Branko Isaković

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Branko Isaković
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Branko Isaković (born June 24, 1958) is a Serbian bass player, producer and composer of Balkan ambient beat. After a long career in pop, rock, and ethno bands he launched his Divine Sound project with healing music.

Biography

Isaković was born in

as a replacement for Bata Sokić who went to serve the army. Isaković left the band in 1978.

With former Tilt members Dejan Cukić (vocals) and Predrag Jakovljević (guitar), guitarist Nenad Stamatović and composer and keyboard player Dragan Mitrić, Isaković formed Bulevar.

After

.

When Dejan Cukić left

. He left the band in 1992 and returned to Cukić's Spori Ritam Band and played until 2003.

In 1993 Isaković moved to

. During a trip to India in 1994 Isaković got interested into spirituality and ambient and ethnic music. In 1996 he formed The Glissers with Voja Bešić - Beške, Ekatarina Velika keyboard player Margita Stefanović and Marija Mihajlović from Spori Ritam Band. In 1996, during the recording of the first The Glissers album, at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, with producer Vladimir Stojić (AtmanActive) - Isaković met computer technology for the first time.

In 1997 came out the Dejan Cukić & Spori Ritam Band live album Unplugged recorded live in Novi Sad. At the same time Isaković met Ljuba Ninković who used to be the frontman of a famous acoustic band S Vremena Na Vreme. Together they recorded soundtracks for theater plays and commercial and TV music. The two with Bilja Krstić recorded the album Bistrik on a Pentium I computer in 1999. Together they formed the Bistrik Orchestra which became Bilja Krstić's backing band. The album was a huge success and the band toured Brazil, Russia, France, Italy and Greece. The following year Dejan Cukić recorded a soundtrack for the Divlji med play which is actually a cover album of Bob Dylan's songs with lyrics in Serbian language.

In 2001 with Ivica Stojanović, a friend from the First Belgrade Singers Company, Isaković started a project TeodulIja which was a combination of

in 2001 and in 2003 released a studio album Zapisi.

The Romani music band Kal recorded their debut album in 2005 with Isaković as additional producer. The self-titled album came out in 2006 through B92 records and Asphalt Tango Records. In the meantime Isaković started his own project Divine Sound which is a healing ambiental music band. The album Order of Love came out in April, 2005. It was created as music background for spoken word meditations by Vlado Ilić as part of family system therapy, following Dr Bert Hellinger's Systemic Constellations method. The CD contains five meditative compositions enriched by the voice of Marija Mihajlović and native flute played by Milinko Ivanović. In September, 2005 Bilja Krstić & Bistrik Orchestra started recording a new album released in 2007 entitled Tarpoš. A new TeodulIja album Vino istine came out in 2007. He also played bass in blues-rock bands Les Gigantes and Texas Flood He also wrote music for theatre play Muma Paduri in 2008. In 2011 He wrote music for bestseller book by life coach Ivana Kuzmanović - I Love.

In 2018 he made Aja Sofija Balkan ambient beat CD inspired by his spiritual voyage to Istanbul. It vas released for Label Multimedia Music Belgrade.

His latest CD Prvi Predak. is part of inspirational book by his wife Snežana Prokić. Divine Sound is his band with music healers and music therapists Anika Petrović playing gong, Sonja Kalajić on violin, Shoica and Vladimir Stojković -Coka on perccusion, Maja Pakić and Ksenija Lea Ronai as spiritual and performance artist.

Discography

With Suncokret

Singles

• "Dlakavo čudo" / "Noćna ptica" (1979)
• "Sviće novi dan" / "Tvoja mama gunđa protiv mene" (1979)

With Bulevar

Studio albums

• Loš i mlad (1981)
• Mala noćna panika (1982)
• Nestašni dečaci (2008)

Singles

• "Moje bezvezne stvari" / "Nemam ništa važno da te pitam" (1980)
• "Nestašni dečaci" / "Moja lova, tvoja lova" (1981)

Various artists compilations

• Svi marš na ples! (1981)

With Propaganda

Studio albums

• Apatija javnosti (1982)

With Idoli

With Krstić & Šaper

Studio albums

• Poslednja mladost u Jugoslaviji (1987)

With Dejan Cukić

Studio albums

• Spori ritam (1987)
• 4 ½... Ja bih da pevam (1996)
• Igramo na ulici (1998)
• Divlji med (2000)
• Kalendar (2002)

Live albums

• Unplugged (1997)
• DC & SRB @ SC (2003)

Compilation albums

• San na pola puta (1994)

With Kerber

Studio albums

• Peta strana sveta (1990)

Live albums

• 121288
  (1989)

With Bilja Krstić

Studio albums

• Bistrik (2001)
• Zapisi (2003)
• Tarpoš (2007)

With Teodulija

Studio albums

• Priče iz davnina (2002)
• Vino istine (2007)

With Kal

Studio albums

• Kal (2002)

With Divine Sound

Studio albums

• Order of Love (2005)
• Muma Paduri ( 2009)
• Od kad sam se zavolela - Volim ( 2011)
• Aja Sofija ( 2018 )
• Prvi Predak (2020)

See also

• Serbian rock
• SFR Yugoslav Pop and Rock scene

External links

• Official site
• Official Myspace
• Branko Isaković at Discogs
• EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar;
  ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4