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Artist News: Russian Prog Artists The Gourishankar Sign To Unicorn

Posted on Saturday, March 24 @ 18:09:19 UTC by nightowl

It is with great honour that Unicorn Digital welcomes Russian prog artist The Gourishankar. Their new album 2nd Hands has been released on the 15th of March 2007.

The Gourishankar was formed in 2002 in the small provincial city Syktyvkar by guitar player Nomy Agranson and keyboardist Doran Usher. Since that time the band have recorded one EP and two albums based on classical Russian poetry, translated into English.



The music of the Gourishankar - is the music of northerners, who are living on the joint of Europe and Asia, near the Ural Mountains. The musicians of the band call their music "The music for mystical dancing in the opium saloons." Up to this day, the creativity of the Gourishankar is based on the progressive rock basis. The musicians experience life through unexpected enlightenments, reflection and meditation, spontaneous insights. In their music The Gourishankar are trying to unite the rationality and evolutionism of the West and Eastern mysticism and spontaneity.

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