Hari Mata Hari is a popular music band from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hari Mata Hari is the stage name for the singer Hajrudin "Hari" Varešanović. The group originated from the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group has performed over 1,000 concerts and sold 5,000,000 albums to date. Their songs are among the most famous and popular love ballads in the former Yugoslavia era. Hari Mata Hari was the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 held in Athens, Greece. Coincidentally, hari mata hari is Malay for 'day of the sun, or Sunday'.
Selma Bajrami is a Bosnian pop-folk singer. Her professional music career began when she was a teenager with the release of her first studio album When There Are No More Tears... in 1998. Since, she has become one of the regions leading pop stars with multiple hits and eight albums. Bajrami lives in Vienna, Austria.
Disciplina Kičme, currently working under the slightly altered name of Disciplin A Kitschme, is a Serbian band, one of the two spin-offs of the seminal Yugoslav new wave and later post-punk band Šarlo Akrobata, the other being Ekatarina Velika. Musically, they are best described as an aggressive and artistic rhythmic explosion, experimenting and seeking out new expressiveness while finding inspiration in the traditions of punk rock, funk, jazz fusion, motown, jungle, drum and bass, and the works of Jimi Hendrix.
Oliver Mandić is a Serbian and Yugoslav rock musician, composer, and producer.
Rocker is the third studio album by Serbian heavy metal band Kraljevski Apartman. For the first time in the band's history, an official keyboard player was brought in substituting the second guitar. The band presented a heavy but at the same time a melodic approach to their music with heavy-riff songs and power ballads. The band recorded eleven new songs plus one bonus track from Labyrinth movie soundtrack. The album featured ballad "Dama iz kraljevskog apartmana" which became their stamp for the future, "Ranjena zver", glam metal-oriented "Vino, viski i Rock 'n' Roll" and "Za ljubav ne treba da moliš" which became classics and considered unskipable on live appearances. The track "Niemansland" was written in German language and Zdravković provided the vocals. This is the first Kraljevski Apartman track on foreign language and not sung by Lalović.
Next Time is a rock duo from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The duo consists of twin brothers Martin and Stefan Filipovski. Stefan fronts the band as the lead singer, while Martin plays the guitar and sings back-up vocals. The group represented Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia but failed to reach the final.
Nenad Belan is a Croatian rock musician, known as the frontman of Đavoli, as well as for his solo work.
Dodole is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2009 on the Ne-ton independent label. This album is considered by many to be their most accessible to date. It took the band nearly two years to record and publish it, while they usually released several albums during one year. Thus it represents their most technically advanced effort. Musically, it contains songs with a more mainstream rock'n'roll approach, standard form and length. The name of the album comes from the lyrics of the song "Pagani", in which the old pagan Slavic ritual of Dodole is mentioned. The cover illustration by Larisa Acikov depicts burning pagan totems.
Kupine is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2006 on the Ne-ton independent label. This is one of the more experimental and ambient sounding albums by Klopka, containing long, slowly developing songs with lots of ambient nature-like sounds but also various machine noises and loops. The album contains very few lyrics, appearing now and then in some of the songs.
Tao Business is an EP by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2007 on the Ne-ton independent label. It has only one song, albeit almost twenty minutes long, which is actually an excerpt from one of the band's sessions with Vladimir Palibrk on drums as a special guest. The whole song was recorded in one take at the Pančevo gallery Elektrika, all instruments at the same time, and is built on improvisation. The result is a drone, noise tune with a free-jazz form. There are almost no lyrics and surprisingly little guitar while the bass guitar, drums and electronics dominate.
Fiskalna kasa za dilera grasa is an EP by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2007 on the Ne-ton independent label. It contains two versions of the same song dealing with police brutality of a young man who was caught with a marijuana joint. The name of the EP means "Fiscal cash register for the grass dealer" and is actively advocating legalization of marijuana.
Svinje is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2007 on the Ne-ton independent label. It contains eight songs of which some are new versions of songs from the previous album Kupine with significant changes in both music and lyrics. The sound on this album is rich and multi-layered with extensive use of sampling, tape-loops, static noise etc. unexpectedly intercepted by soothing harmonic melodies of instruments such as xylophone. Svinje is the Serbian word for pigs.
Haker ili iskušavanje đavola is the second album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2004 on the Ne-ton independent label. A big departure from the sound of first album, this album is unique by many standards in the band's body of work. It is the only album without Vladimir Lenhart, since there are no bass lines in any of the songs. Also, there is no guitar and no vocal input from Mileta Mijatović, the band's singer. The whole album consists of various machine buzzes and computer generated noises accompanied by a large amount of sampled voices originating from English translations of speeches by Josip Broz Tito, operas in Serbian, children's educational records, Orthodox chanting, the opening speech from a concert entitled "Trumpets of Peace" held in Sarajevo 1977, "The Internationale" sung in Serbian, various commercials, old Yugoslav movies, SpongeBob SquarePants dubbed in Serbian, etc.
Vratićeš se Satane is the third album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2005 on the Ne-ton independent label. It consists of ten songs, cover versions of tracks by Satan Panonski, which is unusual for Klopka. It is also unusual for Mileta to sing lyrics that are not his own. The cover art was by Bouraiqc des Merdes.
Jutro u fabrici is an EP by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2005 on the Ne-ton independent label. The album has only one instrumental song of harsh noise consisting of industrial noises and loops treated electronically with many effects.
Neman is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2006 on the Ne-ton independent label. The album's five songs contain no lyrics and are mostly experiments with various noise-making machines that the band was building. The outcome of these experiments can be heard on the following albums, so this was a kind of a showcase of their future work. The songs do not have names, merely numbers that position them on the disk. All of the songs were recorded at once and are first takes and complete improvisations on the spot.
Planetarni čovek is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2006 on the Ne-ton independent label. It is one of the more seriously crafted albums by Klopka, and the first recorded on professional equipment. This album contains a cover version of Tom Waits' song "Poor Edward", Google translated into Serbian. The album cover was drawn by Maja Veselinović.
Živa sila is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2011 on the Ne-ton independent label. The band was invited by the organizers of the Koperground festival to play at the 2010 edition, and offered time at a local studio to compose and record a couple of new songs. The result is this album.
Srđan Marjanović is a Serbian singer-songwriter from Belgrade.
