)
2009, Apr: Various Artists - Tuonen Tytar II. A Tribute to Finnish Prog (Musea Records FGBG 4816)
2009, Jan: Various Artists - The Spaghetti Epic vol. III. - The Greatest Silence (Musea Records FGBG 4731)
2008, Nov: Various Artists - Dante's Divine Comedy - Part I - Inferno (Musea Records FGBG 4753)
2008, May: Holdfénykert (Enhanced and Remastered) - (Musea Records FGBG 4748.AR)
2006, Oct: Holdfénykert - (Rockszerviz Records rsz-001)
2004, May: A Whole Half (EP) - Author's edition

Reviews

References

  1. ^ Arlequin's
  2. ^ Dutch Progressive Rock Pages
  3. ^ ProgFarm 2006 Website
  4. ^ Fries Popnet Website
  5. ^ Rockszerviz Records Website
  6. ^ City FM 106.2 www.cityfm.ro
  7. ^ Jonas Reingold's website
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