Saturday 16 July 2022

Petar Ugrin's wonderful 1979 composition Samo Muzika

 






Out of the ballpark type stuff again in terms of progressive fusion.

From discogs:

Slovenian violinist, trumpeter and composer, he was born Jan. 12. 1944 in Zagreb, died Sep. 14. 2001 in Ljubljana. He started his music career as violinist at the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, later he became a famous jazz trumpeter. He played in Mladi Levi, September, Greentown Jazz Band.

This is again perfect, intriguing, complex, warm and energetic progressive fusion of the kind we love so much, very similar to other Eastern Europeans along the same lines such as Zipflo Reinhardt, Zbigniew Seifert, etc.  Just listen to the opener, Nekje Na Robu:



It's hard to believe we lost that awe-inspiring fusion energy in music.  And half way through when the song changes into a more angular dissonant, angry direction, it just kills me every time.

If you haven't heard this before, just wait till you hear the melancholic sound of the title track too.


4 comments:

  1. https://www.sendspace.com/file/qcrvl1

    https://www44.zippyshare.com/v/u9iPWBvG/file.html

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  2. My friend Charlie play bass on this beauty. There is a lot of Jože on this one. Sami mojstri, da o Petru sploh ne govorimo.

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  3. dear Julianryan, as a sign of gratitude for all the music you give us... if you are interested in the ex yu fusion-jazz-rock scene, I can recommend you many unknown and very high-quality albums; here are a few of them:: 1) B.P. Convention- Blue Sunset , 1975 2) Big Band RTV Ljubljana- Krizanke, 1976 3) Birdland- Darkness Of Light, 1980

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  4. Silvo Stingl (same guy who played keys on Križanke record) sounds great on this! Thank you, Sir!!! As always, this is greatly appreciated!

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