Artist description This is the Progressive Rock and Psychedelic section of Poegs. Here you can find the more rocking pieces. For more Poegs-Music visit the main site at mp3.com/poegs.

Music Style Prog Rock, Art Rock, Kraut Rock, Alternative

Musical Influences pink floyd, jethro tull, santana, bob dylan, camel, tangerine dream, mike oldfield, genesis, eloy, king crimson, yes, barclay james harvest, manfred mann's earth band, bruce springsteen, steely dan, uriah heep

Similar Artists pink floyd, mike oldfield, eloy, king crimson, yes, camel, gentle giant, genesis, nektar, pendragon, marillion, jethro tull

Artist History Since 1999 POEGS publishes his music over the net. Poegs is Christian Zumdick, a german composer, guitarist and keyboarder, who is writing, arranging, performing and producing his music by oneself. The biggest musical influences are Ambient / New Age music like Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Kitaro, Klaus Schulze or Vangelis and psychedelic and progressive Rock music of the 70's in style of Pink Floyd, Camel, Jethro Tull, Eloy or Genesis. The music is a blend of meditative New Age over spheric Ambient / SpaceRock to bluesy ProgRock. The sound is dominated by e-guitar, piano and synthesizer, sometimes with and sometimes without drums! The album TRANSMIGATRATION was released in September 1999. It contains different musical genres including the symphonic New Age titeltrack, which is devided into three parts and contains a circle of the transmigration of our souls. In februar 2000 the BLACK HOLE - album came out. It features a concept-album about prison and songs like the powerful Motherf* and Big B, the psychedelic and progressive The Years That Bind and Mighty Madman or the New Age / Ambient - tracks Black Hole, Black Hole (reprise) or Changing Worlds. GALAXY is available since August 2000. It contains several songs in a spacy and New Age style (e.g. Through A Luminous Galaxy or Final Achievement) besides Progressive-Rock like Spiral Nebula or the blues-influenced Unbearable Emptyness. LANDSCAPE is a concept-album about earth, nature and seasons with songs like the dreamy Windward, the moody Continuous Flow, the melancholic Adagio or the epic title-track Landscape. Considering the different genres in the first four albums of Poegs, there are three sampler-CD's out now. One is called THE NEW FROGRESSIVE AGE SAMPLER and contains the New Age, Easy Listening and Ambient songs. THE FROGRESSIVE ROCK SAMPLER features the ProgRock and Psychedelic tracks and PLANET FROG: SPACE AMBIENT FLIGHT is focussed on the Ambient, Electronic and spacy music of Poegs. The latest regular album of Poegs is called IN SOMNIUS. This CD creates a journey through our dreams and visions with electronic, guitar- and pianodominated Easy Listening and New Age. Listen to great relaxing and meditative tracks like Timeless, Far Away or Recollect, to spacy ambient songs like In Somnius or Imagination and to calm and flowing Soft Rock pieces like The Moldau or The Spheres Beneath!

Group Members All instruments by Poegs.

Instruments Electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, synthezisers, programming

Albums Transmigration --- Black Hole --- Galaxy --- Landscape --- The New Frogressive Age Sampler --- The Frogressive Rock Sampler --- In Somnius --- Planet Frog - Space Ambient Flight

Press Reviews Review on The Frogressive Rock Sampler: The Frogressive Rock Sampler is Christian's compilation featuring the best Progressive Rock and Psychedelic tracks taken from his first four Poegs albums. This album, or any Poeg offering for that matter, is not for lovers of lo-fi avant-improvisation, a very clean digital sound is all pervasive throughout the ordered song structures. Christian has developed his own trademark sound of piano melodies flowing over digital church organs, littered with electric guitar. His electronic percussion feels as though it is trying to capture the essence of Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. This works at its peak on the more bombastic, upbeat tracks such as Spiral Nebula and Meteor. Some of the slower tracks capture an ambience similar to Ash Ra's Ocean of Tenderness. (Nigel Pennington - KRAUTROCKNET.COM) Review on POEGS and on The Frogressive Rock Sampler: Poegs was created in 1999 as a German rock band featured by only one talented musician called Christian Zumdick. All the tasks, from composing to performing, are made by himself. I'd met his songs seeking for songs under "Pink Floyd's influence", and he is one of the many artists influenced by the legendary British band. But Poegs has many other backgrounds to make his sound so original and amazing. He had influenced by the great New Age, Electronic and Progressive Rock bands beside Pink Floyd, such as Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Camel, Kitaro, Jethro Tull and so on, which result is a very happy marriage between those different genres. Beside this, I wonder he has also a very good classical music background. Some tracks sound me as modern Chopin's sonatas and others sound like baroque pieces or romantic chamber music... By the way, he had recorded two adaptations from classical masterpieces that are "Adagio" composed by T. Albinoni and "The Moldau" by B. Smetana, both of them really beautiful and original interpretations. Poegs performs his music pieces playing e-guitars, piano, keyboards and also synthesiser (with or without drums) in a very unique harmony and appearance succession along each composition, always light and softly. You will never hear any heavy sound from his songs, even in the most psychedelic or powerful one. To a distracted listener his compositions may sound sometimes very simple and maybe even monotonous, but actually they are very carefully detailed and featured. An important detail: he is a rare artist that has published almost all his compositions on the Web, so you can listen to his songs all available to be downloaded from his many homepages. Last year he was awarded as one of Top 10 Artists in the "Electronic" category by "mPulse.com" and released three albums. "The Frogressive Rock Sampler" is one of them. Highlight to "Unbearable Emptiness", "Landscape", "Through a Luminous Galaxy"... But also listen to other albums! The last album is "In Somnius", composed of 12 tracks of dream-making new age songs, and the another is "The New Frogressive Age Sampler" that contains a collection of the new age alike songs released since 99. Poegs' songs deserve to be carefully listened by all progressive rock and new age/world music fans and also even by all classical music fans... (Clara Y. Yamamoto - Progressive Rock and Progressive Metall E-zine)

Location Osnabrueck, Niedersachsen - Germany

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