Ekatarina Velika is the second studio album

Studio album

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 by the Serbian

Serbs

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 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Ekatarina Velika

Ekatarina Velika

Ekatarina Velika , sometimes referred to as EKV for short, was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock group from Belgrade, being one of the most successful and influential music acts coming out of former Yugoslavia....

, released in 1985. Before this release, the band was called Katarina II, and had released a self-titled album in 1984.

The group personnel included the new drummer, Ivan "Firchie" Fece (ex. Luna

Luna (Novi Sad band)

Luna was a Serbian and former Yugoslav post-punk/gothic rock band from Novi Sad.Formed on the ashes of the New Wave band La Strada and getting the name by the Bernardo Bertolucci film La Luna, Luna quickly gained the public's attention and established a cult status...

, Jakarta

Jakarta (band)

-Band history:The band was formed in 1981 in Belgrade. During the initial period the band went through numerous lineup changes, before original members Igor Popović and Jane Parđovski started performing with Rade Bulatović , Miloš Petrović and Ivan Fece .They released their debut album Maske za...

), who had replaced VD

Ivan Vdovic

Ivan "Ivica" Vdović also known as VD was Yugoslavian musician, drummer of Yugoslav rock bands such as Suncokret, Šarlo Akrobata and Katarina II....

, and excluded Gagi Mihajlović

Dragomir Mihajlović

- Musical career :Mihajlović started his career as a guitarist in a progressive rock group Limunovo Drvo, which, formed in 1978 by himself and Milan Mladenović , after performing for two years moved towards New Wave, with the arrival of Dušan Kojić "Koja" and Ivan Vdović "VD" . In April 1980,...

. The album was recorded at the SIM studio

SIM studio

SIM Studio is a Croatian recording studio owned by Vladimir Smolec and Tomo in der Mühlen founded in the 1980s in Zagreb. Productions of SIM studio sold in tens of millions LPs of all the most influential Yugoslav artists. SIM studio produced and discovered many new artists, among them Plavi Orkestar...

 in Zagreb

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 with Vladimir Smolec as producer. Guests on the album were Massimo Savić (backing vocals), at the time the lead singer of the Croatia

Croatia

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n band Dorian Grey and Tomo in der Mühlen (on guitar

Guitar

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) from the rock

Rock and roll

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/new wave band Karlowy Vary.

In 2006 "Oči boje meda" was ranked #6 on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list.

Track listing

(all songs and arrangements written by Ekatarina Velika

Ekatarina Velika

Ekatarina Velika , sometimes referred to as EKV for short, was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock group from Belgrade, being one of the most successful and influential music acts coming out of former Yugoslavia....

, all lyrics by Milan Mladenović

Milan Mladenovic

Milan Mladenović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as the frontman of Serbian art rock band Ekatarina Velika.-Early life:...

 except where noted)

1. "Oči boje meda" – 3:36
2. "Zaboravi ovaj grad" (lyrics: M. Stefanović) – 3:03
3. "Tatoo" – 2:49
4. "Hodaj" – 4:06
5. "Ruke" – 3:01
6. "Modro i zeleno" – 4:00
7. "To sam ja" (lyrics: EKV) – 3:58
8. "Olovne godine" (lyrics: M. Stefanović) – 3:47
9. "I've Always Loved You" – 5:14

However, the lyrics printed on the back cover of the original LP album feature the songs in a different running order, which suggests that they might have been intended to be released in that order originally. The lyrics were printed as following:

1. "Hodaj"
2. "Olovne godine"
3. "Modro i zeleno"
4. "To sam ja"
5. "Ruke"
6. "Tatoo"
7. "Zaboravi ovaj grad"
8. "Oči boje meda"
9. "I've always loved you"

The title of the song "Tatoo" is misspelled (instead of "Tattoo") in all releases.

Personnel

• Milan Mladenović
  Milan Mladenovic
  Milan Mladenović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as the frontman of Serbian art rock band Ekatarina Velika.-Early life:...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Magi Stefanović
  Margita Stefanovic
  Margita "Magi" Stefanović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist for the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika.Born in Belgrade as the only child of well-known theatre and television director Slavoljub Stefanović-Ravassi and Desanka Nikolić...
  
   - piano
  Piano
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Bojan Pečar
  Bojan Pecar
  Bojan Pečar was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician, best known as bass player of the cult Yugoslav rock band Ekatarina Velika. Previously he was a member of the New Wave group Via Talas, who were featured on the Yugoslav New Wave compilation album Artistička radna akcija...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
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  , backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Ivan "Firchie" Fece - drums
  Drum kit
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Trivia

• During the recording sessions in SIM studio, the band shared time with soon-to-become teen pop sensation Plavi orkestar
  Plavi orkestar
  Plavi orkestar is one of the most popular bands from former Yugoslavia. The band was founded in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1983.The band has remained popular to the present day with 8 albums and more than 3500 concerts worldwide...
  
   who were recording their debut album Soldatski bal
  Soldatski bal
  -Personnel:*Bass — Ćera I*Drums — Ćera II*Drums, Vocals — Firči*Engineer — Vladimir Smolec*Executive Producer — Malcolm Muharem*Guitar, Arranged By — Pava*Keyboards — Zoran Kraš*Photography — Mehmed Akšamija*Producer — Husein Hasanefendić...
  
  . EKV's time slot was from midnight until noon, and Plavi orkestar's from noon until midnight.