Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Yugo Radio Jazz Orchestra RTB 1978 and 1980








A recommendation from a new and wonderful, very knowledgeable source, I was impressed by the level of composition here.  As usual we have some creative ideas thrown in to the standard late seventies big band lineup of instruments and enough fusion to elevate it from the humdrum.  Similar to the big bands from our college days, if you remember those many posts, but more professional and more progressive.

The RTB is radio-television Belgrade (now capital of Serbia, in those days we called it Yugoslavia obviously).  The discogs database couldn't possible be complete here given how lengthy the intermission was between 1963 and the first presented today, the ST from 1978-- much too long for the necessary piss in the bathroom, even if it's just a unisex outhouse.  And you fainted from the fumes and knocked your head on the seat, rendering yourself unconscious for a decade.
Over on rym as one might expect, there is even fewer.

As I said the compositions are very strong.  From 1978, the brilliant Atlantis track:





Note also that it's a 2-LP set.  Wonderful stuff to explore, some quite ingenious musical ideas throughout.  I really liked this one.

On the 1980 album Po Sumama i Gorama (i.e.: For the math fans and the gore fans), behold the smooth, lovely libraryish but classical-permeated sound of Mi Zaplakalo selo Vatasa (i.e., I plopped myself down atop the fat opera singer):




4 comments:


  1. Both albums
    https://www9.zippyshare.com/v/U4eDXJGV/file.html
    apologies for the rips (not mine)
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/03lz0a
    more to come later

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  2. Song number 11 is missing.

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    1. thanks for bringing that to my attention !!
      Here is the last song from 1978:
      https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qefvsp

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  3. Also track 3 Šume, Šume... missing from Po sumama i gorama

    Thanks Julian for all that you do!

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