Cobalt Code Unit: SOILWORK [pmgjazz 031] 2022

Composed by Blagojche Tomevski

Cobalt Code Unit are:
Blagojche Tomevski-clarinet
Stefan Miladinov-guitar
Simeon Angelovski-bass guitar
Dragan Teodosiev-drums

Recorded at Kraj Vardarot Jazz Festival 2020 by Nenad Trifunovski
Mixed and produced by Vladan Drobicki
Cover by Dragan Teodosiev (photos of “Freedom Monument” in Kochani by Gligor Chemerski and Radovan Radjenovic)

Another of our authentic original live recordings and productions.
Kraj Vardarot Jazz is a PMGJazz own annual festival, and this recording was made at our first ever fest in 2020. This adventurous take on Macedonian traditional folk music is as epic as it comes and as jazz as it gets. This are young people that we love, respect and plan to release again and again in the future, since they posses the sound that we think is an essential for an aspiring Macedonian jazz label. Our own contribution to the global wealth of sonicity. A work in progress.

Bojadjiski / Bujukliev: Sapere Aude [pmgjazz 030] 2022

A result of a spontaneous improvisation, this incredible sonic adventure captures the strange essence of two Macedonian jazz legend artists. Panche Bujukliev and Vasko Bojadziski are active and influential on our local scene since the end of those 80s. We can not number the concerts, albums and collaborations they left behind. In that light, this is an odd one, since it is their first release of this improv kind. The listener will be stunned by the stature and the inner power substance of this sounds… seems like a fucking large ambient stone rolling down the mountain. It is one of a kind. Only for the special people, as themselves.

All music composed, arranged, performed by Vasko Bojadjiski-saxophones and Panche Bujukliev-synths
Recorded 11.12.2021 at “Jazzy” Skopje
Produced by Vladan Drobicki for PMGJazz
Cover art: Mihajlo Moteski; photo: V.Drobicki

Sethstat: White Night (Live at PMGRF11) [pmgjazz 029] 2022

Close your eyes.
Imagine a top jazz night out.
FREE download this one.
Press play.
You’re there 🙂

One of the best concerts of 2021
as a FREE DOWNLOAD for you, our faithful.
Sethstat have done it again.
May we all be blessed by this music.
WIth all the love…

SETHSTAT -“White Night “ Live at PMG Recordins Festival 11

All music composed and arranged by SETHSTAT
Recorded on 25.09.2021 by Dorian Jovanovic at PMG Recordings Festival 11
Mixed by Vladan Drobicki

SETHSTAT:
Vasko Bojadjiski
Vladan Drobicki
Panche Bujukliev
Pavel Drobicki
Dino Milosavljeviќ

Cover art by Violeta Kachakova
Produced by Vladan Drobicki for PMGJazz

Gligor Kondovski & Vladan Drobicki: Nightscape [pmgjazz 027] 2021

Real piece of silver here. Sonic landscape gently moving towards your ears, then filling your inside with rich and beautiful sound. Darkly and yet full of life and longing. Can be your fave ambient jazz listen for the day. Essential in the night time. Contemporary, yet evocative. A brief memory or a gaze into the night sky. It’s up to you. Enjoy.

Music and arrangements by Gligor Kondovski
Vladan Drobicki – Trombone
Recorded and mixed by Gligor Kondovski
Photography and cover by Gligor Kondovski

Ljubojna: Stela [pmgjazz 025] 2021

This is quite different. Warm and mellow as a summery macedonian afternoon sun. A lot of ethno to it and on a verge of pop. We really like the oddness of it on a jazz label. A music to a film, but pretty much stands on it’s own. Ljubojna are one of the substantial macedonian 21st century ethno jazz bands. This sounds mature and refined. Maybe not every jazzer’s cup of tea, but sometimes, drinking a different cup is the freshest approach. Try it.

All songs recorded, edited, mixed and mastered i studio Podrumot by Angel Kjosev, execpt for Karanfil Nevesto, edited, mixed and mastered by Dragi Ivanov.
Design: Apostol Tnokovski
Written and produced by Oliver Josifovski
Special thanks to: Oliver Petkovski, Ognen Antov, Stojan Vujicic, Angel Kosev and all of the musicians
Musicians: Oliver Josifovski, Vera Ljubojna, Filip Dimishkovski, Luka Georgievski, Petar Hristov, Martina Barakoska, Dragi Ivanov, Nikola Jimmy Petrovski, Angel Kjosev

PMGJAZZ 025 / Vinyl Fetish 009 / 2021 

Kanton6: Jazzus [pmgjazz 026] 2021

Jazzus is a real historical figure. An ancient Macedonian boy who accidentally invented Jazz music, by unfolding thee greatest balls in the hee-story of thee Universe: thee balls of supreme being called Makedon. it goes back to 500.000 years and it is very complicated. Stay tuned for the whole story. The story of Jazz as a traditional Macedonian music.
Believe you me.

Written & produced by Kanton6 at Shupa, 2020/2021
Kanton6
Thee messengers of Makedon
on this album:
Mirko Popov (Machine, lyrics, rethorics, manipulation, vocal)
Sinisha Evtimov (Machine, synhts, vocal, sampling, manipulation)
Vladan Drobicki (Trombone, brass arrangements)

additional musicians:
Ljubomir Stojisavljevic Kuchkar (bass guitar on 2, 3, 4)
Valentin Vidovic (bariton sax on 1, 2)
Filip Bukrshliev (electric guitar on 6, 7)
Blagojche Tomevski (bass clarinet on 1)
Pavel Drobicki (bass guitar on 1)

Art direction: Mirko Popov
Sleeve design: Mirko Popov & Violeta Kachakova

Taxi Consilium: The Essential Sunday Gloom [pmgjazz 024] 2021

Taxi Consilium is the spiritual conjointment of four well established musicians on the PMG Jazz label and the unwholesome Macedonian Jazz Æther (Cobalt Code Unit, Yordan Kostov Quintet, Filip Bukrshliev Trio, Fighting Windmills, Svetlost Odron Ritual..), guided by the eternal wisdom of seasoned taxi drivers prowling the desolate city streets at 3 in the morning. It is epitomic after-midnight music. Maybe what Eric Dolphy would play if he was a character in a Thomas Pynchon novel. A doped up horn man who moonlights as a P.I. It is the wail of a lonely clarinet playing counterpoint to the dim sounds of fornication from the other room. Shadows and smoke, distant ominous laughter. A free-jazz hard-on in a shady dark alley.

Blagojche Tomevski [bass clarinet + Bb Clarinet]
Filip Bukrshliev [guitar]
Andrea Mircheska [double bass]
Dragan Teodosiev [drums]

Composed by:
Filip Bukrshliev [1; 2; 4; 5]
Blagojche Tomevski [6]
Tomevski, Bukrshliev, Mircheska, Teodosiev [3]

Recorded by Ivica Jankulovski on 18.01.2021 in Alshar Studio
Recording assisted by Bisera Anastasova
Mixed & mastered by Vladan Drobicki
Cover & design by Filip Bukrshliev

Filip Bukrshliev Trio: A Disc Jockey​’​s Crisis of Conscience [pmgjazz 022] 2021

Filip Bukrshliev is slowly and gracefully shaping in to one of the finest macedonian guitar players. He’s been places in the past, but it seems his jazz guitar kinda glued to his musical being and it handed him over a special power to write almost enchantingly beautiful music of lately. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a fair share of weirdness surrounding his aura, but his playing and composing skills are constantly perfecting, gracing our mere mortal’s souls with shots of pure musical substance. This music is out there. A tasteful affair. Treat yourself. You deserve it.

Filip Bukrshliev [guitar]
Andrea Mircheska [double bass]
Slavcho Kocev [DRUMS]

All compositions by Filip Bukrshliev
Arranged by Filip Bukrshliev, Andrea Mircheska & Slavcho Kocev
Recorded on 10.01.2021 in Alshar Studio, by Ivica Jankulovski
Mixed & mastered by Vladan Drobicki
Cover photo by Marija Grubor
Cover design by Filip Bukrshliev

Yordan Kostov Quintet: Come Back [pmgjazz 021] 2021

You know Yordan Kostov… a composer, accordionist, adventurist and a quintet leader. Well he has nailed it again. In fact, THEY have done it again. The quintet. It is a great joy to listen, promote and release another piece, another sweetheart done by this marvelous people. It is the well documented magic from “Plush Pig” [PMGJAZZ009], maybe a little bit darker now… and then again maybe not. Take “Terminals” for example: a proper hit ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, you’re in for a cosy free ride with several shots of Martini Roso and an occasional bump into mellow darkness. Your afternoons are just about to get better 🙂

The Quintet:

Yordan Kostov
Andrea Mirchevska
Filip Bukrshliev
Dragan Teodosiev
Damjan Grujo

Recorded and mixed by Bojan Ugrinovski
Cover design Maja Dzepovska

Dino Imeri: Reflections [pmgjazz 019] 2020

Ladies and gentlemen
You’re up for a treat with this one. A bit different from our previous releases, but right on track faithful to our vision of pushing quality and variety. It is a piano album, composed and played by our young friend Dino Imeri, one of the new guard Macedonian contemporary musicians. Warm and fluid, with a clear intention to communicate with every possible listener, it is a proper introduction to a subtle, so far hidden world of a very bright and talented boy. It just might overwhelm you with it’s simplicity and plain beauty. And this is only a beginning… a proper start to a sonic friendship.

Produced, composed & performed by: Dino Imeri
Recorded by: Damir Imeri & Adi Imeri
Mastering: Mite Dimovski – Tralala Studio
Photo by: Kiril Zelenkovski
Design by: Violeta Kachakova