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“The only label in Bosnia-Herzegovina which illustrates and documents current Bosnian musical works (…) They produce high-quality original music from the region.” |
"Certainly the most professional and of top quality label in Bosnia-Herzegovina at the moment." |
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"Inovative and authentic." |
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“A record label that has contributed to the development of Bosnian music scene.” |
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"From its beginnings a young Bosnian record label, Gramofon, has set itself on releasing music with authentic author’s signature, accentuating artistic creations which at the same time propagate modern, urban, and authentic image of their motherland. |
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"Leading label in Bosnia-Herzegovina." |
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"…an excellent label…" |
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"Gramofon editions are a real hit" |
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"Enterprising and efficient record company"
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"Redzic’s sensibility for classical guitar is rare in the region (…) This guitar player has a brilliant musical career ahead of him." |
"Guitar player of impressive skills." |
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"The repertoire he performs surpasses by far the expected scope of a concert repertoire of a high school music student (…) The music potential of this young soloist is extraordinary. He has doors to serious music career wide open.” |
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"Behind the cheerful rhythms a volcanic energy of suppressed rage and rebellion is hidden caused by concrete events of our reality and told without being entrapped by cheap pathos and moralising (…) A band conscious of what they are playing about, what they want to convey, and most importantly they know how to convey it." |
"You will have fun listening to this band. They play at the international level and create great atmosphere at their concerts." |
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"…well tuned and extremely gifted band (…) ‘Festival budala’ is an excellent piece of music." |
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"Mario Knezović is one of the most interesting songwriters in this region. Although it seams that he’s writing in a completely relaxed manner, smilingly and ironically through fun and game, Mario makes remarkable images, analyses and critiques (…) The point is: An excellent album!" |
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"A very successful combination of hip-hop, dub and Bosnian ethno-groove elements." |
“ A tremendous refreshment on a local music scene… A band with a precise concept…” |
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According to magazine Slobodna Bosna, the album has been listed among the best releases in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2006. |
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According to the magazine Start the last year was one of the best years in history of Bosnian music and it brought forth ten excellent albums. Dubnamite is among Top 10 albums in 2006. |
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"Beautiful music." |
“One of the most wanted, maybe even the most wanted jazz drummer in Europe.” |
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“A fierce album.” |
"Lighthouse of sobriety, precise and sharp critique (…) The message of Validna on their album is that the biggest mistake is to surrender to fatalism. It is in human nature to rebel and respond to a challenge. They are not doing it in a hard dogmatic manner, they are not howling slogans or call upon authorities." |
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According to magazine Slobodna Bosna, the album has been listed among the best releases in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2006. |
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According to the magazine Start the last year was one of the best years in history of Bosnian music and it brought forth ten excellent albums. Mesijanski sindrom is among Top 10 albums in 2006. |
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“They talk about reality we live in in an unsparing manner.” |
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“Thanks to their music, which is an interesting symbiosis of different genres, urban uprising and socially engaged lyrics, their music-performing project is one of the most interesting and definitely the most mysterious project in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” |
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According to magazine Slobodna Bosna, the album has been listed among the best releases in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2006.
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According to the magazine Start the last year was one of the best years in history of Bosnian music and it brought forth ten excellent albums. 23/23 is among Top 10 albums in 2006. |
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"…a mature and amusing album, one of the best releases of post-war Bosnian production." |
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"Basheskia stands out as an excellent author, with clearly distinctive stylistic concept and (even) purity when it comes to music and lyrics, which are very important to him." |
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"It is nice to have a serious nominee for the album of the year in the first quarter of 2006. (…) An excellent album." |
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"Making a parody of different pop and rock clichés, he has developed his own form and called it 'pop naive'." |
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The magazine Slobodna Bosna has placed 'My Music' among top five albums released in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005. |
"A musical refreshment…an album we recommend that you have in your collection" |
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"…My Music brings to us eleven imaginatively produced and well sang songs. Consistent with their interpretation of disco, never allowing the rhythm to carry our feet to the dance floor, they build up the orchestration to the glittering kitsch psychedelic…" |
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"Video 'Policija' by the band Zoster is the greatest hit in 2006" |
“One of the best albums in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the last decade.” |
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"The lyrics deviate from show business standards, and often having ironical twist in them. Also, the 'political lyrics' avoid the clichés of show business rhymes and the trap of excessive use of slogans (…) a fine and promising debut." |
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The visitors of web portal www.feelter.com have chosen 'Ojužilo' as the best album in 2005.
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The music scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005 was marked by three albums according to magazine Dani. One of them is Ojužilo. |
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The magazine Slobodna Bosna has placed Ojužilo among top five albums released in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005. |
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"Cheerful, inventive, playful album that can be placed in any European region. It functions anywhere in the Old continent."
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In the Starta magazine poll, the musicians and music experts selected 'Ojužilo' as one of the best albums in the country in 2005. |
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"In the fifty minutes of Ojužilo there is youthful wittiness, creativity and defiance together with, in alternation, funny and wrathful fight against prejudice, stupidity, and primitivism."
"Band has a potential to become immortal." |
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"The songwriter Mario Knezović has a rare talent to write lyrics which have a capacity to add to the quality of the complete musical performance… his lyrical miniatures have incredible easiness and clarity." |
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"An excellent album to be taken with respect…"
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"Lucid lyrics and reggae sound is a combination that makes Zoster a unique musical phenomenon in Bosnia and Herzegovina." |
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"The guys from Mostar are adopting reggae to their environment and are bringing to us a first summer album." |
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"Political correctness, seemingly naive poetics and in-your-face wittiness are the attributes that adorn Zoster's lyrics… Zoster demonstrates maturity that is rarely expected from a debut." |
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"Excellent announcement of new album." |
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Dani magazine voted Minority the best band in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2005. |
"The members of the band, except being brilliant instrumentalists, turned out to be excellent composers, too." |
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"Since their beginning they have been a leading ensemble of new music in Bosnia-Herzegovina." |
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"Marimanga Trio & Bojan Zulfikarpašić can count on warm reception by broad audience." |
"Piano 'doctor' Bojan Zulfikarpasic gave the album a certain depth making Marimanga Trio a significant musical accomplishment in the region."
"Love towards jazz, and awe at their own culture and tradition has resulted in a drinkable and soft blend (…) We can be very pleased, even proud, of their work." |
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"A film worth seeing." |
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"The best live band in Bosnia and Herzegovina today" |
"A wholly personal style, pleasant to consume." |
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"The unbelievable energy they pass on to the audience, their excellent playing, precise performance, sovereign control of the stage..." |
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"An excellent mini LP…" |
"Original ideas... remarkably fresh and intriguing..." |
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"Excellent soundscape. Modern, innovative, interesting, fresh..." |
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"In the bog of showbiz muck, 'Postcard' glitters like a pure jewel." |
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"Postcard From Sunny Neighbourhood is a release which raises production criteria."
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"Bosnian electro-pop." |
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"A new talent on the local music scene." |
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"One gets the impression that this is an author of special quality, whose future work will be especially interesting because Basheskia offers exciting rhythms that are easy to remember and that stick to one’s mind." |
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"An excellent debut album." |
"An album which has significantly broadened the notion of underground in the region."
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"Dubioza Kolektiv is currently one of the most interesting groups on BH music scene!" |
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"...peculiarity of this release is above average."
"Not too pompous, but with the right measure that shapes contemporary sound. Eclectic." |
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"The album which, in every way, corresponds to what is going on in the world. Fresh, smart, full of energy (…) definitely the best album that has recently been released."
"The album that doesn’t underestimate its audience." |
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"After hearing their debut album, it can be said that Dubioza kolektiv is the freshest and the most original band of all that emerged on after-war B&H musical scene." |
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"CD is conceived as an album - alarm clock, with explicit social and proletarian (but not political) lyrics …. and a dose of irony and self-irony with the sting pointed at the ruling oligarchy in the home country". |
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"...real refreshment to music scene of Bosnia and Herzegovina." |
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"One of the better albums released in this country."
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"Her singing is clear and clean and the songs posses depth and complexity undreamt of." |
“Emina Zečaj is famous for her interpretation accompanied by saz not only in the region but throughout Europe.” |
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"...a brilliant album by diva of 'sevdah' " |
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"...the best audio recording in Bosnian discography" |
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"...excellent disc that can satisfy western standards, and the content engraved on discs is of the same quality." |
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"You will be astonished what one voice and one saz can do." |
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"...an icon of Bosnian traditional music..." |
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"Diva of Bosnian sevdah..."
"The sevdalinka is as boring as the life itself or even more, the sevdalinka predicts boredom of nothingness of death. To enjoy life means to enjoy its pointless monotony and lack of big stories, pyrotechnics, special effects and other instruments of a spectacle." |
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"Emina Zečaj is the best living interpreter of the sevdalinka." |
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"This CD is a representative piece (maybe the most representative since the war time to the present day), an album we recommend for your collection." |
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"Each performance of the duet is a unique experience…" |
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"Lukovac signed the work subliming Bosnian essence and world form" |
"An unbelievable arrangement of sounds in an unbelievable track (Hazurila) of which any world acclaimed musician would not shy away from." |
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"...a magnificent composer, excellent seeker of lost pieces of etno heritage, maestral mixer of traditional and electronic sounds". |
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"Adi Lukovac - the pioneer of Bosnian ethno-electro fusion..." |