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Akiko Yano (矢野顕子) ‎– There Must Be Love (愛がなくちゃね。) [1982]

Posted by gabaguillar on 18 de January de 2020 in Japan, UK |3 Comments

Simple and direct this is one of the Top 5 albums that I’ve been listening to nonstop since our departure in 2014, a wild collaboration between Akiko, YMO and David Sylvian’s Japan. East + West = Gemstone! There will be more Akiko’s albums throughout our trip, she is a VERY special composer, singer, and performer […]

Šarlo Akrobata – Bistriji Ili Tuplji Čovek Biva Kad… (1981)

Posted by gabaguillar on 14 de October de 2014 in Serbia, SFRY |4 Comments

Šarlo Akrobata (Charlot the Acrobat, a Serbo-Croatian version of Charlie Chaplin‘s name) were a seminal Yugoslav post-punk band from Belgrade. Short-lived but extremely influential, being one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav new wave movement (Novi Talas). The power-trio left an indelible mark on the entire music scene, playing skeletal, energetic ska-core with a post-punk sound […]

Disciplina Kičme – Ja Imam Šarene Oči (1985)

Posted by gabaguillar on 4 de September de 2014 in Serbia, SFRY |2 Comments

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the end of WWII (1945) until it was formally dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav wars. It was a socialist state that comprised the area of the present-day independent states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and Kosovo. Outside […]

Katarina II – Katarina II (1984)

Posted by gabaguillar on 29 de August de 2014 in Serbia, SFRY |3 Comments

After the quintessential Belgrade new wave band of the early ’80s, Šarlo Akrobata, hit the rocks, the trio essentially splintered in two directions. Bass player Dušan Kojić went on to form Disciplina Kičme, where he continued to experiment with various musical influences, while the more lyrical, poetic of the two, vocalist/guitar player Milan Mladenović, opted […]

Bebi Dol – Mustafa Single (1981)

Posted by gabaguillar on 21 de August de 2014 in Serbia, SFRY |2 Comments

Serbian culture refers to the culture of Serbia and ethnic Serbs. For centuries straddling the boundaries between East and West, Serbia had been divided among the Eastern and Western halves of the Roman Empire; then between the Kingdom of Hungary, the Frankish Kingdom and Byzantium; and then between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire, […]