quila Guerrilla and other songs that are now iconic will have an opportunity to hear them live again. Preparations are underway to publish a book of Ba- jaga’s poetry, in which he has included all the songs he wrote for his band, as well as many others, while plans also include concerts – a whopping 42 of them! A Bel- grade one, which all those who failed to secure tickets for the upcoming April concert will be able to attend, will be held, in great style, at the Belgrade Hippodrome on 31 st August. Forty years have passed since the release of Positive Geography. Decades have gone by, hair has turned grey, and audiences still hap- pily sing those songs, which seem not to have aged. What’s the trick? Those songs were written with sincerity and in a spe- cial atmosphere that I felt while I created them. As the first album, Positive Geography was sometimes the most beautiful and sometimes the most difficult to work on. I imagined a kind of creative journey for writing that mu- sic that was pop-rock, but that differed greatly in terms of genres, and into each song I inserted some region and land that it would be nice to visit. That’s how the album came to include South America with Tequila-guerrillas, Russia with Tamara, Berlin, China with Slant-eyed Girl etc. You can also feel our work from home on that al- bum, because it was 30 per cent recorded in a profes- sional studio and 70 per cent in my rented flat at num- ber 3 Kosovska Street on the sixth floor, where I had a studio. They were recorded on a 4-track cassette record- er and that gives the songs warmth.
MOMČILO BAJAGIĆ AKA BAJAGA, MUSICIAN Even after 40 years, we still feel best on stage
Great news for all fans of Bajaga: he is set to return to the venue where it all began – Belgrade’s former Union House, today MTS Hall – on 21 st April, to perform Positive Geography, with this concert marking the 40 th anniversary of the famous album’s release A full four decades have passed since the re- lease of the debut album of Momčilo Ba- jagić and his Instructors. It was back in April 1984 that they first performed the tracks of the album Positive Geography, first in Za- greb, then at Belgrade’s Union House, where they shook hands with the audience, which Žika (Milenković) called to enter the auditorium using a megaphone. Bajaga ad- mits that it would be tough to repeat that scenario in the same place this 21st April, because that would mean “the concert being greatly delayed”, but those people who’ve spent 40 years loving Tamara, Marlena, Elephants, Te-
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