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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Starshiper Starshiper wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

TIHOMIR POP ASANOVIC Majko Zemljo (1974) from Yugoslavia (Macedonia)
Actually, Tihomir "Pop" Asanović, ex-TIME keyboardist, is not from Northern Macedonia but rather Croatia. An absolutely fantastic album from 1974! It sounds like a concept album or perhaps even a jazz-rock opera, yet it wasn't.
This is my favourite song from Majko Zemljo, which features Croatian female vocalist Josipa Lisac. She possesses a voice that is ideal for the jazz-rock/fusion genre; in the "Women in Prog?" thread, I have already shared a live rendition of a song from Lisac's vocal jazz-rock debut released in 1973.



Thanks for the correction, John! I think I assumed "Pop" was Macedonian since this album is given a Macedonian-based label on Discogs.
The label's previous moniker was "Jugoton"; that's a Croatian label with its headquarters in Zagreb that first released the "Majko Zemljo" album in 1974, according to the Discogs entry for the album. In 2018, "Majko Zemljo" was remastered and reissued under the Croatia Records label, decades after Jugoton changed its name to that, Croatia Records. No Macedonian label has ever reissued "Majko Zemljo."

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Thanks, John! A few here I discovered after I initiated this thread (Extra Ball, Furda, Tocak). While I like Leb I Sol, I find them a bit too smooth.

Despite a few slower tracks and regardless of their later pop-orientated releases, the 70s Leb and Sol were definitely not a smooth jazz-rock band. This is live footage from 1978, for instance.
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I haven't really warmed up to mose of the "bigger" J-R Fusion-bands from behind the Iron Curtain. Perhaps thee was too much rock/guitars and too little jazz for my preferences in most of what I've heard by Modry Effect, SBB, Fermata... But I've got ten other (slightly random) favorites:

Grupa Organowa Krzysztofa Sadowskiego - Na Kosmodromie (1972), Poland
Мелодия / Melodia - Лабиринт / Labyrinth (1974), Russian Federation
Boomerang / Бумеранг - Бумеранг (1983), Kazakhstan
Gonda Sextet - Samanenek (1976), Hungary
Binder Quintet - Binder Quintet Featuring John Tchicai (1983), Hungary
Laboratorium - Zdrowie na Budowie (1978/2006), Poland
Debrecen Jazz Group - Debreceni Jazz Együttes (1979), Hungary
Гунеш / Gunesh - Вижу Землю / I See Earth (1984), Turkmenistan
Tomasz Stanko - Lady Go (1984), Poland
Zbigniew Namyslowski - Winobranie (1973), Poland
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

I haven't really warmed up to mose of the "bigger" J-R Fusion-bands from behind the Iron Curtain. Perhaps thee was too much rock/guitars and too little jazz for my preferences in most of what I've heard by Modry Effect, SBB, Fermata... But I've got ten other (slightly random) favorites:

Grupa Organowa Krzysztofa Sadowskiego - Na Kosmodromie (1972), Poland
Мелодия / Melodia - Лабиринт / Labyrinth (1974), Russian Federation
Boomerang / Бумеранг - Бумеранг (1983), Kazakhstan
Gonda Sextet - Samanenek (1976), Hungary
Binder Quintet - Binder Quintet Featuring John Tchicai (1983), Hungary
Laboratorium - Zdrowie na Budowie (1978/2006), Poland
Debrecen Jazz Group - Debreceni Jazz Együttes (1979), Hungary
Гунеш / Gunesh - Вижу Землю / I See Earth (1984), Turkmenistan
Tomasz Stanko - Lady Go (1984), Poland
Zbigniew Namyslowski - Winobranie (1973), Poland

Whoa! Cool list, Duke Rollon! A few that I've heard (Gunesh, Laboratorium Tomasz Stanko) but LOTS of stuff I've never heard and thus have to explore! Thanks!
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[/QUOTE]The label's previous moniker was "Jugoton"; that's a Croatian label with its headquarters in Zagreb that first released the "Majko Zemljo" album in 1974, according to the Discogs entry for the album. In 2018, "Majko Zemljo" was remastered and reissued under the Croatia Records label, decades after Jugoton changed its name to that, Croatia Records. No Macedonian label has ever reissued "Majko Zemljo."

Thanks, again, John (Starshiper), for the data correction! I'm not sure where I got my original information from (I just assumed it was from Discogs since that's been my main information resource). I will make the corrections in my own database. Nice to know more about the Jugoton label since I've encountered it elsewhere as well.

Leb I Sol is a band whose discography I jumped into based upon the highest ratings here on PA. They are a band I'd never heard of before seeing them listed here in Jazz-Rock Fusion category. My first listens were to their first three albums, s/t, 2, and Rucni Rad. My initial notes (and memory) of all three was of the music being rather thin, light, and rudimentary. I have not gone back yet to really get to know these albums better due to my interest and focus in Jazz-Rock being more into the birth and beginnings and then the evolution toward the funk side of the sub-genre--most of which seems to occur up until about 1978/79 (thereafter it seems to go toward "Smooth Jazz" or more proggy forms of lush, synthesized jazz [besides fizzling out and/or moving back toward more "classic" jazz forms and styles). But I will get back to them. (My overall impression of the three albums was that I really liked them.) 



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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Leb I Sol is a band whose discography I jumped into based upon the highest ratings here on PA. They are a band I'd never heard of before seeing them listed here in Jazz-Rock Fusion category. My first listens were to their first three albums, s/t, 2, and Rucni Rad. My initial notes (and memory) of all three was of the music being rather thin, light, and rudimentary. I have not gone back yet to really get to know these albums better due to my interest and focus in Jazz-Rock being more into the birth and beginnings and then the evolution toward the funk side of the sub-genre--most of which seems to occur up until about 1978/79 (thereafter it seems to go toward "Smooth Jazz" or more proggy forms of lush, synthesized jazz [besides fizzling out and/or moving back toward more "classic" jazz forms and styles). But I will get back to them. (My overall impression of the three albums was that I really liked them.) 

Although the Leb i Sol guitarist Vlatko Stefanovski has a pleasant guitar tone, which I like, they can hardly be considered a smooth jazz-rock band. Live footage, like the one I shared above or these 1977 live tracks from a double LP "Various Artists—Boom Festival '77," which was released in 1978 by legendary Jugoton's subsidiary Suzy Records, may best convey the sparking glitz of Leb i Sol.
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