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SENKO RENDULIC
"Nostalgija" |
Senko Rendulic
"Nostalgija"
"Nostalgija" is the first CD of Senko Rendulic. Listening
will lead you on a journey through loss, longing and hope, with Senko's guitar
as your guide. A native of Bosnia, Senko has collaborated with both Bosnian
and American friends here in San Francisco to create this collection of original
songs - ballads, rock beats and the blues work together here to express the
questions, memories and dreams that we all experience at some point in our lives.
"Nostalgija" represents many years worth of saved
inspirations for melodies, most of which come from rock, blues and folk-style
ballads. And though these melodies might not reflect a traditional Balkan folk
sound, many of the lyrics express the Balkan experience as more and more of
us have come to understand it. Some songs address love and longing for a past
that can never be retrieved or relived. Other songs directly confront the truth
of the present without bothering to linger too long in the past.
Senko Rendulic is a native of Banja Luka, in the Krajina (northwest)
region of Bosnia & Herzegovina. His love of the guitar began when he was
a teenager in the late 1960's listening to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Deep
Purple, and many other British and American bands whose music was as popular
in the former Yugoslavia as it was elsewhere in the world. Besides greatly influencing
his guitar technique, these songs were an early introduction to the English
language, long before Senko ever imagined that he would need to speak English!
He moved to San Francisco in August of 1995, where one of his first encounters
with a friendly American happened to be with John Daley of Berkeley, who presented
Senko with a guitar and an invitation to play with the Slavonian Traveling Band.
This he did for several years, contributing his native familiarity with sevdalinka,
kolo, Rom rhythms to the group.
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Senko Rendulic
Biografija
Rodjen sam 1953. godine u Banja Luci. Prvi muzicki koraci
su poceli nakon zavrsenog 8 razreda osnovne skole, kad sam dobio prvu
akusticnu , vec koristenu gitaru. U to doba sam slusao grupe Beatls, Rolling
Stones, Santana, Deep Purple, Pro
Arte, Indexi, Bijelo
Dugme, Korni Grupa, Parni
Valjak i ostale. Napredovao sam u ucenju gitare i prva grupa u kojoj
sam svirao bila je "Tajgers". Ta grupa je kratko svirala, otprilike
jednu godinu. Onda sam presao u grupu "Krug" gdje smo svirali
po selima i okolini Banja Luke. Svirao sam u toj grupi povremeno, i to
je, otprilike, trajalo pet godina.
Nakon toga sam imao dugu pauzu, do susreta sa starim
muzicara - Zlatanom Semicem i Zlatanom Skocicem. Nas trojica smo poceli
svirati u jednom banjaluckom jazz klubu, bilo je to 1990. godine. Svirali
smo, otprilike jednu godinu, i onda smo to prestali zbog pocetka rata
u bivsoj Jugoslaviji. Izbjegao sam u Ameriku 1995. godine sam susreo "Slavonian
Traveling Band" i sa njima snimio dva CD-a. Svirali smo nasu tradicionalnu
narodnu muziku. Sa njima sam bio cetiri godine i onda sam odlucio da snimim
moj prvi CD. Tokom mnogih godina muzika se talozila u meni, pa sam odlucio
napraviti album "Nostalgija". Rijeci za muziku je pisalo nekoliko
ljudi. Kao prvo - Ibro Alickovic, za dvije pjesme; Pol Litski - za dvije
pjesme; Sesilija Hrmen - za jednu pjesmu; John Daley - za jednu pjesmu
i Muhamed Rajic - za jednu pjesmu. Ja sam napisao tekstove za dvije pjesme.
Sve pjesme / melodije su moje originalne. Eto, dok ovo pisem, vec pripremam
material za moj sljedeci CD za koji jos ne znam reci kad ce biti zavrsen.
(Senko Rendulic)
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CONTACTS:
senkor@yahoo.com
http://cdbaby.com/cd/senkorendulic
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