Kiselina
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Kiselina is the 1973 debut album by former Yugoslav
progressive rock
band Pop Mašina
.
The album was polled in 1998 as the 60th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
(YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Rock and Pop Music).
experience, and that he wrote the original lyrics for the album after some inscriptions he made while being under the effect of LSD.
Nemeček stated that the band's intention was to cover up the concept in some way, because they knew that "once it [the concept] was realized, we would be banned", so the band made numerous changes to the songs, and the original track listing was changed. The original album cover was designed by Jugoslav Vlahović
, who was aware of the concept, but as the cover, in Nemeček's words, "reminded of LSD portraits of The Beatles
too much", it was changed with a simple photo of the band members, made only several days before the album's official release.
's studio X. It featured numerous guests: Sloba Marković on keyboards, Miša Aleksić
(at the time member of SOS) on bass guitar, Raša Đelmaš (the band's former member, at the time of album recording a member of YU grupa
) on drums, Branimir Malkoč (a former Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
member) on flute, as well as S Vremena Na Vreme
members Ljuba Ninković and Vojislav Đukić, Drago Mlinarec, and DAG
members on backing vocals.
's Digital Music Studio during the same year, was released on CD by Serbian record label ITVMM. In 2000, the album was reissued on CD by Polish
record label Wydawnictwo 21, in a limited number of 500 copies and featuring four bonus tracks. In 2005, the album was reissued on vinyl
by Austria
n record label Atlantide.
In 2007, in order to celebrate thirty-five years since the release of the album, Nemeček, in cooperation with Serbian label MCG records, released the CD Originalna Kiselina - 35 godina kasnije (Original Acid - 35 Years Later) in a limited number of 999 copies. The release featured original track listing and original song mixes. Nemeček stated that the release "is not a reissue of Kieslina. It is basically what Kiselina should have looked like."
(YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Rock and Pop Music).
Serbian critic Dimitrije Vojnov named Kiselina one of ten most important albums in the history of Yugoslav rock music, stating that "Pop Mašina is a band you can always name when talking how yugoslav rock before Yugoslav New Wave wasn't negligible". He also stated that "Kiselina was a beginning of a genre that was never groomed to the end here [in Yugoslavia]".
Serbian critic Nenad Pejović called Kiselina a "pivot album in the history of Serbian rock
", stating that "even today Kiselina can be an example of a modern rock album".
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
band Pop Mašina
Pop Mašina
Pop Mašina was a former Yugoslav progressive rock band from Belgrade. Pop Mašina was formed in 1972, and released two studio albums and one live album before disbanding in 1978...
.
The album was polled in 1998 as the 60th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 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 Rock and Pop Music).
Concept
In a 2011 interview, the band's former leader, Robert Nemeček, stated that the album's main theme is an LSDLSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...
experience, and that he wrote the original lyrics for the album after some inscriptions he made while being under the effect of LSD.
Nemeček stated that the band's intention was to cover up the concept in some way, because they knew that "once it [the concept] was realized, we would be banned", so the band made numerous changes to the songs, and the original track listing was changed. The original album cover was designed by Jugoslav Vlahović
Jugoslav Vlahović
Jugoslav Vlahović is a Serbian artist, illustrator, photographer and a former rock musician. Vlahović is known for his work on album covers...
, who was aware of the concept, but as the cover, in Nemeček's words, "reminded of LSD portraits 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...
too much", it was changed with a simple photo of the band members, made only several days before the album's official release.
Recording
The album was recorded from September 19 to September 30, 1973 in PGP-RTBPGP-RTB
PGP-RTB was a major record label and chain record store in the former SFR Yugoslavia based in Belgrade, Socialist Republic of Serbia. PGP-RTB was established in 1958...
's studio X. It featured numerous guests: Sloba Marković on keyboards, Miša Aleksić
Miša Aleksic
Miroslav "Miša" Aleksić is a Serbian musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
(at the time member of SOS) on bass guitar, Raša Đelmaš (the band's former member, at the time of album recording a member of YU grupa
YU grupa
YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....
) on drums, Branimir Malkoč (a former Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
Porodicna Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba were a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band and a theatre group and one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav acoustic rock scene....
member) on flute, as well as S Vremena Na Vreme
S Vremena Na Vreme
S Vremena Na Vreme was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade...
members Ljuba Ninković and Vojislav Đukić, Drago Mlinarec, and DAG
DAG (former Yugoslav band)
DAG , also known as Trio DAG were a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1972 by Dragan Popović , and brothers Grujica and Aleksandar Milanović...
members on backing vocals.
Track listing
Originalna Kiselina - 35 Godina Kasnije track listing
Personnel
- Robert Nemeček - bass guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar
- Zoran Božinović - guitar, vocals
- Mihajlo Popović - drums, congas
Additional personnel
- Sloba Marković - organ (on "Pesma srećne noći"), electric piano (on "Kiselina" and "Povratak zvezdama")
- Miša AleksićMiša AleksicMiroslav "Miša" Aleksić is a Serbian musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...
- bass guitar (on tracks: "Povratak zvezdama" and "Slika iz prošlih dana") - Raša Đelmaš - drums (on "Sjaj u očima")
- Branimir Malkoč - flute
- Drago Mlinarec - backing vocals (on "Na putu za haos")
- Ljuba Ninkovič - backing vocals (on "Na putu za haos")
- Vojislav Đukić - backing vocals (on "Na putu za haos")
- DAGDAG (former Yugoslav band)DAG , also known as Trio DAG were a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1972 by Dragan Popović , and brothers Grujica and Aleksandar Milanović...
- backing vocals (on "Na putu za haos")- Dragan Popović
- Grujica Milanović
- Aleksandar Milanović
- Slobodan Petrović - engineer
- Jugoslav VlahovićJugoslav VlahovićJugoslav Vlahović is a Serbian artist, illustrator, photographer and a former rock musician. Vlahović is known for his work on album covers...
- album cover
Reissues
In 1994, a remastered version of the album, remastered in Laza RistovskiLaza Ristovski
Laza Ristovski was a Serbian and former Yugoslav keyboardist, best known for his involvement with Smak and Bijelo Dugme rock bands, as well as for his eclectic solo work that spawned many different musical genres.-Biography:Laza Ristovski was born in Novi Pazar as his father, a JNA officer, was...
's Digital Music Studio during the same year, was released on CD by Serbian record label ITVMM. In 2000, the album was reissued on CD by Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
record label Wydawnictwo 21, in a limited number of 500 copies and featuring four bonus tracks. In 2005, the album was reissued on vinyl
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
by Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n record label Atlantide.
In 2007, in order to celebrate thirty-five years since the release of the album, Nemeček, in cooperation with Serbian label MCG records, released the CD Originalna Kiselina - 35 godina kasnije (Original Acid - 35 Years Later) in a limited number of 999 copies. The release featured original track listing and original song mixes. Nemeček stated that the release "is not a reissue of Kieslina. It is basically what Kiselina should have looked like."
Legacy
The album was polled in 1998 as the 60th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop 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 Rock and Pop Music).
Serbian critic Dimitrije Vojnov named Kiselina one of ten most important albums in the history of Yugoslav rock music, stating that "Pop Mašina is a band you can always name when talking how yugoslav rock before Yugoslav New Wave wasn't negligible". He also stated that "Kiselina was a beginning of a genre that was never groomed to the end here [in Yugoslavia]".
Serbian critic Nenad Pejović called Kiselina a "pivot album in the history of Serbian rock
Serbian rock
Serbian rock is the rock music scene of Serbia. During the 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s, while Serbia was a constituent republic of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbian rock scene was a part of the SFR Yugoslav rock scene....
", stating that "even today Kiselina can be an example of a modern rock album".