Luka Novic

About Luka Novic and our self produced album "I better put it somewhere safe":
Get ready to be haunted by this beautiful fusion of alex's powerful folkloristic voice and axel's expressive
piano transforming
darkness into light and light into darkness at every turn.
We are very happy to announce our new album "I better put it somewhere safe"
which we've recorded at Axel's elkmusic studios in Kiel / Germany last February.
My name is Alexandra; I've been living in Dundalk / Ireland for the past two years now.
Axel my music producer and I wanted to make sure that all the hard work over the past couple of years
would be kept
somewhere safe. I had two days and two nights to sing all 13 songs on the album as I was already on my
way to my new home.
So I sang my heart out and Axel played and produced everything in Germany while I listened to the results
in Ireland.
Axel saw me performing at a big festival in the North of Germany (Kieler Woche) in 2004 and asked me to
arrange something
together as he was very keen on to work on my songs. So I told him that if I ever got back from Ireland I
would give him a shout.
After 18 months in the West of Ireland where I won Weststar I decided to go back to Hamburg when Luka
Novic was born.
So we formed our little band and decided it would be best kept as small as possible as we'd like to be able
to tour on a low budget.
The German music industry would not support that kind of music, though, as it's absolutely deadlocked on
copying American
artists and using German lyrics. And that's were I don't see myself at all. Currently I am living in Ireland /
Dundalk and working on new material and performing the songs live together with three amazing Irish musicians, Graham McGrane on piano, Niall
Starrs on bass and Phil Hayden on drums.
Alex Lukanovic, as the name implies, was born in Germany, more precisely, in Haßfurt (Franconia),
although her roots are in Bosnia. Both of these countries are crucial to her music. The emotional extremes
of the Balkan
show through in her songs on the one hand, but on the other it is very rational. Alex Lukanovic understands
how to bring these
two inconsistencies perfectly in line. Her music is a cross between engrained tempers and emotional
aspects that collide and
become whole. Metaphors express the experiences she gained in Bosnia, Ireland and Germany. She is
never
afraid of bringing
up controversial subjects such as war and death, or just to cater for the simple things of daily life like
interpersonal circumstances.
Her songs are sensitive and vulnerable but at the same time joyful and genuine as well. Her clear and
powerful voice is no
passenger to the melody; it is a central driving force in the music. As versatile as her music and her life is
now, she would not
be out of place performing in a Bosnian female choir under conduction of Goran Bregovic. The Sljivovica
(Bosnian spirit) on stage would
not be an almost rare ritual act as it is now, but an integral part of her stage performance.