Release Type: PMGJazz

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

Only sometimes, you crack a special bottle of a rare, fine brandy. The one that goes by the name “the good stuff”.Carefully you pick your company, so they can appreciate the effort, since this is an unique and honest effort in contemporary free avant garde jazz… Yep it is that jazz we’ve been trying to provoke with everything we do here at PMGJazz. Not for everyone, not for every occasion, this is a rare and unique outing, containing eight simple breaths of a complex being. Sonic aura that slowly takes rather fresh, though a bit blurry shape. An atmosphere and a dimension you need visiting. Go, explore.

Composed, arranged and performed by
Gligor Kondovski-violin
Vladan Drobicki- trombone
Deni Omeragic-double bass

Mixed and produced by Vladan Drobicki

A brilliant quiet hour from this special three. Subtile, simple and just beautiful. We’re talking pure PMGJazz authenticity here. May we say original Macedonian contemporary? We don’t get much of this often, so please excuse our excitement ladies and gentlemen. Go on, play this and excite yourselves too. This is pure unadulterated self love. Look through that window.

Marija Kaeva, vocal
Gligor Kondovski, violine
Vladan Drobicki, trombone
Music by Kondovski, Kaeva, Drobicki
Lyrics by M. Kaeva
Arrangements by Kondovski, Drobicki

Spiritual Car Wash is the second album in less than a year from this Macedonian jazz super-group of sleazy musical outcasts. But make no mistake, this is a completely different driver and vehicle. Not the thick mysterious aura of a midnight prowler looking for trouble, but the off-beat asphalt reveries of a retired trapeze performer. The circus people mismanaged the pension funds, so he has to drive in his late 60’s. His car number is 49. The company he drives for: Panorama. In the trunk he carries his old Olympia typewriter. Because, of course he also writes. A proud author of ten obscure monographies about the food in the town of Resen, located in the deep south of Macedonia, with a very curious type of cuisine and eating habits. Loves to talk all day long about chakras, transcendental meditation and karmic readjustments. Plays only Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite on the car stereo, but in reverse. He brags to passengers that this way he knows all the Johnny Hodges lines on the record by heart, and if they are not convinced, he confidently hums along, perfectly in tune with the upside-down music. A pleasant fellow…

Blagojche Tomevski [bass clarinet + Bb clarinet]
Filip Bukrshliev [guitar]
Andrea Mircheska [double bass]
Dragan Teodosiev [drums + percussions]
Composed by: Filip Bukrshliev
Arranged and produced by: Tomevski – Bukrshliev – Mircheska – Teodosiev
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ivica Jankulovski at Alshar Studio in January 2022
Cover and design by: Filip Bukrshliev

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.

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

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

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