| Mhm a-ha oh yeah da-da | |
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| Studio album by Rundek Cargo Orkestar | |
| Released | June 26, 2006 [1] |
| Label | Menart |
Mhm a-ha oh yeah da-da is the only studio album of the group Cargo Orkestar whose leader was Darko Rundek. [2] [3] On this album, the songs were sung in Croatian, English, [4] German and French. The album was released in June 2006 by Menart.
In the spring of 2003, Rundek founded a new band Cargo Orkestar, mainly from the musicians with whom he recorded "Ruke" and went on tour with him in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. As part of that tour, 7 concerts were held in Zagreb that made up the "Blue Tour" on which the album "Zagrebačka Magla" was created. [5] [6]
In the period 2003–2005, Rundek fimed films A View from Eiffel Tower , [7] 100 Minutes of Glory , [8] Ruins ... [9]
The Serbian newspaper Danas wrote that one of the important features of this album is painting through tone, and that thanks to this, Cargo Orkestar opened an unopenable. [10]
The newspaper Politika wrote that thematically, the album acts as a travel record, on which musical ambiances and singing in several languages have merged into almost diary entries recorded during joint work. [11]
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