Nežni Dalibor
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Nežni Dalibor are a Serbia
n alternative rock
band from Vranje
of the so-called New Serbian Scene.
in 1995, and having performed as a highschool five-piece band for three years, the band Nežni Dalibor was reformed in
2000 by the original members Ivica Marković (guitar, lead vocals), Ljubomir Vučković (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Branimir Bogdanović
(drums), with the new member Miomir Stojković (guitar). At the time, the three were living and studying in Belgrade
, thus Nežni Dalibor became a Belgrade-based band. However, after several name changes and live appearances in Vranje and Belgrade
, the band went on hiatus in 2003. Two years afterward, in 2005, guitarist Stojković had moved to London
and the band was reactivated as a trio during the same year.
In January 2007, on the webzine Popboks annual lists, the band had been pronounced the seventh best debut act of the year 2006. During the same year, the band had sent the recordings of their three songs, "Značajan događaj" ("A Significant Event"), "Kratka šetnja" ("A Short Walk") and "Grad još blista" ("The City Still Glares"), to Ivan Lončarević of PGP RTS. One of the songs, "Značajan događaj" appeared on the PGP RTS various artists compilation Jutro će promeniti sve? (Morning Would Change Everything?), featuring the prominent bands of the so-called New Serbian Scene. After the compilation release, the band started performing more often and on March 30, 2007, they appeared as an opening act for Presing
on their last concert, held at the Belgrade Dom Omladine. The following month, on April 14, as a part of the Scena Uživo! concert series, with the band The Mothership Orchestra, the band held a sold-out concert at the club of the same venue. In the meantime, the band added a live musician Dragan Novković as the second guitarist and sound engineer.
On January 29, the performance held at the Belgrade club Plasic had been broadcast live by Radio B92 in their show Stand By Live.
During the same year, the band had recorded three songs at the Belgrade Technical College studio, "Ne vidim gde si" ("I Cannot See Where You Are"), "Samo magli" ("Only To The Fog") and "Vekovi" ("Centuries"), produced by Boris Mladenović, were released on the Kultur Akt various artists compilation Zdravo, zdravo, zdravo (Hello, Hello, Hello) in 2008. With Mladenović as the producer, from March until July of the same year, the band had been recording the material for their debut studio album at the Digimedia studio. Having the work-title Pokidane niti (Broken Threads), the material
featured the songs written during the band's entire career, the previously released songs, "Značajan događaj", written in 1997, "Kratka
šetnja", written in 2002, and "Grad još blista", written in 2003.
The debut studio album Sredstva i veštine (Means and Skills), featuring fourteen songs, was released on September 1, 2008 by the independent record label
Odličan Hrčak, being the first release of the New Serbian Scene edition, made by the label and the Digimedia studio in order to promote the most popular bands of the webzine Popboks section Scena. The material featured the music entirely written by the band themselves and the song lyrics written by Ivica Marković, except for the tracks "Značajan događaj", written by Branimir Bogdanović, "Kratka šetnja", written by Milan Stojković, "Pokidane niti" and "Grad još blista", written by Miomir Stojković. In the Popboks album review, the critic Dragan Ambrozić in comparing the album with the Eva Braun
1992 debut album Prisluškivanja (Eavesdroppings) stated that "No matter if you believe that Nežni Dalibor has created a kind of a "sped up Prisluškivanja" for the new times or not, it is clear that this kind of elan is here and that it is following such examples of high achievements which happen in unexpected moments, almost unintentionally."
In order to promote the album, the band had also recorded a promotional video for the song "Ti si sam" ("You Are Alone"). The band had also started a live album promotion and during the rest of 2008 and in 2009, they held a tour including the performances in Novi Sad
, Sremska Mitrovica
, Skopje
, Vranje and Belgrade. In the meantime, in January 2009, the song "Ti si sam" appeared on the fifth place at the Radio B92 Pop Mašina best singles of 2008 list, and on the ninth place Studio B
Diskomer lists in the same category. The following month, on the Popboks annual critics lists, the "Ti si sam" was selected as the best single and third best music video of the previous year, and the album Sredstva i veštine was voted the second best album of 2008. During the same year, in July, the band performed at the Novi Sad Exit festival
, sharing the stage with Elvis Jackson and The Buzzcocks and in September at the Jelen Pivo Live
festival, before Eva Braun, Veliki Prezir
, The Rakes
and Echo and the Bunnymen.
Trenchtown festival on which, beside the material from Sredstva i veštine, the band performed the songs that were intended to be released on the second studio album. The following month, Sredstva i veštine was reissued by the Exit Music online record label in mp3 format
available for free digital download
In July, the band performed at the Belgrade BELEF festival and in November had two appearances in Croatia. In the meantime, the band had been recording the second studio album at the Digimedia studio. In December, a remix of the song "Samo magli" appeared on the Shpira remix album As I Would Say Two. In January of the following year, Popboks critics selected the fifty best domestic albums released during the previous decade on which Sredstva i veštine appeared on the twelfth and Jutro će promeniti sve? on the sixteenth place. The following month, was announced that the upcoming studio album was to be released through Exit Music in mp3 format beside the physical release.
On March 24, 2011, the second studio album Normalan život was released by Odičan Hrčak, once again produced by Boris Mladenović. Consisting of eleven songs, the material featured the song lyrics entirely written by Ivica Marković and the music written by all three members and guest appearances by Marija Jovanović (keyboards) and Boris Mladenović (tambourine). In order to promote the release, the band released the single "Jeste li poludeli ljudi?" ("Are You Insane People?") for online streaming
via SoundCloud
.
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 alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band from Vranje
Vranje
Vranje is a city and municipality located in southern Serbia. In 2011 the city has total population of 82,782, while the urban area has 54,456...
of the so-called New Serbian Scene.
2000s
Formed in VranjeVranje
Vranje is a city and municipality located in southern Serbia. In 2011 the city has total population of 82,782, while the urban area has 54,456...
in 1995, and having performed as a highschool five-piece band for three years, the band Nežni Dalibor was reformed in
2000 by the original members Ivica Marković (guitar, lead vocals), Ljubomir Vučković (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Branimir Bogdanović
(drums), with the new member Miomir Stojković (guitar). At the time, the three were living and studying 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...
, thus Nežni Dalibor became a Belgrade-based band. However, after several name changes and live appearances in Vranje and 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...
, the band went on hiatus in 2003. Two years afterward, in 2005, guitarist Stojković had moved to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and the band was reactivated as a trio during the same year.
In January 2007, on the webzine Popboks annual lists, the band had been pronounced the seventh best debut act of the year 2006. During the same year, the band had sent the recordings of their three songs, "Značajan događaj" ("A Significant Event"), "Kratka šetnja" ("A Short Walk") and "Grad još blista" ("The City Still Glares"), to Ivan Lončarević of PGP RTS. One of the songs, "Značajan događaj" appeared on the PGP RTS various artists compilation Jutro će promeniti sve? (Morning Would Change Everything?), featuring the prominent bands of the so-called New Serbian Scene. After the compilation release, the band started performing more often and on March 30, 2007, they appeared as an opening act for Presing
Presing
Presing is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade. Formed in 1990 and named after pressure defense in basketball , Presing were, together with Darkwood Dub and Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša, representatives of the so-called NeoBeo sound, alternative, guitar-based rock music produced in Belgrade in...
on their last concert, held at the Belgrade Dom Omladine. The following month, on April 14, as a part of the Scena Uživo! concert series, with the band The Mothership Orchestra, the band held a sold-out concert at the club of the same venue. In the meantime, the band added a live musician Dragan Novković as the second guitarist and sound engineer.
On January 29, the performance held at the Belgrade club Plasic had been broadcast live by Radio B92 in their show Stand By Live.
During the same year, the band had recorded three songs at the Belgrade Technical College studio, "Ne vidim gde si" ("I Cannot See Where You Are"), "Samo magli" ("Only To The Fog") and "Vekovi" ("Centuries"), produced by Boris Mladenović, were released on the Kultur Akt various artists compilation Zdravo, zdravo, zdravo (Hello, Hello, Hello) in 2008. With Mladenović as the producer, from March until July of the same year, the band had been recording the material for their debut studio album at the Digimedia studio. Having the work-title Pokidane niti (Broken Threads), the material
featured the songs written during the band's entire career, the previously released songs, "Značajan događaj", written in 1997, "Kratka
šetnja", written in 2002, and "Grad još blista", written in 2003.
The debut studio album Sredstva i veštine (Means and Skills), featuring fourteen songs, was released on September 1, 2008 by the independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
Odličan Hrčak, being the first release of the New Serbian Scene edition, made by the label and the Digimedia studio in order to promote the most popular bands of the webzine Popboks section Scena. The material featured the music entirely written by the band themselves and the song lyrics written by Ivica Marković, except for the tracks "Značajan događaj", written by Branimir Bogdanović, "Kratka šetnja", written by Milan Stojković, "Pokidane niti" and "Grad još blista", written by Miomir Stojković. In the Popboks album review, the critic Dragan Ambrozić in comparing the album with the Eva Braun
Eva Braun (band)
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...
1992 debut album Prisluškivanja (Eavesdroppings) stated that "No matter if you believe that Nežni Dalibor has created a kind of a "sped up Prisluškivanja" for the new times or not, it is clear that this kind of elan is here and that it is following such examples of high achievements which happen in unexpected moments, almost unintentionally."
In order to promote the album, the band had also recorded a promotional video for the song "Ti si sam" ("You Are Alone"). The band had also started a live album promotion and during the rest of 2008 and in 2009, they held a tour including the performances 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....
, Sremska Mitrovica
Sremska Mitrovica
Sremska Mitrovica is a city and municipality located in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, on the left bank of the Sava river. As of 2002 the town had a total population of 39,041, while Sremska Mitrovica municipality had a population of 85,605...
, Skopje
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...
, Vranje and Belgrade. In the meantime, in January 2009, the song "Ti si sam" appeared on the fifth place at the Radio B92 Pop Mašina best singles of 2008 list, and on the ninth place Studio B
Studio B
Studio B with Shepard Smith is an American news/talk television program on the Fox News Channel, hosted by Shepard Smith.-About the show:...
Diskomer lists in the same category. The following month, on the Popboks annual critics lists, the "Ti si sam" was selected as the best single and third best music video of the previous year, and the album Sredstva i veštine was voted the second best album of 2008. During the same year, in July, the band performed at the Novi Sad Exit festival
EXIT (festival)
Exit is an annual summer music festival in the Petrovaradin Fortress of Novi Sad, Serbia. It is staged annually since 2000 and usually lasts four days ....
, sharing the stage with Elvis Jackson and The Buzzcocks and in September at the Jelen Pivo Live
Jelen Pivo Live
Jelen Pivo Live is a musical festival held since 2006 in order to promote the Apatin brewery brand Jelen pivo. The organizers had the idea gather the finest Serbian rock bands at one place, but the following year beside Serbian bands, foreign acts were also included in the festival lineups.- 2006...
festival, before Eva Braun, Veliki Prezir
Veliki Prezir
Veliki Prezir is a Serbian britpop/alternative rock band from Vrbas.- 1990s :...
, The Rakes
The Rakes
The Rakes were an English indie rock band from London. They split up in October 2009.-History:The Rakes formed in 2004. Since coming to fame in 2005, they were associated with the British post-punk/art rock scene, a genre shared by bands such as Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park, and The Futureheads...
and Echo and the Bunnymen.
2010s
In April 2010, Nežni Dalibor performed at the SuboticaSubotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
Trenchtown festival on which, beside the material from Sredstva i veštine, the band performed the songs that were intended to be released on the second studio album. The following month, Sredstva i veštine was reissued by the Exit Music online record label in mp3 format
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
available for free digital download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
In July, the band performed at the Belgrade BELEF festival and in November had two appearances in Croatia. In the meantime, the band had been recording the second studio album at the Digimedia studio. In December, a remix of the song "Samo magli" appeared on the Shpira remix album As I Would Say Two. In January of the following year, Popboks critics selected the fifty best domestic albums released during the previous decade on which Sredstva i veštine appeared on the twelfth and Jutro će promeniti sve? on the sixteenth place. The following month, was announced that the upcoming studio album was to be released through Exit Music in mp3 format beside the physical release.
On March 24, 2011, the second studio album Normalan život was released by Odičan Hrčak, once again produced by Boris Mladenović. Consisting of eleven songs, the material featured the song lyrics entirely written by Ivica Marković and the music written by all three members and guest appearances by Marija Jovanović (keyboards) and Boris Mladenović (tambourine). In order to promote the release, the band released the single "Jeste li poludeli ljudi?" ("Are You Insane People?") for online streaming
Streaming media
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...
via SoundCloud
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings.-History:SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss...
.
Other appearances
- "Značajan događaj" (Jutro će promeniti sve?; 2007)
- "Ne vidim gde si"/"Samo magli"/"Vekovi" (Zdravo, zdravo, zdravo; 2008)
- "Samo magli (Shpira remix)" (As I Would Say Two; 2010)
External links
- Nežni Dalibor 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....
- Nežni Dalibor 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...
- Nežni Dalibor 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...
- Nežni Dalibor at Rateyourmusic
- Nežni Dalibor 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 ....
- Nežni Dalibor 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...