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Miroslav Evacic and the Cardas Blues Band

'Fulmination'

Musicians:
Miroslav Evacic - guitars, samica, vocal
Tomislav Situm - guitars, vocal
Tihomir Grobenski - bass guitar, vocal
Vojkan Jocic - soprano, alto, tenor sax, vocal
Goran Vdovic - drums, percussion

Label - Croatia Records, Croatia
Released 2007

From record label:
"Miroslav Evacic was born on 30th March 1973 in Koprivnica, a small town in Podravina (north-west region of Croatia by the Drava river). The first music influence came from his grandfather who played accordion and often used to sing old folk-songs.

Miroslav started exploring ways of getting quality and warmth in sound recording. Soon he became known as a fine producer and was invited to many recording projects. Some of them were some old folk bands that still are active and there he made new relationships and friendships with the people who created Croatian folk music in the middle of 20th century. During that time he went deeper and really touched the roots of his tradition and, spending lots of time in his own studio, experimenting with ideas, he found a way to express his vision and he came out with music he called Chardash Blues.

He found that roots of the blues and his own traditional music are almost identical so Chardas Blues came out as something natural, simple, pure music without any makeovers and massive orchestrations. The simplicity of his expression is almost shocking, and those who live in Podravina can almost describe the nature of this people and land only by listening this music. Those who know the blues say that they can see Mississippi river flowing trough the valley while cows are slowly walk by... Croatian audience was a bit confused with this music. There was nothing to compare it with, there was no specific genre to put it in. The 'world music' movement was something quite unknown in Croatia so it took some time till a response from the world came.

In 2006 he formed a band with the name Cardas Blues Band (Chardash Blues Band)."

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Miroslav Evacic and the Cardas Blues Band

'Fulmination'

This symbol  indicates an mp3 sound clip for that track. Click on the symbol and wait for the clip to start. For more information click here. Tracks

1. Mighty River (1’44”)

2. Ja Sam Junak Iz Doline  348348+

3. Lecitar (1’53”)

4. Ona Je Sunce (2’43”)

5. Cardaš, Blues & R'n'r Take II (3’53”)

6. Lenger's Wedding Medley (3’50”)

7. Lotam Blues (4’03”)

8. Hintov Boogie (2’54”)

9. Nad Berekom Megla Pala (1’52”)

10. Ja Sam Junak Iz Doline Radio Edit (3’49”)

11. Ja Sam Junak Iz Doline Eqinox Award Remix (5’57”)

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