„Bukršliev / Omeragić / Spirovski’s abstract masterpiece is extremely difficult to describe. It has to be felt. It was probably best characterized by two Macedonian reviewers with similar feelings. Though some of their more colorful descriptions may have been lost in translation. The best way to know – listen!“

“This jazz trio announces the so-called “cleansing” (author’s note) with the first track from the album, titled “Odron II”, which can be briefly described (if we can talk about such a thing as “music description” at all) as a distorted “ear rupturing tendentiousness” that prepares the “musical gut” of jazz fans for all that amplitude variability of the complex musical stimulus that follows until the end of the album.

Already with the second album track, the almost eleven-minute jazz expression on the theme “Lonely Woman” by the cult hero Ornette Coleman, Bukršliev , Omeragić, and Spirovski confidently and uncompromisingly confirm the size and artistic value of their jazz album.

From the gloom of jazz lethargy, through sections filled with instrumental distortion of the auditory senses, to relaxation through jazz harmonizations, through the complex musical fluidity of instrumental virtuosity and “playfulness” which will surely come back to haunt you whenever you feel the need for musical elevation of the aesthetic establishment and condition.” – Aleksandar Elenin, taratur.com

” [..] Macedonian album of the year [..] The opening of the album […] is fierce. Omeragić enters our minds “studs up”, sawing the contrabass and creating “landslides in our thoughts”, with the intention of getting rid of the ego.

[..] This perfectly conceived album, has its own Siamese twin in the sensibility described in the previous paragraph – the music material has a second face, although both are part of the same coin. The key moment for that qualitative duality is the second track, a cover of “Lonely Woman” of the legendary Ornette Coleman. The joint interpretation of Bukršliev and Spirovski on the disciplined notes, as if it were Tartini’s “Devil’s Thriller”, then unfolds into lavish solos, which we can follow in parallel, until both are found again at the same point, at the end of the long-winded song. Brilliant.

[..] Spirovski sounds impeccable and almost perfect, like music for a yet unmade, but imagined film, which always looks different and challenging with each new listening of the material. All of this brought me back to the ’80s and ’90s of the last century, to the films of Wim Wenders and the soundtracks to his work, something that as a sensibility is always recommended for re-exploration and interpretation. ” – Igor Angelov, kritika.mk & “Heroj na eden den”

Odron II [Deni Omeragić]
Lonely Woman [Ornette Coleman]
Dark Elements [Ninoslav Spirovski]
Time Present [Filip Bukršliev]
ALS / Odron III [Bukršliev/Omeragić/Spirovski]
Odron I [Bukršliev/Omeragić/Spirovski]
Time Past [Bukršliev/Omeragić/Spirovski]
Intimen tanc [Filip Bukršliev]

Ninoslav Spirovski [clarinet / tenor saxophone]
Filip Bukršliev [guitar]
Deni Omeragić [contrabass / bass guitar]

Recorded at „Kino Frosina“ Skopje, 20 August 2018

Produced by Bukršliev / Drobicki / Omeragić / Spirovski
Recording engineer – Vladan Drobicki
Mixed and mastered by Vladan Drobicki, September/October 2018

Artwork by Filip Bukršliev
Photographs by Ana Ivanovska
Executive producers Vladan Drobicki & Mirko Popov, for PMG Jazz