ŠKRTICE in ŠIŠKA A newly formed Serbian rock supergroup for the first time in Slovenia! ŠKRTICE are: Zoran Kostić Cane – vocals Vladimir Kolarič Kole – guitar Boris Mladenović – guitar Danilo Luković – drum Boško Mijušković – bass Five musicians, five unique personalities. Four original bands, four music styles – Partibrejkers, Veliki Prezir, Jarboli,
ŠKRTICE in ŠIŠKA
A newly formed Serbian rock supergroup for the first time in Slovenia!
ŠKRTICE are:
Zoran Kostić Cane – vocals
Vladimir Kolarič Kole – guitar
Boris Mladenović – guitar
Danilo Luković – drum
Boško Mijušković – bass
Five musicians, five unique personalities. Four original bands, four music styles – Partibrejkers, Veliki Prezir, Jarboli, Straight Mickey & The Boyz. Three generations – from twenty-seven to fifty years of age. One band and… one heart. The new great Belgrade music story, ŠKRTICE are a band with creative, emotional and performing charge that is rare to happen and had not happened in quite a while.
Some call them a supergroup, using a popular expression in rock denoting experienced musicians from popular bands starting to play together in a new formation outside their original bands. Not only do they boast exceptional musical chemistry and unique style, in contrast to the majority of such supergroups, ŠKRTICE also have exceptional songs rolling out of their creative volcano one after the other, which is a surprise to listeners as well as authors and performers themselves. To them as well, the creative power they have been encountering within themselves is something new. “We are surprising ourselves. This is an adventure, a special experience,” says Cane, singer of ŠKRTICE, known as the founder of Partibrejkers, a very influential rock ‘n’ roll band. Presented on their zero release, the EP Klinika Petrović BIGZ, which was recorded in their rehearsal centre and presented to the public over the Internet, the tracks Hit, Paranormalno, Kulise, and Sestro are full-blooded rock songs of strong character. Each new song they play and present contains special magic. For example Vazduh, in which Cane reaches for gospel, or Zaborava nema, intense funk rock with an exceptional bass riff, Horizonti, Teška ljubav… are the result of telepathic interaction between five individual musicians. Their dense music is a dynamite mixture of rock and rock ‘n’ roll, blues and psychedelia, art rock and punk, garage and grunge, kraut rock and new wave, noise and rhythm, bursting with creative freedom, joyousness, and confidence as authors and performers.
“In Škrtice, we are all members of the group. We indulge in creating a collective experience. Discovering each other as musicians. What we fail to receive in our original bands, we get from Škrtice,” says Cane.
Nobody created ŠKRTICE. ŠKRTICE have simply arisen.
The first spark flared as Straight Mickey & The Boyz invited Cane to create with them a song for the project dedicated to the Mayan calendar. At a rehearsal, they were joined by Kole, guitarist with the band Veliki Prezir. The first songs were created. The story was then interrupted. But even when dormant, the music that had been created was emitting vibrations, which in March 2014 induced Cane to suggest to Kole that they should continue with what they started. The second guitar was taken on by Boris Mladenović, also producer of Partibrejkers’ new album, Sirotinjsko carstvo, and this led to the beginning of long, public, sometimes seven-hour-long music sessions of Škrtice at Klinika Petrović in BIGZ, the famed seven-storey building by the river Sava, the music, cultural and creative epicentre of Belgrade. Their first performance happened in October last year.
“Session approach is typical of us. It is within this non-verbal intuitive communication that we interest ourselves the most,” says guitarist Boris Mladenović. “In BIGZ we are all having fun, playing with each other… but there was a moment for Škrtice when we realised that the time was right to commit to the band, and this is why it has evolved so quickly. The key thing was to recognise the moment.” The basic material for the debut album with the working title U škrtičnjaku was recorded, there was an abundance of songs, and it was only a matter of time until the release of the shiny vinyl carrying a brave vision of rock as felt and played by ŠKRTICE.
With the formation of the new band, members of ŠKRTICE did not leave their original bands, but rather added an additional form to their creativity. “Our original bands are the basic cells of our existence,” says Cane, and adds: “But we have to keep changing, in order not to become paralysed.” ŠKRTICE could be Cane’s Grinderman or X-Pensive Winos, or we could compare them to Raconteurs of Jack White and his adherents. But most of all, they are a band of excellent and inspired musicians with an outstanding rhythm section, a two-headed guitar dragon creating a swirl of sound and rhythm. In it, the singer known from the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band between Paris and Beijing sets out for new, uncharted spheres, delivering a psychoanalysis of the time, society and man through his open-code lyrics. ŠKRTICE offer everything we expect from rock, and more.
Great stories are at their most interesting when fresh and young. ŠKRTICE will perform in Slovenia for the first time on Friday 27 March in Ljubljana in Kino Šiška, the small Komuna Hall. This is a concert to be talked of in years to come. Be there, so that you won’t have to make it up someday.
As capacity of the small Komuna Hall is limited, we recommend you to buy the ticket today. Tomorrow might be too late.
