Saturday, November 12, 2022

Progres 2 - Třetí Kniha Dzunglí (1982)

The fourth album from this band from the Czech Republic.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, flute and vocals.

Progres 2 return again for a second stab at the Jungle Book by the famous author Rudyard Kipling. A book most famous as the Walt Disney movie of the same name.

This story must have been pretty fascinating behind the Iron Curtain too. The Czech Republic was in a union with Slovakia named Czechoslovakia back then and a Stalinist dictatorship where everything from the other side of the Iron Curtain, my side of this wall, was regarded with contempt and fear by these communist rulers. 

Progres 2 released a 2 CDs album based on this book they named Treti Kniha Dzungli.

We get eighty-one minutes of music on this double cds album. 

There is a pretty wide variation in music during these eighty minutes. From funk and fusion, neo-classical music to some more sparkling quirky and eclectic progressive rock. Add some pastoral, folky pop and rock too and you get this album.

This is indeed a concept album.

And it is a good concept album too. Progres 2 has come of age and has started to produce the goods. Albums like this one.

Fans of concept albums, and those who can live with lyrics in the local Czech language, should check out this album. It is an elegant album with a lot of good solos and songs. 

This band surprises me a lot, indeed.

3 points

 

 


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