Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme

by BIJELO DUGME

RATING: 10 with laude/10

MUSICAL GENRE: Heavy Prog/ Blues Rock/ Rock'n'Roll

INTRO: I had never listen Bijelo Dugme and former Yugoslavian music by chance not until I went one Sunday to eat in Slovenia. At freeshop I found the CD live Turneja by Bijelo Dugme (nothing of special). Later in Nova Gorica I found a CD of Pro-Arte (Good band that I discovered to be linked to Indexi) and in a new trip to Nova Goriza I found another CD of Pro-Arte and this great CD! Strange but... Strange Goran Bregovic (yugoslavian Blackmore!) have great connections with Friuli Venezia Giulia because Is a presence almost fixed at Folkest Festival But strangely, I had not ever heard!

THIS RELEASE: Slavic languages are extreme musical languages. So is simply to use this language for musical dreams! But this CD is a perfect version of a perfect music! Believe me, I was almost never been so impressed by a band! Ka Bi' Bio Bijelo Dugme was recorded in RTV ljubljana studios between 22 and 23 October of 1974 with a 16-tracks stereo recorder recording after the incredible success of their BOOM Festival performance in Tivoli (Ljubljana) (P.s.: April 5th 2008 Bijelo Dugme return in Tivoli, ljubljana for a concert). This former Yugoslavian musical institution debut album is still today fresh and magical. For Progsters sounding like a Heavy Prog album but in truth is a great Purpleian album. This because Bregovic plays soli in Blackmore style and in general is an album with Heavy sound created with twin keyboards/ guitars and powerful production in Purple style! But Kad Bi' Bio Bijelo Dugme is also a great 70's album because is a typical 70's album and not because is a copy of another band or musical scene!

THE SONGS: Kad Bi Bijelo Dugme is the song more near Purple. Interesting intro with birds and sheeps (!!!) and Il Rovescio Della Medaglia guitar first rhythmic solo after a very Heavy but athmospheric Hammond second intro is then developed into a vigorous Heavy Prog with Blackmoreian guitar soli and great Moog/ Hammond melody. Blues Za Moju Bivsu Dragu is a typical Delta Blues with great vocal parts (helped with a great musical language... magical language). Ne Spavaj Mala Moja Muzika Dok Svira is a typical Rock'n'Roll extremely furious and extremely Proto Punk in certain musical figures(!!!) when also Sve Cu Da Ti Dam Samo Da Zaigram is a good Rock'n'Roll but more Proggish in rhythm and construction. Selma (with Vlado Dijak lyrics) is an emotional dramatic ballad in Procol Harum/ Dik Dik style! Selma present a great Hammond and a great vocal parts (Zeljko Bebek is a great singer in Gillan/ Farlowe style). The last song Patim Evo Deset Dana present an energic rhythm produced with savage force and a great electric piano melody. But Goran Bregovic with his Les Paul manages to establish a long solo almost equal to those of Blackmore!

CONCLUSIONS: Former Yugoslavia was the more occidental country of East Europe and Bijelo Dugme is a great band not only for a former Yugoslavian musical scene! Certainly Purple and Procol Harum are the bands that for Bijelo Dugme had to be copied but this fact in this case produced a great music, also extreme personal. In fact the Moog in Kad Bi' Bio Bijelo Dugme is the original element in a Purplish style song and this is also a magical insertion. So, in my opinion, Bijelo Dugme (as other bands of former Yugoslavia) were not forced to copy (Because the discs of foreign bands were printed by Yugoton in licensed simultaneously to the original) but Bijelo Dugme use a Purple or Procol Harum musicalsyle base to produce truly original songs. Certainly not all of the songs are Prog but in definitive Kad Bi' Bio Bijelo Dugme is a great manifesto of 70's music.

Izlog jeftinih slatkisa

by BULDOZER

MY REVIEW IS PRODUCED USING THIS RELEASE: BAB RR CD B06044

RATING: 6,5/10

MUSICAL GENRE: various

INTRO: This Izlog Jeftinih Slatkisa by Buldozer is my first Prog album from Slovenian band. And surprise is a good CD from a mad band. I do not know the Slovenian, much less musical language other Slavishes languages. But Slovenia (for what I was able to verify) is a magnificent nation (speaking of the landscape). So when Andrea Cortese said me: 'In the discs shop you have found Buldozer' I have answer: 'Yes, but Buldozer had not inspired me' unfortunately I was in the middle of an universal deluge. Since it was late and I had to go all'ipermercato I thought: 'It is up to them to see that I find them?' I found another Buldozer CD... What luck!

THIS RELEASE: This release is a Slovenian BAB release. But the year of this Re release is not written in the package or CD... In any case this is not a problem. The music are extreme various as a genre, In fact the song #1 is a Boogie-Woogie, #2 is a Slow Beat and the other songs are respectively: Punk, Psychedelic, Evergreen, New Wave, Waltz, Pop Swing, Polka and Disco- Reggae!!! In any case is a good technical music. Sin not understand the lyrics because I amuse more to listen to this CD.

THE SONGS: What can I say in this chapter of the review? That the music, indipendently from the base musical genre is extreme technical. Higijena that is Punk is too technical to be a true Punk and Okruni Bogovi Istoka is, in real, a post Psychedelic quasi Punk song(!). Polka is Folk as musical genre in Slovenia but Slovinjak Punk is a great Polka Rock. And it is better that I stop here, not to exaggerate. All musicians of the band have to sell technique. And this, united to a superior production helped many the final result.

CONCLUSIONS: Mad CD but for fine progsters. You can also be demanding because here is really beautiful music, technical and convincing. Yey Izlog Jeftinih Slatkisa is not a masterpiece. Is only a superior to the media release. But very good!