From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
https://la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Predrag Ikonomovski 

Predrag Ikonomovski (lead vocals, acoustic guitars, ukulele, jaw harp)Sašo Gigov – Giš (back-up vocals) Dragan Stojkovski (bass, programming)

EU CITIZEN

I'm a European citizen
I'd like to see the Louvre and Big Ben
Smoke some pot in Amsterdam and be a Eurovision fan
'Cause I'm a European citizen

Your health organizations are ok
With all this freaking stuff your airplanes spray
I don’t really give a damn about your southern gas stream plan
I'm a European citizen

Aren’t our southern neighbors pretty cute
Besides our lengthy painful name dispute
I’ll parade in pantyhose and even eat your GMO's
'Cause I like European NGO’s

When Vologa came to town riding on a bear
People puzzled looked around and no one seemed to care
Yankee Doodle did the same riding on an eagle
Certain stuff were free back then, but now they are illegal

We got cheap computers coming by sea
Get your pirate software downloads for free
But not for me
But not for me

Oh,  how I want to be like euro folks
Learning how to laugh on German jokes
Tell me Mum what’s your plan and I’ll do anything I can
To be a European citizen

Will you let me go and fight your wars
I promise I’ll behave and do my chores
Please accept me in your clan and I will be your loyal man
'Cause I'm a European citizen

Waiting in Berlemount down the hall
To write some new laws on my facebook wall
If I bend down on demand, I’m sure that you’ll accept me then
To be a European citizen

Craving just to be your friend
Cause we’re all neighbors in the end
If you could recognize me as I am

It’s a shame to take the blame
‘Cause things will only stay the same
If you could recognize me by my name


EU Citizen

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music by Nenad Nedelkov 
Lyrics by William Blake 

Dragan Stojkovski (bass, keyboards, programming) 
Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals, percussion) 
Igor Atanasoski – Hare (electric guitars)

THE GARDEN OF LOVE 

I went to the Garden of Love 
And saw what I never had seen 
A Chapel was built in the midst 
Where I used to play on the green 

And the gates of this Chapel were shut 
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door 
So I turned to the Garden of Love 
That so many sweet flowers bore 

And I saw it was filled with graves 
And tombstones where flowers should be 
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds 
And binding with briars my joys and desires

Garden of Love

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Sašo Gigov - Giš and Dragan Stojkovski 

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals) 
Predrag Ikonomovski (acoustic guitar) 
Dragan Stojkovski (6-string tambura, bass, keyboards, programming)

Pluie De Paris

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Dragan Stojkovski 

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals) 
Predrag Ikonomovski (acoustic guitar) 
Dragan Stojkovski (6-string tambura, bass, keyboards) 
Goce Naumov (snare drum)

BLUE BIRD 

Can you read me 
Do I obsess 
Do I need you 
Could you care less 
Do you bother 
If we farewell 
Do you fear that 
I couldn’t bear 
The thing that we got lost 

I could build you 
A monument 
Will it move you 
I wouldn’t bet 
If you put up 
Another fence 
It would still make 
No difference, 
You know that we are lost 
You know that we are really lost 

Blue bird, blue bird 
Your song will mess me up 
Blue bird, blue bird 
Our ways are way apart 
Blue bird, blue bird 
Our paths were meant to cross 
Blue bird, blue bird 
Your song is really lost 


Do you wonder 
If I regret 
What went wrong here 
Will you forget 
If you reach me 
Would I restrain 
Can I not know 
It’s all in vain 
You know that we are lost 
You know that we are really lost 

Blue bird, blue bird 
Your song will mess me up 
Blue bird, blue bird 
Our ways are way apart 
Blue bird, blue bird 
Our paths were meant to cross 
Blue bird, blue bird 
Your song is really lost

Blue Bird

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Bob Dylan 

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals, percussion) 
Predrag Ikonomovski (acoustic guitar) 
Dragan Stojkovski (bass) 
Goce Naumov (snare drum) 
Aleksandar Nikolovski (trumpet) 
Simon Kiselički (keyboards)

ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE 

Your breath is sweet 
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky 
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth 
On the pillow where you lie 
But I don’t sense affection 
No gratitude or love 
Your loyalty is not to me 
But to the stars above 

One more cup of coffee for the road 
One more cup of coffee ’fore I go 
To the valley below 

Your daddy he’s an outlaw 
And a wanderer by trade 
He’ll teach you how to pick and choose 
And how to throw the blade 
He oversees his kingdom 
So no stranger does intrude 
His voice it trembles as he calls out 
For another plate of food 

One more cup of coffee for the road 
One more cup of coffee ’fore I go 
To the valley below 

Your sister sees the future 
Like your mama and yourself 
You’ve never learned to read or write 
There’s no books upon your shelf 
And your pleasure knows no limits 
Your voice is like a meadowlark 
But your heart is like an ocean 
Mysterious and dark 

One more cup of coffee for the road 
One more cup of coffee ’fore I go 
To the valley below

One More Cup Of Coffee

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Vlado Mančevski 

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals) 
Predrag Ikonomovski (acoustic guitar) 
Dragan Stojkovski (6-string tambura, bass, keyboards) 
Goce Naumov - snare drum 
Adi Imeri –guitar solo

RIVER TALE 

I’ll take you to the river 
Burry you there in the sand 
I’ll be there by your growth 
Protecting seed of this world 

Things that you showed me here before you went away 

I’ll take you to the valley 
Wondering where and why it ends 

Things that you showed me here before you went away 
Things that you do to me they never fade away 
Things that you hate to do 
Things that you wish to hide 
Things that you showed me here before you went away 
Things that you do to me they never fade away 

I’ll take on a trip 
That goes so high above the sky 

Things that you long to do with me this serpent night 
Things that you need to say before you step aside 
I’m gonna take you, I’m gonna take you

River Tale

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Dragan Stojkovski

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals) 
Dragan Stojkovski (6-string tambura, bass, keyboards) 
Adi Imeri (guitar solo)

ENDLESS TALE 

World has been spinning and drifting and dreaming a very long time 
Long before you or me came to life 
Tables been turning and players been burning in endless lines 
Has it crossed your mind, crossed your mind 

Far from delivering, I carry a burden of lies that are not mine 
Walls of impatience are hiding a greater design 

Echoing whispers are fading and rising again and again 
Surrender, lose the things you never had, my friend 
It’s foolish and vain to think the divine is a thing to define 
Has it crossed your mind, crossed your mind 

Far from devotion, my doubt is my only true light 
Walls of deception are guarding the wrong from the right

Endless Tale

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music by Dragan Stojkovski and Nenad Nedelkov 
Lyrics by Dragan Stojkovski 

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals) 
Predrag Ikonomovski (electric and acoustic guitars, back-up vocals) 
Dragan Stojkovski (6-string tambura, bass, keyboards) 
Sašo Gorgevski (harp ) 
Zlatko Mihajlovski (drums) 
Nenad Nedelkov (back-up vocals)

MUDDY PUDDLES BLUES 

Jumping up and down in muddy puddles 
That’s the game for common folks to play 
If you point a way to burst the bubbles 
They will surely make you pay 

They show you things on TV you distrust 
They tell you that believing is a must 
Knowledge is a property and not a right to search 
Move and make a way for another church 

Right or left it’s all the same to me 
They urge you – go and vote, and don’t you think 
We see the freedom-lovers and they don’t belong in here 
You don’t need to reason, ‘cause we bring you fear 

Jumping up and down in muddy puddles 
That’s the game for common folks to play 
If you point a way to burst the bubbles 
They will surely make you pay 

They offer things that you could not afford 
They take more than they could store 
You bow your head down low, but it doesn't seem to please 
The same guy is the hunter, the keeper and the beast 

Decent life is just around the corner 
But somehow they decide on who’s the owner 
Hope is just a shiny screen, hanging over me 
The only satisfaction you ever get for free 

Jumping up and down in muddy puddles 
That’s the game for common folks to play 
If you point a way to burst the bubbles 
They (who’s “They”?) will surely make you pay

Muddy Puddles Blues

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Dragan Stojkovski 

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals) 
Predrag Ikonomovski (electric guitars, back-up vocals) 
Dragan Stojkovski (bass, keyboards, programming) 
Nenad Nedelkov (back-up vocals) 
Saško Nikolovski (trombone) 
Sašo Gorgevski (harp) 
Igor Atanasoski – Hare (slide guitar)

STORY SPINNING JOE 

Story spinning Joe 
He’s the guy next door 
He loves to go to work from nine to five 
He hates his job but none the less 
He’s always there before the rest 
To spin the truth before the news arrive 

Story spinning Joe 
His reflexes are slow 
But his tongue is running like a watermill 
Tattletales and lies 
Behind the phony smiles 
He works around the clock to make things ill 

Hey Joe, don’t step on my toe 
Trust me I don’t wanna be your foe 
Hey Joe. let yourself go 
You could be a good man after all 

Story spinning Joe 
He’s on a verge of war 
With all except the ones that pay the bill 
Not that he is gay 
But he’s willing to get laid 
For a chance to blab and do nothing for real 

In the distance there’s a sound 
The tower twins are falling down 
Joe says they are not the ones they claim they found 
He says don’t blame Kissinger 
You know he’s just the messenger 
Someone else is watching from the higher ground 

Story spinning fool 
He doesn’t have a clue 
Words can hurt you even as you talk 
Plotting games are fun 
If you enjoy to run 
Do it Joe, I’d rather take a walk 

Hey Joe, Hey Joe 
don’t step on their toe 
Trust me you don’t wanna be their foe 
Hey Joe. let yourself go 
You could be a dead man after all

Story Spinning Joe

From the album "Blue Bird" (2015) by La Colonie Volvox.
la-colonie-volvox.bandcamp.com/album/blue-bird

Music and lyrics by Roger Waters 

Sašo Gigov – Giš (lead vocals, back-up vocals) 
Predrag Ikonomovski (electric guitars, back-up vocals) 
Dragan Stojkovski (acoustic guitars, bass) 
Goce Naumov (snare drum) 
Nenad Nedelkov (programming) 
Simon Kiselički (keyboards) 
Ognen Atanasovski (back-up vocals)

HEY YOU 

Hey you ! out there in the cold 
Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me 
Hey you ! Standing in the aisles 
With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me 
Hey you ! don't help them to bury the light 
Don't give in without a fight. 

Hey you ! out there on your own 
sitting naked by the phone would you touch me 
Hey you ! with your ear against the wall 
Waiting for someone to call out would you touch me 
Hey you ! would you help me to carry the stone 
Open your heart, I'm coming home 

Hey you ! out there on the road 
Always doing what you're told, can you help me 
Hey you ! out there beyond the wall 
Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me 
Hey you ! don't tell me there's no hope at all 
Together we stand, divided we fall. 
Together we stand, divided we fall. 
Together we stand, divided we fall... 

(Us and Them 
And after all we're only ordinary men 
Me, and you 
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do 
With, without 
And who'll deny that's what the fighting’s all about) 

...But it was only fantasy 
The wall was too high as you can see 
No matter how you tried he could not break free 
And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey You

La Colonie Volvox completed the circle of their musical journey with their latest release which brought them back to writing lyrics, melodies and arrangements, something they left behind 15 years ago when they started the band. After much experimentation with jazz, free improvisation and traditional music, their sixth studio release “Blue Bird” is a strait-ahead song oriented album, with music that reflects and resembles their musical heroes – The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors and Frank Zappa, but also Nick Cave and Tom Waits, as well as the old blues masters. From the cabaret-like atmosphere of the opening love songs, the album slowly shifts towards hard driven blues and British rock, as humor and political themes replace love motifs. In their own words, “Blue Bird” was a test of the compositional skills and creativity they put on hold long time ago.
La Colonie Volvox was born out of the need to pursue different approaches and musical interests. It was formed by Sasho Gigov – Gish and Dragan Stojkovski in 2002 after the disbandment of the progressive-rock band “Klerzo”. The idea was to explore the opportunities of a leaderless music collective, as well as to expand their musicianship into styles and traditions other than rock music. After years of searching for the appropriate line-up, they settled for a steady one in 2006 when they recorded the first two albums. “Abstractology” was an aleatoric free improvisation session and the other one called “Wasteland” was the opposite of that – 11 acapella traditional folk songs with strict arrangements. They were published at the same time (October 2006) by the renowned label SJF Records from Skopje (a subsidiary of the Skopje Jazz Festival) and showed the diverse interests and eclectic aesthetics that LCV would continue to develop in the subsequent years. The third CD called “Europa” was published in 2009 and “East West and Rest” came out the year after, both bearing the marks of the previous releases – improvisational music with a lot of influence from the folk traditions of the Balkans and worldwide (Turkey, India, the Middle East). The constant change of the line-up became also the trademark of a collective that would always explore and search for new sonic experiences. That brought them to a point in which they left improvisation as a method and turned towards arranging traditional music for a new acoustic expression. The result was their fifth studio album called “AEIOU” (2012) , CD of world music oriented songs with lyrics in French, Ladino, Occitan, Turkish, Macedonian, Bosnian and English language. It was a mixture of troubadour and  catharic music, music of the Balkans and the Islamic cultural impact, to rock'n'roll and contemporary expressions. Promoted with a big concert in Skopje, several concerts in their homeland and across Europe (Venice, Paris, Maribor and Prague) it was their biggest success by then...
But that didn’t stray them away from the need to explore further. Sasho Gigov – Gish, Dragan Stojkovski and Predrag Ikonomovski (member of the group since 2008) decided to make an album that would bring them back to their roots – original songs that anyone could sing under the shower. Back to square one!... and the final result is “Blue Bird”. They were joined by Goce Naumov on drums and Nenad Nedelkov, who contributed two songs and back-up vocals on some of the numbers (both members of the collective since the beginnings), as well as guest appearances from respected Macedonian musicians and friends of the band. It was published in March 2015 and is their sixth consecutive studio album.


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