Jazz Articles

Zlatko Oridjanski: Razbudi Se

by Nenad Georgievski
March 23, 2005

Zlatko Oridjanski Razbudi Se Avalon Produkcija 2004

One of the most striking albums you are ever likely to hear is Razbudi Se ("Wake Up") by Anastasia's Zlatko Oridjanski, a composer and sonic sculptor. One of Anastasia's greatest attributes is their ability to take a contemporary form of music and add their own unique perspective through their recordings. Both with Anastasia and in his solo output, Oridjanski has always challenged and reinvented the face of ...

Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic featuring Teodosii Spasov: Treta Majka

by Nenad Georgievski
November 26, 2004

In Macedonian, “Treta Majka" ("Third Mother") is actually a quirky slang expression that means a third attempt or third take. Also, it marks the third album that is an outcome of a fruitful partnership between the Macedonian guitar virtuoso Vlatko Stefanovski and the American-Serbian guitar master Miroslav Tadic that started seven years ago with the now-classical masterpiece Krushevo. Krushevo was a collection of traditional Macedonian reels, tunes and dances played on two acoustic guitars, usually in an odd-meter rhythms and ...