EMIR & FROZEN CAMELS

Emir & Frozen Camels
Short Biography
Emir’s career started in Sarajevo prior to the Balkan’s war.
At the end of 1993, Emir moved to USA. Shortly after Emir arrived in the USA Emir went on to form his own band “Emir & Frozen Camels” and the band started work on their first album.In recording studio, he was greatly helped from many of his good friends and musicians. Among other musicians that played on “San” album were: Cliff Williams bass player from famous rock band AC-DC and distinguished musicians like Danny Shepard, Darrell Nutt and Elliot Randall (Joan Baez, Pavlov’s Dog, Steely Dan Band,..).
After the album “San” was recorded in USA, European recording label “Dallas Records” published it for European market. “Emir & Frozen Camels” went on to play many concerts and were successful on the local music charts in Eastern Europe. From the Album “San” three videos were produced for songs from the album, one of them (“Sarajevo, New York, Roma”) was air played on the “Canadian MTV” substitute, the very popular “MUCH TV”.
At the end of 2002, for the collaboration of the band with AC/DC bass player Cliff Williams, on the album “San”, Emir Bukovica along with the fellow members of the band received the BH Music Award “Davorin 2002” for “The Best International Music Collaboration”.
In November 2002 Emir put together the original american cast of “Emir & Frozen Camels” band for the European “The Frozen Camels Project” Tour. Together with Cliff Williams (AC/DC), Danny Shepard & Darrell Nutt, Emir appeared in selected clubs in Europe.
The second album “Znam” was released at the end of 2003, and soon the video clips for the songs “Sarajevo, New York, Roma (remix)”, “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Tvoj Svijet”, “Uhljup- Glamour Papak” and “Ulica” hit the music-charts in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia.
The album “Znam” was selected by the eminent rock critics among the “10 the best albums of the year” 2003 in Croatia.
The year 2004 was marked by numerous performances, concerts and festivals for the band "Emir & Frozen Camels"- to point out the largest festival in the SE Europe “EXIT” in Novi Sad, where in front of 35000 people "Emir & Frozen Camels" were the open act on the main stage for the legendary Iggy Pop.
In 2005 the band “E&FC” is nominated for the forth time in a row for the BH music award “Davorin”, this time in the category for “The best rock video” for the song “Ulica”. The video for the song “Fadila od Majamija (Unbelievable)” hit the video-charts. The video was recorded during E&FC’s concert in the “Dom Sportova” concert hall in Zagreb. At the end of 2005 “E&FC” came out with the new video clip for the song “Ti i Ja (Sevdah blues)”.
After a long pause because of Emir's car accident at the begining of 2007 "Emir & Frozen Camels" released new single - song "Alina (No Pasaran)". This song features Spanish rocker Alberto Ceballos and Slovenian pop-rock star Omar Naber. "Alina (No Pasaran)" instantly became smashing hit in whole region. Video clip for this song, directed again by director Darko Drinovac was in one moment Number 1 on the 26 Top music charts in the region. This song was also played on some of the stations in Spain.
"Emir & Frozen Camels" won MTV Adria "Catch the Frequency" competition among many very good bands from the region. It brought them to play at “FM4 Frequency Festival” in Salzburg, Austria along with many famous bands like "Nine Inch Nails", "Tool", "Interpol",....etc.
Few days after Austria E&FC played in front of 100000 people at "Belgrade Beer Fest 2007".
Third album of Emir & Frozen Camels called NO PASARAN was released on May 4th 2009. New single-song "Jedina" hit radio stations in the region as well as video clip for this song directed by Darko Drinovac.
For all additional information about EFC band you can visit band’s official website: www.emir-frozencamels.com