Artist description This is the New Age section of Poegs. Here you can find the calm, relaxing and dreamy pieces. For more Poegs-Music visit the main site at mp3.com/poegs.

Music Style New Age, Easy Listening, Relaxation, Neo-Classical, Contemporary Instrumental, Meditation, Healing, Electronica

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, tangerine dream, vangelis, kitaro, j.m. jarre, eloy, k. schulze, yanni, g. winston, parsons, g. roth, gandalf, kraftwerk, relaxation, meditation

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 In Somnius: Most musicians would find it offensive if their listening audience went to sleep on them, but Poegs achieves his artistic goal with masterful craftsmanship. In Somnius, is a well orchestrated nightcap of meditative, New Age and ambient dreamscapes. Piano, guitar and fully orchestrated melodies intertwine peacefully in slow motion with piano, synthesizer drones, and shifting ambiences. The overall composition, although appearing rather simplistic, is a highly sophisticated, extremely delicate, intricate, and intimately detailed. Poegs isn’t looking to put you to sleep. Instead, his artistry heightens your perception. He embodies In Sominus with the kind of morphing detail and movement that encourages active listening. Like Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield and Pink Floyd, Poegs decelerates life, not to soothe with New Age ministrations, but to bring you to a state of even higher consciousness. Carla Archuletta - THEGLOBALMUSE.COM Review on The New Frogressive Age Sampler: I'm not sure what the hell "Frogressive" is, but it sure sounds good to me. This new age style of music utilizes the beauty of the piano with ambient soundscapes to create a world of unimaginable peace and relaxation. The musicianship on this album is absolutely amazing. I was taken away with the power and the aura that this music delivers. The music is simplistic in it's design, but very complex as a whole. In other words, it is something that will capture your imagination because of it's ease to understand, but will leave you in awe with it's originality and breathtaking movements. This is probably one of the best CD's of this sort of genre that I've heard in a long time. I can't imagine anyone not being blown away by it's beauty. Michael Allison - THEGLOBALMUSE.COM Review on The New Frogressive Age Sampler: The New Frogressive Age Sampler compiles New Age, Easy Listening and Mood Music tracks from Poegs previous output, as you can imagine it is an even more mellow, offering with Christian's neo classical leanings way to the fore. A reprise of Through The Luminous Galaxy is perhaps the nearest to prog rock on this recording, titles such as Sail Away, The Blue Divide, Windward and Adagio speak for themselves. The initial simplicity of Christian's melodies don't betray the complex arrangements that flow underneath. Continuous Flow contains some genuinely uplifting moments reminiscent of mid seventies Genesis and Yes. Lots of piano, airy synths and sunny ambient textures help create an album that fans of New Age, light classical music and Tangerine Dream's more MOR output will lap up with great delight. Review on In Somnius: In Somnius is a more cohesive offering than the New Frogressive. Similar in nature, there's less of the classical and a little bit more of Tangerine Dream (On The Eagles Wing is a good example), Kitaro and Mike Oldfield influences. Another generally relaxed selection, piano and melody lines are sophisticated without loosing their elegance. Nigel Pennington - KRAUTROCKNET.COM

Location Osnabrueck, Niedersachsen - Germany

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