Music Review
Beautiful Music from the East
'Crni Leptiri' (Black Butterflies) from the Serbian band Yu Grupa is probably not one of the most beautiful, but it's surely one of the most important songs for all of us that lived in old Yugoslavia.
In the West, the first thing a future guitarist will learn more often than not will be 'Smoke on the Water' from Deep Purple.
In Yugoslavia, it was the introductory guitar phrase of Crni Leptiri. Its simplicity and naivety was like a magnet for all of us, future guitarists. Read more »
One of the most wonderful compositions of the band Leb i sol (Bread and Salt) from Skopje is the one called Bistra Voda (Clear Water). A sensitive and delicate instrumental on acoustic guitar as well as bass in the melody and electric guitar in the improvisation. Balkan music is beautiful, and with this composition its beauty shines from far away.
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This song is released in 1973, in SFR Yugoslavia. Time was a Croatian band. The folk music of Macedonia was always beloved by most of Yugoslavian musicians and peoples. Time was a quite unique, Progressive Jazz-Rock band. In this song they are using a combination of 7/8 and 4/4 (Rock) time-signatures. The 7/8 was usually perceived as a 'Macedonian' rhythm in old Yugoslavia. This is a song that survived the times and remains as an document of the beauty of life that excisted in that country.
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SMAK is a Serbian band that existed in Former Yugoslavia. Pioneers in many fields of Alternative and Progressive Rock Music, with the guitarist Radomir Mihajlovic Tocak as one of the most subtle European/World guitarists ever. The song Alo Alo is an inventive composition using the 'echo' musical element and shows high vocal mastership of the singer Boris Arandjelović.
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