Rani mraz is the twelfth studio album released by 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...

n and former Yugoslav singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Đorđe Balašević. The title refers to Balašević's former band Rani Mraz

Rani Mraz

Rani Mraz were a former Yugoslav rock band from Novi Sad, formed in 1977 by former Žetva member Đorđe Balašević. During the initial period, the band went through several lineup changes, until Balašević and female singer Biljana Krstić remained the only official members of the band...

.

The album's subtitle

Subtitle (titling)

In books and other works, a subtitle is an explanatory or alternate title. For example, Mary Shelley used a subtitle to give her most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, an alternate title to give a hint of the theme. In library cataloging the subtitle does not include an...

 was Priča o Vasi Ladačkom.../Muzika iz nesnimljenog filma (Story of Vasa Ladački.../Music from the Film that was not Filmed) referring to Rani Mraz 1980 ballad "Priča o Vasi Ladačkom" which went on to become one of Balašević's signature pieces, and to the film which should have been based on the song and filmed by Balašević and actor and film director Ljubiša Samardžić

Ljubiša Samardžic

Ljubiša Samardžić is a Serbian actor and director, who is best known as Šurda in the Vruć vetar TV series.- Early life :Born to the family of a coal miner, his acting talent was discovered very early and he won a scholarship with respected director Bojan Stupica. Samardžić was educated at the...

 (the disagreement between Balašević and Samardžić led to two films based on the same story: Samardžić's entitled Jesen stiže, dunjo moja, released in 2004, and Balašević's Kao rani mraz, released in 2010).

Rani mraz features folk rock

Folk rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 sound with acoustic instruments, similar to the sound of Balašević's 1996 album Na posletku...

Na posletku...

Na posletku... is the ninth studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević. Featuring only acoustic instruments, Na posletku... is Balašević's first completely folk rock-oriented album...

.

The album featured new studio version of the song "Priča o Vasi Ladačkom" (entitled "Priča o Vasi L."). This is the third version of the song, the first one being the 1980 version from Rani Mraz album Odlazi cirkus

Odlazi cirkus

Odlazi cirkus is the second and the last studio album released by former Yugoslav rock band Rani Mraz.Like it was the case with the previous Rani Mraz album, Mojoj mami umesto maturske slike u izlogu, two official Rani Mraz members, Đorđe Balašević and Biljana Krstić, recorded Odlazi cirkus with...

, and the second being the version from Balašević's 2003 compilation album Ostaće okrugli trag na mestu šatre

Ostaće okrugli trag na mestu šatre

Ostaće okrugli trag na mestu šatre is a double compilation album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević....

. The album's opening track "Pričica o Vasi L." is an instrumental track based on "Priča o Vasi Ladačkom".

Track listing

All the songs were written by Đorđe Balašević.

1. "Pričica o Vasi L." - 3:17
2. "Aco-Braco" - 4:21
3. "Čivutski vrt" - 5:15
4. "Kere varošanke" - 4:40
5. "Lađarska seranata" - 3:27
6. "Bože, Bože..." - 6:28
7. "Galicia" - 4:45
8. "Tvoj Neko" - 5:30
9. "Maliganska" - 5:50
10. "Ja Vas. kanda, znam?" - 4:39
11. "Pred zadnji sneg" - 3:57
12. "Kao rani mraz" - 4:37
13. "Priča o Vasi L." - 7:27

Personnel

• Đorđe Balašević - vocals
• Aleksandar Dujin - piano, backing vocals
• Dragan Ivanović - bass guitar
• Petar Radmilović - drums
• Ignac Šen - violin, vocals (on track 8)
• Andrej Maglovski - accordion
• Zoran Alvirović - guitar, vocals (on track 6), backing vocals
• Duda Bezuha - guitar
• Gabor Bunford - clarinet, backing vocals
• Šandor Žadonji - cimbalom
• Timea Kalmar - cello
• Beni Čibri - bass (on track 12)
• Stevan Mošo - prim (on tracks: 4, 7, 10, 11)
• Daniel Davčik - metal can (on track 9)
• Mile Nikolić - bass prim (on tracks: 8, 13)
• Cveta Sladić - bass prim (on tracks: 8, 13)
• Duško Petrović - prim (on tracks: 8, 13)
• Agota Vitkai Kučera - vocals (soprano on track 8)
• St. George Choir (on track 13)
• Pera Alvirović - backing vocals
• Dragan Tasić - backing vocals (on track 3)
• Kemo Arapović - backing vocals (on track 3)