BIOGRAPHY
I`ve been asked to write something about Uzrujan. Fuck, Uzrujan is a band i`m in, and although i wrote many reviews and articles about other peoples music i think this is a hardest task for me ever.
Anyhow here is what i know.
Uzrujan consists of 3 persons playing various instruments: gutars, bass guitar, drums, percussion, electronics, acordian, violin, clarinet, whatever we find arround us and produces some sound....
We started to play music together about year and a half ago. We all played and are still playing in some other bands. Bruno Vidovic;, drummer, drums in Peach Pit. Sven Pavlovic; playes in few other bands (Rujan, Projekt:Projekt, Random), in some of them with me (Rujan, Random, Sibir).
Well, we all like different styles of music, i mean we all like all of them, from free jazz to "rock", avant, post something, minimalism, contemporary music,... whatever...
What we felt was that other bands we are in are pretty much "song" orientired. You know, strict song structure and stuff... What we wanted to do with our music was to concentrate more on "certain feel" music can takes us to. To do "movies" or "pictures", certain ambient with our music weather it`s plesant or not. Anyhow we didn`t wanted our music to be "background" music many bands are doing today. So i suppose that is the reason some people will never get used to what we do. Anyhow, we start with improvisations, and after some time parts just "click" together the way we like it. Though all of the parts are still "open enough" to give us oportunity to go with the music in direction we feel going to....
We shared stage with Storm&Stress, Flying Luttenbachers, Chris Cutler, Shock Exchange, Boris Kovac... All of them said they liked our music a lot (we hope they didn`t lie), we certainly like theirs...
Sometimes we have guest musitians playing with us, we play way to much in our hometown, we lack hair on our heads, and we wear hats on cold days...
Bara

UZRUJAN PRESS
"...Here we are talking about a band who explores big "nobody's" land often called avantguard/experimental music. Band who shares same approach to music as Gastr Del Sol, Brise Glace, Storm and Stress, even U.S.Maple & Dutch Harbor/Boxhead Ensemble... If you like here mentioned bands it is not clever to miss UZRUJAN...
Members of this band uses various instruments & samples to ride their soundscapes...
Leading you to exotic unexplored places deep under water or far cold north, on hidden beach, untached caves.......
Nervous or better said Disturbed (which is right translation of their name to english) guitars underlined with un/pleasent noise and strange rhythms with slight free jazz feel (clarinet brings this to mind) are telling you exciting story with melancholic end. After seeing them live I can easely say (using "sport speach") - if we put UZRUJAN in boxing ring with any other band mentioned above it would be hard and exciting fight with uncertain final score... " D.Blazevic

"...Not really disturbed (traslation of their name to english), but oposite, calm & clearheaded, this deadly sirious technitians are preparing ground for their halfhour long rides, rides during which everything becomes possible...
Discipline in repetition helps them to widen their sound on a whole body liberating universe... Improvisation in their music stays within limits, allows frame for their sound painting to exist and not in the same time. Simply said Uzrujan is cure for contradictions, glue wich glues contradictions together into a consistant metter.Their music has more similarities with avantguard music from 1st half of the century then with contemporary rock music. Sound panel of this guys can only be described with wide list of artists... From melancholic sundscapes to free jazz bursts of noise & energy. From Slintalike sudden silent/loud approach to Gastr Del Sol nervous guitar fingerpicking. All this "influences" are used just as spices, not as a central idea of their really unique sound approach.Thier world is democracy, but democracy without unusefull & damaging compromises. Uzrujan is neither modern neither oldfashioned, Uzrujan is simply and absolutly CONTEMPORARY. In loss of better term their music could be labeled as Amibient Concretism... " ZH

"postjazz chamber music Uzrujan (Disturbed) plays in smoky clubs of Zagreb its experimental music on old synths, minimal drum-set and simple guitars. They project the time onto the wall and they keep it stuck there. And then they jump it over. They like the jazz masters of the Chicago School, the rough soundsaxophones, but don`t forget where their seed was rooted at..." dr Marias, Big Ear festival

Part of review of Earwing jazz festival:"Uzrujan also played, and their performance was more then solid. Guitarplayers who dialogued their "anemic" and minimalistic "melody" lines leaned in the same amount on european school of improvisation as well as on japanese furious style. They play with the drummer in the middle. His Hiperactive style of playing broke static scene of gutarplayers sitting and helped them to easier comunicate w/the public. And the public responded."
Vid Jeraj, Zarez

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.

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10001 Zagreb, Croatia
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