Predmestje - Brez Naslova vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
05-ATLANTIDE 009LP
This is decent to rather good progressive/jazz-rock considering it came from Yugoslavia/Serbia in 1977.
This was the group's first and best album. The line up on this one is Andrej Pompe (keyboards), Peter Gruden (guitar, vocals), Aleksander Malahovsky (saxes), Gabriel Lah (bass), Janez Hvale (drums).
This is a limited edition run of 300 copies and it has never been reissued on vinyl before. Despite how the label is hyping it, this isn't the second coming of Jesus, Gigamesh, National Health or anyone else, but it isn't bad at all and is very rare on vinyl.
"When it comes to a fusion of jazz and rock music, most of us connoisseurs look over to England. Canterbury is not only a place, it is a term to define a whole scene and sound in the field of jazz-rock. And this scene spawned some magical names, bands and musicians, being carved into the soul of every woman and man who were engaged in jazz and progressive rock music in the '70s. Now we can only wonder how the call of Canterbury reached Yugoslavia, a then, totalitarian Eastern Bloc state. But as music seems to have wings and does not accept any borders, the inspirations arrived and therefore a great scene of bands was born. Among these inspired Slovenians were Predmestje, who formed in 1975 and disbanded in 1982. Brez Naslova, originally released in 1977, is the first in a line of four albums and features quite prototypical jazz-rock and fusion pieces with a smooth approach, good grooves, really outstanding playing and a magical atmosphere. This type of forward-thinking fusion of jazz and rock music shows a tight connection to the style created earlier and around the same time by English acts such as National Health, Gilgamesh, Soft Machine or Nucleus and even incorporates a few symphonic elements for good measure. If it was not for the scarce vocal parts that were sung in the band's native tongue, you could think Mike Ratledge, Elton Dean, Pip Pyle, and Hugh Hopper, aka Soft Machine, were playing here at times. A haunting piece of sophisticated jazz-rock that deserves to live on in the hearts of music lovers."
- LabelAtlantide
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