MILOŠ ZUBAC / МИЛОШ ЗУБАЦ

Everything started with a nightmare instead of a dream. But first, a few things about Garrie’s childhood and the road which took him to Paris where he recorded his legendary album which remained virtually unheard for decades until the Internet and its reissue appeared . Our hero was born in Ripon, a small town in North Yorkshire, most famous for its cathedral founded by Scottish monks fifteen centuries earlier. Nick stayed there more or less only for a day since his mother insisted on giving birth in England, and returned to Paris as soon as possible. His parents soon divorced. His mother married an Egyptian diplomat and Nick stayed with her and learned French and English simultaneously. When he was six, they sent him to Britain, to go to school in Hull and Norwich. There he sang in a choir, which he did not like, but he learned all about harmonies and melodies in it. When he was thirteen, he started playing the guitar and imitating the Beatles. Although he was an English stude...

Miloš Zubac, književnik i muzičar: Jedan grad ne čini samo arhitektura, čine ga želje, snovi, ali i košmari ljudi koji ga nastanjuju Kada ga je, osamdesetih godina prošlog veka, otac Pero vodio u Televiziju Novi Sad, naš današnji sagovornik nije ni znao koliko će susret sa svim vrstama umetnosti koje je tamo zaticao oblikovati njegovu budućnost. Prirodnim sledom se i sam okrenuo stvaranju, ali tek pošto se, tokom bombardovanja 1999. godine, u njemu probudio bunt. Svoj specifični senzibilitet danas ispoljava kroz pisanu reč i muziku, često spojene u kantautorskim kompozicijama. Miloš Zubac rođen je 1976. godine u Novom Sadu, gde se školovao i doktorirao na Katedri za srpsku književnost i jezik. Objavio je osam knjiga , od kojih je pet pesničkih zbirki. Bezmalo dve decenije vodi muzičku grupu Prkos Drumski , sa kojom je objavio sedam albuma, a sarađuje i sa drugim kantautorima i bendovima. Jedan je od ljudi zaslužnih za nastajanje festivala...

Between Garrie’s returning second album 49 Arlington Gardens (2009) and his debut, there was a hiatus of full four decades. The album is a result of occasionally witnessed historical possibility of every artistic generation paradoxically inventing its own ancestors. Making them up if necessary. Finding them in the times that precede them, if possible. Here we have a precious generation of Scottish musicians who chose Nick Garrie as their predecessor that remained unknown to the world. The more unusual the discovered artistic blood relation and the more surprising the family tree, the more valuable the origin. Challenging, inciting and organizing the recording of Garrie’s new songs, these musicians paid back the debt that had never existed in the most beautiful way. They gladly chose to become indebted. Being true fans of Garrie’s work, Norman Blake of Teenage Funclub and Duglas T. Stewart of BMX Bandits, both from Glasgow, had important roles. As an artist evidently admiring Ser...