Release Type: LP

A music ensemble born from the collaboration between outstanding authors and instrumentalists who outline the new history of Macedonian jazz and contemporary music, following the need for a new creative, free, inspiring and at the same time challenging expression. This contemporary ensemble innovates the creation and the performance of a music oeuvre due to a fusion of the individual musical preoccupations and forms of expression of each member woven into a challenging and quality performance unit. The member musicians, individually or as part of their original bands, are well acclaimed and awarded for their work in the national and international context: Filip Bukrshliev, Deni Omeragić, Ninoslav Spirovski, Vladan Drobicki, Vasko Bojadziski, Dragan Teodosiev, Gligor Kondovski and Blagojce Tomevski.

composed and performed by:

Ninoslav Spiroski-saxophone
Blagojce Tomevski-bass clarinet
Vasko Bojadziski-saxophone
Vladan Drobicki-trombone
Gligor Kondovski-violin
Filip Bukrshliev-guitar
Deni Omeragic-doble bass
Dragan Teodosiev-drums

recorded and produced by Vladan Drobicki at MKC-Kino Frosina
sleeve design by Violeta Kachakova

This beautiful release forefronts two lovely ladies musicians. Ana Padevska, a young and inspiring composer and Dunja Ivanova, a sensitive but strong piano player. The sensibility of Ana’s compositions musically draws the authentic atmosphere of Skopje city, presented by Dunja’s graceful piano performance. The album was recorded live at Audiokultura as part of the PMG Jazz series of concerts “Kraj Vardarot Sesii vo Audiokultura”.
It was a pleasure to work with these young, beautiful ladies. Enjoy the music as we were enjoying the live performance!

composed by Ana Pandevska
performed by Dunja Ivanova – piano

recorded at Audiokultura, Skopje on October 26, 2023 by Vladan Drobicki/Veselin Teoharov
cover art and photo by Violeta Kachakova
produced for PMGJazz by Vladan Drobicki/Mirko Popov

POETRONIKA is an innovative art project that contains a creative selection of works from Macedonian poetic creativity placed in a contemporary musical context, more precisely in an electronic musical form. It is about our authentic poetic creation, which chronologically includes poets from
the first post Second world war generation, up to some of today’s contemporary, Macedonian authors. Poetronica differs from all previous similar attempts in the very approach to the narrative and tries to avoid stereotypes about how it is interpreted and what musical form fits a poetic expression.
Andreja Salpe, one of our precious musial talents, fluidly combines electronic music with jazz, ambient and instrumentalisation. Over the top we get spoken word by Oliver Mitkovski, the most prominent Macedonian actor, who gets absolutely everything right. POETRONIKA delivers right atmosphere in the right time. It is innovative, meditative, dancey, all in all, very very cool. One of the best projects we ever managed.
A must have!

Spoken words by Oliver Mitkovski
Written, mixed, and produced by Andreja Salpe, during 2023
Arranged by Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski
Mastered by Vladan Drobicki
Artwork by Oliver Mitkovski

‘Poetronika’ chronologically includes Macedonian poets from the first post Second world war generation, up to some of today’s contemporary authors. 

Andreja Salpe, Oliver Mitkovski
POETRONIKA 

01. Psalm za Mlle Lili | POETRONIKA
(lyrics: Aco Karamanov; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

02. Jas pa ti | POETRONIKA
(lyrics: Gogo Ivanovski; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

03. Natasha Celakoska | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Goran Petreski; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

04. Dve prikazni | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Combination of ‘Vladimir Lukash’s ‘Mnogu glupa prikazna’ and Olivera Kjorvezirovska’s ‘Izbrishana prikazna’; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

05. Fatalino | POETRONIKA
(lyrics: Slavko Janevski; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

06. Pej mi | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Blazhe Konevski; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

07. Koj sum | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Gjoko Zdraveski; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

08. Tvojata tishina | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Andreja Risteski; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

09. Osamenost | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Radmila Trifunovska; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

10. Milo sonce | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Compilation of Igor Isakovski’s ‘Milo sonce’, ‘Zalegnat vrz stihovi’, ‘Smislata na edna nokj’; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

11. Slushaj | POETRONIKA 
(lyrics: Compilation of Igor Isakovski’s ‘Slushaj’, ‘Dozhd’, ‘Kje spijam’, ‘Znaesh’; Spoken words: Oliver Mitkovski; music: Andreja Salpe;  Arrangement: Andreja Salpe and Oliver Mitkovski)

This flying impro number, marks the start of our new little FREEway of LIVE releases, recorded “on field” by ourselves and played by our friends. See, we often arrange concerts, even a festival here in Skopje, North Macedonia, so more or less we started recording everything we do. The best stuff we record – we release and it’s all going to be FREE DOWNLOAD. We want you to have it and save your money for the next contingent of quality modern Macedonian jazz and whatever else’s revolving around it. We’re counting on you and yes! you can count on us.

G. Kondovski – violin
V. Drobicki – trombone
D. Omeragic – double bass

All music composed by Kondovski/Drobicki/Omeragic

Recorded 02.11.2023 at SCS Centar – Jadro by Pavel Drobicki
Mixed and produced by Vladan Drobicki

On Sundays, the production designers, the make-up artists, the writers, the producers: the whole crew is at home, resting. The studio is empty. Even the wig of the news announcer is left on the stand. There is no news, nothing to be reported. Time runs… slow. Perfect opportunity for two seasoned weirdos to use the room to make some noise. If you are a regular at this label, you may know them from Taxi Consilium: one of them has moustaches like an Austro-Hungarian count, the other one is overweight. The location of the recording session: the studio floor of ТВ Свет (TV World) a local TV station in the town of Sveti Nikole. The instruments: bass clarinet and guitar. The key: D minor. Very loosely…

Blagojche Tomevski – bass clarinet
Filip Bukrshliev – guitar

Composed by Blagojche Tomevski and Filip Bukrshliev
Recorded by Vladan Drobicki in TV Svet, Sveti Nikole, on 15.01.2023.
Mixed and mastered by Vladan Drobicki, January 2023.
Cover by Filip Bukrshliev.
Special thanks to Gjore Dechkov for the help and hospitality.

Well, well, what we have here… It’s our usual suspects!!! Thee peoples who can not stop doing this wonderful adventurous inspiring free music. For the lovers of open meditative spaces and complications without boundaries… we offer you the exceptional double bass-trombone-violinistic trio of ours. Our bestest friends and musicians and jazzists and beautiful people of ours. This music will probably blow your minds, but you’re here to be blown, ain’t you?

Composed and performed by
Gligor Kondovski – violin
Vladan Drobicki – trombone
Deni Omeragic – double bass
Cover art by Gligor Kondovski
Recorded by Gligor Kondovski and Vladan Drobicki
Produced by Vladan Drobicki

Winter is coming…. well, you’ll never hear me say that. But it is coming and nothing can spoil the enchanting stillness of the inevitable motion. The quiet has been stolen by the noisy, greasy and the unworthy… but it’s coming home. Slowly by the endless November rain (it wasn’t me:), than gently by the first frosty December mornings. You’ll have to comply. Willingly. This omnipresent beauty of this album is your will to do just that. Gligor Kondovski has his own way of unwrapping stuff and he just unwrapped some winter for us all to enjoy. This just makes me want to stay home. Home inside. Inside myself. It’s just beautiful.

Music by Gligor Kondovski
Музика на Глигор Кондовски
Piano, Sounds, Electronics and Violin

Сеуште сонуваме за подобар свет…We still dream of a better world…

it’s like this:
Imagine you’re cool guy, nice outfit, grown up taste in music, coolest friends in town and you go out occasionally. So you go out in a bar and there’s some random jazz band playing. And they’re really good. Not too much structure, than again not too much improvisation. They go places, they do hooks, here and there they drop chillingly cool atmospheres, but somehow still playing for the crowd. And you’re the crowd. You, the cool one and your coolest friends on a random night out.
So, ladies and gentlemen, this is for you true jazz lovers out there.
From the heart.

Composed by Dejan (Dino) Milosavljevic
Arranged and performed by Larta
Recorded at Petite Cinematique by Vladan Drobicki
Produced by Vladan Drobicki
Larta are:
Dino Milosavljevic, drums
Gjoko Maksimovski, bass
Vasko Bojadziski, sax
Vladan Drobicki, trombone, synths
Cover photo by Dino Milosavljevic
Cover design by Marko Krstevski

Hi Ho!
It’s time for the CHAMPAGNE SHOP!
After the last year’s incredible White Night LIVE album that we all enjoyed so much, here comes SETHSTAT new album, their 10th. Being living legends of the Macedonian vibrant jazz scene, they deliver, and they deliver in style. One might say this is their best album work so far, but their ever growing, everlasting, unstoppable tendency to please themselves and God probably, can always outgrow any expectation. This undusted veterans of thee Jazz craft are at their peak as musicians, as well as creative persona. As you already know, they give you the best hell ever playing live and this is no different concerning the energy and focus involved. But this sound is perfectly glazed with all around mature production and ornamented with the best brass hooks you ever heard. So bow down… ok, don’t 🙂 You just spend your best 7 bucks ever and thank me later.
Take care.

All songs composed, arranged and performed by Sethstat

Sethstat are:
Vasko Bojadziski -sax
Vladan Drobicki-trbn
Panche Bujukliev-synths
Pavel Drobicki-bass
Goce Naumov-Drums

Guests:
Filip Bukrshliev-guitar
Аleksandar Zlateski-trumpet
Gligor Kondovski-violin
Micko Damnjanovski-tuba
Mirko Popov-samples

Recorded at Soba 107 in MKC Skopje, by Sethstat
Mixed and a produced by Vladan Drobicki
Cover design Violeta Kachakova
Cover photo by Kalina Drobicki

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