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Nenad Georgievski's Best Releases of 2016
by Nenad Georgievski
There is a poem by a Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov titled “When Horses Die" that I came across to by accident. It goes like “When horses die they breathe when grasses die, they wither, when suns die they go out, and when people die they sing songs." For many musicians, the year 2016 was final and ...
Teresa Salgueiro at the Bitola World Music Festival
by Nenad Georgievski
Teresa Salgueiro Dom na kultura World Music Festival Bitola, Macedonia November 5, 2016 Moving and majestic, Portuguese diva Teresa Salgueiro's performance at the city's annual world music festival transformed the concert hall in Bitola into the most intimate of settings with the international premiere of her newest album ...
Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic at the Novi Sad Summer Music Festival
by Nenad Georgievski
Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic Student Dormitory Novosadsko Muzičko Leto Novi Sad July 29, 2016 In a bravura performance, the duo consisting of guitarists Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic gave a breathtakingly uninhibited performance that occurred in the backyard of a Student dormitory in Novi Sad, Serbia. Ever since they ...
Nenad Georgievski's Best of 2015
by Nenad Georgievski
2015 was not an easy year. I became a dad for the third time while I was working on a Film festival for music documentaries. The festival itself was an uphill battle, but I managed to get it organized with astounding success. In the meantime I was writing constantly or was listening to music, as if ...
Skopje Jazz Festival 2015
by Nenad Georgievski
Skopje Jazz Festival 2015 MOB Skopje, Macedonia October 15-18, 2015 Always in the news and perennially in either political or economic turmoil, Macedonia is not the easiest place to live. Conflicts, poverty, crisis. Even now in 2015 it was not spared from problems as it was on a ...
Kristo Rodzevski: Batania
by Nenad Georgievski
The music career of guitarist, singer and doctor Kristo (Krste) Rodževski resumes actively in another city and continent, many miles from his native Bitola in Macedonia. An avid music collectioner and guitarist, he used to play in clubs, most notably in the ancient '90s with “Žeška kontrabanda," the duo with singer Branko Nikolovski in pre-band Foltin ...
Rabih Abou Khalil and Penelope X at the Bitola World Music Festival 2013
by Nenad Georgievski
Rabih Abou Khalil/Penelope X Bitola World Music Festival NU Centar za Kultura Bitola, Macedonia November 9, 2013 Bitola, one of the most beautiful cities in southeastern Europe, is a place that ignites the imagination immediately. With its tasteful and stylish architecture reflected in multicolored facades and ...
Goce Stevkovski Septet: 7 Stories
by Nenad Georgievski
It seems that number seven is a universally accepted lucky or holy number in most cultures from west to east. And there appear to be many places where the number seven can be found, including the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven virtues and the seven colors of the spectrum; add to ...
OFFest, Skopje, Macedonia, June 1-6, 2013
by Nenad Georgievski
OFFestSkopje, MacedoniaJune 1-6, 2013Now in its 12th year, the younger sister of the Skopje Jazz Festival has been presenting a more contemporary or 21st century type of world music, where the music is a result of an accelerating fusion, a combination of local traditions with ideas and technologies from afar. It is even ...
Aleksandar Pejovski: Um Zaum
by Nenad Georgievski
Can greatness be anonymous? In the case of composer/pianist Aleksandar Pejovski, and many before him, it certainly can. Unknown to the general public except for certain musicians' circles, he has been quietly releasing “Do It Yourself" (DIY) recordings of either contemporary classical music, filled with intriguing ambiances and sparkling ideas, or jazz compositions that manage to ...
