Korni Grupa
Korni Grupa | |
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Background information | |
Also known as | Kornelyans |
Origin | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Genres |
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Years active | 1968–1974 (Reunions: 1987, 2019) |
Labels | Komuna |
Past members | Kornelije Kovač Bojan Hreljac Vladimir Furduj Velibor Kacl Miroslava Kojadinović Dušan Prelević Dalibor Brun Dado Topić Josip Boček Zdravko Čolić Zlatko Pejaković |
Korni Grupa (
in 1968.Launched and led by the keyboardist
Since the very beginning of their run, Korni Grupa's activity took place on two tracks: one focused around commercial
With Pejaković the band recorded their eponymous debut album, which was the first full-length rock album in
After the disbandment, Korni Grupa members pursued careers as solo acts, studio musicians and producers, reuniting in 1987 with Topić on vocals for two performances, in Zagreb and Belgrade. In 2019, Kovač, Boček and Topić reunited to hold the farewell Korni Grupa concert in Belgrade; Hreljac's participation in the reunion was also announced, however, he died less than two months before the concert.
History
Early years (1968–1969)
Having left the
The band had their first live appearance at the Belgrade
One of such performances was at
The new Korni Grupa singer became
Dado Topić years (1969–1971)
After Brun's departure, owing to the mutual friendship with dancer Lokica Stefanović, the new Korni Grupa vocalist became Dado Topić, a former member of the Osijek band Dinamiti.[21] With Topić the band appeared at the Opatija festival, performing the song "Devojčice mala" ("Little Girl"), which was released on a split-inch single with the song "Priča se" ("Rumour Has It") by the quartet 4M.[22] With Topić, the band held their first solo concert in Belgrade, on November 6, 1969 in Belgrade Youth Center. The concert was entitled "Uz malu pomoć naših frendova" ("With A Little Help from Our Friends").[23] Soon after, Kacl left the band and decided to retire from music.[24] He was replaced by Josip Boček, Topić's former bandmate from Dinamiti who at the time was playing in his own band Boček i Tri (Boček and Three).[25] The new lineup started working on their own vision of progressive music, recording the songs "Jedna žena" ("A Woman"), "Prvo svetlo u kući broj 4" ("The First Light in the House Number 4"), co written by Topić and Kovač,[26] classical music-inspired "Etida" ("Étude") and "Žena je luka a čovek brod" ("Woman is a Harbor and Man is a Ship").[27]
With the performance of "Jedna žena" at the 1970 Zagreb Music Festival Korni Grupa won both the audience and jury award for best song.
Topić was replaced by the former Ambasadori vocalist Zdravko Čolić in September 1971.[37] A young singer with more of a festival schlager sensibility, twenty-year-old Čolić right away presented an uneasy fit with the band's well-established propensity for musical experimentation with even his stage movements and vocal style not fitting into the progressive aspect of the band's musical expression.[38] Čolić thus remained in the band for only six months, recording three songs — "Gospa Mica gazdarica" ("Lady Mica the Landlord"), "Kukavica" ("The Cuckoo") and "Pogledaj u nebo" ("Look at the Sky")[39] — before leaving to start a solo career that would by late 1970s see him become one of the most popular and commercial acts in SFR Yugoslavia.[40] During Čolić's short stay, Korni Grupa shot a television special directed by Jovan Ristić, featuring songs from the band's commercial repertoire.[41]
Zlatko Pejaković years (1972–1974)
In early 1972, a former Lavine (Avalanches),
During the late 1973, Korni Grupa recorded a
In the spring of 1974, they won first place at the festival in Opatija with the song "
Post breakup, 1987 reunion
After Korni Grupa disbanded Kovač started a successful career as a compose, arranger and producer, Pejaković turned towards pop music, Boček and Hreljac became studio musicians and Furduj started a career in jazz.[57] The various artists live album Randevu s muzikom (A Rendevouz with Music), released in 1977, featured the Korni Grupa songs "I ne tako obićan život" ("Not an Ordinary Life at All") and "Jedna žena" recorded at Novi Sad farewell concerts, which were previously unreleased.[58] During the same year, Kovač initiated the formation of a supergroup K2 (not to be confused with the 1990s duo consisting of Kovač's daughters) which ought to have featured Josip Boček, Dado Topić, Sloba Marković, Čarli Novak and Ratko Divljak, but it was never formed mostly owing to Topić's hesitating.[59] In 1979, the recording of the musical poem 1941. was released as a posthumous studio album.[60] In May 1984, Korni Grupa's original guitarist Velibor Kacl died in a car accident.[61]
In May 1987, Korni Grupa, consisting of Kovač, Furduj, Hreljac, Boček and Dado Topić on lead vocals, reunited to perform, alongside
Post 1987
In 1994, the previously unreleased song "Prvo svetlo u kući broj 4" appeared on the compilation album Plima: Progresivna muzika (Tide: Progressive Music), released as a part of Komuna YU retROCKspektiva (YU RetROCKspective) album series.[65] In 1996, the compilation album Prvo svetlo neobičnog života (The First Light of an Unordinary Life) was released, featuring a selection of tracks from Korni Grupa's progressive repertoire.[66] During the same year, Kovač released a compilation album Moja generacija (My Generation), consisting of recordings of his songs used in the television show Zvučna viljuška (Tuning Fork), including cover versions of the Korni Grupa songs "Moja generacija" by Filip Žmaher, "Sonata" by Zoran Šandorov, "Oj, dodole" by Del Arno Band and "Jagode i maline" ("Strawberries and Raspberries") by Van Gogh.[67]
In 2005, the three-part compilation album Ne tako običan život (Not an Ordinary Life at All) was released by PGP-RTS, featuring the collected singles, recordings from the progressive phase, the recording of "Jedna žena" from the 1987 reunion concert and the previously unreleased version of the song "Kosovka devojka" with Kovač on lead vocals.[68]
In 2007, the band's second vocalist, Dušan Prelević, died in Belgrade after a long illness, aged 58.[69] In 2015, Furduj died in Belgrade. He was 70 years old.[70]
2019 reunion
In 2018, it was announced that Korni Grupa would reunite for a farewell concert to be held in Belgrade's Sava Centar, with a lineup that was to feature Kornelije Kovač on keyboards, Josip Boček on guitar, and Dado Topić on vocals, along with three younger musicians, Peđa Milanović (bass guitar), Aleksandar Miletić (keyboards), and Ratko Ljubičić (drums).[71] It was further announced that Bojan Hreljac would also perform, but that, due to his health condition, his role would be reduced to a guest appearance on a single song.[72] However, the planned reunion ended up being marked by numerous difficulties.
The show was originally announced for 30 November 2018, but was postponed for 31 January 2019.[73] In the meantime, on 19 December 2018, Hreljac died in Belgrade, aged 70.[74] Prior to the concert, the organizers announced that Dado Topić might not appear due to his own health problems and that guest vocalists would fill in for him. Eventually, Topić did appear, but only on a handful of songs, while the rest of the set featured guest vocalists: Dejan Cukić, Goran Šepa, Zoran Šandrov, and Dušan Svilar.[75]
Post 2019
Three years after the band's farewell concert, in 2022, Kornelije Kovač died in Belgrade, aged 81.[76]
Legacy
The musicians which cited Korni Grupa as an influence include
A number of acts have covered Korni Grupa songs. The song "Trla baba lan" was covered in 1970 by French singer Dalida under the title "Ram Dam Dam", the cover achieving large success and leading to a number of covers by European artists.[84] The Yugoslav jazz/funk group Ansambl Saše Subote covered the song "Ivo Lola" on their 1976 extended play Mikado, released for the Soviet market.[85] The song was remixed in 2010 by the Serbian project Laura 2000 on their debut studio album ...pobiću se zadnji put da vidim da l' sam star (... I'll Have a One Last Fight to See if I'm Old).[86] The Serbian actor Milorad Mandić covered the song "Trla baba lan" on his 1991 children's music album of the same name.[87] The Serbian rock band Električni Orgazam recorded a cover version of "Magična ruka", released on their 1996 unplugged album Živo i akustično (Live and Acoustic).[88] The soundtrack for the Radio Television of Serbia television show Zlatna viljuška (The Golden Fork) featured cover versions of Korni Grupa songs "Moja generacija" by Filip Žmaher, "Sonata" by Zoran Šandorov, "Oj, dodole" by Del Arno Band and "Jagode i maline" by Van Gogh, all featured on the Kornelije Kovač compilation album Moja generacija.[89] The Bajaga i Instruktori keyboard player Saša Lokner recorded an instrumental version of "Put za istok", the version in itself featuring a sample of the Korni Grupa song "Zemlja", released on his 2003 solo album Evropa Elektro Express (Europe Electro Express).[90]
The book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music), published in 1988, features two Korni Grupa albums: Korni Grupa, polled No. 4, and 1941., polled No. 94.[91]
The Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times list, published in 2000, featured two songs by Korni Grupa: "Put za istok" (polled No.44) and "Jedna žena" (polled No.67).[92] In 2011, the song "Etida" was polled, by the listeners of Radio 202, one of 60 greatest songs released by PGP-RTB/PGP-RTS during the sixty years of the label's existence.[93][non-primary source needed]
The lyrics of the songs "Put za istok", "Moj bol" and "Jedna žena" were featured in Petar Janjatović's book Pesme bratstva, detinjstva & potomstva: Antologija ex YU rok poezije 1967 - 2007 (Songs of Brotherhood, Childhood & Offspring: Anthology of Ex YU Rock Poetry 1967 – 2007).[94]
Members
Former members
- Kornelije "Bata" Kovač – keyboards, organ, piano, vocals (1968–1974, 1987, 2019)
- Bojan Hreljac – bass guitar (1968–1974, 1987)
- Vladimir "Furda" Furduj – drums (1968–1974, 1987)
- Velibor "Borko" Kacl – guitar (1968–1969)
- Miroslava "Seka" Kojadinović – vocals (1968)
- Dušan Prelević "Prele" – vocals (1968)
- Dalibor Brun – vocals (1969)
- Dado Topić – vocals (1969–1971, 1987, 2019)
- Josip Boček – guitar (1969–1974, 1987, 2019)
- Zdravko Čolić – vocals (1971–1972)
- Zlatko Pejaković – vocals (1972–1974)
Live musicians
- Peđa Milanović – bass guitar (2019)
- Aleksandar Miletić – keyboards (2019)
- Ratko Ljubičić – drums (2019)
Discography
Studio albums
- Korni Grupa (1972)
- Not an Ordinary Life (1974)
- 1941. (1979)
Compilation albums
- Korni Grupa (1971)
- Mrtvo more (1975)
- Prvo svetlo neobičnog života (1996)
- Kolekcija singlova (2001)
- Ne tako običan život (I posle trideset godina) (2005)
- The Ultimate Collection (2009)
Extended plays
- Dzum-ram (1969)
- Zabranjeno za mlade (1971)
- TV špice (1973)
Singles
- "Cigu-ligu" / "Čovek i pas" (1969)
- "Pastir i cvet" / "Čovek i pas" (1969)
- "Trla baba lan" / "Slika" (1970)
- "Bube" / "Neko spava pored mene" (1970)
- "Pusti da te diram" / "Jedan groš" (1971)
- "Pokloni svoj mi foto" / "Bez veze" (1972)
- "Tri palme" / "Tri čoveka u kafani" (1973)
- "Oj, dodole" / "Život" (1973)
- "Ivo Lola" / "Znam za kim zvono zvoni" (1973)
- "Etida" / "Jednoj ženi" (1973)
- "Moja generacija" / "Zbogom ostaj, o, detinjstvo" (1974)
- "Generation 42" / "One Woman" (1974)
- "Moja genereacija (My Genetartion)" / "Etude" (1974)
- "Kuda ideš, svete moj" / "Divlje jagode" (1974)
- "Miris" / "Praštanje" (1974)
Other appearances
- "Moja generacija" (Eurovision '74; 1974)
- "I ne tako obićan život" / "Jedna žena" (Randevu s muzikom; 1977)
- "Jedna žena" (Legende YU Rocka; 1987)
Video albums
- Korni Grupa (2008)
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External links
- Korni Grupa at Discogs
- Korni Grupa at Last.fm
- Korni Grupa at Rateyourmusic
- Korni Grupa at Prog Archives