For all those who love Amira Medunjanin’s voice Gramofon has scheduled a true musical treat for early December. She will perform three duo concerts with Bojan Zulfikarpasic in Tuzla, Zenica and Sarajevo. The duet had its premiere this April in Sarajevo at the Xenophonia festival, organized by Sarajevo Jazz Fest. Amira Medunjanin and Bojan Zulfikarpasic … Continued
Guitarist Sanel Redzic won the first prize at the International biennal guitar competition in Kutna Hora, Chech Republic. Redzic was unanimously voted the best guitarist at the open competition, in which he won second place two years ago, in the under-twenty category. This year’s winning was even more important to him, because there was … Continued
A three-day Guitar Days festival in Tuzla will celebrate thirty years of work of renowned music teacher Predrag Stankovic. He educated some of the world-famous guitarists such as Dejan Ivanovic and Denis Azabagic, or some of the young ones such as Boris Tesic and Sanel Redzic. These artists, all of them his former students, will … Continued
Merima Kljuco and Amira Medunjanin have released an album Monday, April 6. This duo played for the Sarajevo audience at the last year s Jazz Fest where Merima Kljuco guest appeared at the Amira Medunjanin s concert at the Next Generation stage. They performed a few songs off the Zumra album which were well received. … Continued
A new Amira Medunjanin album will be released April 14, on Gramofon. The album Amira Live! is a recording of a concert at BKC that took place November 2008 at the Sarajevo Jazz Fest, as a part of the Next Generation program. Her backing band consisted of Dino Sukalo (guitar), Kim Burton (piano, accordion), … Continued
Emina Zecaj, the first lady of Bosnian sevdalinka, is to release a new album by the end of the month. Her previous album was released in 2003 and contained songs she performed with a Sarajevo saz player Mehmed Gribajcevic. As with her previous release, the new album will also appear on Gramofon label and will … Continued
Gramofon has scheduled a new Emina Zecaj album for August. Many European magazines have written about this great artist and preserver of Bosnian tradition. British magazine Billboard calls her an icon of Bosnian traditional music, German Jazzthetik emphasizes her clear and articulate voice, and Croatian Feral Tribune wrote about her latest album: “You would be … Continued
A new Underground album featuring Dejan Terzic, Mark Helias, Chris Speed and Frank Moebus can be downloaded from finetunes. The album Continuum is a continuation of a partnership between these extraordinary musicians, and it contains Dejan Terzic’s original compositions and one traditional song. Finetunes offers complete albums or individual tracks from Gramofon catalog for download … Continued
A couple of days ago Zoster completed shooting its new video for the song “Rio i Pariz.” After the song “Ko je jamio, jamio,” this will be the second video taken from their latest album “Festival budala.” Footage made during a concert that took place two years ago was used in the video. The video … Continued
Zoster’s gigs scheduled for February in Serbia have been cancelled. According to the band members the gigs that were scheduled to take place in Zrenjanin and Belgrade on February 25 and 26 have been cancelled due to worsened security conditions in Serbia. The concert promoters announced that Zoster would play these two gigs in May.