First album of Croatian pioneering avantgarde/improvised music/free jazz band...

1. TH 044

4. Boidini suite

Some of the songs from the second album...

1. Albert is back

2. Samba do Algiers

3. Hrvatska balada

4. Ja posadih vitu jelu

5. 59

8. Duo 3B

Session 6

Take 2 Ballad

Plishes 2

Kaj Tuguješ

Escape 1

GAP eight

GAP nine

An ensemble created by multiinstrumentalists Luka Peršić and Jerko Valdevit in 1996., in Zagreb, Croatia. Together with bass player Dejan Potkonjak and percussionist Borna Šercar, they formed a quartet that plays and nurtures original improvised music, based on European avant-garde and Afro-American free jazz roots.
Musical strength of the band members along with the flexible personnel conception enables them to perform at concerts in solo, duo, trio, quartet and quintet formations, last one regarding the addition of a young cello player Jasen Chelfi (who can be heard on their second CD "Plays the most requested songs").
Since its first performance (at Radio 101, Zagreb), band played several significant festivals in Alpes-Adriatic region and by playing their first concert at KSET (student club), they opened a series of jazz concerts there. Being the only Croatian avant-garde jazz band and holding concerts there led to educating local auditorium and putting free jazz in the center of KSET's program conception which further led to organizing concerts of a eminent jazz figures such as Ken Vandermark, Mark Dresser, late Werner Ludi, Peter Broetzmann, just to mention a few.
Their performances at festivals in Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and Italy included some sessions with Anthony Coleman and his musicians, Bela Marias (Hungarian multiinstrumentalist and poet) and Charles Gayle.
Recently, they won the Akademia award for the best jazz/funk song in September 2015. and are promoted through numerous internet radio stations throughout the world...



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