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ZEGAR ZIVI
Zegar Zivi

Cloud Valley CV3008
Released February 2008
It might come as a surprise that this extraordinary music is from Europe. Powerful acapella group vocals, often using the wild beating-against-drone technique of groktenje, diple playing, goat-calling and church-bell ringing from a group of amazingly resilient Serbian singers who’ve moved back to their village of Zegar in the rocky hill-country of Dalmatia in Croatia – a region war-shattered in the 1990s and still depopulated, but beautiful and now peaceful - to rebuild their homes and pick up the threads of their lives and rich musical traditions. The album’s title, and the group’s name, means “Zegar Lives”.
All the tracks were recorded in Zegar in May 2007, produced by Andrew Cronshaw in collaboration with Svetlana Spajic.
The digipak contains a 60 page booklet with many photos and extensive notes in English and Serbo-Croat about the people, the place and their music.
See www.cloudvalley.com for more information, including a listing of the CD's 22 tracks.
Click "View all blogs" on this MySpace page for features on the recording in the UK-based world music magazine fRoots and Croatian national daily paper Jutarnji List, as well as reviews in UK national daily papers The Guardian and The Scotsman, music magazines fRoots and Songlines, website Muzika.hr, and on BBC Radio 3, plus details of its appearance in the World Music Charts Europe airplay top 20.
The CD can be bought internationally direct from www.cloudvalley.com , as well as from record shops and online retailers worldwide.

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Member Since: 18/02/2008
Band Website: http://www.cloudvalley.com
Band Members: Dragomir Vukanac – vocal
Jandrija Baljak – vocal
Svetlana Spajic – vocal
Vojislav Radmilovic - vocal
Miljka Radmilovic - vocal
Obrad Milic – diple & vocal

Record Label: Cloud Valley
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CD review on www.muzika.hr

There's a 5-star review of the Zegar Zivi CD newly posted at the Croatian music webzine muzika.hr. See http://www.muzika.hr/default.aspx?id=17812
Posted by on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Text of feature on }egar }ivi in fRoots magazine, May 2008

This is the text of a piece written by Andrew Cronshaw that appeared in fRoots magazine, May 2008. (For the full piece including photos you'll have to look at the print mag!)   "And so we me...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:45:00 GMT

Feature on }} & CD in Jutarnji list, Croatia

Croatian national morning paper Jutarnji list on Sunday May 18th featured a double-page spread, written by Merita Arslani and Ilko Culic, on }egar }ivi and the CD. Below is the text from the...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:39:00 GMT

Transcription of ZZ CD review by Lucy Duran, Joe Boyd & Max Reinhardt on BBC R3 "World Routes"

The }egar }ivi CD was reviewed on BBC Radio 3's "World Routes" programme, presented by Lucy Duran, on Saturday May 24th. It's available for streaming on demand at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldrout...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:47:00 GMT

CD review, Songlines magazine

}egar }ivi   Cloud Valley CV3008 Full Price (45 min) * * * * Serbian village people Once you've got past the infuriatingly confusing typography on the cover  actually the title in Cyrillic and L...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 07:56:00 GMT

CD review, fRoots magazine

Phil Wilson, fRoots, May 2008:"How often do we see impulsive decisions resulting in good albums? Andrew Cronshaw went to Belgrade to meet the Serbian revival singer Svetlana Spaji and ended up rashly...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:18:00 GMT

CD review, The Scotsman, UK

Michael Church, The Scotsman, 29th February 2008 "Made round a kitchen table, or in the open air, or in a school hall on whose ringing acoustic the musicians inventively capitalise, these recordings h...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:06:00 GMT

CD review - The Guardian, UK

John L. Walters, The Guardian, 18th April 2008:"This exuberant, mainly vocal album, co-produced by the British musician Andrew Cronshaw and the Serbian singer Svetlana Spajic, may put Serbian village...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:52:00 GMT

Zegar Zivi enters the European World Music airplay chart top 20

The Zegar Zivi CD has this month entered the top 20 of this month’s World Music Chart Europe, compiled (by Johannes Theurer and Tobias Maier on behalf of the World Music Workshop of the EBU) fro...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:30:00 GMT