Tako (band)
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Tako was a former Yugoslav symphonic rock
band from Belgrade
.
), Đorđe Ilijin (keyboards
), Sava Bojić (guitar
, vocals) and Milan "Mića Žorž" Lolić (drums
). Previously, Dušan Ćućuz was a member of Džentlmeni
and Plameni 6, he was one of the original Opus members, and in the first half of the 1970s he worked as YU grupa
's sound engineer, Sava Bojić was one of the original Pop Mašina
members, and Đorđe Ilijin worked as a music teacher and often appeared as a guest musician on other bands' album recordings. Initially, the band performed their own songs, as well as Jimi Hendrix Experience and Santana
covers. During 1975, they made their first demo recordings, the songs "Čujem svoje misli" ("I Hear My Toughts"), "Daždevnjak" ("Salamander
"), "Lena" and "Čudan grad" ("Strange Town"), in Radio Belgrade
studios.
In 1977, guitarist and singer Miroslav Dukić (a former Koren member) and drummer Slobodan Felekatović replaced Bojić and Lolić. Tako became an opening band on a Bijelo Dugme
tour, performing on Bijelo Dugme's concert at Hajdučka česma
. In November 1977, Tako and progressive
/acoustic rock band S Vremena Na Vreme
organized a quadraphonic sound concert in Belgrade Youth Center
. Tako also had a successful appearance at the 1978 Novi Sad
BOOM festival
. After they were refused as "non-commercial" by several major record labels, they signed for ZKP RTLJ
after their performance at the Youth Festival in Subotica
. The band released their debut self-titled album in 1978. The album featured symphonic rock
-oriented songs with jazz
elements. The song "Lena" featured S Vremena Na Vreme member Asim Sarvan on vocals. The song "Minijatura" ("Miniature") was a tribute to the band Jethro Tull
. The band promoted the album with a free concert held at Kalemegdan
. After another quadraphonic sound concert organized with S Vremena Na Vreme in Belgrade Youth Center, Tako went on hiatus in 1979 because Ilijin got arthritis
and Miroslav Dukić left the band.
A year later, the band continued their activity. Their second album, U vreći za spavanje (In a Sleeping Bag), was released in September 1980 through PGP-RTB
. Every song on the album was produced by the member of the band who wrote it. The band went on a tour, however, due to the departure of Slobodan Felekatović, who left the band due to his army obligations, and due to the great popularity of New Wave bands, Tako disbanded. They held their farewell concert at the University of Belgrade
Faculty of Philosophy
at the beginning of 1981.
bands Kerber
and Divlje Jagode
. Ilijin dedicated himself to music education and archaeology
, but he also produced albums by several bands. In 1983, he released the solo album Zabranjeno prisluškivanje (Eavesdropping Forbidden) on which he sung and played all the instruments except drums (which were played by Vladimir "Furda" Furduj, a former Elipse
, Siluete
and Korni Grupa
member).
In 1993, German
record label Kalemegdan Disk reissued both Tako albums on vinyl
. Both albums featured new luxurious covers designed by Moma Rajin. Tako reissue featured "Put na jug" ("Journey to the South"), and U vreći za spavanje reissue featured "Izgubljeno ništa" ("Lost Nothing") and "Horde mira" ("Hordes of Peace") as bonus tracks. All of these tracks were recorded during the 1975—1981 period, but were previously unreleased. In 1996, Brazil
ian record label Rocksymphony reissued both Tako and U vreći za spavanje on compact disc
.
In 2010, Miroslav Dukić, under the name D Mirro, rerecorded old Tako songs, releasing them on the album Tako Reloaded.
Symphonic rock
Symphonic rock is a sub-genre of progressive rock. Since early in progressive rock's history, the term has been used sometimes to distinguish more classically influenced progressive rock from the more psychedelic and experimental forms of progressive rock....
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...
.
History
Tako was formed in 1974 by Dušan "Dule" Ćućuz (bass guitarBass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
), Đorđe Ilijin (keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
), Sava Bojić (guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, vocals) and Milan "Mića Žorž" Lolić (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 ....
). Previously, Dušan Ćućuz was a member of Džentlmeni
Džentlmeni
Džentlmeni were a Serbian beat band from Belgrade.- Band formation and split :...
and Plameni 6, he was one of the original Opus members, and in the first half of the 1970s he worked as 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....
's sound engineer, Sava Bojić was one of the original 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...
members, and Đorđe Ilijin worked as a music teacher and often appeared as a guest musician on other bands' album recordings. Initially, the band performed their own songs, as well as Jimi Hendrix Experience and Santana
Santana (band)
Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...
covers. During 1975, they made their first demo recordings, the songs "Čujem svoje misli" ("I Hear My Toughts"), "Daždevnjak" ("Salamander
Salamander
Salamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by a superficially lizard-like appearance, with their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. All known fossils and extinct species fall under the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant...
"), "Lena" and "Čudan grad" ("Strange Town"), in Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade is a state-owned and operated radio station in Belgrade, Serbia.The predecessor of Radio Beograd, Radio Beograd-Rakovica, started its program in 1924 and was a part of a state wireless telegraph station. Radio Beograd, AD started in March 1929...
studios.
In 1977, guitarist and singer Miroslav Dukić (a former Koren member) and drummer Slobodan Felekatović replaced Bojić and Lolić. Tako became an opening band on a Bijelo Dugme
Bijelo dugme
Bijelo dugme was a highly influential former Yugoslav rock band, based in Sarajevo. Active between 1974 and 1989, it is widely considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav rock...
tour, performing on Bijelo Dugme's concert at Hajdučka česma
Koncert kod Hajducke cesme
Koncert kod Hajdučke česme is the first live release by Yugoslav rock band Bijelo dugme...
. In November 1977, Tako and progressive
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...
/acoustic rock band S Vremena Na Vreme
S Vremena Na Vreme
S Vremena Na Vreme was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade...
organized a quadraphonic sound concert in Belgrade Youth Center
Belgrade Youth Center
Belgrade Youth Center, or Dom omladine Beograda , is a cultural center in Belgrade, dedicated primarily to youth. It organises numerous programs in the area of modern art and culture, as well as educational-debate programs: around 1,000 different programs per year, visited by over 180,000 youth...
. Tako also had a successful appearance at the 1978 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....
BOOM festival
Boom Festival
The Boom Festival is a biennial festival which takes place in Portugal.The festival features music, paint, sculpture, video art, installations cinema, theater and a concept of crosspollination of different art forms....
. After they were refused as "non-commercial" by several major record labels, they signed for ZKP RTLJ
ZKP RTLJ
Založba kaset in plošč RTV Ljubljana or Založba kaset in plošč Radiotelevizije Ljubljana , was a major record label based in Ljubljana, Socialist Republic of Slovenia, during the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
after their performance at the Youth Festival in Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
. The band released their debut self-titled album in 1978. The album featured symphonic rock
Symphonic rock
Symphonic rock is a sub-genre of progressive rock. Since early in progressive rock's history, the term has been used sometimes to distinguish more classically influenced progressive rock from the more psychedelic and experimental forms of progressive rock....
-oriented songs with jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
elements. The song "Lena" featured S Vremena Na Vreme member Asim Sarvan on vocals. The song "Minijatura" ("Miniature") was a tribute to the band Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
. The band promoted the album with a free concert held at Kalemegdan
Kalemegdan
Belgrade Fortress , represent old citadel and Kalemegdan Park on the confluence of the River Sava and Danube, in an urban area of modern Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad...
. After another quadraphonic sound concert organized with S Vremena Na Vreme in Belgrade Youth Center, Tako went on hiatus in 1979 because Ilijin got arthritis
Arthritis
Arthritis is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints....
and Miroslav Dukić left the band.
A year later, the band continued their activity. Their second album, U vreći za spavanje (In a Sleeping Bag), was released in September 1980 through PGP-RTB
PGP-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...
. Every song on the album was produced by the member of the band who wrote it. The band went on a tour, however, due to the departure of Slobodan Felekatović, who left the band due to his army obligations, and due to the great popularity of New Wave bands, Tako disbanded. They held their farewell concert at the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Serbia, founded in the early 19th century within the Belgrade Higher School...
at the beginning of 1981.
Post breakup
After the disbandment, Dukić became a studio musician, while Ćućuz worked as a sound engineer for hard rockHard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
bands Kerber
Kerber
Kerber is a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Niš.-1980s:The original members of Kerber were Goran Šepa "Gale" , Tomislav Nikolić , Branislav "Bane" Božinović , Zoran Stamenković and Zoran Madić . In 1981, formerly known as Top Kerber (Serbian Cyrillic: Кербер; trans. Cerberus) is a...
and Divlje Jagode
Divlje jagode
Divlje Jagode is a Yugoslav and Bosnian hard rock and heavy metal band.-1970s:Divlje Jagode were formed in 1977 in Bihać by guitarist Zele Lipovača...
. Ilijin dedicated himself to music education and archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
, but he also produced albums by several bands. In 1983, he released the solo album Zabranjeno prisluškivanje (Eavesdropping Forbidden) on which he sung and played all the instruments except drums (which were played by Vladimir "Furda" Furduj, a former Elipse
Elipse (band)
Elipse were a former Yugoslav rock and soul group from Belgrade, notable as one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.- The beat years :...
, Siluete
Siluete
Siluete was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock band from Belgrade, notable for being one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.-1961 - 1971:...
and Korni Grupa
Korni Grupa
Korni Grupa was a former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. Korni Grupa was one of the first former Yugoslav rock bands to achieve major mainstream popularity. The band's first releases were commercial pop-oriented songs. Korni Grupa later turned towards progressive rock, continuing, however, to...
member).
In 1993, German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
record label Kalemegdan Disk reissued both Tako albums 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...
. Both albums featured new luxurious covers designed by Moma Rajin. Tako reissue featured "Put na jug" ("Journey to the South"), and U vreći za spavanje reissue featured "Izgubljeno ništa" ("Lost Nothing") and "Horde mira" ("Hordes of Peace") as bonus tracks. All of these tracks were recorded during the 1975—1981 period, but were previously unreleased. In 1996, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian record label Rocksymphony reissued both Tako and U vreći za spavanje on compact disc
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
.
In 2010, Miroslav Dukić, under the name D Mirro, rerecorded old Tako songs, releasing them on the album Tako Reloaded.
Band members
- Dušan Ćućuz - bass guitar, vocals (1974—1981)
- Đorđe Ilijin - keyboards, harmonica, flute, harp, vocals (1974—1981)
- Sava Bojić - guitar, vocals (1974—1977)
- Milan Lolić - drums (1974—1977)
- Miroslav Dukić - guitar, vocals (1977—1981)
- Slobodan Felekatović - drums (1977—1981)