VIA LUCE (2013-2017)

Via Luce is a brandnew rap/hip-hop project made of Pula`s premiere rappers Cannone, Filijala and Dean Kostroman, with addition of two members Dino Popovic and Filip-Domagoj Pacic. The thing was cooking for a long time, and in 2013 the project became real. At the end of 2014, Via Luce released a great album (in croatian language) called "U Zemlji Cudesa".

The first video "Dobrodosli U Pulu" (Welcome to Pula) gives you a speeded up ride through the city of Pula.

After the passing away of their member Dean Kostroman in 2017, the band ceased their activity.

CD "U Zemlji Cudesa" 2014

2015 !!! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Well, dear people, we are a year older, and should we say - a year wiser !!

I wish you all 

a lot of Rock `n` Roll.

This wasn`s supposed to be a rhyme, but hah, there you go !

This is the year of new decisions, as every new year is supposed to be. So I decided to expand this blog in a way that you will be able to read reviews about new releases, watch also some old concert and videos from the rock scene of this rocking city, and also, and I am proud to announce it, some interviews with actual and past musicians of the Pula Rock scene.

So stay tuned, many surprises goin` on in year 2015, check the concertschedule here on the right, maybe a band from Pula/Istria plays in your city one of these days !!

Again, have a beautiful 2015 !!

Getting in it with the brandnew Via Luce videoclip !!

OVRHA (2012-)

OVRHA is one of the newest band in the Rock scene of Pula, altough is made of veterans of the Punk scene. Playing shows during the last few years, Ovrha finally came to their first album, and promoted it last weekend.

CD "Drzava" 2014

SASA 21 (2003-)

With a completely confusing beginning of the band`s life and line-up, Sale Veruda`s (KUD Idijoti`s mastermind) actual band started with the activities somewhere around 2003. It was always a backproject until the death of KUD Idijoti`s vocalist Tusta and the definitive end of the band. Since that moment, Sale fully reactivated the band and after few line up changes, in 2013 the band is completed in today`s line-up. The band released the first LP (only on vinyl) in 2014 (the LP material is recorded in 2004!!!). Recently, they released a new CD.

LP "VD-i1" 2014

2CD "VD-i2" 2020

ZGOBECENA SHAGOMA (2013-)

Zgobecena Shagoma is a completely new project/band featuring two legends of the Pula scene, Dario "Rio" Kroznjak (here as Otokar Revolucionar) from a hundred bands (or close) and Silvio "Kume" Belusic (here as Oton Pesnik) from Fazana (a beatutiful city near Pula), a great musician active in the 80s, and now back with this weird experimental project. They like to call their musical style "Acid Rock/Cannibal Jazz", whatever that may mean. And very important to mention, they put the focus on 100% spontaneous creativity and 0% rehearsing.

Recently they released their first CD album which is a beautiful mixture of sounds, rhythms and psychedelic atmospheres. 

CD "1000 Zasto 1000 Zato" 2014

CD "Shagoma Bonamenat" 2014

CD "debula.org" 2018

IN MEMORIAM : BRANKO ČRNAC - TUSTA (06.10.1955. - 14.10.2012.)

Branko Crnac nicknamed Tusta was the frontman of the most popular Yugoslav/Croatian Punk band of the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s, KUD IDIJOTI. 

Tusta joined KUD Idijoti soon after the beginnings (the band was formed on February 2nd 1981.), after the band changed few guys on the vocalist position. 

After he joined, he became the charismatic frontman by which the band would be recognised everywhere. Tusta was also a member of the working class, as he never quits his job, not even when the band reached the peak of their popularity.

He was also a true anti-fascist.

In 2011., Tusta was diagnosed with lung/throat cancer.The band stopped with their activities, waiting for Tusta to recover from the disease.

It never happened.

Many humanitarian concerts were held to raise funds for helping Tusta`s cancer treatment.

Branko Crnac - Tusta died October 14th 2012.

Few days later, the band`s guitarist Sale Veruda announced that KUD Idijoti cease to exist.

In 2014., the city of Pula decided that a stairway near the club "Uljanik" will be called by Branko Crnac - Tusta.

Me and Tusta around 2008/9

REST IN PEACE, MY DEAR FRIEND....

ROSTIGLIO feat. ELUJ (2009)

ROSTIGLIO is one of the project invented by the hyperactive Franci Blaskovic, but this time joined by the also hyperactive musician/producer ELUJ. Franci only sang, and Eluj (Jule) wrote and recorded the whole material. The weird combination recorded three albums during 2009, and that was it. As Rostiglio is one of Franci`s projects invented after he ended the Gori Ussi Winnetou activity, these albums are his 64th, 65th and 66th albums.

PS: As for the name of the band, it has roots in a small place near Vizinada on the old road from Pula to Trieste, there was a restaurant on which was written Rostiglio, which was a completely invented and dramatically mispelled word between italian and croatian language, wrongly written in both languages and meaning actually nothing.

CD 1 "Bordel Rostiglio" 2009

CD 2 "Boletus Slavonicus" 2009

CD 3 "Za Dim Spremni" 2009

ASHEN DIVINITY (2010-2016)

This young and relatively new band is formed by ex members of Infernal Tenebra. Through the years, they got few members changes, and finally ended as a five-piece. The metal style they played changed also, from the Gothic-Black beginnings, to Death-Thrash they play now. In the beginning of 2014. the band released their first studio material as demo, recently available on a self-release CD.

Update 2020: disbanded in 2016.

Demo/CD "The Wealth Of Abomination" 2014

CD "Digital Sisyphus" 2016

DELTA BLUES GANG (2012-2016)

Probably the best European Delta Blues band (and I am not exaggerating!!), Delta Blues Gang comes out from the ashes of Crossroads, the band that brothers Kajtez used to lead through the 90s. DBG now settled the line-up with the new awesome female singer Elizabeta. DBG are winners of the 4th Croatian Blues Challenge 2012 and semifinalist of the Memphis 29th International Blues Challenge. Enough said. DBG lately signed for the croatian Spona Records label. Definitely one of the most succesful bands coming out from Pula.

Update 2020: not active since 2016.

Awesome performance at the Varazdin`s Fontana Blues Festival a month ago 

(camera by me :) )

CD "It Ain`t Nothing But The Blues" 2012

CD "Electric Driving Blues" 2013

CD "American Mile" 2014

DELTA BLUES GANG OFFICIAL WEBSITE

BACK FROM EARLY HOLIDAYS IN PULA !

Hello, people ! Just few words to say hello to all of you ! The work with the blog will continue ASAP, meanwhile here is a glimpse of a concert by CherryBombz, an awesome cover band from Pula, I was their guest vocalist on 10 songs on a Biker Party in Sisan, June 20th. Enjoy (I hope) this video and I will post the next post in few days !

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER ALL OF YOU !!

AND COME TO PULA / ISTRIA !!!