Syrius bootleg Demo 1973

This band is very well known in prog circles due to the 1971 release called Devil's Masquerade (the second 70s album is really disappointingly generic), discogs bio here:

Hungarian rock band, operating in the 60's and 70's. Syrius was founded in 1962 by Zsolt Baronits. The group performed dance music and pop-rock. After the breakup and reorganization began to play typical jazz rock and prog rock.

Of course, recently mentioned in relation to the Beramiada from Jackie Orszakzky, which was so wonderful.

I didn't realize they also put out a demo with unreleased material, of great interest. Here's a review from rym:

The good news is the versions of Crooked Man and In the Bosom of a Shout that close out this demo, at just under seven minutes and just under nine minutes respectively, blow the versions on Syrius out of the water. And they're immaculately recorded.

The bad news is the other four tracks aren't just nowhere near as good, they're terribly recorded as well. Not as terribly recorded as the last four tracks on Utolsó kiadás, but it's pretty bad. And the worst part: those four tracks are forty nine minutes of music. One of them's over twenty seven minutes long and doesn't go to nearly enough places to justify its length.

Still, those last two are probably worth tracking down.

That being said however, the track called Nyitany es indulo reminds me a lot of famed unreleased Romanian progressive outfit, Experimental Q, or Exp. Q2, which is just a wonderful thing:

I think that track actually makes the whole demo worth its price, which was nothing in my case.

This was well worth hearing and it possibly is better or more progressive than the original debut album.