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IGRA STAKLENIH PERLI
( The Game of Glass Pearls )
Igra Staklenih Perli were a Serbian psychedelic/space rock group from the late 70s who named themselves after Herman Hesse's book "The Game of Glass Pearls" or "Das GlasPerlenSpiel" originaly in German.
The Band was created in Belgrade, Serbia EU, at the end of 70s, in the atticks of the mystic Cubura, when Zoran Lakic Svaba came from Germany with impressions of the Secrets of the Oriental Pillgrims (from Herman Hesse : Glasperlenspiel ) . He met the guitar player Vojkan Rakic and the percussionist Predrag Vukovic, and so, the first recordings of the Game of the Glassbeads were made.
The Band cultivated the music style of the Can and Pink Floyd, but also of Tangerine Dream and Holgar Czukay. The first public success was on the concerts in the Belgrade Student Center and soon they became very popular throughout cultural centers of then former Yugoslavia. Promoting an esoteric musical expression, the ISP (as many called the Game) was strikingly not fitting into the idea of the show-business and the entertainers of the local musical business. This resulted in a pioneer outbreak and a battle on the music scene.
Two bass players performed with "Igra" : Drasko Nikodijevic, from 1976/79, and Slobodan Trbojevic , from 1979/85. Trbojevic was rock journalist and jazz editor in music magazine "Dzubox" and he previously played with Belgarde's jazz band PTICA (the Bird). Talented Montenegrian drummer Dragan Shoc very soon joined the band, as well.
Only two albums were published by this Belgrade Band. The firstborn ISP and The Garden of Light, as the second. Both were very well accepted, noticed both by the public and the critics, with solid number of prints at the time, in view of the type of the music this band played.
Their last public concert was in 1985, in the well-known Concert Hall of the Belgrade, Sava Center, on the occasion of the group concert dedicated to the anniversary of the music magazine ITD.
Members of the Band continued their careers in other bands or music solo projects. By the beginning of the 90s, Thomas Werner came to the city with an interest to publish the old material of the ISP from the end of the 70s. The old demo materials and recorded local concerts in Belgrade fill in the music image of the first Game on three CDs, printed for the German Record House Kalemegdan disk, acquiring thus the status of a bootleg albums for their non-studio sound quality. ("Soft Explosion Live", "Inner Flow" and "Drives" all 1991-93 ).
Many Belgrade musicians of that time played "the game" in this band. Out of the regular team, the following took part in this Game: guitar players such as Goran Vejvoda (now in Paris), Ivan Pajevic (presently in Brussels), Aleksandar Zikic (well-known Yugoslav rock critic), then the guitar player and poet Boyan Kveder (at the present in London).
Later in ISP also performeded keyboard player Zoran Zagorcic ( El.Orgazam ), and drummer Ivica Vdovic Vd ( Charlo the Acrobat ) both of them tragicaly past away during the 90s. One should certainly highlight the only female vocal as guest on the second ISP album "The Garden of Light" , vocal artist Dragana Saric , later known as Bejbi Dol. It was her first recorded vinyl records and beginning of her recording vocal career. There is also many other who directly supported the band , like Goran Cvetic with his famous 70s laser show , or the photographers Goran Grbic (later well known TV lighting designer) and Gordan Skondric who died october 2006 at 47.Support came also from rock critics from Belgrade music magazine Dzuboks (Jukebox) such as Radovan Vujovic , Momcilo Rajin, Branko Vukojevic (killed in traffic accident in London, 2005) and many others.
The Game of the Glassbeads attracted all those defiant, brave and true players of the music expression of that time in Belgrade, at the end of the 70s and the beginning of 80s. They left a deep music trace of their love towards music and life, and the free expression of their personal attitude in the visions of the future that awaits us, the one worth fighting for.
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