Tabula Smaragdina

It all started back in 1998 when Krivánik Dániel (keyboards) and Bogáti-Bokor Ákos (guitars) met in a philosophy campus, sharing ideas and finding out that musically they have so much in common. After some years of friendship they decided to get a band together to jam, to play progressive rock. With Zsigó László (drums) and Turi Tamás (bass) the line-up of our band "Tabula Smaragdina" was completed in 2002.

And so the band was born. For two years we spent some serious time to "get the groove", while playin' some fine progressive music, our favourites, like: Yes, Genesis, Dream Theater, Platypus, Liquid Tension Experiment, Bill Bruford and The Flower Kings.

After a little while we started to write our own songs. In 2004 we had a very serious live activity, we played on many festivals, we won a competition on the famous Félsziget Fesztivál 2004 in Romania. That Summer we wrote a lot of songs. After 3 years of silence (Ákos's activity with Yesterdays was more intense, they released an album at Musea Records, Dániel and László started a band called Mortem - active since today and Tamás played in several bands and projects) Dániel and Ákos decided to record the first Tabula Smaragdina album. With 3 new songs the tracklist was ready and the recordings were started in Cluj Napoca (Romania) at Alias Music Studio with Bazsó Tibor sound-engineer.