Wonderful news: the new Moonlit Garden CD is ready with a 12 pages CD booklet (photos, english lyrics, new graphics and surprises!). Special thanks to Bernard Gueffier (of Musea Records), Betty Léb for the wonderful English translations, to Jürgen Meurer and Horst-Werner Riedel for their wonderful introductory words, to Szakács Liaand Enyedi Zsolt for editing the CD booklet, to Széles Ferenc for programming the enhanced CD! Coming very soon... from MUSEA Records...
13rd November 2007
Change we must!
Hi there friends!
We had a very good gig at Marosvásárhely in the Jazz&Blues Club, with so much energy on the stage and so many behind-the-scenes feelings. I think this fact made this show so important to us and so special, musically and emotionally as well.
Our music is about impossibilities, struggle and sometimes catharsis. We had to realize that being part of- or leading an eight members group it can be the hardest thing... and we do this as a "part time" thing, eight people, each of us living our own lives, having our own struggles and problems, and sometimes different dreams.
Kinga decided to leave the band, and I really don't know what is harder, to leave or to be left. Big lifetime questions for sure. We all are sad for her leaving, but all we can do is to understand her and to wish her success for her next projects and dreams!
Timi also left the band, for professional reasons. She had to chose between classical music (her profession) and progressive rock. Sadly it is so hard to concentrate on two different singing techniques, when you are learning the classical techniques this needs 100% of you.
What's next? It is time to re-think all our thoughts and ideas about being a band, to draw conclusions about what needs to be changed and how to work, how to deal with the time problems and of course human and emotional things. A big lesson to everyone of us.
So, dear friends, this is where we are right now and one thing is sure: the second Yesterdays album is on its way and in my opinion it will be different from the Holdfénykert album. More electric and more eclectic, but of course with the same Yesterdays feel. The next task is to find the voices, to come out with a new line-up and to WORK, WORK, WORK :).
You'll hear the results soon...
"Change we must, to live again..." (Jon Anderson)
Wishing all the best to you in the name of the band,
Ákos
6th November 2007
Some fresh news:
English Lyrics. From now on you'll find all the lyrics from the Holdfénykert album translated to English! (of course on our Lyrics page)
Ákos and Zsolt were kindly invited by Marco Bernard (Colossus Project, Electroshock) to appear as guest musicians on Colossus' forthcoming tribute to Finnish prog called "Tuonen Tytär 2" Read all about it!
Near the new Yesterdays material, Ákos is currently recording his guitar- and vocal parts to the first Amethyst album. Amethyst is a powerful sympho-prog band, their debut album will be released in february 2008.
26th September 2007
Dear Friends, we are glad to inform You that our Spaghetti Epic called "Suite Pauline" is completed and sent to the record company (Colossus Magazine and Musea Records). Love and winter... fear and pain... finding and losing the One... tragedy. Big thanks to all of You for your encouragement and patience, love and expectation, invested work and Faith! Soon, our Friends, soon....
Ákos, Zsolt, Dave, Zoltán, Misu and Tibi
The final night in the studio, Tibi mixing the Spaghetti Epic.
6th September 2007
Here's a "behind the scenes" footage of the trumpet recordings for"Suite Pauline". Mihai Sorohan did several fantastic takes for this prog epic, it was a bit painful to choose the best one :). You'll find the final result on the 3rd Spaghetti Epic (Colossus/MUSEA release in December 2007)!
29th August 2007
Only a few extra takes and our Spaghetti Epic called "Suite Pauline" is ready for mixing! In Dave's words: we released a real monster... the Spaghetti Monster, a sometimes gentle, sometimes brutal creature, showing the other side of Yesterdays, the real heavy-progressive side, 7 musicians working together on a fantastic project... It was a pleasant journey to the cold land of the "Great Silence" movie! The following musicians were involved making this suite:
Bazsó Tibor - sound engineer and fantastic ideas
Bogáti-Bokor Ákos - lead- and backing vocals, guitars, electric sitar, Mellotron, Fender Rhodes and additional crazy bass lines
Enyedi Zsolt - piano, Mellotron, Hammond organ, Korg MS2000, MicroKorg, MiniMoog, church organ
Kolumbán Zoltán - bass guitar
Kozma Kis Emese - flute
Mihai Sorohan - trompet
David Speight - drums
24th August 2007
We did it! Dave was fantastic. "Suite Pauline" and the Inferno tracks are ready now for the last bass-recording sessions! Soon you'll hear these progressive epics! :)
8th August 2007
SPECIAL NEWS! We've just finished the writing process of the Spaghetti Epic, we already started the recording process hopefully it will be ready for the deadline :)! Parallel to that we also wrote a new song for the Inferno project, it turned out a very proggy little song with beautyful analog keyboards, acoustic guitars, lots of mellotron soundscapes. We are very to have our new starchip trooper on board, David Speight (UK) on drums... and there are even more (POSITIVE!) surpises... :)
31st July 2007
Wow, what a gig it was at the Félsziget Festival! The show was recorded in HiFi, so beware, sooner or later it will be released on DVD.
3rd july 2007
We have just finished our suite for the third Spaghetti Epic CD by Colossus and Musea! The song is called "Pauline" and it has many analog instruments in it, lots of prog stuff, vocals, crazy keyboards, Howe-ish guitars (a la Relayer). Zsolt has just started to record the keyboard parts. We are very satisfied with the results, and looking forward to have this "monster" recorded! More news on this topic soon!
Yesterdays and Flamborough Head will participate on the new Colossus Project "Inferno - A Progressive Rock Epic", based on the first first cantica of the Italian Epic Poem “The Divine Comedy”. Inferno will be released by Musea in 2008. Yesterdays will have to write a song inspired by Canto II. For more information on this project please visit the Colossus website by clicking
here
21st May 2007
"Valahol a térben" (Somewhere in the Space...) - the first Yesterdays video from our first album "Holdfénykert"
17th May 2007
We made a fantastic progress on our new epic called Pauline for the next Spaghetti Epic album. There are strong Gentle Giant and Yes (Relayer) influences, polifonic vocals, heavy use of the MiniMoog, the analog KORG and the Hammond organ. We'll record it in July and the CD will be released this December by the Colossus Magazine and Musea Records!
1st May 2007
Hi there friends! We had a wonderful time in Saint George Town (Sfintu Gheorghe / Romania) last weekend! Great show, fantastic audience, sunshine and our dear friend Dave Speight (Harmony In Diversity) on drums...
It is so interesting how people get involved in our music thanks to the internet, thanks to Myspace. Last autumn we were contacted by Dave Speight via Mysapce and last weekend we played together the hardest Yesterdays song Seven... with only one rehearsal on the day of the show... and it was a fantastic experience for the whole band. Joe gave his place to Dave and joined David in the percussion section, wow, it was just perfect!!! It's a pity that Timea could not come to play with us this time, we really missed her voice in the background vocals...
Another fun thing: Zsolt used my good old Roland EP75 for the Mellotron sound and we had to play the end of the song Hol vagy together on his keyboard stand with 4 hands :). I really enjoyed running across the stage to reach the keyboard stand in time :)))
Dave, we would like to thank you for your friendship and for your special humour... sorry for my absurd word-jokes (ha-ha-ha)... :) I am sure that this gig was only the beginning and we'll have the opportunity to play together more and more in the future!
We would like to thank Eszter and Tozsi for being our closest friends and biggest fans :)... and for the fantastic live photos!
As you probably all know, Dave will play on our second album too. We are so happy for this!!!
It's hard to start the everyday life after all these fantastic experiences, after this magical weekend...
28th March 2007
This is an excerpt from our first "Holdfénykert" show (22nd October 2006)
25th March 2007
We are pleased to announce that we have the honour to play with the following bands at this year's Summers End Festival :
We would like to thank you all for the support, yesterday we had a great time with you! Special thanks to Timi and Huba for organizing this wonderful event, and also thanks to the sound crew! Erna, thanks for the DELICIOUS cookies.... :) We celebrated the 7th Anniversary of Yesterdays... WOW! Seven years... Any reactions of the new song? Come on guys, it wasn't so bad :)))) More new stuff on the way... look out! Now we are looking forward to play in St.George Town (Sfintu Gheorghe - Romania) where our dear friend Dave Speight (drummer of Harmony in Diversity) will join us.... don't miss this gig!!!
The seventh anniversary of Yesterdays!!! "Seven like our heaven / Seven, like the wonders of the world..."
2nd March 2007
Some MiniProgFest memories... (Matusa István's photos)
1st March 2007
Four and a half pages of Yesterdays interview in the ACID DRAGON Progressive Rock Magazine. :) Special thanks to Thierry :)
18th February 2007
We just started the filming of the first Yesterdays video today, for the "hit single" Valahol a térben...
15th February 2007
Hi there friends! It's been a while since the last update of the site, we apologise for that, but you know, so much to do around the upcoming Festival... Although in Hungary things are progressing very slowly, we are very optimistic. We sold quite a lot of tickets in advance, the promo is out on so many internet portals! :) We are counting the days... See you there!
29th January 2007
Here it is, friends, the cover art of Colossus Magazine's "The Spaghetti Epic III." project.
Stefano Scagni's painting
14th January 2007
We had a wonderful time rehearsing. We finished our new 10 minutes long song, we spiced up a bit some tunes from our concept album too so we are looking forward now to our next gig with Harmony in Diversity and Flamborough Head!
Yesterdays rehearsing
8th January 2007
Dear friends, we wish you a Happy New Progressive Year! :) It's almost finished, the poster of our MiniProg Festival 2007.
26th December 2006
The famous ProGGnosis just published a brand new review of our new CD "Holdfénykert" (Moonlit Garden), check it out
here!
21st December 2006
To All Our Dear Friends,
Somewhere it is written: -
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if there is no such thing as a miracle. The other as if we are surrounded by miracles"
Whilst remembering what is behind us, I am looking forward to the life that is before us. I am watching the Moon and the stars. I feel the breeze and touch the little orange flowers, still spreading their colourful joy in this strange December.
I can feel the Miracle.
Yes! This year was a Miracle of its own: creating and performing together, releasing our music, old and new friendships, fantastic supporters, tears and laughter, and healing.
The Light!
I hope the miracle, the rebirth, the wisdom and the love will come into the life of us all. Take care of the Light inside you; take care of everyone, who laid their happiness in your hands.
May you carry the Miracle of the Christmas Festival with you into your whole Life.
Zsolt
13rd December 2006
Dear Friends! We are happy to give you the great news, we reveal who is that fantastic headliner band at our Mini Prog Fest in the 25th February 2007 (at Ship A38 - Budapest):
Peter Banks' (a former Yes member's) new band, Harmony In Diversity! We would like to thank to Dave Speight HiD drummer, who contacted us at our Myspace. Such wonderful internet experience... Along with our dear friends from the Netherlands, Flamborough Head we are looking forward to this wonderful event of progressive rock music!
If you read this, please "Spread the news and help the world go 'round" (Yes: Time and a Word) :)
Have you heard of a time that will help us get it together again?
Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
Well, the time is near the word you'll hear
When you get things in perspective.
Spread the news and help the word go round.
(Yes: "Time and a word")
Harmony In Diversity
Flamborough Head
Yesterdays
10th December 2006
Although we were very tired, it was a SOLD OUT gig in Budapest (F.M.H. Club). Clear sound, colourful lights and a little light symphonic prog... The audience was fantastic, the cought the mood of our music, some people were crying... Thank you all for coming and supporting us! Here are some pictures from the gig, taken by Matusa István.
4th December 2006
On the 2nd December Ákos and Zsolt performed a "mikrogig" in Nagykároly (Carei - Romania) at the final of the 10th Anniversary MATURUS competition (Organised by the SAY-YES Foundation). They played the title track from the new Yesterdays album, but in a different way, on electric guitar and with a special intro taken from Trion's first album "Tortoise", with this "Edo-intro", a special tribute to our Dutch friend Edo Spanninga!
30th November 2006
Fantastic news!!! We were kindly asked by Marco Bernard (Colossus Magazine) to join the next project of Musea and Colossus: "The Spaghetti Epic 3"
"The Spaghetti Epic 3" will be based/inspired by Sergio Corbucci's "The Great Silence", one of the best and most unusual spaghetti Westerns ever made, set in the beautiful desolation of the snow-covered high plains. Jean-Louis Trintignant, the romantic French star of My Night at Maud's and A Man and a Woman (what a coincidence... this film's main theme music was rearranged and performed as a bonus track on our first Yesterdays EP "A Whole Half"...), hardens his blue eyes into a steely stare to play the mute mercenary gunslinger "Silence." Klaus Kinski (star of Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Nosferatu the Vampyre) is his target, a grinning, amiable bounty killer whose deadly logic leaves a trail of corpses in his wake, all murdered "according to the law." Corbucci, whose Django is a genre classics, complicates his trademark cynicism with the compelling contradictions of his hero and villain, and the chilly atmosphere of the frozen mountain community brings a new twist to the phrase cold-blooded murder.
We'll have to create a suite of 20-25 minutes inspired by the film, using vintage/analogue instruments in a early 70's progressive style with strong classical baroque influences including "heavy" use of Hammond, piano, Mellotron, Minimoog, etc.
Cover artwork will be done by maestro Stefano Scagni and packaging artwork by Davide Guidoni.
Final mastering will be done by Marco Olivotto at Sonica Studios in Italy.
Synopsis and introduction to the project will be written by John Nudge.
It feels great being a part in such a wonderful project with other great progrock bands "on board" like Little Tragedies (Russia) and Signal To Noise. We've just started to put together some demos and lyrics (in Hungarian).
Release date: December 2007
24th November 2006
Wow, a CD review on Progwalhalla
by Eric Neuteboom.
"YESTERDAYS - Holdfénykert
This is a Hungarian band with mainly Rumanian musicians, the current line-up features 10 band members including 3 women. Yesterdays is rooted in early 2000 and has already made a demo tape (entitled Come Dream With Me from 2002), a serie of CD's and even a DVD.
During the first part of this CD their sound is pleasant and folky inspired featuring lots of acoustic guitar and flute along a wonderful female voice with echoes from Annie Haslam. I am delighted about an acoustic guitar duet (twanging and solo) and the omnipresent violin-Mellotron waves. The second part of Holdenfenykert delivers a way more symphonic rock sound featuring fluent Moog runs and again beautiful Mellotron work. But we can also enjoy pure folk and I was very pleased with a duet from acoustic guitar and harpsichord, that distinctive vintage keyboard. My highlight is the long and alternating song entitled Seven: it starts with a fluent rhythm, Moog flights and Mellotron waves and mellow parts with warm female vocals, then a compelling piece with sensitive guitar and lush Mellotron. The final part begins with a flute solo and howling guitar runs and finally a sumptuous eruption with a swirling Hammond solo, great!
To me this sounds as a wonderful blend of folk and symphonic rock, very tasteful, this band will please both the prog-folk - as the symphonic prog fans."
20th November 2006
We recieved a lot of fantastic Progfarm photos in e-mail from our friend Henri Strik (Background Magazine). Thank you Henri!!!
17th November 2006
We found a short video on the net taken from our Progfarm performance.
14th November 2006
Our brand new Press Kit is ready now! You can download it for free by clicking the picture below. For reviews we have promo CD-s too. For your copy please write to: bogatiakos@yahoo.com
7th November 2006
It is so hard to find words after such a wonderful progressive experience like Progfarm! We'll write more soon, but until that, here are some photos/memories! :) Big BIG thank you to our Flamborough Friends :) and all the other fantastic bands at this year's Progfarm Fest!
Flamborough Days & Yester Heads: Timi, Marcel, Kinga, Margriet, Koen, David, Edo, Laska (Koen's dog), Zsolt, Eddie and Ákos, Emese, Lehel and Joe!
24th October 2006
It was wonderful, magical, our dreams came true we all were in a Moonlit Garden last sunday! We would like to thank all of you, who were there to support us, to all the good people behind us with their kind help... with you it was easy to make things happen this way! It is hard to find the words to describe this magical feeling. Soon, you'll find some wonderful photos taken from the gig. We've just started to prepare to this years ProgFarm Festival (in the Netherlands). See you there!
18th October 2006
This weekend we'll present our new album in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca). This will be the first gig of the new album, we prepared some very very progressive surprises, solos and duets, colourful lights and a round stage! Thanks to our friends at Sapientia University, the gig will be available on DVD too, they will film it with 4 cameras!
11th October 2006
We rehearse for next week's gig, it will take place in an old jewish church here in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca). We'll have some really progressive surprises, lights, colours, songs, moods, solos...
The album is available to purchase and you can order it online here or at this address: matusa@rockszerviz.hu
Soon you'll have the opportunity to visit our new gallery with some old- and new promo shots!
Untill than feel free to visit our Myspace to check out some excerpts from our new album Holdfénykert (Moonlit Garden)
20th September 2006
Dear progressive rock fans! We are happy to announce you, that our "Holdfénykert" (Moonlit Garden) CD is MIXED! We have some work with the cover and in 2-3 weeks (hopefully) it will be available at www.rockszerviz.hu . Visit us more often for the fresh news related to our NEW album! It turned out a very progressive concept album, a story of an impossible love. You'll hear many acoustic and vintage instruments (different types of guitars, mellotrons, moog) with some very modern ones (like the guitar synth) on this album. Soon we'll add all the lyrics and promo photos to the related links! Be sure to check back the site more often, wonderful things will happen soon!
13rd September 2006
"Come on Dackó mackó, do the funky monkey!" In the last two days we had a wonderful time in the studio with Daci's excellent percussion work, Kinga's bright vocals, Timi's esoteric backing vocals and Mesi's ethereal flutes... and now, we have all the tracks recorded, we've just started the final mixing and mastering! Hold out and hold up, the Moonlit Garden CD is almost finished! It's progressive... very progressive! :)
8th September 2006
Here is the final line-up for this year's "Holdfénykert" (Moonlit Garden) CD and Progfarm Festival: Jánosi Kinga (bright lead vocals), Fülöp Timi (backing voices, piano), Kozma Kis Emese (magic flute), Bogáti-Bokor Ákos (guitars, voices and keys), Csergő Domokos (very progressive drums), Enyedi Zsolt (vintage keyboard extravaganza), Kósa Dávid (percussion), Vitályos Lehel (low and high voices on a bass guitar)
28th August 2006
Hi there friends! We are happy to announce that the album is ALMOST READY NOW! :) It's a dream come-true, with Enyedi Zsolt's wonderful Moog and Hammond solos, some additional guitar synths and e-bow works! The band is currently working on the final movements, backing vocal parts. The "deadline": 20th September. Official release date: 4th October 2006! Are you excited? Visit: www.rockszerviz.hu
13rd August 2006
Have you ever felt that something really good just happend to you and you could not tell anyone? There are lots of good things, positive energys around the band right now, we are workng hard on the last movements of our brand new album. A little bit of guitar here, a little bit of vocals there and the CD will be ready to release 'till 20th September! Feels like it's the first time, well, it's always the first time... the last movements, the countdown, than the "camera aaaaand ACTION!" sentence :) While you are waiting, why don't you subscribe to your monthly newsletter?
10th August 2006
Regarding to your e-mails we've just started our mailing-list. What will you get by your subscription? Fresh news, tour dates, special information regarding the band... and special give-aways: one lucky subscriber gets montly a special Yesterdays compilation CD, and in 3 months a Yesterdays live DVD!*
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31st July 2006
First of all, thank you all for the positive thoughts about the Félsziget Gig. You can find some fresh, new photos (downloaded from www.felsziget.ro).
21st July 2006
Yesterday's Yesterdays gig was a very good one, altough it was the first gig of the brand new member line-up. It really was fantastic to play in that wonderful valley of Tusnád... the audience was THE BEST (we started to play at 1:30 am, so thank you guys for the support!) This is only the beginnig... to be continued... (next saturday at the Félsziget Festival 2006)
27th June 2006
We've just been invited to the Netherlands, the famous ProgFarm Festival, by Edo Spanninga (keyboard player of Flamborough Head and the amazing prog-trio Trion). If everything is going well, we'll be playing there at the 4th of November! Thank you, Edo!
27th June 2006
We did all the keyboard parts for the album with the kind and professional help of Enyedi Zsolt. We are more than happy with the results! Only one song left and the album is ready for the final drum and lead vocal sessions :).
21st June 2006
Very-very good news: we are more than happy to tell you: the Yesterdays album will be released in October 2006 under the label of Rockszerviz . A big-BIG thank you to Matusa István and Reményi Gábor at Rockszerviz!. Soon, thanks to them, the Yesterdays website just moved here: www.yesterdays.hu Keep on proggin', friends! :)
21st June 2006
We've just started the final recording session of the keyboard parts for the Yesterdays album! If things are turning well, we will be ready with the material till sunday! Until than feel free to visit Yesterdays' space at www.myspace.com/bogatiakoswhere you can listen to three "rough mixes" from the album... Soon you'll get some final excerpts too.
20th June 2006
Todays was Karola's big day, her last student party, and we played a short unplugged show there! Things were turning out very well, it was good to see how the audience was "shocked" when we played June (Spock's Beard). :)
10th june 2006
Yes, it's true, we did a soundtrack for the brand new film of Zágoni Bálint: Cafe Amor For the Original Sound Track was used a part of our "A Whole Half" EP: "It's So Divine (like Cherrypie)" and the two Yes-covers: "The Clap" (by Steve Howe) and "Heart of the Sunrise" (by Anderson/Howe). Click the thumbnail to see the DVD cover in a better resolution! Thank you Bálint!
5th June 2006
The recording sessions are going very well! We have 8 songs recorded (without the drums and the vocals), and only one more song is left to complete the first recording session! More news soon!
14th May 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MESI!!!
2nd May 2006
A BIG-BIG THANK YOU for all your friends for the support last friday!!! An extra BIG THANK YOU for Joe, for your excellent drum-work! Without you we couldn't make it!
4th April 2006
Yesterdays is currently working with session drummers. On the 28th April we will play with our good friend Oláh József ("Joe") and hopefully Fekete Zsolt will be there with us too (on percussion). On the album Galántai Zsolt will be the drummer (former member of You and I)
30th March 2006
Today the band was celebrating it's 6th Birthday! :) Six years ago Lehel, Sissy and Ákos were playing together for the first time!
20th March 2006
Welcome to the English version of the Yesterdays website! Be sure to visit it as often as you can for news, live tour information, photos and downloadable stuff!
19th February 2006
The band is working on its first album in the studio ALIAS with Bazsó Tibor "T.", the best soundman we could ever wish for!
15th February 2006
For photos of the band, check out our TIME-MACHINE! (this strange thing on the right) :)
