Progres 2
Progres 2 is an art rock band from Brno, Czech Republic. It was established in 1968 as The Progress Organization. The original lineup was Zdeněk Kluka, Pavel Váně, Jan Sochor and Emanuel Sideridis. Its most important album in a Czech context was the rock opera project Dialog s vesmírem in 1978, only a year after the transformation of the band called Barnodaj to the new band Progres 2. The public presentation of this rock opera was the first audiovisual program of rock music in Czechoslovakia. Because this rock band played in the totalitarian state, they had troubles with officials. The best known problem was the one with lyrics of one song from the album Dialog s vesmírem. The song was called "Planeta Hieronyma Bosche II" where the band sings about life on heroin. Censors forbade this song and the band solved it by using only the vowels from the original lyrics. At concerts they played the whole original lyrics. The band was inducted into the Beatová síň slávy in 2016.
Personnel
THE PROGRESS ORGANIZATIONZdeněk Kluka, Pavel Váně, Jan Sochor, Emanuel Sideridis BARNODAJ
Pavel Váně, Pavel Pelc, Zdeněk Kluka, Jan Sochor PROGRES 2 – DIALOG S VESMÍREM
Pavel Váně, Pavel Pelc, Daniel Forró, Zdeněk Kluka, Miloš Morávek PROGRES 2 – TŘETÍ KNIHA DŽUNGLÍ
Zdeněk Kluka, Pavel Pelc, Miloš Morávek, Roman Dragoun PROGRES 2 – MOZEK
Peter Peteraj, Aleš Bajger, Zdeněk Kluka, Pavel Pelc PROGRES 2 – ZMĚNA
Pavel Pelc, Milan Nytra, Aleš Bajger, Zdeněk Kluka PROGRES – POKROK – OTRAVA KRVE
Pavlína Dvořáčková, Mirek Sova, Dalibor Dunovský, Milan Nytra, Zdeněk Kluka PROGRES – 1992
Pavel Váně, Pavel Pelc, Zdeněk Kluka, Borek Nedorost, Ivan Manolov PROGRES – 2004
Pavel Váně, Pavel Pelc, Zdeněk Kluka, Borek Nedorost PROGRES – 2008 – present
Pavel Váně, Zdeněk Kluka, Miloš Morávek, Roman Dragoun
Pavel Pelc died in Brno in 2021.
Discography
- Barnodaj
- Mauglí
- Dialog s vesmírem
- Třetí kniha džunglí /The Third Book Of Jungle – English version
- Mozek
- Změna
- Otrava krve
- Progres story 1968–2008
- Tulák po hvězdách