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Zorica Kojic

Albums: Lady Gaga - Mayhem (Interscope)

The woman who fell to Earth

Even the devil himself, limping from hell himself, would not be able to resist this music: he would dance wildly with the instruction: "The category is dance or die". In the video clip, Lady Gaga is both Pushkin's Queen of Spades and the Red Queen from Alice through the looking glass, and any nameless creature from Bosch's pleasure garden triptych... and many more. Music and painting are inextricably linked

A memory

Miss Margita's sense of sound

And yet she is happy all the time, strong, it simply emanates from these photos, and that happiness and strength keep her in the capsule of a time that resisted breaking for a long time - Margita Magi Stefanović

New album: Lucinda Williams sings the Beatles from Abbey Road (Highway 20 Records/Thirty Tigers)

In his own way and for his soul

Lucinda Williams is the greatest when, in the manner of a storyteller, she touches that America that we sense, a country where everything is far away, and even for the most ordinary human touch you have to cross the entire expanse, which can sometimes be the width of a kitchen table, and sometimes it is the size of a prairie. But Lucinda Williams is bigger than the biggest when even that doesn't matter anymore, it only matters who is within reach and what happens between the two, and her songs spin in that vortex that often throws out some unwanted things. The point of her expression - that one can inevitably live with unwanted things - gives an epic tone to all the stories about little people that she has told so far.

Dragan Ambrozić – Country Today, Lucinda Williams
("Time" No. 662, 2003)

New album: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild Year (PIAS)

Singing with the heavens

God knows everything, said the sister. He never lets anyone out of his sight, neither day nor night.

(Eden von Horvath, A child of our age)

God put his finger in my nerves and imperceptibly, without any hassle, messed up. And when he pulled out his finger, fibers and threads of my nerves remained on it.

(Knut Hamsun, Smooth)

New album

Life is woman-centric

Charli XCX's chromaesthetic sound visions, as well as a hard-line feminist attitude, never cease to stir spirits, but the original music - which this dangerous girl presents on her latest album "Brother" - is still the biggest miracle

New Album: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft (Darkroom/Interscope)

Billy Idolish is the greatest, isn't she?

The album flows in front of us like an impressive filigree construction that has no equal, but very quickly it appears as a desolate Ice Castle where a lonely princess lives. There seems to be no more life or excitement in that castle, but only distant memories of them

Gradac

And there is hunger, and there is fire

This story was created on the occasion of the recent promotion of the new issue of the magazine "Gradac", which is dedicated to the unquenchable fire of the group Ekatarina Velika and wonderful stories about Milan, Maga and Bojan

New Album: Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (Republic Records)

Fame is a roaring beast on all fours

Taylor Swift has been seen to succeed, and to such an extent that sometimes you seriously wonder if this is not an artificial intelligence or a perfectly constructed hologram, made of specially grown human ingredients? In short, there is definitely no winter for Swift

Interview: Srđan Vejvoda, witness of time

Magi: talent, intuition, knowledge

"Maggie was universally interested in all arts and she knew very well how to quickly assess what was really valuable and to take it into herself, that 'message' that a particular work of art would carry in itself. I don't need to say much about the music because the music was an essential part of her. As a person with absolute hearing, with a classical musical education and a preternatural talent for the piano, music was her natural world, as if she was already born with music in her."

New album: Kim Gordon - "The Collective" (Matador)

Kim Gordon at a sonic milestone

As you expose yourself to this risqué music, which offers absolutely no explanation of where it's going, nor asks you for any permission to play with your unaccustomed ears, you'll experience a lot more ornamentation as well as a hard core of the basic "indie rock" sound.

New Albums: Ty Segall – Three Bells (Drag City)

I can't sing loud enough

Ty Segall's fifteenth album "Three Bells" testifies to creative openness, releasing all poetic brakes and calling life as it is.

Interview: Momčilo Bajagić Bajaga, rock star

Instructor of positive normality

"I had a small Portastudio, with which you could create four separate channels on a cassette, which for me was phenomenal. You could record guitar, drum, voice, backing vocals separately and that was it. The late Kornelij Bata Kovač, with whom I had already collaborated on some songs for Zdravko Čolić, played a big role there. He heard those demos of mine and immediately told me: 'I'm coming to your place tomorrow at 8 in the morning' - which was terrible for me because I didn't get up that early - with the idea of ​​going to PGP and making an appointment to record the album. We go there and Bata really tells them: 'We have to record this'. By the way, he liked the song the most Sparrows, although it is at the end Berlin was the first hit. A lot of folk musicians were recording in PGP at that time, all of them in Studio 5, and then we rushed into the weekends, when the folk musicians went to play somewhere."