"Saint-Exupéry álma" - a symphonic prog concept album - OUT NOW!
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YESTERDAYS' 4th album Is a concept album, it is more than 73 minutes long,It was written in 3 months.
Big plans for 2023... the first live yesterdays album, recorded in budapest 2007 is coming.
Yesterdays is a Hungarian symphonic progressive rock band. After releasing three studio albums (in Hungary, France, Japan, Finland, Romania), several singles and a few EP-s, the project had just released the 4th studio album (on October 22nd 2022),
the 4th album "saint-exupéry álma" (saint-exupéry's dream) is a 74 minute long concept album about exupéry's plane crash in the libyan desert and of course the little prince story. It had everything you'd expect from a vintage sounding progrock album. tons of mellotrons, moogs, distorted bass guitars, flutes, multiple vocal harmonies (6-8 voice harmonies). strong yes, genesis and gentle giant influences...
The 3rd album called "Senki madara" features hungarian folk songs with vintage progressive rock arrangements, with Yesterdays' taste, with influences from Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Genesis and Camel. Lush mellotron waves, string quartet arrangements, flute, heavy drumming, strange instruments (furniture and coffee mugs), multi-layered vocals, acoustic guitars and lots of FUZZ!
The project's musical style has been compared by various reviewers to Yes, Quidam, Camel, Pat Metheny, Anna Maria Jopek, Eclipse (from Brazil) and Genesis.
This project is led by Bogáti-Bokor Ákos, who built a live band for live performances and recordings, forming many-many line-ups in the last 10-12 years.
Our first album. First released in 2006 by a small hungarian company called Rockszerviz, later, in 2008 by the french label Musea and in 2014 by a finnish label called Seacrest Oy (The Audiophile Version). The album brought appretiation from the progressive rock community, it got many many good reviews (don't believe it? Google it!)
Our second album, from 2010, with more upbeat mood with more power, also with the same Yesterdays feel. We loved to play this material live!
Returning in 2012, the band released some new material with a new line-up. This brought us many plays on radio stations, also, Almost Like Love became our most played concert favorite...
Probably one of our favorite Yesterdays songs, written and released in 2015, when the band wasn't active, it's a studio project, but we can't wait to play it live... the song features multi-layered recorders, shiny vocals, powerful moog solos, and it's all in 7/8...
22nd October 2016 was the 10th anniversary of our first album Holdfénykert. To honor this day, we've decided to re-record one of the most beautiful songs from this album, Várj még (Just wait) with a new approach. A lovely acoustic version with a powerful Moog solo and lots of mellotrons... and this recording brought the band back to life...
At the end of 2016 brought us a new single, an old little Yesterdays song with a new concept, new sound. Yesterdays melancholy all over... we love this little tune... do you?
Since we've released our 2nd album Colours Caffe, we did many tracks for concept albums, such as The Spaghetti Epic or the Dante's Inferno Trilogy,
a few tracks for tribute releases, and also, we've found some unreleased goodness in some long lost computer folders. Have fun with them!
Sometimes even a progressive rock group needs some time apart from tricky time-signatures, 20 minutes long progressive symphonic rock epics. We needed this too, so, while the serious 3rd Yesterdays album is being mixed, we wrote and recorded this song in a few days. It was a quick studio project with Stephanie Semeniuc's soulful lead and backing vocals, Fehér Róbert Benjámin's acoustics and Bogáti-Bokor Ákos' multiinstrumental madness (bass, drums, flute, guitars, keyboards). Wearing our influences on our shirts... Lenny Kravitz, John Mayer, Steely Dan, Hall and Oates... just to name a few... so, it's a pop song with seventies sound, brass sections, cool groove, flutes.
Beautiful Hungarian folk songs with symphonic progressive rock arrangements!
2020 has been a strange year and we all had to stay home a lot. Looking for indoor fun during lockdown - we started to revisit old multitracks to see if we can improve the sound of 10 year old recordings. The results were great, so we moved on to the next track... and after a few weeks the whole Colours Caffé album got remixed. Back in 2010, Colours Caffé was our first home mixed material, 'rescued' by Ty Tabor's (King's X) amazing mastering job. So this year, the principle was the same: to make this album sound best, using all the mixing experience and knowledge we gained in the last ten years. Following the success of our third album, Senki madara, we got very confident in our audio materials and dynamic sound.
During this remixing process the band suffered the unexpected loss
of our keyboard player, Enyedi "YeDi"Zsolt.
We dedicate this release to the loving memory of Zsolt.
released November 19, 2020
Stéphanie Semeniuc - lead vocals
Bogáti-Bokor Ákos - guitars, bass, Mellotron, Minimoog, Yamaha CP, tambourine, backing vocals
Kecskeméti Gábor - flute
Ulf Jacobs (special guest from argos / Yacobs) - drums
released october 22, 2022
A 74 minute long concept album about the little prince
Stéphanie Semeniuc - lead vocals
Tarsoly csenge - lead- and backing vocals
Bogáti-Bokor Ákos - guitars, bass, Mellotron, Minimoog, Yamaha CP, tambourine, backing vocals
Enyedi Zsolt - synthesizer
Kecskeméti Gábor - flute
Kósa dávid - percussion, backing vocals
Zsigó lászló - drums
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