Šarlo Akrobata
Encyclopedia
Šarlo Akrobata were a seminal Yugoslav rock band often categorized as late punk
or New Wave
, particularly art-oriented. Short-lived but extremely influential, in addition to being one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav New Wave scene
, the three piece left an indelible mark on the entire music scene of former Yugoslavia.
and Dragomir Mihajlović "Gagi"
, with numerous musicians including the bassist Mikica Stefanović, guitarist Goran Kovinčić "Maksa" and drummer Dušan Dejanović "Džindžer", labored for two years in the melodic hard rock
waters before realizing they were headed nowhere. At the end of their creative wits, the two were joined by Dušan Kojić "Koja"
(bass, vocals) and Ivan Vdović "VD"
(drums, backing vocals), which brought a change in their musical orientations by adopting a new musical direction inspired by punk rock
and New Wave
.
Kojić, who had previously played with a number of underground Belgrade bands, moved in alternative and punk circles gathered around the Belgrade SKC, where he used to conduct public forum debates related to New Wave music. Vdović, who had grown up listening to jazz music, performed with numerous Belgrade groups and before joining Limunovo Drvo, he had been a member of the acoustic rock band Suncokret
. Kojić also brought along his and Milan's friend Nenad Krasavac "Kele" who had became an unofficial band manager.
In April 1980, Limunovo Drvo opened for Pankrti
at Belgrade SKC, performing a set of new as well several rearranged older songs. After the performance, guitarist Mihajlović decided to leave the band and remaining three members decided to continue working as a trio changing the name to Šarlo Akrobata.
(Package Deal) together with the material of Idoli and Električni Orgazam
, released in 1980 by Jugoton
. During the same year, with the performance of the song "Ona se budi" the band competed at Subotica
Youth festival, the festival where for the first time the representatives of both the Belgrade and Zagreb
New Wave scene had met for the first time, claiming second jury prize.
For the Miša Radivojević movie Dečko koji obećava (Promising Boy), with Goran Vejvoda
on guitar, the band recorded the movie soundtrack, also performing in the movie as VIS Dobri Dečaci (The Good Boys). Kojić appeared as the music author while the song lyrics for the three tracks which appeared in the film were written by the screenplay writer Nebojša Pajkić
. The recorded tracks, "Slobodan" (a popular Serbian name
, literally means "free"), "Balada o tvrdim grudima" ("The Ballad of Hard Breasts") and "Depresija" ("Depression), were never officially released and featured the actor Aleksandar Berček, acting the role of the rebellious teenager Slobodan Milošević, as the band vocalist.
During the Spring of the following year, on May 15, 1981, with the Zagreb
band Haustor
, the band performed as an opening act for Gang of Four
and Classix Nouveaux
at the Music Biennale Zagreb
.
(Brighter Or Dumber A Man Gets When...) originally intended to be released through PGP RTB, but the head managers of the label, confused with the results of the recordings, sold it to Jugoton
which released it in July of the same year. Jugoton put out around 10,000 copies of the album with very little commercial radio support, all of which, along with the absence of a recognizable hit candidate like "Ona se budi" or "Niko kao ja", both previously released on single, resulted in the album selling modestly. The album recording sessions featured Goran Vejvoda, Gagi Mihajlović, Jurij Novoselić "Kuzma" from the band Film and Dejan Kostić from Grupa I
.
Even though the original band's musical directions were based on a combination of punk rock and white reggae
music, the outcome of the album recording sessions proved turned out to be as experimental as possible. The recording sessions were based on a kind of a system where Mladenović and Kojić would bring fresh raw ideas and Vdović would modify and shape them. Mladenović was into poetic and melodic aspect of the whole thing while Kojić, inspired by Jimi Hendrix
style of playing, was turned to minimal lyrics and aggressive music which can be recognized on different tracks on the album and their work in general. The record was also a brave experiment where all British New Wave styles had been combined with reggae, punk sound backed with dub effects.
The title of the album was taken from Vasa Pelagić's book Narodni učitelj (The Folk Teacher), from which the song lyrics for the song "Pazite na decu I" ("Take Care Of The Children I") were also taken. The track differed from others because Mladenović played the drums, Vdović played the guitar, Dejan Kostić played bass, Gagi Mihajlović was on piano, while Kojić shrieked and played timpani. When the instrumental part was recorded, the tree read parts from Pelagić's book and different articles from Politikin Zabavnik
magazine. The producer of the album was signed as Akpiđoto (misspelled on the album cover as Aktiđoto) which is actually a combination of names of real producers, Akrobata (the band), Pile (the nickname of Mile Miletić), Đorđe (Petrović) and Toni (Jurij, a recording engineer from Ljubljana
who was an expert on dub techniques).
Furthermore, the 7-inch single "Bes" / "Prevaren", featuring a track off the new album and a B-side from Limunovo Drvo days, recorded in parallel to the album was never released by Jugoton. According to Kojić, the band was also reluctant to promote the album with much touring as the writing had already been on the wall since the trio barely tolerated each other at this point, knowing for some time they would soon split apart. In the Autumn of 1981, they got the "Smeli cvet" award for music by Socialistic Youth Of Yugoslavia. Then they embarked on a previously booked tour of Poland
. After returning home and performing a farewell show in Ljubljana
in October 1981, the group quietly disbanded.
In 2007 Croatia Records
released a box set entitled Paket Aranžman which consists of three CDs. Remastered edition of a compilation with the same name and Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad...
and Električni orgazam
self titled album. Sonja Savić
, a Serbian actress and a film director, directed her first documentary called Šarlo te gleda dedicated to the New Wave
scene in Belgrade
and mostly focusing on the work of Šarlo Akrobata.
n group 2227 recorded the single "Šarlo budi nežan" ("Šarlo, Be Gentle") as a tribute to the band. In 1998, the Serbian punk rock band Džukele
performed live a cover version of the song "Fenomen
" ("Phenomenon"), released on the Punk You All various artists compilation. In 1999, the Serbian punk rock band Plejboj
, on the various artists cover album Korak napred 2 koraka nazad
(A Step Forward 2 Steps Backwards), recorded a cover version of the song "Sad se jasno vidi" ("Now It Is Clearly Visible"). In 2009, the Serbian actor and musician Nikola Pejaković "Kolja"
covered the song "Samo ponekad" and released it as a digital download
single for his second studio album Kolja.
In 2002, on the Milan Mladenović tribute album Kao da je bilo nekad... (Posvećeno Milanu Mladenoviću) (As If It Had Happened Sometime... (Dedicated To Milan Mladenović)) appeared several covers of Šarlo Akrobata songs. The Serbian punk rock band Novembar
recorded a cover version of the song "O, o, o", former Haustor
frontman Darko Rundek
covered the song "Ona se budi", and the alternative rock
band VROOM
covered the song "Problem". In 2003, on the Milan Mladenović tribute concert in Zagreb, the Električni Orgazam
frontman Srđan Gojković performed the songs "Fenomen", "Samo ponekad" ("Just Occasionally") and "O, o, o", all of which appeared on the live Milan Mladenović tribute album Jako dobar tatoo!.
In 1998, in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
(YU 100: The Best Albums Of Yugoslav Pop And Rock Music), the album Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad...
was ranked #11. In the same book Paket aranžman
appeared on the second place.
In 2006, on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list polled by the listeners of Radio B92, the song "Ona se budi" appeared on the fifth place and the song "Niko kao ja" appeared on the ninth place.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
or New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
, particularly art-oriented. Short-lived but extremely influential, in addition to being one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav New Wave scene
Yugoslav New Wave
New Wave in Yugoslavia was the New Wave music scene of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
, the three piece left an indelible mark on the entire music scene of former Yugoslavia.
Limunovo Drvo and name change
The band Limunovo Drvo (Lemon Tree) formed during the late 1970s by Milan MladenovićMilan Mladenovic
Milan Mladenović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as the frontman of Serbian art rock band Ekatarina Velika.-Early life:...
and Dragomir Mihajlović "Gagi"
Dragomir Mihajlović
- Musical career :Mihajlović started his career as a guitarist in a progressive rock group Limunovo Drvo, which, formed in 1978 by himself and Milan Mladenović , after performing for two years moved towards New Wave, with the arrival of Dušan Kojić "Koja" and Ivan Vdović "VD" . In April 1980,...
, with numerous musicians including the bassist Mikica Stefanović, guitarist Goran Kovinčić "Maksa" and drummer Dušan Dejanović "Džindžer", labored for two years in the melodic hard rock
Hard 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...
waters before realizing they were headed nowhere. At the end of their creative wits, the two were joined by Dušan Kojić "Koja"
Dušan Kojic
Dušan Kojić "Koja" is a Serbian rock bassist, singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of the Serbian Alternative rock band Disciplin A Kitschme .- Compilation albums :...
(bass, vocals) and Ivan Vdović "VD"
Ivan Vdovic
Ivan "Ivica" Vdović also known as VD was Yugoslavian musician, drummer of Yugoslav rock bands such as Suncokret, Šarlo Akrobata and Katarina II....
(drums, backing vocals), which brought a change in their musical orientations by adopting a new musical direction inspired by punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
and New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
.
Kojić, who had previously played with a number of underground Belgrade bands, moved in alternative and punk circles gathered around the Belgrade SKC, where he used to conduct public forum debates related to New Wave music. Vdović, who had grown up listening to jazz music, performed with numerous Belgrade groups and before joining Limunovo Drvo, he had been a member of the acoustic rock band Suncokret
Suncokret
Suncokret was a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1975 by former Zajedno member Bora Đorđević , a former U Cvetu Mladosti member Nenad Božić and female singers Snežana Jandrlić and Vesna Rakočević...
. Kojić also brought along his and Milan's friend Nenad Krasavac "Kele" who had became an unofficial band manager.
In April 1980, Limunovo Drvo opened for Pankrti
Pankrti
Pankrti were a punk rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active in the late 1970s and during the 1980s. They were known for provocative and politically engaged songs and billed themselves "The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtain"...
at Belgrade SKC, performing a set of new as well several rearranged older songs. After the performance, guitarist Mihajlović decided to leave the band and remaining three members decided to continue working as a trio changing the name to Šarlo Akrobata.
Paket aranžman, rise to prominence
Their first recordings the band had made were done in the Enco Lesić studio "Druga Maca". The recorded songs, "Ona se budi" ("She Is Waking Up"), "Oko moje glave" ("Around My Head"), "Niko kao ja" ("Nobody Is Like Me") and "Mali čovek" ("The Little Man"), appeared on omnibus album Paket aranžmanPaket aranžman
Paket aranžman is a New Wave music compilation album released in 1980 by Jugoton and its one of the most important and influential records ever made in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It features the eminent Belgrade artists: Šarlo Akrobata, Električni Orgazam and Idoli...
(Package Deal) together with the material of Idoli and Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
, released in 1980 by Jugoton
Jugoton
Jugoton was the largest record label and chain record store in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia based in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia the company continued to work in independent Republic of Croatia under the name Croatia...
. During the same year, with the performance of the song "Ona se budi" the band competed at Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
Youth festival, the festival where for the first time the representatives of both the Belgrade and Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
New Wave scene had met for the first time, claiming second jury prize.
For the Miša Radivojević movie Dečko koji obećava (Promising Boy), with Goran Vejvoda
Goran Vejvoda
Goran Vejvoda is an English-born, French-based, media artist ....
on guitar, the band recorded the movie soundtrack, also performing in the movie as VIS Dobri Dečaci (The Good Boys). Kojić appeared as the music author while the song lyrics for the three tracks which appeared in the film were written by the screenplay writer Nebojša Pajkić
Nebojša Pajkic
Nebojša Pajkić is a professor of film dramaturgy and a writer. He is married to a Serbian writer Isidora Bjelica whom he met when she was his student on the Belgrade's Film Academy. They have two children.- External links :* *...
. The recorded tracks, "Slobodan" (a popular Serbian name
Slobodan
Slobodan is a Serbian given name which means "free" used to other South Slavs as well. It was coined by Serbian liberal politician Vladimir Jovanović who, inspired by John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty baptised his son Slobodan in 1869 and his daughter Pravda in 1871...
, literally means "free"), "Balada o tvrdim grudima" ("The Ballad of Hard Breasts") and "Depresija" ("Depression), were never officially released and featured the actor Aleksandar Berček, acting the role of the rebellious teenager Slobodan Milošević, as the band vocalist.
During the Spring of the following year, on May 15, 1981, with the Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
band Haustor
Haustor
Haustor was a rock band from Zagreb, SR Croatia, a member of the Novi val movement, and an important act of the former Yugoslav Rock scene.- Biography :...
, the band performed as an opening act for Gang of Four
Gang of Four (band)
Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...
and Classix Nouveaux
Classix Nouveaux
Classix Nouveaux were an English 1980s new wave band. They had number one hits in Poland, Portugal, the former Yugoslavia, Israel, Iceland, and other countries...
at the Music Biennale Zagreb
Music Biennale Zagreb
Music Biennale Zagreb is an international festival of contemporary music in Zagreb, Croatia, organized by the Croatian Composers' Society. The Biennale, founded by Milko Kelemen and held every spring of the odd years since 1961, has become one of the most important festivals of contemporary music...
.
Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad...
In April 1981, the band recorded their debut studio album Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad...Bistriji ili tuplji covek biva kad...
-Personnel:*Milan Mladenović - guitar, vocals*Dušan Kojić - bass guitar, vocals*Ivan Vdović - drums, vocals-Legacy:The album was polled in 1998 as the 11th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike .-External links:*...
(Brighter Or Dumber A Man Gets When...) originally intended to be released through PGP RTB, but the head managers of the label, confused with the results of the recordings, sold it to Jugoton
Jugoton
Jugoton was the largest record label and chain record store in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia based in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia the company continued to work in independent Republic of Croatia under the name Croatia...
which released it in July of the same year. Jugoton put out around 10,000 copies of the album with very little commercial radio support, all of which, along with the absence of a recognizable hit candidate like "Ona se budi" or "Niko kao ja", both previously released on single, resulted in the album selling modestly. The album recording sessions featured Goran Vejvoda, Gagi Mihajlović, Jurij Novoselić "Kuzma" from the band Film and Dejan Kostić from Grupa I
Grupa I
Grupa I was a Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band from Belgrade, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.- History :...
.
Even though the original band's musical directions were based on a combination of punk rock and white reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
music, the outcome of the album recording sessions proved turned out to be as experimental as possible. The recording sessions were based on a kind of a system where Mladenović and Kojić would bring fresh raw ideas and Vdović would modify and shape them. Mladenović was into poetic and melodic aspect of the whole thing while Kojić, inspired by Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
style of playing, was turned to minimal lyrics and aggressive music which can be recognized on different tracks on the album and their work in general. The record was also a brave experiment where all British New Wave styles had been combined with reggae, punk sound backed with dub effects.
The title of the album was taken from Vasa Pelagić's book Narodni učitelj (The Folk Teacher), from which the song lyrics for the song "Pazite na decu I" ("Take Care Of The Children I") were also taken. The track differed from others because Mladenović played the drums, Vdović played the guitar, Dejan Kostić played bass, Gagi Mihajlović was on piano, while Kojić shrieked and played timpani. When the instrumental part was recorded, the tree read parts from Pelagić's book and different articles from Politikin Zabavnik
Politikin zabavnik
Politikin Zabavnik is a popular magazine in Serbia, published by Politika Newspapers and Magazines. The first issue came out on 28 February 1939. In the beginning it was printed in the form of newspaper, and issued biweekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays. Nowadays it comes out weekly on Fridays...
magazine. The producer of the album was signed as Akpiđoto (misspelled on the album cover as Aktiđoto) which is actually a combination of names of real producers, Akrobata (the band), Pile (the nickname of Mile Miletić), Đorđe (Petrović) and Toni (Jurij, a recording engineer from Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
who was an expert on dub techniques).
Breakup and post-breakup
After the album recording sessions, the professional and, consequently, private relations within the group were very strained for quite some time already. Vdović insisted on bringing in the band Goran Vejvoda and possibly even Vejvoda's girlfriend at the time Bebi Dol, both of which were his band mates from his side project Announda Rouge. Mladenović was mostly receptive to the idea largely because he wanted to add a keyboardist and Vejvoda was one of the rare young musicians in Belgrade at the time who owned a Casio VL-2 synthesizer, whereas Kojić vehemently objected to it, feeling the band still had much more to offer with the existing lineup.Furthermore, the 7-inch single "Bes" / "Prevaren", featuring a track off the new album and a B-side from Limunovo Drvo days, recorded in parallel to the album was never released by Jugoton. According to Kojić, the band was also reluctant to promote the album with much touring as the writing had already been on the wall since the trio barely tolerated each other at this point, knowing for some time they would soon split apart. In the Autumn of 1981, they got the "Smeli cvet" award for music by Socialistic Youth Of Yugoslavia. Then they embarked on a previously booked tour of Poland
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...
. After returning home and performing a farewell show in Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
in October 1981, the group quietly disbanded.
In 2007 Croatia Records
Croatia Records
Croatia Records is the largest major record label in Croatia, based in Dubrava in Zagreb.-Summary:Croatia Records d.d. is a joint stock company currently led by the Chairman of the Board of directors Želimir Babogredac, a notable sound engineer...
released a box set entitled Paket Aranžman which consists of three CDs. Remastered edition of a compilation with the same name and Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad...
Bistriji ili tuplji covek biva kad...
-Personnel:*Milan Mladenović - guitar, vocals*Dušan Kojić - bass guitar, vocals*Ivan Vdović - drums, vocals-Legacy:The album was polled in 1998 as the 11th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike .-External links:*...
and Električni orgazam
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
self titled album. Sonja Savić
Sonja Savic
Sonja Savić was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. Sonja appeared in Miroslav Ilić video Voleo sam devojku iz grada...
, a Serbian actress and a film director, directed her first documentary called Šarlo te gleda dedicated to the New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
scene 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...
and mostly focusing on the work of Šarlo Akrobata.
Legacy
Šarlo Akrobata songs have been covered by various artists. In 1995, the SloveniaSlovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n group 2227 recorded the single "Šarlo budi nežan" ("Šarlo, Be Gentle") as a tribute to the band. In 1998, the Serbian punk rock band Džukele
Džukele
Džukele were a Serbian punk rock band from Subotica.- History :The band Phoenix was formed in 1991 by Dragan Neorčić , Slobodan Vukosavljević , and Rudolf Aleksijević...
performed live a cover version of the song "Fenomen
Fenomen (Šarlo Akrobata song)
"Fenomen" is the song by the Serbian New Wave band Šarlo Akrobata, from the album Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad..., released in 1981.- Cover versions :...
" ("Phenomenon"), released on the Punk You All various artists compilation. In 1999, the Serbian punk rock band Plejboj
Plejboj
Plejboj was a Serbian punk rock/ska band from Belgrade.- Formation, rise to prominence :...
, on the various artists cover album 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), recorded a cover version of the song "Sad se jasno vidi" ("Now It Is Clearly Visible"). In 2009, the Serbian actor and musician Nikola Pejaković "Kolja"
Nikola Pejaković
- Kolja i Smak Bijelog Dugmeta :The songs Pejaković had composed during the mid-1980s were released on his debut album Mama, nemoj plakati , released by System Records in 2001. Influenced by diverse range genres and crossing them with witty and a bit vulgar lyrics, Pejaković described his musical...
covered the song "Samo ponekad" and released it as a 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...
single for his second studio album Kolja.
In 2002, on the Milan Mladenović tribute album Kao da je bilo nekad... (Posvećeno Milanu Mladenoviću) (As If It Had Happened Sometime... (Dedicated To Milan Mladenović)) appeared several covers of Šarlo Akrobata songs. The Serbian punk rock band Novembar
Novembar
Novembar is a Serbian punk rock band from Niš.- Studeni Studeni, band formation :...
recorded a cover version of the song "O, o, o", former Haustor
Haustor
Haustor was a rock band from Zagreb, SR Croatia, a member of the Novi val movement, and an important act of the former Yugoslav Rock scene.- Biography :...
frontman Darko Rundek
Darko Rundek
Darko Rundek is a Croatian rock singer, songwriter, poet, and actor. His music career started in the early '80s, as the frontman of the world music influenced rock band Haustor...
covered the song "Ona se budi", and the 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 VROOM
Vroom
Vroom may refer to:People*Cornelis Vroom , a Dutch painter of the Baroque era*Frederick Vroom , Canadian film actor*Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom , a Dutch painter...
covered the song "Problem". In 2003, on the Milan Mladenović tribute concert in Zagreb, the Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
frontman Srđan Gojković performed the songs "Fenomen", "Samo ponekad" ("Just Occasionally") and "O, o, o", all of which appeared on the live Milan Mladenović tribute album Jako dobar tatoo!.
In 1998, 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 Pop And Rock Music), the album Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad...
Bistriji ili tuplji covek biva kad...
-Personnel:*Milan Mladenović - guitar, vocals*Dušan Kojić - bass guitar, vocals*Ivan Vdović - drums, vocals-Legacy:The album was polled in 1998 as the 11th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike .-External links:*...
was ranked #11. In the same book Paket aranžman
Paket aranžman
Paket aranžman is a New Wave music compilation album released in 1980 by Jugoton and its one of the most important and influential records ever made in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It features the eminent Belgrade artists: Šarlo Akrobata, Električni Orgazam and Idoli...
appeared on the second place.
In 2006, on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list polled by the listeners of Radio B92, the song "Ona se budi" appeared on the fifth place and the song "Niko kao ja" appeared on the ninth place.
Other appearances
- Paket aranžmanPaket aranžmanPaket aranžman is a New Wave music compilation album released in 1980 by Jugoton and its one of the most important and influential records ever made in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It features the eminent Belgrade artists: Šarlo Akrobata, Električni Orgazam and Idoli...
(1980) - with Električni orgazamElektrični OrgazamElektrični Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
and Idoli - Svi marš na ples!Svi marš na ples!Svi marš na ples! is a compilation album released by Jugoton in 1981 in SFR Yugoslavia.The compilation features various pop and rock artists, mostly from the local new wave scene...
(1981)
External links
- Šarlo Akrobata 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....
- Šarlo Akrobata 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...
- Šarlo Akrobata 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....
- Šarlo Akrobata 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 ....
- Šarlo Akrobata 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...
- Šarlo Akrobata at Rateyourmusic
- Šarlo Akrobata at Progarchives
- Šarlo Akrobata at B92.fm