And now for something completely different!
Toka Shitet is a new exciting project by one cool Skopje alternative rock persona, Mr. Idriz Ameti. Always on the edge of something unheard and well combined, he’s off exploring an uncharted territory between Albanian folk music and indie rock (probably grunge:) …
In his capable hands you can see sharki (Serbo-Croatian: šargija, шаргија; Albanian: sharki or sharkia, anglicized as shargia) a plucked, fretted long necked lute used in the folk music of various Balkan countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo. That very sharki sounds like a world orchestra, backing his painful, emotional singing voice and sounds like nothing you ever listened to. This is deeply authentic expression. Gotta give it a go.

Written and performed by Idriz Ameti
except 5, written by John Lennon
Recorded live at Jazzy 14.01.2022
Mix and master Vladan Drobicki