Goran Bregovic

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Roots in the Balkans where he stems from, head in the 21st Century which he fully inhabits, Goran Bregovic's music marries sounds of a gypsy brass band with traditional Bulgarian polyphonies, those of an electric guitar and traditional percussion with a curious rock accent. all against a background of a bedevilled string orchestra and deep sonorities of a male choir, creating music that our soul recognises instinctively and the body greets with an irresistible urge to dance.



Born in Sarajevo of a Serbian mother and a Croatian father. After a few years of (very unenthusiastic) music studies at the conservatory (violin), Goran forms his first group The White Button at the age of sixteen. Composer and guitar player (I chose the guitar because guitar players always have most success with girls), he admits his immoderate love for rock n'roll. "In those times, Rock had a capital role in our lives. It was the only way we could make our voice heard, and publicly express our discontent without risking jail (or just about)."



Studies of philosophy and sociology would most certainly have landed him teacher of Marxist thought, had the gigantic success of his first record not decided otherwise. Follow fifteen years with his group "The White Button", marked by marathon-tours and endless sessions of autographing in which Goran plays youth idol in Eastern countries until he's sick and tired of it.



At the end of the eighties BREGOVIC takes time away from this permanent hustle-bustle to compose music for Kusturicas "Times of the Gypsies", and to make his childhood dream come true: to live in a small house on the Adriatic coast. The War in Yugoslavia shatters this, and many other dreams, and Goran has to abandon everything to find exile in Paris



Discography:



1974. Kad bi bio bijelo dugme

1974. Ima neka tajna veza (single)

1975. Sta bi dao da si na mom mjestu

1976. Eto! Bas hocu!

1976. Milovan / Goodbye Amerika (single)

1977. Koncert kod Hajducke Cesme (live)

1979. Bitanga i princeza

1981. Dozivjeti stotu

1982. Singl ploce 1974 - 1975 (compilation)

1982. Singl ploce 1976 - 1980 (compilation)

1983. Uspavanka za Radmilu M.

1984. Kosovka djevojka

1984. Best of 1974-1983 (on Amazon.com)

1986. Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo

1988. Ciribiribela

1989. Time of the gypsies (soundtrack) by Emir Kusturica (on Amazon.com)

1989. Kuduz (soundtrack) by Ademir Kenovic (on Amazon.com)

1992. Toxic Affair (soundtrack) by Philomreau (on Amazon.fr)

1994. Ima neka tajna veza (compilation)

1994. Sanjao sam nocas da te nemam - Velike rock balade (compilation)

1994. Rock & Roll - Najveci hitovi (compilation)

1995. Iz sve snage

1995. Underground (soundtrack) by Emir Kusturica (on Amazon.fr)

1996. Les Mille et une recettes du cuisinier amoureux (soundtrack) by Nana Djordjadze

1997. XXL (soundtrack) by Ariel Zeitoun

1997. Le baiser du serpent (soundtrack) by Philippe Rousselot

1998. The Lost Son (soundtrack) by Chris Menges

1998. Train de vie (soundtrack) by Radu Mihaileanu

1999. Tuvalu (soundtrack) by Veit Helmer (on Amazon.com)

2000. 27 missing kisses (soundtrack) by Nana Djordjadze

2000. Songbook (compilation) (on Amazon.com)

2000. Kayah & Bregovic (on Amazon.com)

2000. With Two Canvas Shoes (live at Tessaloniki) (on Amazon.com)

2001. Ederlezi (compilation) (on Amazon.com)

2001. Music for films (compilation) (on Amazon.com)

2002. Tales And Songs From Weddings And Funerals (on Amazon.fr)

2002. Kris & Goran (collaboration with Kris Krawczyk) (on Amazon.com