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5th March 2010 19:00, Soul Club, Cluj Napoca (with Flamborough Head (NL))
13rd March 2010
Soon we'll have some video footage, untill that here are some fresh photos taken by Gábos Albin. This gig was FUN, thanks again to our dear friends of Flamborough Head... we are already missing you! See you in October!!!
28th February 2010
We simply just can't find words. Yesterday we played in the honour of King Matthias, for His Majesty's 567th birthday! The King's natal house was full last night, the Moon was also full and everything went really well, although this was our first gig since we've started the second album's recording. Next week we'll play with Flamborough Head. :) Be there!
 Happy Birthday, Your Majesty! :)
28th January 2010
On the 5th March we'll play with our dear dutch friends. We just love their wonderful harmonies and their melodies, listening to them is always a pleasure, so we strongly recommend this gig, where we'll have the chance to team up with them! :) Yesterdays will play a set of acoustic songs this time, so, after all that evening on the 5th March will be a colourful one! We'll soon be back with details, so be prepared :D
  Flamborough Days és Yesterheads :)
20th January 2010
"Yet another favourite prog discovery and this time it's the Hungarian Yesterdays. You never no quite what to expect from this band, sometimes all acoustic and sometimes electric, sometimes male lead vocals and sometimes female. On this occasion it's the electric/female combination and although Feluton is not the bands strongest offering to date it has its moments especially the gloriously inventive guitar soloing that mirrors Steve Howe and Robert Fripp in equal measures."
3rd January 2010
While wondering how to greet Happy New Year in this News section, suddenly I remembered that the first Yesterdays concert was... well... ten years ago, and it took place in Radio Cluj, exactly on the 30th March in 2000... Wow, this just means that the band is active for 10 years... this calls for a celebration :)
1. Pauline Suite (20'00'')
... three-quarters hours of Yesterdays music... but near that we were working really hard on our second album too... We've just recorded 10 exciting new songs... I think everybody is qurious about this new material :) Well, one thing is sure: we will release our second album in 2010, and we'll play the new material on several concerts :)!
23rd December 2009
We just can't believe it, 2009 is over... and what a year it was, full of work, passion, recordings, interesting projects... and we've just finished recording our second album... We are waiting, but we also feel that it was worth waiting and working all year long, we've made some really nice songs, we tried to do our best, the Music what we live these days in. Soon we'll start the mixing, but before that let us thank You all, dear Friends for all you patience, your kind e-mails, the fine reviews of our project-songs :). This was a fantastic year, but we hope that 2010 will bring You more Yesterdays music, the CD and... maybe the very first Yesterdays Live DVD!!! :)
Hanna, Ákos, Zoltán és Zsolt
7th December 2009
23rd November 2009
7th October 2009
13th September 2009
WOW, we had a fantastic weekend once again, at the Alias Studio in cluj Napoca, recording flutes with Kecskeméti Gábor and some exciting percussion with Kósa Dávid (former Yesterdays member). A wonderful time with so much fun in the studio with our sepcial guests... Gábor, Daci thanks so much for everything, we hope that we'll play together again very soon! :)
After the sessions..."
3rd September 2009
...another mind-blowing, exciting offer from our "Samurai of Prog", Marco Bernard. He wanted me to record some "Relayer" style guitars on a Marillion track, and also some "Yes"-like vocals... what a challenge... but I am crazy enough to do it for the fun... Fish-era song, progressive stuff so I'll start to record immediately in my home studio! Keep your fingers crossed for me :)
Some drum recordings in Budapest 1st September 2009
29th August 2009
Dear Friends, just a quick note to make this website really up-to-date: the drums, the bass lines, the acoustic guitars were recorded to our second album and now we are still in the studio recording the electric guitar parts. To be honest this work is really excited, we tried out some cool new things in the studio, and there was so much going on in the last 2 years... the album just keeps on growing, we have 13 fresh new songs, many fantastic musicians involved and some really good feelings about this second album thing... Next week we'll have a drummer-UFO recording 2 songs with us :) and in September Kósa Dávid (former Yesterdays member) will re-join us to record some really funky percussions :D ... and let's not forget the flute recordings (also in September) with Kecskeméti Gábor... just how lucky can we get :))
Take care and soon we'll show you some 'making of' photos.
15th April 2009
It' hard searching for the right words to explain what we feel now that the Blues Festival gig is over. It was fantastic, the sound, the people, the friends, the weather... We played only 5 songs and it was over an hour...
The setilist on this night was:
1. Éjszaka a városban (from the upcoming new album)
...and we were 6 on the stage, helped by a genious on flute, giving us the best flute experience ever: Kecskeméti Gábor from Hungary. He will play all the flutes on the new album... we just couldn't imagine that playing the flute can be this fun, this professional and emotional... Gábor brought new passion with his playing, and just lifted up the songs into hights we couldn't imagine before... :)
Zsolt had some difficulties with one of his 6 synths on the stage, but he solved the problems instantly and everything went perfectly!
We have the show on an AUD bootleg, on a soundboard recording and a pro-shoot video film (with soundboard sound), so it is possible that soon we'll post some very high quality moments from the show. Until that please visit our Myspace photo album to see some really good photos :D But let us thank to PANKKK, EMI, DALOK.HU (for the BIG help!!!), Szárnyas Sárkány and Gyuri bá' (for the invitation), Szabolcsi István for the SOUND and for the soundboard recordings :D, Réka, Eszter, Birta Péter (for the fantastic photos!!!), Tozsi for the minidisc bootleg (looking forward to hear it :D!!!). From now on we'll concentrate to our recording work in the studio. Talk to you soon, and thanks, (L-R) Gábor, János, Hanna, Ákos, Zsolt and Zoltán
2nd April 2009
Vor kurzem hat Zsolt eine kurze "Weltreise" gemacht, und hat unsere liebe deutsche Freunde, Horst-Werner Riedel, Jürgen Meurer und Wolfram Ehrhardt besucht. Sie haben zusammen einen schönen sonnigen Tag in Köln verbracht, und einen speziellen Prog-Abend einschließlich eine feine Soundscaping-Session gehabt. Gut geschafft, Proggies! 
23rd March 2009
Wow, two new Yesterdays tracks are out on the second edition of the finnish prog-tribute CD: Tuonen Tytar! Two Wigwam (FI) songs were covered on this album, "Lost Without a Trace" a full Yesterdays track featuring Zsolt, Timi, Ákos and Daci, "Colossus" is a finnish-italian-hungarian co-production where Ákos sings (lead and backing vocals), plays mellotrons, while Zsolt plays clavichords and a fantastic moog solo! Don't miss it!!! You can buy your copy here (at Musea Records). We'd like to thank Marco Bernard for this wonderful cooperation!
12th March 2009
Next week we'll record our very first song with Hanna, our contribution to Musea's compilation: Dante's Purgatorio! I must say that it's such a blessing to work with Hanna, she helped me complete the lyrics, we wrote all the melody lines together, soon you'll hear the results... you know, this feels good, we don't have anything to worry about... we'll try to stay in this state of mind while we are working on the new songs...
7th March 2009
"Holdfénykert is a strong first album for this Romanian band, which plays a modern interpretation of classic Symphonic Prog. Inspired strongly by 70's Genesis, Camel, Gentle Giant, and Yes... this band still manage to forge a unique sound of their own. "
The full review can be found here.
4th March 2009
"This is a good and solid album for a relatively new band on the block, from a region that has proved to spawn tremendously good bands throughout the years, I assume that Yesterdays will be a name to reckon in the next years."
To read the full review click here!
24th February 2009
Don't let the silence of this News section fool You :), beneath this "silence" the band is rehearsing VERY intensively. Our song for the next Musea/Colossus release (Purgatorio) is almost finished (finally, this week we'll record all the vocals and start the mixing!), and near that we are working hard on the new songs... this new Yesterdays album is still growing, we must control ourselves not to end up with a boring double CD :) (seriously: we won't let this happen!!!). After Hanna's Purgatorio sessions we'll show You a short "making of the Purgatorio track" video... until that keep on visiting the page for eventual news bits... and of course: buy both the Inferno and Spaghetti Epic III. CD-s, 'cause they are great (at www.musearecords.com)!!!
22nd January 2009
You know, while browsing the internet we occasionally found some new reviews about the Moonlit Garden album.. it is uplifting and it feels so very good to read all about other peoples oppinions about our music. It gives us faith in what we are doing... From all the reviews this new one is the closest to my heart... it was written in Romanian, here, at home... Although we gigged most of the time abroad, there are people who are interested in our music, who appreciate the way we play and compose our music... By reading this article, it really feels like a homecoming for me and it really moves me! All I can say is that we'll try to play more at home, to our friends! The article was written by Mihai Plamadeala and it can be found here! Multumim, köszönjük, thanks! :)
17th January 2009
13th January 2009
János, Zoltán, Ákos and Tibi in the studio, working on Yesterdays' track for the upcoming Musea release: Dante's Divine comedy Part II. Purgatorio!
12th January 2009
...and just how many good things can happen in 2009? First of all the amazing "Spaghetti Epic III." CD (from Musea) with our 20 minutes long epic called "Suite Pauline". Later "Tuonen Tytar 2" will be released (of course by Musea) with us appearing as guest musicians on "Colossus" (a Wigwam song) and as "remakers" of Wigwam's gem "Lost Without a Trace".  Hanna, on a rehearsal
29th December 2008
22nd December 2008 Áldott, Békés Karácsonyt kívánunk Nektek!
10th December 2008
Dear Friends! Wonderful news before Christmas: INFERNO is out now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)(to order it please click on the exclamation marks) :) We have waited one whole year for this!
13rd November 2008
A fresh Holdfénykert (Moonlit Garden) CD review on the well known Italian Arlequins page... :)
10th November 2008
1st November 2008
We have a very intensive period behind us, the last few weeks were all about the continuity of the band. We had some serious meetings in order to clearify the future of Yesterdays. 29th October 2008
Dear Friends, the band has just started the preparations to record the next album. We had to think over some stuff about our aims, concepts and plans. Soon we'll write more here and of course we'll send out a fresh newsletter about all the changes and plans regarding Yesterdays. We'll soon be telling you who became the new lead singer of the band... Some very important guests will be playing with Yesterdays on the next album... Stat tuned to find out more about this (very soon!) :)
9th October 2008
Here's a collection of reviews about the Moonlit Garden (Holdfénykert) album! Click here to read them (in English, French and German)!
11th September 2008
Dear friends! We just started to work on our second album. The material is almost ready we did many demo recordings and everything looks very promising to us. The next album will be more powerful, more electric but with the same "yesterdays"-ish taste :). We'll have some fantastic guest musicians playing with us, from the U.K., Germany and Hungary... but let this be our secret!
A special HI to all our Swedish and Japanese fans and friends who made Japan and Sweden the first two most active visitor country in our website statistics! :)
15th August 2008
Another gig, another interesting experience for the band... in the guitar camp we played as a quartet, without Zsolt (who was on a holiday with his family) and without Timea, who decided to try her singing skills in other musical styles (it turned out that progrock is not her cup of tea...). So, Mesi, Zoltán, János and I had to play a whole Yesterdays gig as a quartet... it was interesting, I had to use more guitar synths than ever and I even played more keyboard parts, Mesi played some vocal parts on her flute and of course the lead vocals were sung by me too...
During that week of the Guitar Camp I had 25 students and we really had a good time. We played classical, blues, rock, prog and lots of Hendrix tunes :). Thanks to the main organiser Szép-Tóth György and me, we woke up every morning to some prog music :)) like Gentle Giant, Spock's Beard, Jonas Reingold's Karmakanik and Flower Kings :D What a feeling... The camp-radio was so damn loud, YEAH!!! Some kind of musical education too :)
I can't tell you much about this week's things, because I had too much positive impressions and I could only tell some fairy tales. One thing is sure: next year I'll be there too and we'll play with Yesterdays too!
Ágó and Réka, thanks for the photos and the videos, with these memories the spirit will be kept alive!
On the last night of the Camp we organised a small rock festival with the students and their new bands, each playing one or two songs. It was FUN, we had punkrock, grunge, blues and of course progressive rock too. As the last act of the small festival I played a duet on ONE guitar with my favourite 12 year old student, Bence: Hendrix's Purple Haze... man, this was fun. Soon we'll show You some video footage of the gig! :)
I would like to thank all my fellow teachers and to all the kids for this fantastic week! I really hope that we'll meet next year on the 9th Transylvanian Guitar Camp!
Cheers,
Ákos
17th July 2008
1 hour packing, 9 hours driving, 1 hour de-packing, 20 minutes (!!!) soundcheck, 40 minutes on stage, 1 hour packing , 2 hours with our new and good old friends in Bucharest, 9 hours on the road again, 1 hour de-packing, 2 hours thinking about these words for the site :) = 27 sleepless hours (until this very moment :)
    10th July 2008
Things just fastened up in/with/around us. Although we haven't made any Summer plans with Yesterdays we ended up in a situation with 3 or 4 serious gig dates :). We are preparing now for the gigs (the Guitar Camp, the Bucharest gig and the one on Stufstock Festival - if we will succeed in Bucharest). So, we had an interesting situation, when we found out that Domi will be busy with KUMM in Budapest while we probably will have to play with Yesterdays on StufStock Festival... Someone said: LET'S CLONE DOMI!!! Hmmm... we haven't got much time for that... so, we had to find someone for just this gig...  Stucz Tímea, Murányi János, Kolumbán Zoltán, Bogáti-Bokor Ákos and Kozma Kis Emese 8th July 2008
We were surprised today when we found out that our song "So Divine" is present on a Romanian Top Chart in Bucharest for 3 weeks. On City FM's ROMTOP the song climbed from position 29 to 23 :)! Life is good!
25th June 2008
After last week's fine Yesterdays workshop we realized that we have now enough material for the next album, more then 50 minutes in demos... so, from now on we'll work on the new songs (finalizing them). 20th May 2008
Is it just a coincidence? No, I don't think so... the album was born in the light of the full moon two years ago... and here we are, our dream came true, after selling all our CDs of the first edition the second edition was released by MUSEA, the record company of our dreams... Full moon rising today... So, it's a dream come true for us and just to make this thing even more special, we remastered the album and the CD is an enhanced one with videos, photos, special links and a 12 pages CD booklet... We'd like to thank all our fans and friends who made this dream come true! :) You can order the CD by clicking here!
 In a state of fallen grace With a smile upon its face IT CAME Full moon rising today (Transatlantic) 15th May 2008
Finally, all the 3 epics are well done for the upcoming Musea/Colossus record, The Spaghetti Epic III.! The cover art is done too, it's fantastic, so nothing can stop this fantastic CD! :) Now that I had the opportunity to hear all the 3 epics, I'm so proud of all of us, for the opportunity to play together, to be part of this amazing project along with N.O.T. and Little Tragedies, two fantastic bands... it's a honour and a pleasure too! It was fun and we all are looking forward to have the CD in our hands... seeing/hearing is believing... We do hope that You'll like this amazing compilation! Get ready to "eat" it! :) The Spaghetti will be served soon... by the fantastic Musea Records!
5th April 2008
P.S. A shortened English version is published on the website of the magazine!
http://www.progressive-newsletter.de
Just use Your mouse like this :) ) 21st March 2008
More than a year ago we played in Budapest at the MiniProg Festival 2007. A short video bootleg from the show:
20th March 2008
Some months ago our friend, Marco Bernard (of the Colossus Magazine) kindly invited me to participate on their brand new Colossus project CD called "Tuonen Tytär 2" (a tribute to finnish prog), to sing some vocals on a very modern version of Wigwam's "Colossus". Meanwhile he also asked Zsolt to do a MiniMoog solo in this song.
So, the international and virtual work started (sending and sharing of the WAV files), and things begun to grow very fast. The finnish spirit of this strange and interesting song was "spiced up" a bit with some "italian blood" : Giorgio "Arecnames" Mastrosanti - guitars Davide Guidoni - drums Roberto "Bobo" Aiolfi - bass guitar Alfio Costa - mellotrons Bogáti-Bokor Ákos - lead and backing vocals, mellotrons Yesterday I was in the studio, recording my vocals and some additional mellotrons. Davide said that my vocals reminded him of Francis Bonnermann of Eloy... At this point we only miss Giorgio's final guitars and Zsolt's crazy moog solo, after these, Bazsó Tibor (our sound-engineer) and I will start the mixing at Alias Studio in Cluj Napoca (RO). What I've heard so far from this Tuonen Tytär 2 CD is excellent and you'll find two Yesterdays appeareances on it... so.... just check out this space for new information! Marco, Zsolt, Giorgio, Davide, Bobo and Alfio, thanks for this wonderful prog-experience!!!
Cheers,
1st March 2008
Wow, we were in the studio today to complete a wonderful surprise track... 2'36'' pure yesterdaysness ... a tribute to our finnish-italian friends... We were so happy today with the results, with the work, that we forgot to take pictures about the recording and mixing session....
To increase Your curiosity here it is, the line-up of the "songmakers":
Bogáti-Bokor Ákos - lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocal extravaganza
Recorded by: Bazsó Tibor and Puiu Barnutiu 24th February 2008 "Yesterdays of Tomorrows" :) had a full-day rehearsal. Shaping, changing, or just picking out songs to play is a hard work, for every new beginning. The band with our on-off drummer and new bass player, Kolumbán Zoltán, had a serious sound.
Zoltán is the bass-player of the band Balance from Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu-Secuiesc / Romania) and my band mate in DeLaFunk. We also share a bit of Yesterdays history. Last autumn, when the task of laying down the bass-lines for the 20 minutes-long Suite Pauline fell upon me, I asked him if he would borrow his instrument for the writing process. Then he tactfully offered his services for the recording also, if I considered it necessary. In just one evening we demoed our ideas, and the next day we were able to record all the bass-parts for Suite Pauline. Handling a task at this level, and of similar magnitude, only Domi was able to perform. There were no other names considered when the spot of the bass-player became vacant. Ákos
L-R: Csergő Domokos, Kósa Dávid, Enyedi Zsolt, Kolumbán Zoltán, Bogáti-Bokor Ákos, Stucz Timea and Kozma Kis Emese
22nd February 2008 Great news from Marco Bernard (of Colossus Magazine)! The two MUSEA/Colossus compilations (The Spaghetti Epic with our Suite Pauline and Dante's Inferno with our Színjáték) are in their final preparing processes (CD booklets are now under construction). A little patience and you'll hear our new epics!
8th February 2008 Perpetual Change! Sad it is to lose and happy to find someone again. As the only one permanent thing in our life is change itself, we are glad to announce, that our second album will feature our old'n'new beloved friend and drummer-genius CSERGŐ DOMOKOS. Many thanks Domi for Your commitment, faith and persistence and...
7th February 2008 Dear Friends! We are sorry to announce, that the bass player of our "Moonlit Garden" album and the concert-drummer of our last tour-session decided to leave the band and will follow their different musical way. Have our thank yous for the time, for the fighted problems and for those many expierences lived together, and have our best wishes, guys:
Ákos, Zsolt, Mesi, Timi, Daci. 10th January 2008
26th December 2007
26th December 2007
21st December 2007
To All Our Dear Friends,
Somewhere it is written: "Smile, and the World smiles with You"
We are closing a rich year. Rich in experiences, joy, troubles and changes. A true MUSICAL richness. Thinking back to our fulfilled desires and those that are still waiting for us, those unexpected events and those sounds that came alive, we can look forward with a peaceful smile on our face and strong faith in our hearts.
We all are fighters of the Light - let us take care of it, let us protect and cherish it, let us spread it around. This is the one and only thing, which we can give away, however will grow in our heart, but whilst keeping it hidden, will fade out.
So, have my send-off here: just four words showing Yesterdays' essence, showing past and future, showing all of us.
Divine Play Light Shade
Wishing all of You the Light of Christmas, a year full of happiness and joyfully smiling moments!
Zsolt"
17th December 2007
First of all let us introduce our new lead singer to You, her name is Stucz Timea! Our friendship begun two or three years ago on a festival where she performed her own songs with one guitar. She was fantastic and we shared the same changing room and some phone numbers :). So, in spring of 2007 I phoned her to ask her about joining my solo album project as a lead singer, but after she got back from England, Kinga just left the band and we were looking for a new lead singer... so we decided to ask her and she said YES... and here we are, she just sung the lead vocal parts for our Inferno song "Isteni színjáték" (Divine Comedy) for the upcoming Musea/Colossus release!
So the recordings of the vocal parts had begun, but Timi showed her lyricist side to us too, being a co-writer of the lyrics, we have changed some ideas two times a day in e-mails... but now the song is ready and today we completed all the vocals recordings!
Facing new experiences in the studio wasn't the only challenge for Timi, because last Friday we went directly to a local radio station (Paprika Radio 95.1 FM Cluj) to a apprear in a live show with Mesi. We had to perform two songs and yet this was Timi's first appeareance as the band's brand new lead singer. We all were a bit nervous about that, but soon we got over it and the performance proved that our decisions were right: Timi is the perfect choice for the band! We would like to thank János Murányi's kind invitation to the Radio! :)
But let's retur to this INFERNO track... until today we kept our guest musician's identity a secret... well, it's no more a secret that Jonas Reingold (bass player of The Flower Kings) accepted our invitation to join this project and recorded some fantastic and progressive bass lines for us... We can't find the right words for him to thank this fantastic collaboration, it really is a big honour and a DREAM-COME-TRUE!!! Jonas, thank you again and we hope that we'll have the chance to play this song with You live somewhere in the future :)!!!
So, here it is, the final line-up of our Inferno project group:
 L-R: David Speight (drums), Kozma Kis Emese (flute), Stucz Timea (lead vocals, lyrics), Bogáti-Bokor Ákos (guitar, Mellotron, Moog, vocals, lyrics), Jonas Reingold (bass guitar), Enyedi Zsolt (KORG MS) We would like to thank you all for your patience and support and for all the e-mails! We will keep up the progressive work :) Please check out the MUSEA website for more information about the Spaghetti Epic III and the Inferno CD at www.musearecords.com Yesterdays 10th December 2007
This year's December is full of surprises... we had a big dream about a special guest to record the bass lines to our Inferno track and it just came true last week. We won't tell who the surprise is, let this news be a Christmas present :). More details soon! A BIG THANK YOU to our Special Guest!!!!! We love you! :)
22nd November 2007
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