Kristali
Encyclopedia
Kristali are a Serbia
n britpop
/pop rock
band from Belgrade
.
and rock
standards in Belgrade cafes, were joined by drummer Dejan Kostić. By the time the band had written their first hit song "Dva metra" ("Two Meters"), for which the music video was directed by Milutin Petrović, they had already featured a new bassist Milan Popović, thus leaving Gvozden on the vocal position only. The band was further expanded with the arrival of the former Del Arno Band
member Nenad Potije on trombone. During the same year, the band had their first recording, the song "O kako si lepa" ("Oh, How Beautiful You Are"), released on the L.V.O. Records various artists compilation Academia vol.1, and the live version of the song, recorded at the Belgrade club Prostor on February 9, 1994, appeared on the 1995 live various artists compilation Groovanje vol. 1.
The debut album Kristali (The Crystals), released by L.V.O. Records in 1994, featured guest appearances by Eyesburn
frontman Nemanja Kojić (trombone), Borivoje Borac (saxophone), Vladimir Lešić (percussion), Đorđe Vasović (keyboards) and Dža ili Bu
member Aleksadar Mitanovski, who played the guitar solo on the track "Emili" ("Emily"). The album, recorded at the Belgrade Akademija studio from March until June 1994, was produced by Goran Živković "Žika" and Rodoljub Stojanović, and the album cover was designed by Goranka Matić. Through the notable songs "Dva metra" ("Two Meters"), "O kako si lepa", "Znam" ("I Know") and "Osmi dan" ("The Eighth Day"), the latter two being released on a double A-side 7" single, the band promoted pop
structured songs up-to-date with the current Britpop
trends in Great Britain
. Available on compact cassette
only, the album was quickly sold out and is today a rarity and a collector's item.
The second studio album, Dolina ljubavi (The Valley of Love), released on April 1997 and produced by Igor Borojević, featured guest appearances by Block Out
member Aleksandar Balać (bass), Aleksandar Tomić (saxophone), and Rambo Amadeus
, who played acoustic guitar on the track "Sad se svega sećam" ("Now I Remember Everything"). The songs "Talasi" ("The Waves"), "Novi dan" ("New Day"), and "Hajde, hajde" ("Come On") followed the same musical patterns found on the debut. The following year, the band recorded the soundtrack for the theatre play
Furka, and in 1999, the band appeared on the various artists cover album
Korak napred 2 koraka nazad
(A Step Forward 2 Steps Backwards), with the cover version of the song "Baby, baby", originally written by Srđan Šaper, and performed by the fictional band VIS Simboli
in the Slobodan Šijan
1984 movie Davitelj protiv davitelja
(Strangler Versus Strangler).
various artists compilations: the song "Sad se svega sećam" appeared on the Metropolis vol.1, "Ti si sa drugoga sveta" ("You Are From Another World") appeared on Metropolis vol.2. The remix of the song "Ustani, kreni" edited by the electronic
band Intruder
appeared on the Intruder 2002 album Collector's Item.
The recording of the song "Tvoje pismo" ("Your Letter"), recorded at the Dejan Cukić & Spori Ritam Band
November 16, 2002 Sava Centar concert, featuring Gvozden and Markuš, was released in 2003 on the Dejan Cukić & Spori Ritam Band live album DC & SRB @ SC by BK Sound. During the same year, the lineup featuring Gvozden, Markuš, bassist Dejan Škopelja, drummer Ratko Ljubičić and keyboardist Ivan Krstić celebrated the tenth anniversary of the band existence at a live performance held at the Belgrade studio VI. The recording of the performance was released on the 2004 live album Live @ studio 6, featuring rearranged versions of the songs recorded during the first decade. During the same year, the band recorded the single "Mesto za nas" ("A Place for Us"), which appeared on the Sivi kamion crvene boje (The Red Colored Grey Truck) movie soundtrack.
In 2006, Gvozden appeared on the popular Hello Juice commercial, dressed as a wolf and doing the impersonation of the Three Little Pigs
story, and in 2009, Multimedia records reissued the compilation Groovanje devedesete uživo, featuring the live recording of the song "O kako si lepa". During the same year, on April, the lineup Gvozden, Markuš, bassist Marko Orlović and drummer Ernest Dženanović recorded the single "Vreme je" ("It Is Time") in order to promote the upcoming album of the same name. The single appeared on the 26th place of the webzine Popboks single of the year 2009 list.
show Bunt (Rebellion), and performed live two songs from the upcoming fourth album, which is completely finished and is to be released when the band finds a record label. On October of the same year, the single "Drvoseča" ("The Woodcutter"), a cover of the Crveni Koralji version of Tim Hardin
's "If I Were a Carpenter", from the upcoming album appeared on the 5th place of the Jelen Top 10 list for two weeks. The single remained in the Top 10 for five weeks. "Drvoseča" also appeared on the Žena sa slomljenim nosem (A Broken Nosed Woman) movie soundtrack.
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...
n britpop
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 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...
.
1990s
The band was formed on January 1993, by bassist and vocalist Dejan Gvozden and guitarist Željko Markuš, whom, having performed bluesBlues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and 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...
standards in Belgrade cafes, were joined by drummer Dejan Kostić. By the time the band had written their first hit song "Dva metra" ("Two Meters"), for which the music video was directed by Milutin Petrović, they had already featured a new bassist Milan Popović, thus leaving Gvozden on the vocal position only. The band was further expanded with the arrival of the former Del Arno Band
Del Arno Band
Del Arno Band is a Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae band from Belgrade. Formed in 1986, Del Arno Band are considered the longest lasting Serbian reggae band, and one of the pioneers of Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae scenes.-1980s:...
member Nenad Potije on trombone. During the same year, the band had their first recording, the song "O kako si lepa" ("Oh, How Beautiful You Are"), released on the L.V.O. Records various artists compilation Academia vol.1, and the live version of the song, recorded at the Belgrade club Prostor on February 9, 1994, appeared on the 1995 live various artists compilation Groovanje vol. 1.
The debut album Kristali (The Crystals), released by L.V.O. Records in 1994, featured guest appearances by Eyesburn
Eyesburn
Eyesburn is a Serbian hardcore punk/crossover thrash band with influences of reggae music.- 1990s :The band was formed in 1994, and the original line-up featured former Dead Ideas guitarist Nemanja "Kojot" Kojić , who simultaneously worked as trombonist in Del Arno Band and bass guitarist in...
frontman Nemanja Kojić (trombone), Borivoje Borac (saxophone), Vladimir Lešić (percussion), Đorđe Vasović (keyboards) and 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...
member Aleksadar Mitanovski, who played the guitar solo on the track "Emili" ("Emily"). The album, recorded at the Belgrade Akademija studio from March until June 1994, was produced by Goran Živković "Žika" and Rodoljub Stojanović, and the album cover was designed by Goranka Matić. Through the notable songs "Dva metra" ("Two Meters"), "O kako si lepa", "Znam" ("I Know") and "Osmi dan" ("The Eighth Day"), the latter two being released on a double A-side 7" single, the band promoted pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
structured songs up-to-date with the current Britpop
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...
trends in Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
. Available on compact cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
only, the album was quickly sold out and is today a rarity and a collector's item.
The second studio album, Dolina ljubavi (The Valley of Love), released on April 1997 and produced by Igor Borojević, featured guest appearances by Block Out
Block Out (band)
Block Out is a grunge/alternative rock band from Belgrade, Serbia. Their musical style is a combination of artistic alternative rock, punk rock, doom metal and psychedelic rock...
member Aleksandar Balać (bass), Aleksandar Tomić (saxophone), and Rambo Amadeus
Rambo Amadeus
Rambo Amadeus is the stage name of the Belgrade-based Montenegrin singer-songwriter Antonije Pušić, popular all over the former Yugoslavia...
, who played acoustic guitar on the track "Sad se svega sećam" ("Now I Remember Everything"). The songs "Talasi" ("The Waves"), "Novi dan" ("New Day"), and "Hajde, hajde" ("Come On") followed the same musical patterns found on the debut. The following year, the band recorded the soundtrack for the theatre play
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...
Furka, and in 1999, the band appeared on the various artists cover album
Cover Album
-Tracklisting:#Misono to Utaou! Animedley I # #...
Korak napred 2 koraka nazad
Korak napred 2 koraka nazad
- Additional personnel :* Škart — album cover [design]* Velja Mijanović — engineer [post-producer], mastered by- References :* * EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-43...
(A Step Forward 2 Steps Backwards), with the cover version of the song "Baby, baby", originally written by Srđan Šaper, and performed by the fictional band VIS Simboli
VIS Simboli
VIS Simboli are an imaginary band from the former Yugoslav film Strangler vs. Strangler.- History :The band was formed by Spiridon Kopicl and recorded only one song, "Bejbi, bejbi", inspired by the experience of Kopicl after seeing a television report on a victim of...
in the Slobodan Šijan
Slobodan Šijan
Slobodan Šijan is a Serbian film director.After graduating film direction and directing a handful of TV movies in the late 1970s, he caught a big break with his first full-length feature Ko to tamo peva in 1980...
1984 movie Davitelj protiv davitelja
Davitelj protiv davitelja
Strangler vs. Strangler is a 1984 Yugoslav film featuring elements of comedy, thriller and horror genres.-Plot:In the mid 1980s Belgrade finally gets its first serial killer: an awkward carnations seller named Pera Mitić . Mitić is an overweight 48-year-old man who is in an Oedipus kind of way...
(Strangler Versus Strangler).
2000s
In 2001, the band released their third studio album Sve što dolazi (All That Is To Come) featuring new members, bassist Aleksandar Šišić and drummer Bojan Dmitrašinović, whereas Gvozden, beside the vocal duties, also became the rhythm guitarist. Ten new songs, all written by Gvozden and Markuš, including the notable "Ustani, kreni" ("Stand Up, Go"), "Menjam se" ("I am Changing") and "Moje srce" ("My Heart"), were produced by Mirko Vukomanović. The following year, the band appeared on two Metropolis RecordsMetropolis Records (Serbia)
Metropolis Records is a record label based in Belgrade, Serbia.Formed in 1994, the label is mainly oriented towards rock music, and has released albums by a numerous notable acts of the Serbian rock scene.- Artists :...
various artists compilations: the song "Sad se svega sećam" appeared on the Metropolis vol.1, "Ti si sa drugoga sveta" ("You Are From Another World") appeared on Metropolis vol.2. The remix of the song "Ustani, kreni" edited by the electronic
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
band Intruder
Intruder (band)
Intruder is an electronic/pop group from Belgrade, Serbia. The band has published five LP albums to date.- Albums :* 1998 Experiment* 1999 Windows '99* 2000 Able* 2003 Strange Kind of Beautiful* 2006 Dancing Shoes Starry Skies...
appeared on the Intruder 2002 album Collector's Item.
The recording of the song "Tvoje pismo" ("Your Letter"), recorded at the Dejan Cukić & Spori Ritam Band
Dejan Cukic
Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cukić was the frontman of the New Wave band Bulevar, releasing two albums with the band. After Bulevar disbanded in 1982, he retired from music...
November 16, 2002 Sava Centar concert, featuring Gvozden and Markuš, was released in 2003 on the Dejan Cukić & Spori Ritam Band live album DC & SRB @ SC by BK Sound. During the same year, the lineup featuring Gvozden, Markuš, bassist Dejan Škopelja, drummer Ratko Ljubičić and keyboardist Ivan Krstić celebrated the tenth anniversary of the band existence at a live performance held at the Belgrade studio VI. The recording of the performance was released on the 2004 live album Live @ studio 6, featuring rearranged versions of the songs recorded during the first decade. During the same year, the band recorded the single "Mesto za nas" ("A Place for Us"), which appeared on the Sivi kamion crvene boje (The Red Colored Grey Truck) movie soundtrack.
In 2006, Gvozden appeared on the popular Hello Juice commercial, dressed as a wolf and doing the impersonation of the Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic animals. Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older...
story, and in 2009, Multimedia records reissued the compilation Groovanje devedesete uživo, featuring the live recording of the song "O kako si lepa". During the same year, on April, the lineup Gvozden, Markuš, bassist Marko Orlović and drummer Ernest Dženanović recorded the single "Vreme je" ("It Is Time") in order to promote the upcoming album of the same name. The single appeared on the 26th place of the webzine Popboks single of the year 2009 list.
2010s
On July 6, 2010, the band appeared on the Radio Television of SerbiaRadio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...
show Bunt (Rebellion), and performed live two songs from the upcoming fourth album, which is completely finished and is to be released when the band finds a record label. On October of the same year, the single "Drvoseča" ("The Woodcutter"), a cover of the Crveni Koralji version of Tim Hardin
Tim Hardin
James Timothy "Tim" Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well...
's "If I Were a Carpenter", from the upcoming album appeared on the 5th place of the Jelen Top 10 list for two weeks. The single remained in the Top 10 for five weeks. "Drvoseča" also appeared on the Žena sa slomljenim nosem (A Broken Nosed Woman) movie soundtrack.
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External links
- Kristali 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....
- Kristali at YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- Kristali 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...
- Kristali 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 ....
- Kristali at Rateyourmusic
- Kristali at B92.fm