Bodan Arsovski is a Macedonian

Republic of Macedonia

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 bassist, a core founding member of the rock group Leb i sol

Leb i sol

Leb i sol is a Macedonian rock group founded in the 1970s by Vlatko Stefanovski , Bodan Arsovski , Nikola Kokan Dimuševski and Garabet Tavitjan . Tavitjan ceded the drumwork to Dragoljub Đuričić for some of the albums, while Kiril Džajkovski replaced Kokan on Kao Kakao and Putujemo...

, one of the most important rock bands in the former Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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. He is the only band member to have played on every Leb i sol record. He also released four solo albums.

Biography

As a solo artist, he has released four albums, two of them in collaboration with the Ezgija Orchestra. In addition, he recorded with original Leb i sol keyboardist Nikola Kokan Dimuševski

Nikola Kokan Dimuševski

Nikola Dimuševski is a Macedonian musician and keyboard player, a core founding member of the rock group Leb i sol and a solo performer.- Solo Albums:* Double Life * Music for......

 a reworking of band material in a release titled (in English) "Sketches From the Past." All About Jazz

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called the album "warm, dark and stunning in its stark presentation."

Playing Style

Arsovski's style, both solo and with Leb i sol, mixes traditional Macedonian rhythms, melodies and instruments with modern rock sensibilities. The ethnic influence is more apparent in his solo albums than on many of Leb i sol's later, pre-2006 reunion recordings. He composed four of nine total tracks on I taka nataka, a Leb i sol album featuring a different line up from its earlier incarnations.

Recordings with Leb i sol

• Leb i sol (1978)

• Leb i sol 2 (1978)

• Ručni rad (1979)

• Beskonačno (1980)

• Sledovanje (1981)

• Akustična trauma (1982)

• Kalabalak (1983)

• Tangenta (1984)

• Zvučni zid (1985)

• Kao kakao (1987)

• Putujemo (1989)

• Live in New York (1991)

• Live in Macedonia (2006)

• I taka nataka (2008)

Solo Albums

• Endless View (1995)

• Tiresias (1998)

• Broken Beats (1999)

• Elegija (with Ezgija Orchestra)

External links

• Bodan Arsovski home page
• Kokan Dimusevski home page
• Kokan Dimusevski facebook page
• LEB I SOL home page