PROGRESSIVE ROCK
MINI-GUIDE & CATALOG - Edition 2007

After three years of intense research. I present to you my MINI-GUIDE TO PROGRESSIVE ROCK Part I & II and my catalog - Edition 2007. It covers over 5000 brillant prog bands to whom countless new groups refer to when laying claim a PROGRESSIVE ROCK heritage that started some forty years ago.
ENJOY YOUR READING AND HAPPY DISCOVERIES...! - Ronald Couture (founder of ProgArchives)

Saturday, October 21, 2006

The Art of Ed Unitsky

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ''BOOK COVER''
ESSENTIAL MINI-GUIDE TO
PROGRESSIVE ROCK
- PART II -
... COMING SOON ...

©COPYRIGHT BY ED UNITSKY

Edward Unitsky
Belarussian artist Edward Unitsky lives in a small town some 90 km away from Chernobyl. At the age of 40, he developed a passion for computer generated arts; being a Progressive Rock music lover as well, it was natural that he took to combining both passions. It was Roine Stolt from the FLOWER KINGS who introduced him to Andy Tillison, leader of PARALLEL OR 90 DEGREES and founder of Anglo-Swedish project THE TANGENT. The result was this extraordinary sleeve for the supergroup’s first album; not only one of the best, it was one of the most original album artworks of recent years.

Inspired by the magical worlds of Roger Dean (the arches inside the booklet inevitably invite such a comparison), Mr. Unitsky’s imagery sets itself apart by through a maelstrom of colours, special effects that simulate aerial movement and the abounding life that his landscapes suggest. All this, plus an inclination for vortices and cosmic swirls, can be found on his web site.
The site offers innumerable pictures (some of them superb wallpapers), created either for sheer pleasure or for other progressive artists such as THE FLOWER KINGS, TOMAS BODIN, GUY MANNING, THE TANGENT and AYREON. With such power of evocation, Edward Unitsky is bound to become one of the great architects of Progressive Rock Art.

Written by Pierre Dulieu, BELGIUM
http://www.dragonjazz.com/proginfos/tangentinfos.htm
Improved and adapted in English by BOB McBeath/Easy Livin, SCOTLAND