Yesterdays (band)

Yesterdays is a Hungarian symphonic progressive rock band based in Carei, Romania.
Its musical style has been compared by various reviewers to Yes, Quidam, Pat Metheny, Anna Maria Jopek, Eclipse and Genesis.

WWW yesterdaysband.eu

Biography

In 2004 the band won its first First Prize at the Félsziget Fesztivál's Talentum competition in Targu Mures.
In 2006 it released its album, Holdfénykert on a small Hungarian record label: . This first edition was sold out in 6 months. The band played in the Netherlands at the ProgFarm Festival.
In February 2007, Yesterdays and Rockszerviz Records organized the first MiniProg Festival in Budapest with two other bands: Flamborough Head from the Netherlands and ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks' Harmony In Diversity.
After some member changes the band worked on some new songs, a 20 minutes long epic for the upcoming Colossus Magazine/Musea release The Spaghetti Epic III and on a 5 minutes progrock hit with Jonas Reingold, the bassist of The Flower Kings, for Dante's Inferno.
In 2008, Holdfénykert was re-released by the famous French label, Musea Records. The CD came out as an "Enhanced and Remastered" edition, with some multimedia bonuses.
In July 2008 "It's So Divine" from the Holdfénykert album reached position 23 on "City FM 106,2" National Top 30 Hit Chart.
Yesterdays' second album called Colours Caffé has been released by Hungarian label Rockszerviz in January 2011. The album features 11 new songs and a hidden track. It seems that Yesterdays had the chance to play with their Hungarian influences, like Tamás Mohai, Hungary's most wanted session drummer Gergely Borlai. The album's mastering was done by King's X guitarist Ty Tabor at the Alien Beans Studio. Not long after the album's debut it was released by DiskUnion in Japan as a double CD.

Projects

*The Spaghetti Epic III. was a project CD with 3 bands involved, each band had to write a 20 minutes long progressive rock epic inspired by Sergio Corbucci's famous tragic western movie called "The Great Silence"

This CD was released in January 2009 by Musea Records

*Inferno was a 4CD project with 34 involved bands from all around the world and thematically it is based on Dante's Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. Yesterdays did its contribution with two guest musicians: David Speight and bass guitar player of The Flower Kings: Jonas Reingold.

This CD was released in December 2008 by Musea Records

*Purgatorio was a 4CD project too with 34 bands composing 34 songs based on the canto's of Dante. Purgatorio is the second part of the Divine Comedy. Yesterdays did a song based on Canto XXX.

This CD was released in October 2009 by Musea Records

*Paradiso was the final chapter of Dante's Divine Comedy trilogy, a very exciting 4 CD box. Yesterdays covered Dante's Canto nr. XXXIII, the title of the song is "33".
*Yesterdays paid their tribute to the Swedish progressive rock band The Flower Kings covering their song called My Cosmic Lover. The 4CD box was released by French label Musea Records
*Senki madara was the 3rd full album release by Yesterdays. The concept was to bring ancient Hungarian traditional songs, music into progressive rock territory.

On 11 May 2020 Yesterdays keyboard player Zsolt Enyedi passed away.

Personnel

Members

Bogáti-Bokor Ákos - guitars, keyboards, vocals
Csajkos Nándor - bass guitar
Kecskeméti Gábor - flute
Kósa Dávid - percussion
Tóth Gábor - keyboards
Zsigó László - drums

Discography

Official albums:

2006, Oct: Holdfénykert -
2008, May: Holdfénykert -
2011, Jan: Colours Caffé
2014, Sept: Holdfénykert - Audiophile 3rd Edition
2018, Oct: Senki madara -
2020, Oct: Colours Caffé 10th Anniversary Remixed and Limited Edition -
2022, Oct: Saint-Exupéry álma -
2023, Sept: A Moonlit Night in Budapest -
2024, Jan: Senki madara 2nd edition -
2024, Dec: Holdfénykert 4th edition -
2025, Jan: The Little Prince and Other Stories - Live -

EPs, Single CDs:

2004, May: Yesterdays' Dream is Now, A Whole Half
2012, January: Winter
2012, March: Almost Like Love
2015, March: Find Another Light
2016, October: Várj még
2016, December: Indulok-érkezel
2018, June: It's Not the End of the World
2019, December: Cheesecake
2020, May: Waltz for the Lost Deer
2020, Nov: Never Knowing Why
2024, Jan: Petőfi Felhő Projekt

Contributions, recordings on conceptual CDs, compilations:

2008, Nov: Various Artists - Dante's Divine Comedy - Part I - Inferno
2009, Jan: Various Artists - The Spaghetti Epic vol. III. - The Greatest Silence
2009, Apr: Various Artists - Tuonen Tytar II. A Tribute to Finnish Prog
2009, Oct: Various Artists - Dante's Divine Comedy - Part II - Purgatorio
2010, Oct: Various Artists - Dante's Divine Comedy - Part III - Paradiso
2011, Jun: Various Artists - A Flower Full Of Stars - A Tribute To The Flower Kings
2012, May: Various Artists - Tales From The Edge - A Tribute To Yes
2018, May: From the Vault - Compilation of previously unreleased tracks

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