Bezdan (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Bezdan
Type = Album
Artist = Đorđe Balašević


Released = 1986
Recorded =
Genre = Rock Chanson
Length = 38:26
Label = PGP RTB
Producer = Đorđe Petrović
Reviews =
Last album = "003"
(1985) |
This album = "Bezdan"
(1986)
Next album = "U tvojim molitvama - Balade"
(1987) |

"Bezdan" (trans. "Abyss") is the fourth studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav musician Đorđe Balašević. The album was produced by Đorđe Petrović and arrangement was done by Aleksandar Dujin. Those two would be the key associates of Balašević for the next twenty years and become the backbone of Balašević supporting band The Unfuckables.

Album's biggest hits were ballads "Ne volim januar", "Bezdan" and "Ne lomite mi bagrenje". Live versions of "Ne volim januar" feature a long concluding monologue. "Ne lomite mi bagrenje" ("Don't Break my Locusts") caused much controvesy. Some critics stated that the song was metaphorically speaking against Albanian terror over Serbs in the conflict on Kosovo. [bs icon [http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/104/fokus04.htm#f9 BH Dani 104, Focus (redaction commentaries)] ] . Balašević later explained that "it is not a song about ethnicities, but about good and evil, and I don't regret, I called the Evil its full name even when others praised it." [ sr icon [http://www.oaza.co.yu/muzika/djole/tekstovi/intervjui/sevropa.htm Online interview with Balašević] ] . Later in late 1990s he stated that "I didn't know that Serbs would become Shiptars to Shiptars. That turned around. We are the ones who break locusts now, but I can't take the blame for that". [sr icon [http://www.balkanmedia.com/magazin/dzungla/23/index.html Interview with Balašević, reprinted from Draško Aćimović's book "Džungla na Estradi"] ]

Track listing

All the songs were written by Đorđe Balašević.
#"Sve je otišlo u Honduras" – 3:53
#"Virovitica" – 3:28
#"Ne volim januar" – 4:10
#"Bezdan" – 4:30
#"Nema više benda kao Neoplanti" – 3:17
#"Narodnjaci" – 4:53
#"Ne lomite mi bagrenje" – 5:34
#"Slow Motion" – 5:52
#"Stari orkestar" – 2:49

References

* "EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006", Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4