YEZDA URFA – Cancer Of The Band
YEZDA URFA blends influences from YES and GENTLE GIANT into wonderful, fast-paced, great symphonic prog. Another band that springs to mind when listening to their Sacred Baboon album is ECHOLYN. Although they played and recorded between 1973 and 1981 they didnt release any albums, aside from a demo album in 1975 called Boris. Their first demo didnt atract any interest from the record labels, so they financed and recorded an album by themselves, hoping it would help them in getting a record deal. They were only offered a bad deal by a small record company, so they declined (they kept the T-Shirts, they were handed out though). They finished Sacred Baboon as the album was called in 1976, but due to lack of funds they shelved it, and in 1981 they called it a day, and the band split up to pursue other interests, mostly out of the music scene. In 1985 a guy called Peter Stoller got his hands on their debut demo album, and brought it to the attention of Greg Walker from Syn-Phonic records, and thus YEZDA URFA were finally discovered, which resulted in the release of their hidden gem Sacred Baboon in 1989. A higly recommended band, especially for fans of YES, GENTLE GIANT and ECHOLYN.
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They just don’t make ‘em like this any more.
A must for fans of Flash and Gryphon! Also a bit of a blend of Dixie Dregs and Gentle Giant, with a touch of 10cc and Frank Zappa. yeah
Yes, GG and a bit of Birth Control.
you can tell they’re just having fun, but hell, this is good. if they’d develop a style of their own, it would be good for them. they could easily be a more upfront part of the neo-prog scene along with Porcupine Tree etc.
Yes knocked up Gentle Giant, and Yezda Urfa was their bastard son. they have several great tracks. i can’t take them all that seriously though. sometimes they try too hard. come on guys, create your OWN style or you’ll never be a great. that’s why nobody knows about them now.
they’re still really damn good though. check out the track “Boris and his Three Verses”
Was that american?! How’s that even possible?
As good as Prog gets…and as good as music gets. Epic. So sublime it makes me want to weep.
…this is some cool old school prog, indeed!!!
killer stuff…
I just fund them and i think they are Great but i think Gentle Giant is better to my satisfaction
amazing! I never expected anything like that from such an obscure band. These are easily the best 6 minutes I’ve heard of american progrock. They sound like gentle giant! xD
You should’ve put a picture of the original album sleeve up
Best american prog album with Mirthrandir ‘ For You the Old Women’ and Fireballet ‘Night on a bald mountain’. But none of the three can be said is very original. However good music
AHHHH!! Genial!
awesome.. how could i have missed this band so far??
The choirs are great!
I love yezda urfa! Fav!
ahhh…
i like this