Hrvatsko drustvo skladatelja moze se pohvaliti novim brojem svog glasila - Cantus br. 144. Iz njegovog bogatog sadrzaja izdvajaju se naslovi: 24. Muzicki bijenale Zagreb, Rodjedanski koncert Dubravka Detonija, Porin 2007, Manifest Europskog saveza skladatelja, Praizvedba baleta Veronika Desinicka, Oprostaj s prijateljima - Djordjem Novkovicem, Ivanom - Ivicom Perclom i Kresimirom - Kresom Blazevicem, a tu su i redovne rubrike: CD izlog, razne recenzije, natjecaji za razne festivale... U svakom slucaju, njegovom kupovinom bit ce to dobro ulozenenih 20 kn.

U ponedjeljak 18. juna 2007. godine u Medjunarodnoj galeriji portreta "Ismet Mujezinovic" u Tuzli, publici ce se predstaviti Bosko Jovic na gitari i Dino Mulic na klaviru. Na koncertu koji pocinje u 20 sati ova dva mlada umjetnika ce se predstaviti djelima Bacha, Rodriga, Bocherinija, Wiliamsa. Pored izvedbi na klasicnoj gitari, Bosko Jovic ce se takodjer predstaviti i izvedbom Bachovog violinskog koncerta BWV 1041 aranziranog za elektricnu gitaru. Osnovni cilj koncerta jeste promoviranje univerzalnih vrijednosti klasicne muzike, te popularizacija iste. U Europi postoji svega nekoliko ovakvih dueta, a u BiH, do sada, niti jedan. Eksperimentisanjem sa zvukovima elektricne gitare i klavira dobija se nova i interesantnija forma klasicne muzike. Nastup u Tuzli je jedan od koncerata koje ce ova dva umjetnika svirati u okviru svoje turneje po Bosni i Hercegovini. Prije Tuzle, predstavili su se publici u Zenici, Mostaru, a nakon Tuzle imat ce priliku da se predstave i u Sarajevu, Banja Luci i Bihacu. Ova koncertna turneja je pod pokroviteljstvom svicarskog kulturnog projekta ProHelvetia koji obezbjedjuje dio sredstava potrebnih za realizaciju ovog projekta. Ulaz je besplatan!

The Sonny Moorman Group is a Cincinnati, Ohio based Blues / Rock band in the classic "power trio" format, consisting of Sonny Moorman - guitar & vocals, Marc Hoffman - bass, and Jamie Combs - drums & vocals. Sonny and the band are nine-time winners of CAMMY awards (Cincinnati Area Music awards sponsored by the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper). The band was formed in 1994 and was signed to its first recording deal by 706 Records / Sun Studio at the 1994 Crossroads showcase in Memphis. Since then the band has played 300 nights a year and has performed at regional festivals and clubs and toured the US with Easyriders magazine, performing at all their events. The Sonny Moorman Band is currently promoting their album "Crossroads Motel" and Sonny Moorman is promoting his solo album "Live at the Cincy Blues Fest!". For more information abut these artists visit: www.sonnymoorman.com . (Headliner of ...JG 157).

Clanovi legendarne makedonske grupe Leb i sol, nakon turneje povodom 30 godina svog djelovanja, nastavljaju sa aktivnostima. Spreman je materijal za njihov novi album, a album bi se snimao u Ohridu i u Londonu. Producent i ton majstor ce biti Haydn Bendall. Rijec je o strucnjaku koji je saradjivao sa velikim imenima kao sto su Sting, Pat Metheny, Paul McCartney, Nene Cherry, Ron Wood... i sa jos mnogim drugim poznatim umjetnicima. Vjeruje se da ce i grupa Leb i sol, pod njegovom paskom, napraviti dobar album. Clanovi grupe Leb i sol (Nikola Kokan Dimusevski - klavijature; Bodan Arsovski - bas gitara i Garabet Garo Tavitjan - udaraljke) odlaze 03.07.2007. godine za Ohrid gdje ce se u Hotelu Inex Gorica instalisati veliki tonski studio (adaptirat ce se dvije velike konferencijske sale kako bi se dobio prostor za studio room i control room). Sa probama i snimanjem se zapocinje 06.07.2007. godine. Haydn Bendall stize u Ohrid 20.07.2007. godine i tu ostaje deset dana, Plan je da Leb i sol ostanu u Ohridu do 08.08.2007. godine. Poslije 11.08.2007. cijela ekipa se seli u London gdje ce se konacno snimanje obaviti u studiju Metropolis (veliki i veoma statusni studio u kojem su vec snimale sve naprijed pomenute svjetske velicine), Tu bi se nadsinhronizovali instrumenti koje bi svirali engleski muzicari, a i prateci vokali, napravio bi se remix i post produkcija albuma i to bi sve, naravno, uradio Haydn Bandall. Foto: Nenad (Amvon Comunications).

During studies at the Faculty of Music Arts - (University of 'Sts Kiril & Metodij') in Skopje, Macedonia; Davor worked as keyboard player for the Macedonian National TV station's Big Band Orchestra, as well as composing, arranging and producing some of the biggest music acts in the country. Starting with classical - to pop and jazz and branching out into film, mood, jazz fusion, ambient, dance, groove, symphonic, contemporary jazz and R&B. Davor had the honor to represent his country at the Eurovision song contest as the Arranger of the Macedonian entry, "I Love You 100%" by XXL, for the year 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden. He moves to Toronto, Canada in 2000 where he graduates from TREBAS Institute and establishes Big Bang Music Recording Studios and his record label Davorius Productions. He is also the co-founder of MDScoring - Publishing along with his fellow musician Miki Petkovski. His recent work as a composer / arranger / producer also includes companies such as: Sony / BMG; Sound Ideas; Westar Music; MDScoring; Soundscape Productions; BLE Publishing . His music can be heard on a number of different Radio and TV shows featured on: CBC, MTV, TVO, OMNI TV, MRTV, Naked News TV, etc. For more info visit: www.davorius.com . (...JG 157).

Since being born in Ibiza, Spain, in 1982, Mayte always liked painting, writing, drawing, photographing and just making things look prettier with a little bit of colour or patience. Always trying to be original or creative, she never really realized how could she make a life from that. At the age of 18 Mayte had to make one of those big decisions, choosing Journalism, but never being completely sure. Mayte made her way through five years asking herself all the time if she had made a mistake, but at the same time enjoying the little bites the university gave her with lessons about photography, graphic design and video edition, sweating blood trying to do her best on them. So she finished her degree in 2005 at least knowing what was coming after: to become a Photographer. And one week after graduating in Journalism, Mayte was in London prepared to start studying again. Now she is finishing her second year of a BA in Photography and Digital Imaging in TVU. The music industry is very close to her, always surrounded by all kind of musicians, and loving seeing live music. It is not clear yet what she wants to do when she finishes her second degree, but making portraits of musicians is something she's been experienced and something she will definetly will keep doing in the future, if not for a job, for her very good musicians friends, who always need photos for their portfolios... because Mayte knows many musicians, but they don't know so many photographers, or at least not with that personal touch of Mayte's J.

Born in the Greek island of Crete, Ioannis Anastassakis studied Music at the Greek National Conservatory and the Nakas Conservatory in Athens. He completed his Bachelor's Degree at the American College of Greece, and subsequently studied at the distinguished Musicians Institute (GIT), where he was hired as an instructor, after graduating at the top 1% of his class. He continued his graduate studies, specializing in Solo Flamenco Guitar, under the tutelage of Juan Serrano, at the California State University, completing an M.A. in Guitar Performance, graduating Magna cum Laude. Currently (2007), he is working towards a Doctorate in Education, with emphasis in Music. Ioannis studied Flamenco guitar for several years with Juan Serrano. In addition, he has studied with Flamenco guitar legends Manolo Sanlucar, Juan Martin, Paco Serrano, Paco Pena, Jose Antonio Rodriguez and Manolo Franco. Ioannis' teachers in Electric guitar are no less impressive: the list reads like a "Who is Who" of Contemporary electric guitar: He has taken lessons from Steve Vai (Whitesnake), Vinnie Moore (UFO), Marty Friedman (Megadeth) , John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Frank Gambale (Chick Corea), Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big), Richie Kotzen, Brett Garsed, Joey Tafolla, Scott Henderson, Mike Stern, Jean Marc Belkadi, Darren Householder, Tommy Tedesco, Ted Greene, Ron Eschete, Sid Jacobs & Joe Diorio. For more info visit: ioannis.org . (...JG 157).

3. Zagreb Jazz Festival - Jazzg3 odrzati ce se od 02. do 04. studenog 2007. godine, te s ponosom najavljujemo i nastupe tri velika jazz umjetnika danasnjice radi kojih vec sada s nestrpljenjem iscekujemo jesen 2007. godine: Chick Corea & Bela Fleck, nastupaju 02.11.2007., Joshua Redman Trio, nastupaju 03.11.2007. i Ornette Coleman Quartet, nastupaju 04.11.2007. godine.

Hamadryad - "Live in France 2006", UNCR/5046, Barcode: 777078914293, available since June 24th 2007. Best selling Unicorn Digital. Artist Hamadryad is back with its first live CD recorded live during their 2006 appearance at the Crescendo Festival in France. The new live CD produced by Michel St-Pere and Hamadryad contains 12 songs from 2001 world acclaimed first CD "Conservation of Mass" and 2005 follow up "Safe in Conformity". A total of 77 minutes of music that will make you feel the power and magic of the Hamadryad live experience. MP3 samples will be posted on the Unicorn Web site this week and a brand new Hamadryad web site will be online very soon. Also available from Hamadryad are these albums: "Conservation of Mass" and "Safe in Conformity". For more info visit: www.unicorndigital.com .

Voodoo Lake is band from Italy and have collaborated with other bands since their early days. They cooperated with international artists such as Flatman from Germany, Rebel Storm (USA), Savoy Truffle (Giappone), Andy Penington - british singer and banjo player, Johnny Neel - mythical keybordist from Dickey Betts Band and Gregg Allman Band (currently working with Warren Haynes). There are also collaborations with Italian players of the same genre such as W.I.N.D. and young and promising Silver Trane (some of them played with original members of Frank Zappa band). Also, Voodoo Lake can boast to have shared the stage with Mauro Pagani (P.F.M.) and De Andre - who played his violin in some southern rock classic songs: "Call me the Breeze", "Sweet Home Alabama" etc. The results of their experiences accumulated during these years can be enjoyed in their live shows, where their long instrumental jams combined with vocal harmonies built with three voices makes incredible atmospheres and let us know that the music as the business would like to be dead. Music is alive and kicking and its continuously evolving taking always a look to its roots. Their second album, "Flowers in the Sand" is now on sale. For more info visit: www.myspace.com/voodoolake . (...JG 157).

Sasvim iznenada, krajnje neplanirano i nadasve neocekivano - slucajnim susretom i upoznavanjem – sa gitaristom i vokalom sastava No Rules - Goranom Camparom, u jednom od retkih, preostalih zivih koncertnih, beogradskih rock n roll zarista - bio sam bombardovan - novim albumom pomenutog sastava ciji muzicki bekgraund, ali i vokalno tekstualni sklop, ispostavilo se ovoga puta, nakon preslusavanja svih cetrnaest ukusno narezanih kompozicija, nije bio iritantantnog karaktera, umaracki ili pak dekadentan. No Rules - pozitivnog, elektrilizovanog, omamljujuce privlacnog senzibiliteta - uprkos efektnoj i ne nasminkanoj lirickoj refleksiji nepobitne sumorno turobne stvarnosti - na ostvarenju "Probaj me", (njihov prvi album, podsetimo se, objavio je pre par godina beogradski Aktive time) uspevaju cak da se dotaknu i mejnstrim strujanja sto ce u njihovom slucaju biti shvaceno samo i iskljucivo u pozitivnom smislu jer je pre svega ovde rec o iskrenom rock, ritam & blues bendu, koji, sasvim sigurno i uspesno pravi iskorak iz pomenute r & b forme i ocekivanog sablona gradeci prepoznatljiv, osobeni stil i izrazaj kakav ne poseduju mnogi, niti mnogo medijski zastupljeniji autori. Obratite paznju. No Rules, sveobuhvatan je utisak - to zasluzuju. U potpunosti.

Grupa Kings (ZG, HR) sve ukupno postoji nekih sedam godina. Poceli su kao mladi, kao klinci, tako da su sada jos
uvijek mlad bend. Zacetnici benda bili su: Hrvoje Zagorec, Tomo Bacurin, Silvio Vrban, te Ivan Draganic Cico, uz managersko vodstvo Marija Zgurica. Kroz nekoliko godina izmjenili su nekoliko clanova, te napokon, danas, bend ima dva nova clana, a to su: Marijan Kos - solo gitara, te Marijan Pejic - bubnjevi. U autorskom radu bend se okusao na samom pocetku karijere sa pjesmom "Bas me briga", autora Hrvoja Zagoreca, na festivalu Hit Jeseni u Varazdinu. Medjutim, zbog neiskustva, nakon toga je nastalo autorsko zatisje od cak nekih tri godine. Iako bend tada nije autorski radio, imao je pregrst nastupa i to sa poznatim i renomiranim izvodjacima kao sto su primjerice: Prljavo Kazaliste, Parni Valjak, Crvena Jabuka, Oliver Dragojevic, te mnogi drugi. Nakon zatisja, Kingsi sa pjesmom "Najbolja" visoko kotiraju na glazbenim top lijestvicama i osiguravaju si mjesto u Top 10 u emisiji "Glazbena TV" na nacionalnoj televiziji. Nakon pjesme "Najbolja", uslijedile su pjesme "Isti", "Tako malo", "Sanjao sam tebe", "Budi uz mene", "Signorina" ... Sa pjesmom "Isti" po prvi puta su nastupili na festivalu "Oni dolaze", sto je zavrsnica Hrvatskog Radijskog Festivala. Godinu nakon toga, na istom festivalu, nastupaju sa pjesmom "Sanjao sam tebe" da bi 2006. godine na istom festivalu pobijedili sa pjesmom "Put od nash zelja". Za vise info posjetiti: www.grupakings.com . (...JG 157).

... pred Prvi maj, 1966. godine, otac me vodio na sisanje kod majstora Bogdana, na tuzlanskom korzou. Tad sam u trafici preko puta Kina "Centar" ugledao magazin Dzuboks. To je bio prvi broj, a na naslovnoj strani su bili The Rolling Stones. Ja se nisam htio osisati, jer sam njih vidio tamo sa dugim kosama, ipak sam se osisao, a tek poslije poceo sam i ja pustati kosu. Prva ploca koju sam nabavio bila je, ne mogu se tacno sjetiti, ili od VIS-a Crveni Koralji ili od VIS-a Elipse. U to vrijeme sam stalno navaljivao: "Tata kupi mi ovu plocu, tata kupi mi onu plocu" i tako sam poceo nabavljati ploce. Bile su to ploce Djordje Marjanovica, Radmile Karaklajic, Radmile Mikic Miki... Otac mi je nabavio i gramofon - ceski, marke Supraphon, u mono verziji. Kolekciju mojih ploca su u pocetku cinile singlice (ploce na 45 okretaja sa po jednom pjesmom po strani), a bilo je i extended play ploca (takodjer na 45 okretaja, ali sa po dvije pjesme na jednoj strani). O long play plocama (na 33 okretaja i sa mnogo vise pjesama na obje strane) u to vrijeme nije bilo ni govora. ... Prve tri koje sam nabavio posredstvom engleske firme "Papworths of Notingham", koja se bavila prodajom ploca putem narudzbenica, a ploce su se dostavljale postom, bile su: Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - "Fire", Ohio Express - "Yummy Yummy" i Tommy James & The Shondells - "Monny, Monny". Kad su te ploce stigle, odnio sam ih u Radio Tuzlu...