BIOGRAPHY
Glasshopper - one of the best live bands Croatia has ever had! Their drummer Robert Meznaric played in Transmisia, an industrial noise rock band which has released three albums, some for Invisible in US, and all of them for Wide in Italy. Frontman Marin Alvir played in Zona Industriale in early `90s. Edvard Tomicic, bass player, played in Mrsky (Screw Driver). Marko Zele, renowned multi-instrumentalist, plays trombone and bass guitar. Although this is his first band, he had big crowds on his gigs in the past - he played in a funeral orchestra...
Oh, the music...
Glasshopper is often compared to Pere Ubu and Cpt.Beefheart, but also to contemporary bands like U.S.Maple, Mule, Chrome Cranks, JSBExplosion, Cows.
Glasshopper is deep in a blues groove, cut by psychotic hits of dissonant guitars. In describing the music of Glasshopper we can use terms like noise and jazz, but also rock and roll, with the accent on "roll"

REVIEWS
One of the 10 best records ever released in Croatia.
Sven Semencic, Radio Pula

...hard-hitting-thunder-train rhythm with a frenetic trombone, crazy blues guitar with a cinematic atmosphere, puts this mini album at the top of Croatian music in the last decade. Extraordinary!
Bojan Muscet, Studio

... a melting pot of Mule, Pere Ubu, The Cramps, Waits, JSBX, Gang of Four or even Hendrix.
What you get is a boiled, mad psychedelic blues noise groove (hm) sauced with frantic jazz trombone interplays. Glasshopper won't let you do your home routine while listening. Instead, their psychotic thunders, destruction of the rock music formula and chaotic vocal passages will charge you with energy for the next three days at least...
Boris Badjun, Varazdinec

Glasshopper are different from the majority of Croatian jazz and rock bands currently on the scene.
Their music is a "free-minded" collision of avant-garde poetics like Red Krayola, Pere Ubu, Tom Waits or Captain Beefheart, and jazz, rock, noise, Hendrix "deconstruction", "jazzabilly", blues...
The ace up their sleeve is "discipline through chaos" and sound diversion.
Zlatko Gall, Feral Tribune

Rock with blues elements of intensive sound palette, contaminated with "underground" sound solutions sometimes resembling Young Gods. However, they don't use electronics, they underline their music with brass...
Their live acts are a continuous exchange of "African" rhythms, rock and avant-garde. A mixture which made them popular with the crowds. Their CD is a "pleasant horror".
Lino Terlati

Their level of deconstructive chaos within a classical song structure made them comparable to Pere Ubu, Captain Beefheart (although the nervous rhythms of Gang Of Four also come to mind)... The core of their music is avant-garde, music which bends elements of classical composition laws and charges them with energy.
Hrvoje Horvat, Vjesnik

JULLANDER
John Symmes' Welt (cd)
After a couple of 7" and one 10", Jullander finally arrive to a full length.
Musically, “John Symmes’ Welt” consists of four equal, but distinct voices that complement each other and yet allow each other to be heard. You can sense that the people here have made an agreement and set off on a common path.
With two guitars, a bass and drums, Jochen Brandt, Arne Kittler, Andi Schoon and Jens-Rainer Berg conceive and mold their songs, with occasional support on saxophone by Philip Andernach.
Jullander play beautiful music that is perfectly aware of itself.
Their calmer pieces with strange melody lines can remind you sometimes on Dianogah or Couch, others, somewhat bulkyer brings to mind June of 44 or Paul Newman, but don't even think that this is enough to describe their sound.
Their sound is really their own - unique melodies, stylish singing, jazz skillfulness and pop qualities you shouldn't miss.