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Mojo Hand

Welcome, Erik!

About Me

Mojo Hand is Ljubljana, Slovenia based blues band that has been around for more than 10 years. The story of Mojo Hand started in 1995 when Slaven returned from East Texas where he spent 2 years gigging the Houston/Galveston club circuit.
Upon returning to Ljubljana, he decided to continue with what he loved the most.
The history of Mojo Hand has been filled with ups and downs, mostly because Slovenia frankly isn't the best place in the world for a blues band, but we never gave up and after 10 years we are still going strong.
We have had a steady lineup for years now, the band is getting more and more recognition, we gig neighbouring countries and we are slowly preparing our first album. We are proud of what we do and how we do it and the recognition among audience, fellow musicians, producers and media means a lot to us.
Live footage from Slovenian National TV:
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Interview with Mojo Hand (with stage footage) on Slovenian National TV:
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/17/2006
Band Website: mojomusic.net
Band Members: Lineup:
Azra Alibegic - vocals
Slaven Kalebic - guitar
Alen Sterzaj - bass
Davor Skocic - drums
Erik Marence - keyboards
Romina Ponti - back vocals
Vanja Djuran - back vocals

Influences: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Koko Taylor
Aretha Franklin
Etta James
Albert Collins
Otis Redding
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Albert King
B. B. King
Freddie King
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Earl Hooker
Stevie Wonder
Ray Charles

All the small club/ice house blues bands down in Texas... so many good musicians who can do magic on cheap Silvertones and solid state Peavey amps

Sounds Like: ... magic
Type of Label: None

My Blog

DAMN FLU!

Appologies to everyone who planned to see our shows in Zagreb and Maribor. First Azra gotsick and we had to cancel the Zagreb gig we were looking forward to, then yesterday, a day before the show, our...
Posted by Mojo Hand on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:21:00 PST

English translation of the interview in the video

Narration: Mojo Hand was formed in 1995 when the leader of the group, guitar player Slaven Kalebic, returned from a 2-year long trip to Texas. They started out, like many bands, by playing the standar...
Posted by Mojo Hand on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:19:00 PST

The story of "I Know"

A couple of Saturdays ago we got an offer to work at the local subsidiary of an international multimedia & sound engineering academy. The deal is that those guys need bands to play so that they ca...
Posted by Mojo Hand on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:50:00 PST