Artist description Melodic, spacy and atmospheric New Age / Progressive Rock / Psychedelic with a blend of ambient synthesizer-layers, smooth guitar- and pianomelodies and bombast rock-styles.

Music Style New Age, Ambient, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Space Rock, Alternative, Neo-Classical, Contemporary Instrumental, Meditation, Healing, Relaxation, Ethnic Fusion, Electronica. You see, music is not created for one genre. I think the main genre is a New Age style with tones of reflective, reserved, precious, sentimental, gentle, calm / peaceful, laid-back / mellow, soothing and spacy.

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, king crimson, yes, camel, k. schulze, yanni, g. winston, parsons, g. roth, gandalf, kraftwerk, relaxation, meditation

Artist History Since 1999 POEGS publishes his music on MP3.com. The first album -TRANSMIGATRATION- was released in September 1999. It contains different musical genres including the 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. Additionally there are two sampler-CD's out now. One is called THE NEW FROGRESSIVE AGE SAMPLER and contains the New Age, Easy Listening and Mood Music songs. THE FROGRESSIVE ROCK SAMPLER features the ProgRock and Psychedelic tracks! The new 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! I hope you will like the music of POEGS. You can hear and download my songs for free. So, if you enjoy what you hear come back and look for new material. And I will be glad if you support me with buying my CDs or mail me any suggestions.

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

Press Reviews Michael Allison - THEGLOBALMUSE.COM on THE NEW FROGRESSIVE AGE: 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. ---- Gods of Music on CHANGING WORLDS: "The beginning piano part is very interesting. I like how the artist switched different keys to make a very unique melody. It's really creative. The song almost sounds as if its telling a story, like a battle of some kind. You have the piano in the beginning which sounds like the soldiers marching, then u have the strings in the middle which sounds like battle, then the drums in the end kind of sound like victory. It's a really neat song. I also like how near the end the artist adds in a saxophone to give it a really nice sound." ---- The Psychedelic Kaleidoscope on THROUGH A LUMINOUS GALAXY: "A classy instrumental piece. Grand without being pompous, this song is a beautifuly structured testament to modern prog/new age music." ---- Sonic Escapes Radio on THROUGH A LUMINOUS GALAXY: "Listen to this new age composition and let your spirit travel into space" And on BLACK HOLE: "Beautifully played solo guitar and well arranged synth pads." ---- DJ Mario's Electronic Music Page Radio on FINAL ACHIEVEMENT: "Great New Age sound to it. Nice and melodic. Take a listen and Enjoy!" ---- ProgRock1 on UNBEARABLE EMPTYNESS: "A great "builder". Sounds a little like the theme to a 60s cult TV series." ---- United Artists Of The World on METEOR: "You want to hear some killer melodies? Check out this band!" ---- Global Records Hollywood on FINAL ACHIEVEMENT: "This is a great track to relax with fantastic piano-parts." And on BLACK HOLE: "Cool song with a very nice beginning!" ---- Mark Howell: "One of my favourite bands I've heard here!" ---- listen.com: "POEGS create progressive electronic music. The keyboard ambiance, melodies and guitar lines add up to a rather pleasant listen!" ---- The Progressice Corner on GALAXY: Es gibt Momente, da fragt man sich, ist das wirklich möglich. So z.Bspl. bei Christian Zumdick aus Osnabrück. Mit 27 Jahren bekommt er ein Musikinstrument namens Gitarre geschenkt. Zu Beginn spielt er einfach einige Songs nach, was ihm aber schlichtweg zu langweilig wird. Mittlerweile hat der junge Mann in Eigenregie schon 3 CDs eingespielt, und anstatt mit einer Band hat er alle anderen Musikinstrumente per Computer beigesteuert. Christian Zumdick sieht seine Musik am ehesten zwischen Tangerine Dream, Eloy, King Crimson oder Jethro Tull, was man sicherlich ohne weiteres so stehen lassen kann. Aber mir fällt da noch eine Figur ein, die so eine Mucke macht. Irgendwie erinnert mich der Sound an einem gewissen Anton Zinkl, der ein absolutes Flair für computergesteuerte Melodien hat, aber im Gegensatz zu Christian viel wildere, schrägere Elemente in seinen Songs verarbeitet. Nicht gerade einfach ist es, die neun instrumentalen Tracks zu umschreiben. Jeder der Songs steht für sich, "Meteor" ist z.Bspl. ein eher spaciger Song, ausgestattet mit einer netten Melodie, die recht schnell im Ohr hängenbleibt. Etwas monoton und beklemmend wirkt "Unrebeable Emptyness", "Milky Way" hingegen kommt recht locker, fast poppig rüber. "Cassiopeia" ist mir ein wenig zu elektronisch, und bewegt sich immer im selber Tempo. Dafür ist "Spiral Nebula" ganz beachtlich, fast schon ein wenig abgefahren, ohne aber irgendwie aufdringlich zu wirken. "Final Achievement" ist ein ganz sanftes Teil mit computergesteuertem Keys-und Pianotönen, einfach eine Nummer zum zurücklehnen. Das es Christian an Kreativität nicht mangelt, beweist er mit "Sunlight", eine harmonische Melodie verkuppelt er mit etwas schrillen Tönen, ist zwar nicht ganz so mein Fall, und auch nicht unbedingt progressive, aber immerhin, das muss man erst mal bringen. Recht finster beginnt "Future Mobility", wird aber in der Folge immer rhytmischer. Der letzte und längste Song auf "Galaxy" beginnt regelrecht phychedelisch und erinnert mich sofort an Pink Floyd, für mich die interessanteste Nummer auf dem Album. Fazit: Ich kann es immer noch nicht glauben, das Christian Zumdick alias Poegs erst vor zwei Jahren damit begann Musik zu machen. Die meisten Kompositionen sind gut durchdacht und nett anzuhören.

Location Osnabrueck - Germany

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