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Eva Braun (band)
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Eva Braun is a britpop
/pop rock
band from Bečej
, Serbia
, notable as one of the most important bands of the Vojvodina
pop-rock scene of the 1990s. The band is credited for starting the pop rock revival in FR Yugoslavia of the 1990s which produced other notable acts like Oružjem Protivu Otmičara
, Kristali
and Veliki Prezir
.
's Miše Dimitrijevića street. The first songs from this period were "Kuća lutaka", "Kao da znam", "Sva tvoja ćutanja" and "Dan pobede". In September, Ljubomir Rajić, after coming back from the army
, joined the band as the fourth member. The name of the band, Eva Braun
, was proposed by Vasović after viewing a biographical film about Adolf Hitler
. The name was both unusual and provocative, which was agreeable to the other members. The first rehearsals took place in November, and the first concert was held in the end of 1991 in a local "DB Klub" in Bečej. The band played both their own songs as well as cover versions of The Beatles
, Little Richard
, The Byrds
, Idoli songs. Most of the year 1991 was spent in composing the music that would appear on the debut album.
The debut album Prisluškivanja (Eavesdroppings) was recorded between February and April 1992 in the "Do Re Mi" studio in Bukovac
near Novi Sad
. The studio owner and album producer was Predrag Pejić Peđa, a friend of the band members since their beginnings. The recording lasted for about 130 hours on the 8 channel Magnetophon
, using rhythm machine instead of drums
. At the time of the recording, the band still haven't got a label. But one of the guests of the "Do Re Mi" studio was Mića Jakšić, owner of the Carlo Records for which Belgrade
's Dža ili Bu
had just signed. After some negotiations, the agreement was made with him to release the album. So, on October 5, 1992 the debut album Prisluškivanja was released. Only 500 copies of vinyl LPs were printed.
Although the marketing campaign was rather chaotic and unprepared, the album was noticed by some influential people of the music industry, like Gordan Paunović, Momčilo Rajin, Petar Janjatović, Bojan Žikić, Nebojša Pajkić
, Tomislav Grujić and Dinko Tucaković, who was the art director of the Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive
. Radio B92
also played a great role in promoting Prisluškivanja. The rest of 1992 the band spent on promoting the album on the medias who were interested in pop and rock music. Eva Braun had no music videos in this period, so TV appearances were only in the form of interviews and lip-synch performances. Few songs from Prisluškivanja became minor hits such as "Već viđeno", "Ponekad", "Sva tvoja ćutanja", "Jagodna Polja" and "Kuća lutaka".
In January 1993, Mića Jakšić organized a tour called "Dobri bendovi Vojvodine" (Good Bands of Vojvodina
) as a response to then heavily promoted tour "Brzi bendovi Srbije" (Fast Bands of Serbia). Few bands of very different music styles took part and, besides Eva Braun, those were Generacija Bez Budućnosti, 16x8x23, Gluve Kučke, Instant Karma
and others. Till the end of February, the tour had included all the major cities of Vojvodina, and the last concert was held in Belgrade
's KST. The bands who took part in the tour also recorded a cover of The Clash
' song London Calling
, under the title "Vojvodina zove" (Vojvodina Calling), but the song was never released.
Having finished the "Dobri Bendovi Vojvodine" tour, the band started working on the unplugged concert which was announced for the mid-Spring 1993. With a help of Dinko Tucaković, the concert was held on April 16, 1993 in the Hall of the Yugoslav Film Archive
. The crowd of 200 people enjoyed what is considered the best concert of the band's early career. The concert lasted for two and a half hours, with three encores. The band played own songs as well as some covers. The guests were Sabljar of Dža ili Bu
and violinist Saša Štukelja. The whole performance was recorded and, about a month later, released as a live album Unplugged 16.04.1993.. The album is considered today a rarity, as it was released only in 200 copies on audio cassettes.
's "Stephanie Says
". The song was named "Aljaska" (Alaska
), and became one of Eva Braun's greatest hits so far. After this success, the band signed for the new formed B92 record label. During the same year, they recorded two songs to the lyrics of the poet Ljubivoje Ršumović
for the children TV show "Fore i fazoni" of TV Novi Sad, and soundtrack for the play "Caligula
" by Albert Camus
directed by Ana Miljanić. In the meantime, the band was working on their second studio album.
Recording the album Pop Music was very slow and difficult. It started in September 1994 in the "Do Re Mi" studio, which was now relocated to Novi Sad
, and was going very slowly. The reasons were numerous: often power cuts, bad and old equipment, etc. The relations within the band were also not as harmonic any more. During the ten months of the recordings, the band members spent only four days together in the studio. The authorship of the album was shared between Vasović, Glavaški, Dolinka, and, for the first time, Ljubomir Rajić. The recording was finished on July 1995, and the album was released on December 14, 1995.
The album was promoted in Belgrade's "Plato" club, and one of the guests was Vlada Divljan
of Idoli
who had just come back from Australia
where he lived for years. In February 1996 Eva Braun and Vlada Divljan recorded a cover version of "Hajde, sanjaj me sanjaj", originally released on the Idoli album Odbrana i poslednji dani
. The music video for this song was directed by Dinko Tucaković. Pop Music was critically acclaimed, and had a large public interest. For the first time, the band had a real hit, the song "Sasvim običan dan". The other, minor hits were "Zmajevi", "25. Avgust" and "Sada ne znam gde sam ne znam šta". For all the songs Relja Mirković had directed the music videos, and on the videos for "Zmajevi" and "25. Avgust" (recorded on the same day), Petar Dolinka was absent. By that time he had already left the band, but came back later only to do few more concerts on the Pop Music tour.
Internal conflicts between Vasović and Glavaški were increasing, which soon came to the point of no return. This led to the end of the first line-up of Eva Braun. Although the atmosphere in the band was dark, the band's live performances were still appreciable. The best concerts from this tour were held in Belgrade's clubs REX and SKC
and in Novi Sad's Dom Mladih. The concert in SKC held on July 1996 was actually the last concert of the original Eva Barun lineup. The members did not even talk to each other at this point. After the concert, Eva Braun disbanded.
In late 1996, Eva Braun signed for a new record label, Automatik Records from Belgrade. The reissue of Prisluškivanja was released with a bonus track "Hajde, sanjaj me sanjaj". In the meantime, the new line-up recorded two new songs at the "Drum" studio in Novi Bečej
: "Zviždi Srbija" (Serbia Whistles, a cover of The Beach Boys
' "Surfin' USA
") and "Vrteška", composed by Vasović and Tomislav Grujić of B92. A music video for "Vrteška" was also made. This led to some attention of the media and a series of concerts was made in 1997 with a good reception. In just four months period, between February and May 1997, the new line-up held more concerts than the original one had done in their whole career.
As the new line-up showed good results, Goran Vasović decided to continue the band's activity. In the Summer of 1997, the band started to prepare their third studio album. The recording took place at the "M" studio in Novi Sad and "O" studio in Belgrade during the Winter and Spring. The producer was Mirko Vukomanović, who previously produced highly acclaimed album Barbiecue by Zrenjanin
band Oružjem Protivu Otmičara
. Although he left the band, Petar Dolinka continued to write songs for Eva Braun together with Vasović. Two of them wrote all the songs for the new album except for one cover. The guests on the album were Aleksandra Kovač
on the song "Santa Fe", actor Sergej Trifunović
on the cover of Film's "Odvedi me iz ovog grada" and Tina Milivojević as a backing vocalist on "Mala prodavnica užasa" and "Ja to radim samo kad sam sam".
In the early June 1997, the single "Lavirint" was released accompanied by a music video, directed by Aca Ilić, announcing the new album Heart Core. The album contained twelve songs of modern pop music, and is considered by Vasović to be the best album of the band's career. But, although the band expected Heart Core to be their magnum opus
, the critical reception was mixed. The music video was filmed for the song "Mala prodavnica užasa", directed by Srdan Golubović. After the series of concerts, interviews and intensive promotion, the album found its way as one of the best selling albums of the year 1998 in FR Yugoslavia.
In 1998 Vasović, helped by Željko Rakočević Kole, a Serb from Los Angeles
, succeeded to make Eva Braun part of the International Pop Overthrow
festival in Los Angeles. Eva Braun's performance on the festival was well received, and the band gained the opportunity to record an album for the North America
n market. Having returned home, the band recorded The Nowhere Land in 1999, consisting mostly of the old Eva Braun songs with lyrics in English language
. The lyrics adaptations were done by Goran Obradović of Popcycle
. The band changed the name for the U.S. market to Viva Brown, which was felt to be more politically correct.
In 2000, Automatik Records released the compilation album First and Last, which consisted of twenty-two songs featuring the complete albums Prislučkivanja and The Nowhere Land and the singles "Hajde sanjaj me sanjaj" and "Vrteška". The music video for "Cabaret Noire" (originally from The Nowhere Land) was filmed. The band then played a concert in Belgrade's "Saund", accompanied by Saša "Džule" Džuklevski who became the band's fifth member. After few more concerts in Serbia, Eva Braun started the work on their most ambitious project so far, an album entitled Vremenske zone (Time Zones). Dolinka and Vasović approached this album as prominent. The album was later renamed Everest, which is the original title of The Beatles
' Abbey Road. The album was released by B92 in 2001, a year after the work had started. The first single released was "Meg Ryan Blues" accompanied by a music video, directed by Academy Award nominated director Stefan Arsenijević
. After the album's release, the farewell concert was held in Belgrade's REX club, as Vasović decided to quit performing live. Eva Braun went on hiatus.
. During 2008 Label Star released a compilation album Off The Record which contained unreleased and demo recordings from the 1997-2006 period. The album is available on free download on the record label official site. The album featured a new song, "Evergrin", also released as a singe, reaching the third position on the B92
annual chart for 2008. In the same year, the band made few well received concerts in Belgrade
's SKC, at EXIT festival in Novi Sad
and Nisomnia festival in Niš
.
In 2008, the band started preparing a new studio album with the work title Nesanica (Insomnia), and in his statements Vasović stated it would be "different as always". The album, retitled Playback, recorded at the Novi Sad Do-re-mi studio and produced by Peđa Pejić, would feature selected recordings from about thirty songs the band had recorded during the sessions for the album. On 28 June 2010, the first single "U izgnanstvu" became available for free download at the B92 records official site. On February 3, 2011, the band released yet another single for free download, the song "Okreni moj broj" ("Dial My Number"), for which a promotional video had also been recorded. In May, the band released the single "Istra" ("Istria
") for free download through Exit festival official website. Playback album was finally released digitally on 1 June 2011. In November, the band released the video for the song "Primenjena ljubav" ("Applied Love"), which featured guest appearance by Veliki Prezir
frontman Vladimir Kolarić.
(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).
In 2006, the song "Sasvim običan dan" was ranked #58 on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list.
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
/pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...
band from Bečej
Becej
Bečej is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District in Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 25,703, while Bečej municipality has 40,877 inhabitants. It is multiethnic town, with Hungarians and Serbs as largest ethnic groups...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, notable as one of the most important bands of the Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
pop-rock scene of the 1990s. The band is credited for starting the pop rock revival in FR Yugoslavia of the 1990s which produced other notable acts like Oružjem Protivu Otmičara
Oružjem Protivu Otmičara
Oružjem Protivu Otmičara is a Serbian pop punk/power pop band from Zrenjanin.- 1990s :...
, Kristali
Kristali
Kristali are a Serbian britpop/pop rock band from Belgrade.- 1990s :The band was formed on January 1993, by bassist and vocalist Dejan Gvozden and guitarist Željko Markuš, whom, having performed blues and rock standards in Belgrade cafes, were joined by drummer Dejan Kostić...
and Veliki Prezir
Veliki Prezir
Veliki Prezir is a Serbian britpop/alternative rock band from Vrbas.- 1990s :...
.
Formation, Debut Releases (1989–1993)
In 1989 Goran Vasović and Petar Dolinka made some discussions about forming a band. On Spring 1990, the core of the band was formed by the former two and Milan Glavaški. The agreement took place in a rented apartment in Novi SadNovi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
's Miše Dimitrijevića street. The first songs from this period were "Kuća lutaka", "Kao da znam", "Sva tvoja ćutanja" and "Dan pobede". In September, Ljubomir Rajić, after coming back from the army
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army , also referred to as the Yugoslav National Army , was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.-Origins:The origins of the JNA can...
, joined the band as the fourth member. The name of the band, Eva Braun
Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich, when she was 17 years old, while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later...
, was proposed by Vasović after viewing a biographical film about Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
. The name was both unusual and provocative, which was agreeable to the other members. The first rehearsals took place in November, and the first concert was held in the end of 1991 in a local "DB Klub" in Bečej. The band played both their own songs as well as cover versions of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
, Little Richard
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
, The Byrds
The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...
, Idoli songs. Most of the year 1991 was spent in composing the music that would appear on the debut album.
The debut album Prisluškivanja (Eavesdroppings) was recorded between February and April 1992 in the "Do Re Mi" studio in Bukovac
Bukovac
Bukovac is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Petrovaradin urban municipality , in the Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 3,595 .-The name:The name Bukovac is thought to be derived from the word for a tree - 'bukva'...
near Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
. The studio owner and album producer was Predrag Pejić Peđa, a friend of the band members since their beginnings. The recording lasted for about 130 hours on the 8 channel Magnetophon
Magnetophon
Magnetophon was the brand or model name of the pioneering reel-to-reel tape recorder developed by engineers of the German electronics company AEG in the 1930s, based on the magnetic tape invention by Fritz Pfleumer...
, using rhythm machine instead of drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
. At the time of the recording, the band still haven't got a label. But one of the guests of the "Do Re Mi" studio was Mića Jakšić, owner of the Carlo Records for which Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
's Dža ili Bu
Dža ili Bu
Dža ili Bu are a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade.- 1980s :The band was officially formed on May 1, 1987 by guitarist Nebojša Simeunović, bassist Duško Milojević, drummer Dejan Milojević and guitarist and vocalist Stojan Radičević...
had just signed. After some negotiations, the agreement was made with him to release the album. So, on October 5, 1992 the debut album Prisluškivanja was released. Only 500 copies of vinyl LPs were printed.
Although the marketing campaign was rather chaotic and unprepared, the album was noticed by some influential people of the music industry, like Gordan Paunović, Momčilo Rajin, Petar Janjatović, Bojan Žikić, Nebojša Pajkić
Nebojša Pajkic
Nebojša Pajkić is a professor of film dramaturgy and a writer. He is married to a Serbian writer Isidora Bjelica whom he met when she was his student on the Belgrade's Film Academy. They have two children.- External links :* *...
, Tomislav Grujić and Dinko Tucaković, who was the art director of the Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive
Yugoslav Film Archive
Yugoslav Film Archive is a film archive located in Belgrade. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives and was the national film library of the former Yugoslavia and currently of the Republic of Serbia. The library was founded in 1949....
. Radio B92
B92
B92 is a radio and television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Its programs, including the news cover topics with fairly liberal political painted attitudes...
also played a great role in promoting Prisluškivanja. The rest of 1992 the band spent on promoting the album on the medias who were interested in pop and rock music. Eva Braun had no music videos in this period, so TV appearances were only in the form of interviews and lip-synch performances. Few songs from Prisluškivanja became minor hits such as "Već viđeno", "Ponekad", "Sva tvoja ćutanja", "Jagodna Polja" and "Kuća lutaka".
In January 1993, Mića Jakšić organized a tour called "Dobri bendovi Vojvodine" (Good Bands of Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
) as a response to then heavily promoted tour "Brzi bendovi Srbije" (Fast Bands of Serbia). Few bands of very different music styles took part and, besides Eva Braun, those were Generacija Bez Budućnosti, 16x8x23, Gluve Kučke, Instant Karma
Instant Karma (band)
Instant Karma is an Indian band formed by Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonsa and Farhad Wadia most popular for its albums Dance Masti and its sequels. According to them, "they do versions, not remixes"-History:...
and others. Till the end of February, the tour had included all the major cities of Vojvodina, and the last concert was held in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
's KST. The bands who took part in the tour also recorded a cover of The Clash
The Clash
The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...
' song London Calling
London Calling (song)
"London Calling" is a song by the British punk rock band The Clash. It was released as a single from the band's 1979 double album London Calling...
, under the title "Vojvodina zove" (Vojvodina Calling), but the song was never released.
Having finished the "Dobri Bendovi Vojvodine" tour, the band started working on the unplugged concert which was announced for the mid-Spring 1993. With a help of Dinko Tucaković, the concert was held on April 16, 1993 in the Hall of the Yugoslav Film Archive
Yugoslav Film Archive
Yugoslav Film Archive is a film archive located in Belgrade. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives and was the national film library of the former Yugoslavia and currently of the Republic of Serbia. The library was founded in 1949....
. The crowd of 200 people enjoyed what is considered the best concert of the band's early career. The concert lasted for two and a half hours, with three encores. The band played own songs as well as some covers. The guests were Sabljar of Dža ili Bu
Dža ili Bu
Dža ili Bu are a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade.- 1980s :The band was officially formed on May 1, 1987 by guitarist Nebojša Simeunović, bassist Duško Milojević, drummer Dejan Milojević and guitarist and vocalist Stojan Radičević...
and violinist Saša Štukelja. The whole performance was recorded and, about a month later, released as a live album Unplugged 16.04.1993.. The album is considered today a rarity, as it was released only in 200 copies on audio cassettes.
Nationwide Success, Breakup (1993–1996)
Until the end of the summer, Prisluškivanja was sold out, and Unplugged was heavily praised. Eva Braun slowly came to popularity. But, the things were not going easy for the band. In Autumn 1993, Carlo Records was closed. Gordan Paunović, the music editor of radio B92 approached the band and offered them to take part in the compilation album Radio Utopia, which was to be released for the occasion of the fifth anniversary of B92. The band chose to do a cover of The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. First active from 1964 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although experiencing little commercial success while together, the band is often cited...
's "Stephanie Says
Stephanie Says
"Stephanie Says" is a song by The Velvet Underground originally recorded in 1968. Although available on various bootlegs, the song was not officially released until 1985, when a remixed version appeared on the album VU. The original, 1968 mix of Stephanie Says was included on the 2005 Velvet...
". The song was named "Aljaska" (Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
), and became one of Eva Braun's greatest hits so far. After this success, the band signed for the new formed B92 record label. During the same year, they recorded two songs to the lyrics of the poet Ljubivoje Ršumović
Ljubivoje Ršumović
Ljubivoje Ršumović is a poet from Serbia. Ršumović is predominantly a writer and poet for children; however, a significant body of his work is literature for adults....
for the children TV show "Fore i fazoni" of TV Novi Sad, and soundtrack for the play "Caligula
Caligula (play)
Caligula is a play written by Albert Camus, begun in 1938 and published for the first time in May 1944 by Éditions Gallimard. The play was later the subject of numerous revisions. It was part of what the author called the "Cycle of the Absurd", with the novel The Outsider and the essay The Myth...
" by Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
directed by Ana Miljanić. In the meantime, the band was working on their second studio album.
Recording the album Pop Music was very slow and difficult. It started in September 1994 in the "Do Re Mi" studio, which was now relocated to Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
, and was going very slowly. The reasons were numerous: often power cuts, bad and old equipment, etc. The relations within the band were also not as harmonic any more. During the ten months of the recordings, the band members spent only four days together in the studio. The authorship of the album was shared between Vasović, Glavaški, Dolinka, and, for the first time, Ljubomir Rajić. The recording was finished on July 1995, and the album was released on December 14, 1995.
The album was promoted in Belgrade's "Plato" club, and one of the guests was Vlada Divljan
Vlada Divljan
Vladimir "Vlada" Divljan , is a Serbian singer and songwriter. He is known as the frontman for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Idoli, as well as for his solo works.-Early activity:...
of Idoli
VIS Idoli
Idoli were a new wave band from Belgrade, SR Serbia. They are considered to be one of the greatest and most influential Yugoslav rock bands and their 1982 album Odbrana i poslednji dani was voted by the critics as the greatest Yugoslav rock album.- Merlin and Zvuk Ulice :The roots of Idoli can be...
who had just come back from Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
where he lived for years. In February 1996 Eva Braun and Vlada Divljan recorded a cover version of "Hajde, sanjaj me sanjaj", originally released on the Idoli album Odbrana i poslednji dani
Odbrana i poslednji dani
Odbrana i poslednji dani is the first studio album by former Yugoslavn New Wave band Idoli released in 1982....
. The music video for this song was directed by Dinko Tucaković. Pop Music was critically acclaimed, and had a large public interest. For the first time, the band had a real hit, the song "Sasvim običan dan". The other, minor hits were "Zmajevi", "25. Avgust" and "Sada ne znam gde sam ne znam šta". For all the songs Relja Mirković had directed the music videos, and on the videos for "Zmajevi" and "25. Avgust" (recorded on the same day), Petar Dolinka was absent. By that time he had already left the band, but came back later only to do few more concerts on the Pop Music tour.
Internal conflicts between Vasović and Glavaški were increasing, which soon came to the point of no return. This led to the end of the first line-up of Eva Braun. Although the atmosphere in the band was dark, the band's live performances were still appreciable. The best concerts from this tour were held in Belgrade's clubs REX and SKC
Studentski kulturni centar
Studentski Kulturni Centar , abbreviated as "SKC", is a cultural centre in Belgrade, Serbia.The center opened in 1971 in the building that had up to that point been used by state security agency UDBA. The opening of SKC was seen by many as the communist regime's concession to the youth of Belgrade...
and in Novi Sad's Dom Mladih. The concert in SKC held on July 1996 was actually the last concert of the original Eva Barun lineup. The members did not even talk to each other at this point. After the concert, Eva Braun disbanded.
Reformation, Hiatus (1996–2001)
In Autumn 1996, the members of "Zajedno" coalition invited Goran Vasović to reform Eva Braun and take part in the coalition's final meeting before the 1996 local elections in Serbia. Vasović took the chance, and called Zvonko Stojkov and Srđan Ljiljak, guitarist and drummer of the local R&B band Specijalno Izdanje. The band was reformed after two days of rehearsals. The new Eva Braun lineup performed three songs at the political meeting in front of the crowd of 100,000 people. Dušan Ševarlić, the bassist of the Novi Sad's band Minstrelm joined Eva Braun a few weeks later.In late 1996, Eva Braun signed for a new record label, Automatik Records from Belgrade. The reissue of Prisluškivanja was released with a bonus track "Hajde, sanjaj me sanjaj". In the meantime, the new line-up recorded two new songs at the "Drum" studio in Novi Bečej
Novi Becej
Novi Bečej , is a town and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 14,406, while Novi Bečej municipality has 26,881 inhabitants.-Name:Its name means "new Bečej"...
: "Zviždi Srbija" (Serbia Whistles, a cover of The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
' "Surfin' USA
Surfin' USA
-Singles:* "Surfin' USA" b/w "Shut Down" , 4 March 1963, US #3; #34 UK-Personnel:*Brian Wilson - Vocals, bass, keyboards*Mike Love - Vocals, saxophone*Dennis Wilson - Vocals, drums...
") and "Vrteška", composed by Vasović and Tomislav Grujić of B92. A music video for "Vrteška" was also made. This led to some attention of the media and a series of concerts was made in 1997 with a good reception. In just four months period, between February and May 1997, the new line-up held more concerts than the original one had done in their whole career.
As the new line-up showed good results, Goran Vasović decided to continue the band's activity. In the Summer of 1997, the band started to prepare their third studio album. The recording took place at the "M" studio in Novi Sad and "O" studio in Belgrade during the Winter and Spring. The producer was Mirko Vukomanović, who previously produced highly acclaimed album Barbiecue by Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
band Oružjem Protivu Otmičara
Oružjem Protivu Otmičara
Oružjem Protivu Otmičara is a Serbian pop punk/power pop band from Zrenjanin.- 1990s :...
. Although he left the band, Petar Dolinka continued to write songs for Eva Braun together with Vasović. Two of them wrote all the songs for the new album except for one cover. The guests on the album were Aleksandra Kovač
Aleksandra Kovac
Aleksandra Kovač is a Serbian singer-songwriter. She is the eldest daughter of eminent composer Kornelije Kovač and the elder sister of singer Kristina Kovač. Alongside her sister Kristina, Kovač came to media prominence as a part of girl group K2, and then launched a successful solo career in 2001...
on the song "Santa Fe", actor Sergej Trifunović
Sergej Trifunovic
Sergej Trifunović is a popular Bosnian Serb movie actor.-Biography:...
on the cover of Film's "Odvedi me iz ovog grada" and Tina Milivojević as a backing vocalist on "Mala prodavnica užasa" and "Ja to radim samo kad sam sam".
In the early June 1997, the single "Lavirint" was released accompanied by a music video, directed by Aca Ilić, announcing the new album Heart Core. The album contained twelve songs of modern pop music, and is considered by Vasović to be the best album of the band's career. But, although the band expected Heart Core to be their magnum opus
Masterpiece
Masterpiece in modern usage refers to a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship....
, the critical reception was mixed. The music video was filmed for the song "Mala prodavnica užasa", directed by Srdan Golubović. After the series of concerts, interviews and intensive promotion, the album found its way as one of the best selling albums of the year 1998 in FR Yugoslavia.
In 1998 Vasović, helped by Željko Rakočević Kole, a Serb from Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, succeeded to make Eva Braun part of the International Pop Overthrow
International Pop Overthrow
The International Pop Overthrow is an American-originated music festival devoted to power pop music and related genres.Taking its name from Material Issue's 1991 album of the same name, the festival began in 1998, and has been held annually in the LA area since then...
festival in Los Angeles. Eva Braun's performance on the festival was well received, and the band gained the opportunity to record an album for the North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
n market. Having returned home, the band recorded The Nowhere Land in 1999, consisting mostly of the old Eva Braun songs with lyrics in English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. The lyrics adaptations were done by Goran Obradović of Popcycle
Popcycle
Popcycle was a Serbian britpop band from Bečej, formed as a faction of the popular Serbian britpop band Eva Braun.- Formation, rise to prominence :...
. The band changed the name for the U.S. market to Viva Brown, which was felt to be more politically correct.
In 2000, Automatik Records released the compilation album First and Last, which consisted of twenty-two songs featuring the complete albums Prislučkivanja and The Nowhere Land and the singles "Hajde sanjaj me sanjaj" and "Vrteška". The music video for "Cabaret Noire" (originally from The Nowhere Land) was filmed. The band then played a concert in Belgrade's "Saund", accompanied by Saša "Džule" Džuklevski who became the band's fifth member. After few more concerts in Serbia, Eva Braun started the work on their most ambitious project so far, an album entitled Vremenske zone (Time Zones). Dolinka and Vasović approached this album as prominent. The album was later renamed Everest, which is the original title of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
' Abbey Road. The album was released by B92 in 2001, a year after the work had started. The first single released was "Meg Ryan Blues" accompanied by a music video, directed by Academy Award nominated director Stefan Arsenijević
Stefan Arsenijevic
Stefan Arsenijević is Serbian Film director. He is a graduate of the Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium. He studied philosophy, worked as a journalist and studied film and television directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where he has been working as a lecturer since 2005...
. After the album's release, the farewell concert was held in Belgrade's REX club, as Vasović decided to quit performing live. Eva Braun went on hiatus.
Original Lineup Reunion (2007–Present)
After four years of inactivity, Eva Braun was reformed in 2007 with the original line-up (Vasović, Dolinka, Glavaški, Rajić), plus Goran Obradović on bass guitar, and made a comeback concert in Bečej the same year. During the same year, the band's hit "Sasvim običan dan" was used in the commercial for Rosa mineral water and the following year the songs "Sasvim običan dan" and "Meg Ryan Blues" were used in the commercials for Vip mobileVip mobile
Vip mobile is the third Serbian mobile network operator and a member of mobilkom Austria group. It is the exclusive strategic partner of Vodafone in Serbia....
. During 2008 Label Star released a compilation album Off The Record which contained unreleased and demo recordings from the 1997-2006 period. The album is available on free download on the record label official site. The album featured a new song, "Evergrin", also released as a singe, reaching the third position on the B92
B92
B92 is a radio and television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Its programs, including the news cover topics with fairly liberal political painted attitudes...
annual chart for 2008. In the same year, the band made few well received concerts in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
's SKC, at EXIT festival in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
and Nisomnia festival in Niš
Niš
Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,...
.
In 2008, the band started preparing a new studio album with the work title Nesanica (Insomnia), and in his statements Vasović stated it would be "different as always". The album, retitled Playback, recorded at the Novi Sad Do-re-mi studio and produced by Peđa Pejić, would feature selected recordings from about thirty songs the band had recorded during the sessions for the album. On 28 June 2010, the first single "U izgnanstvu" became available for free download at the B92 records official site. On February 3, 2011, the band released yet another single for free download, the song "Okreni moj broj" ("Dial My Number"), for which a promotional video had also been recorded. In May, the band released the single "Istra" ("Istria
Istria
Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...
") for free download through Exit festival official website. Playback album was finally released digitally on 1 June 2011. In November, the band released the video for the song "Primenjena ljubav" ("Applied Love"), which featured guest appearance by Veliki Prezir
Veliki Prezir
Veliki Prezir is a Serbian britpop/alternative rock band from Vrbas.- 1990s :...
frontman Vladimir Kolarić.
Legacy
The album Prisluškivanja was polled in 1998 as 75th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav popular music albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzikeYU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike is a book by Duško Antonić and Danilo Štrbac...
(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).
In 2006, the song "Sasvim običan dan" was ranked #58 on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list.
Members
- Goran Vasović — vocals, bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Petar Dolinka — vocals, guitar (1990–1996, from 2007)
- Milan Glavaški — guitar (1990–1996, from 2007)
- Ljubomir Rajić — drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(1990–1996, from 2007) - Zvonko Stojkov — guitar (from 1996)
- Srđan Ljiljak — drums (1996–2003)
- Dušan Ševarlić — bass (1996–2003)
- Saša Džuklevski — guitar (2000–2003)
- Goran Obradović — bass (from 2007)
Studio Albums
- Prisluškivanja (1992)
- Pop Music (1995)
- Heart Core (1998)
- Everest (2001)
- Playback (2011)
External links
- Fan website
- Eva Braun at MyspaceMyspaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Eva Braun at FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
- Eva Braun at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Eva Braun at Rateyourmusic
- Eva Braun at Last.fmLast.fmLast.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....
- Eva Braun at B92.fmB92B92 is a radio and television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Its programs, including the news cover topics with fairly liberal political painted attitudes...