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Golemata voda: One Big Community
Golemata Voda’s self-titled debut is one of my favourite records from the region this year, and our conversation about creative freedom, the Skopje underground, and the Great Water explains why.
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Toni Dimitrov & Blanket Swimming – Hermetic
A collaboration between Macedonian sound artist Toni Dimitrov and Blanket Swimming, Hermetic is fifty copies of limited cassette ambient that is meditative in the truest sense.
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Galija – Prva plovidba
Galija’s 1979 debut sits between bluesy hard rock and prog ambition, drawing heavily on Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. With occasional flashes of promise, it’s a record more historically interesting than canonically essential.
Cam
Cam is a music writer and the founder of EX-YU Music: the English-language home for music from the former Yugoslavia and the modern Balkan region. Based in Zagreb.
