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Solaris: Back to the Roots - Solaris Archive 1

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Label: Stereo Kft.
Released: 2001
Time:
 48:01
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): Tereh István
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.solaris.hu
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Purchase date: 2001.10.01
Price in €: 15,99



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[1] Revival (Solaris) - 11:53
[2] Counterpoint - original version (Solaris) - 4:16
[3] Solaris Suite parts (Solaris) - 18:09
     a. Ancient Viking
     b. Solaris
     c. Waves of the Dune
[4] Distant Fire (Solaris) - 4:36
[5] Undefeatable - 1980 (Solaris) - 9:05

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


ISTVÁN CZIGLÁN - Guitars
RÓBERT ERDÉSZ - Keyboards
ATTILA KOLLÁR - Flute
ATTILA SERES - Bass
VILMOS TÓTH - Drums

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


This material was live recorded on September 28, 1980, in the E-Building of the Technical University. That was the last time we played together in the original formation.



The band SOLARIS was formed in 1980 by university and college students. About the Solaris name: all of us love this book of Stanislaw Lem. Asimov, Clarke, Fred Hoyle, Bradbury etc. - our favourite science fiction writers! Every Solaris composition is a science - fiction adaptation. Our name is too. The first times were very important for us! We learned lot of things between 1980 and 1983. Solaris was our first band, the first Solaris SP was the first own recording in our life - we didn't know anything about the sound recordings and the working of a band. But the style was the fix common point in our plans - from the beginings! We had many influence from the electronic (and other progressive) music scene, for example: Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Focus, Pink Floyd, Mannfred Man, Jethro Tull, Tangerine Dream.... etc

May 17, 2000


It's not a dream, it is REALITY !!! The first part of the SOLARIS archives is on the market !!! You can listen to the very first songs from the SOLARIS on a brand new CD: SOLARIS archive 1. - Back to the Roots. The first period of the band's life between February and September from 1980 - interesting live versions of some legendary SOLARIS themes and some unpublished compositions.

A citation from the cover text:

"Even just to put it down is frightening: we were formed twenty years ago! There are four class reunions (held every five year), five football world championships, five Olympics, a transition to a new political system behind us; we're after Gorbachev and Reagan, we still remember the Radio Free Europe, the broadcast breaks on Mondays, the 2.80-forint sausages, the tram on Lajos Kossuth street, Törõcsik (a football player), who almost spat in the judge's face at the match against the Argentines; a time when Western LP's could only be bought at the flea market or on Museum Boulevard, when László Cseke and György Komjáthy represented two separate worlds yet and when we were convinced that Béla Bartók would stay with us forever on the thousand-forint banknote - and so on, an endless flow of things, hopelessly impalpable for our children .

The Solaris has almost become an item on the above list - a memory in the head of those who are fond of keeping old things. As it has become the fate of most Hungarian progressive bands.

It did not happen so, due to our good luck. Good luck and to several fanatics who have helped a lot to the Solaris to meet the audience.

We would like to celebrate this 20-year anniversary with them and with everybody who has ever been touched by our music. We have searched and found recordings never published before, or early, unpublished versions of music recorded in a different way in the old days."

On the next archive issues you can follow the SOLARIS-sound transformation step by step…concert for concert… These recordings technically are not ideal but you can feel the fresh power of these songs which undetectable in the studio recordings (much more feeling, much more noise…)!
 

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Instrumental!

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