#Pedja Milutinovic

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SANJA MARKOVIC, “ASCENSION”. Non è certo facilissimo trovare una jazzista che, oltre alla voce, utilizzi anche due strumenti il sax tenore e il sax soprano. È il caso di Sanja Markovic, con il suo “Ascension”, composto da sette pezzi molto intensi e ben confezionati, dei quali due solo strumentali. Testi di grandi sentimenti umani per una musica ricercata che non nasconde la sua terra di origine,la Serbia. “Ascension” apre un lavoro musicale molto articolato e molto variegato, sia per la multiforme componentistica strumentale, una vera e propria orchestra, sia per i colori sonori, gli arrangiamenti e i pattern ritmici che formano un prezioso e multiforme bouquet di sonorità. Molto originale anche “It Has Always Been”, dove la bella e calda voce di Sanja Markovic apre il brano e ne costella alcuni momenti del suo sviluppo, lasciando poi liberi gli strumenti di dipanare una matassa di individualità sonore e timbriche, in particolare la sezione dei fiati con Ivan Radivojevic alla tromba e Mihajlo Bogosavvljevic al trombone. Ed è proprio la poliedrica composizione del gruppo, dove spesso la vocalità di Sanja non è che uno dei tanti timbri sonori, a fare di questo disco una gradevole sorpresa. Piacevoli incursioni di strumenti, apparentemente inusuali nel jazz, come accade con l’arpa di Gorana Curgus, che punteggia e contrappunta magnificamente la voce di Sanja Markovic nel sognante “The Mystery of Man”, o come accade nella parte finale di “Zhega” con il violino “torturato” di Mina Djekic. Disco dalle tante influenze, con un indubbio tocco di balcanicità jazzistica, sempre più presente ed interessante sulle scene del jazz europeo. Non si possono non citare gli altri musicisti, Milena Jancuric al flauto, Max Kochetov al sax soprano, Rastko Obradovic al sax soprano, Igor Lazic al corno, Manja Ristic al violino, Julijana Markovic e Ivana Grahovac, al violoncello, Aleksandar Buzadzic alla melodica, Aleksandar Grujic al pianoforte e piano elettrico, Miroslav Tovirac al basso elettrico, Milan Nikolic al contrabbasso, Pedja Milutinovic, Petar Radmilovic e Igor Malesevic alla batteria. Ha voluto fare le cose in grande, l’etichetta A.Ma Records per questo lavoro raffinato, completo, invitante.

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Vasil Hadzimanov Band: Lines in Sand (Moonjune Records 2019) [Grabación]

Vasil Hadzimanov Band: Lines in Sand (Moonjune Records 2019) [Grabación]

Por Enrique Farelo.

Es como el latido de un corazón pausado, es como el sonido de un pulsar espiritual y mágico de profundo sentimiento arábigo-flamenco encarnado en la voz de Bojan Ivkovic. Así comienza Lines In Sand con la pieza homónima, causando impresiones de calado profundo.

Lines In Sandencadena una pieza tras otra como eslabones de una cadena, como perlas de un collar, piezas cortas a…

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Drummer and Composer Pedja Milutinovic Releases Electrifying Debut "Veritas Vincit" On Orenda Records

Veritas Vincit is Pedja Milutinovic’s debut album, featuring the visionary David Binney, Pera Krstajic – the rising star of the LA jazz scene, Luka Ignjatovic – the most original sax player in the Balkans, Ron Warburg – the critically acclaimed trumpet player and producer, Ilija Nikolic – a highly innovative keyboardist and designer, and Andrija Gavrilovic – a brilliant classical and jazz trumpet player and composer, all based in NYC, the exceptional guitarists Nikola Milenkovic and Branko Trijic, and hip hop producer Stefan Todorovic Mystee, based in Belgrade, and Ivana Vukmirovic Manivi, a phenomenal singer based in Berlin. 

As Milutinovic, who just turned 30, explains, Veritas Vincit (from Latin “truth prevails”) is about his coming of age and finding his own truth – that the most fulfilling things in his life have happened through honest and truthful cooperation with others. In a world that has mastered competition and conflict, Veritas Vincit invites us to explore Milutinovic’s collaborative reality, an alternative imagining that, through effortless swing and flow, and a fine sense of time and rhythm, sketches a horizon of hope for greater social harmony in a truly global world. A very welcome message, as this album is released during a pandemic that knows no borders and enforces social distancing upon us, and in times when we are rediscovering the value of being part of a community and having longstanding and loving relationships and collaborations.

Pedja Milutinovic is a drummer and now composer from Serbia, and a leading figure of the jazz scene in the Balkans. He is an arts activist, locally known for encouraging bottom-up organisation and mutually supportive collaborations between talented individuals in a region that has scarce resources for the arts, using the internet to overcome geographical boundaries and build new collective capabilities among musicians who share these values. Milutinovic is all about unexpected alliances and unintended outcomes. By publishing his debut album with Orenda Records, he shows us that, through collaboration, it is possible to change conditions that structure our lives no matter where we live or where we come from, and to develop languages that speak across cultures and even across continents, while respecting our different cultural influences and staying true to our origins.

“Pedja Milutinovic is a uniquely skilled, ultra-creative drummer whose playing is full of musical surprises! On his noteworthy debut release Milutinovic combines compositions featuring ensemble interaction/improvisation with simpler, groove oriented tunes, thus creating a balanced mix that is well paced and sonically pleasing. Overall high quality of musicianship is in evidence, while the telepathic connection between Milutinovic and his sidemen (from years of playing together in various musical projects) gives this album a potent cohesive force that has become somewhat rare in today's music. Over the years, Pedja Milutinovic has become one of Europe's most in demand sidemen. With this release, he is moving into the arena of original composition and leading a band of his own. If this goes as well for him as his drumming has, he will surely become a household name in the world of contemporary music.” 

–Marko Djordjevic, drummer and associate professor at Berklee College of Music

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USA/SERBIA: DUSAN JEVTOVIC-Live At Home(Moonjune Records 2018)

Artist: DUSAN JEVTOVIC Title: Live At Home Catalog number: CD009/2017

LIMITED EDITION CD. For promotional usage only and limited sale. Made possible with the generous support of SKC (STUDENTSKI KULTURNI CENTAR) KRAGUJEVAC. Released by SKC, for limited distribution and marketing by MoonJune Records. The proceeds from the album are intended to fund Dusan’s next studio release. 

There is something daringly creative about Dusan Jevtovic’s latest release. Live at Homeis an album that has many special characteristics. As the name aptly suggests this is a live album and was recorded on the 23rd December 2016 at the Decije Pozorište in Dusan’s home city of Kragujevac in Serbia. The recording is clear and uncluttered and does not suffer from any intrusive audience noise, or unwelcome audience participation. Live at Home contains a number of pieces that featured on Jevtovic’s outstanding No Answer album. For the live performance, Jevtovic’s is aided, as he was in No Answer, by the renowned Serbian keyboard player Vasil Hadzimanov. The rest of the band on this live occasion are made up of Pera Krstajic on bass and Pedja Milutonovic on drums. Live at Home leaves little doubt that progressive fusion can be a passionate affair. It is an album that is never sterile, but is teeming with feeling and creative ideas that give it an organic and human touch. It burns energetically and ignites a multitude of senses; it gently serenades the heart, and when dissonance takes place, it seductively caresses the mind Live at Home is a superbly-crafted fusion master class. It oozes with heartfelt emotion; containing dashing solo lines and dazzling instrumental passages. The music goes way beyond any normally defined parameters associated with fusion. This creates an album that is often exhilarating and challenging in its complexity. Technically excellent playing is combined with musical structures that enable boldly creative developments and well thought out embellishments to take place. Live at Home is a release that is able to take the listener through a range of moods and emotions. It combines the right mixture of aggression and charming serenity and never ignores the importance of the use of light and shade to emphasise its more explosive parts. If you enjoy edgy tunes flavoured with lavish amounts of unpredictability and filled with accomplished playing; Live at Home is sure to delight. It is an album that rewards intensive and repeated listens. 

DUSAN JEVTOVIC guitar VASIL HADZIMANOV keyboards PERA KRSTAJIC bass guitar PEDJA MILUTINOVIC drums 

Produced by Dusan Jevtovic. Executive production SKC Kragujevac, Dusan Jevtovic and Leonardo Pavkovic.

Recorded live at Decije Pozoriste, Kragujevac, Serbia, December 23, 2016.

To stream and purchase this album:

https://dusanjevtovic-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-home

Live At Home by Dusan Jevtovic

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Koncert Vasil Hadzimanov / Dusan Jevtovic / Pedja Milutinovic – SKC-Kragujevac: http://www.kragujevacapartment.com/koncert-vasil-hadzimanov-dusan-jevtovic-pedja-milutinovic-skc-kragujevac.html

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Dusan Jevtovic: Live at Home (Moonjune Records, 2018) [CD – Grabación]

Dusan Jevtovic maneja su grupo como si de una montaña rusa se tratara, subiendo y bajando, se ralentiza y acelera hasta el vértigo, y modulando desde la reflexión intimista hasta la pasión desenfrenada y disonante desde su guitarra gruñona en contraposición al piano y Fender Rhodes de Vasil Hadzimanov que atempera con serenidad en todos y cada uno de los capítulos de Live at Home.

Con “No Answer”…