MILOŠ ZUBAC / МИЛОШ ЗУБАЦ

That Serbian singer-songwriter MILOŠ ZUBAC would eventually record an album of blues music was inevitable. The genre is part of his musical soul and heritage and infuses everything he does. Latest album Hazarske * * * * ( Khazars ) (KREATIVNI CENTAR VIGVAM www.miloszubac.bandcamp.com ) is a collaboration with talented guitarist Milovan Đuđić, leader of THE PETTING BLUES BAND (www.thepettingbluesband.com). The two musicians have worked together before in Zubac's band Prkos Drumski about which I have waxed lyrical many times before in these pages. Đuđić was always an extraordinary talent and never going to be in somebody else's band for long. On this occasion he recorded, arranged and produced the album as well as drawing many of his musical associates into the project. The sound of a horse neighing starts and finishes the album, like a journey beginning and ending. The roving theme pervades throughout, from the disappeared nomadic tribe of its title to a journey through differ...

Godinama me prati jedan refren, koji, dabome, znam da otpevam i pevam ga u sebi, iz jedne kako samo davne a mlade pesme Miladina Šobića o brigadirima i radnim akcijama na Paliću. Bio sam tamo svih tih godina, govorio pesme brigadirima i slušao druge pesnike i muzičare, glumce i dobronamerne prijatelje mladih, znam kada je i kako pesma nastala i znam kako su je voleli. I mladi i mi stariji. I Miladin. Podsećam one koji su možda zaboravili Šobića, a rad mladih koji o njemu ovih petnaestak godina nisu ni mogli pročitati ili saznati bilo kakvu informaciju, da je taj sjajni momak iz Nikšića bio i ostao nezaboravna zvezda našeg muzičkog neba, jedan od najboljih kantautora koje smo imali i imamo, specifičnog glasa i naročitog sviranja gitare - dobrog kompozitora i vrlo darovitog pesnika svi su rado pozivali u najgledanije televizijske emisije onog vremena, lep i skroman, kovrdžave plave kose, belozub i krupnook, sa uvek nekom setom makar i na nasmejanom licu, on je pevao svoje pesme od Ma...