EYOT

E si, un'altra cotta ! Ma non si poteva fare diversamente ! Questi ragazzi sono proprio proprio belli, anzi bellissimi e anche bravissimi !
Quello che mi stupisce dei serbi è la semplicità e la sincerità. Non tutti naturalmente, ma in molti vedo doti che ti fanno capire che tipi sono.
Ringrazio questo gruppo che ha subito risposto alle mie domande in maniera gentilissima.
Siamo sicuri di far contento Riccardo con questo gruppo che sapete di dov'è ? Niente poco di meno che di Nis !
E sono stati anche in Italia partecipando ad "Umbria jazz" !!!
Adesso pero' mi devo affidare un po' alla mia stregoneria per la traduzione.
Credo che Eyot voglia dire isolotto e i membri del gruppo sono quattro :

Dejan Ilijic / composer & piano
Sladjan Milenovic / Guitar
Marko Stojiljkovic / Bass
Milos Vojvodic / Drums


Facciamo una cosa intelligente ! Onde evitare grane vi copio/incollo quello che mi ha scritto Dejan :

I founded Eyot at the end of 2007. Some of the main information are that we played this year at the Umbria Jazz Balkanic windows contest and we where selected among 3 winners with one Hungarian and one Slovenian band in a competition of 28 bands of the Balkan. That brought us a title "one the most promising bands in Serbia"
Later we had a great performance on Nisville jazz festival.
The one on the right side on the myspace link was selected as a Daily fetaured video (24.09.2009) on a famous jazz web-site All About Jazz and we are the first band from Serbia to get there.:)
Later on, when Earl Grice saw that, he is a drummer of a famous guitarist Ronny Jordan, he named us " Nirvana of the Europian jazz" and on my space you can see one nice review of our performance by jazz pianist Sarah Jane Cion.
The band is now headed to the studio (next Sunday) and we are going to record our first record and the album will be released for American label "Ninety and Nine Records" probably in January.
"Their music represents a musicians hungering for a fresh sound, blending the culture of jazz, the sophistication of classical piano, the gritty elements of East European folk music, and just a hint of smooth electronic fusion..."
I hope in the spring we will be in a chance to play an Italian tour.
Best,
Dejan


Musician Dejan Ilijic pulls listeners through a deep groove of love, life and loss. Ilijic and his highly permeable musical soul has been punctured and inundated by dozens of musical traditions, from his grandmother's traditional lullabies in lilting 7/8 time to the pounding beats of Coltrane and the soothing tug of John Scofield's fusion. He has the languages of music under his fingers, from Mozart to Piazzolla, Bill Frisell to Moby, and the beat of his people is in the simple twist of his wrist across the black and whites. From Macedonia to New York, this completely original music is both new and old, gorgeous in its execution and its implications. His projects and ambitions run deep, and the heart in everything he touches runs deeper. Listen to his music for true depth of understanding; from politics and religion to freedom, love, suffering, and more, Ilijic's music explains much of the inexplicable in life… And more importantly, it's highly listenable!..."
"We need Art like Dejan's in our world!"
Jessica Williams



Dejan Ilijic
EYOT
EYOT final song @ Nisville jazz fest 2009