- Padot na Vizantija
Infobox musical artist
Name = Падот на Византија (The fall of Byzantium)
Origin =Skopje ,Republic of Macedonia
Genre =Post-punk ,darkwave ,Byzantine Music ,gothic rock
Current_members =Goran Trajkoski - vocalsZoran Dabic - guitarShpend Ibrahim - drumsSami Ibrahim -bassPadot na Vizantija ( _mk. Падот на Византија, _en. The Fall of the
Byzantine Empire ) was an influential 1980spost-punk ,darkwave andgothic rock band with occasionalByzantine music elements and Orthodox Christian believes fromSkopje ,SR Macedonia , then a constituent republic of theSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . The group is notable for itsvocalist Goran Trajkoski who rose to international prominence as afrontman of the group Anastasia which was featured on thesoundtrack album for theAcademy Award nominated movie "Before the Rain" directed byMilčo Mančevski . The most prominent tracks by Padot na Vizantija are "Begining and end" ( Почеток и Крај), "The same situation after all" ( И пак истата состојба), "A beautiful night above Yugoslavia" ( Прекрасна ноќ над Југославија ) and "Horse Riders" ( Коњаници). They performed inSkopje ,Kumanovo ,Štip ,Niš ,Banja Luka ,Sarajevo andZagreb among others.The song "The same situation after all" is included in the "Macedonian Document" ( Македонски Документ)
compilation album along with other prominent alternative Macedonian artists.Outside of music, the lead guitar of Padot na Vizantija- Zoran Dabic has had a long career as a senior diplomat and works as a Director for Collective Security Systems at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia.
ources
*Dragan Pavlov and Dejan Šunjka "Punk u Jugoslaviji" (Punk in Yugoslavia), publisher: IGP Dedalus, Yugoslavia, 1990 sr icon hr icon sl icon
* [http://www.mizar.com.mk/tekst.asp?lang=mac&tekst=31 "Mizar - 20 years after" by Miodrag Mišolić at the Mizar Official Website] mk icon
*Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Macedonia http://www.mfa.gov.mk/default1.aspx?ItemID=303ee also
*Anastasia
*Mizar (band)
*Arhangel
*Afektiven naboj
*Punk in Yugoslavia
*Music of the Republic of Macedonia
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