Lollobrigida Girls

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VIS Lollobrigida
electropunk
Years active2003 – present
LabelsMenart Records/DOP Records
MembersIda, Petra, Kleemar, Ivan, Jernej, Marko
Past membersNatalija, Anise, Zoki, Lora, Ivana, Sanja, Shinec, David

Lollobrigida girls, also known as VIS Lollobrigida (VIS is a

synthpop band. In 2008. The Slovenes Kleemar, David, and Jernej joined the band rendering the group Croatian-Slovenian in its composition.[citation needed
]

Lollobrigida band members

  • Ida Prester – vocals
  • Petra Cigoj – vocals
  • Kleemar (Matej Končan) – keyboards
  • Jernej Šavel – bass guitar
  • Ivan Levačić Levi – drums

Early history

As a duo, Lollobrigida performed for the first time at a bigger public concert in June 2003 in the student club

KSET, as an opening band for German trash-style musician Mambo Kurt
, attracting immediately a pronounced interest within Zagreb's underground-music audience.

In the original lineup there were Ida Prester and Natalija Dimicevski singing and playing bass-guitar on top of their computer-generated music matrix. In February 2004 the duo performed as a sole band at the crowded concert in Zagreb's Studentski centar; after that they signed a contract with the Slovenian label Menart Records/DOP Records.

In June 2004 Lollobrigida performed at the third Zagreb Pride.

Lollobrigida's first single, "Party", was released in September 2004 soon becoming a pretty well-accepted hit, rendering the underground phenomenon into a name known to many, first in

Beograd
.

VIS Lollobrigida

In 2006 Lollobrigida transformed to some extent their musical and stage-performing concept. Natalija left the band. Several instrumentalists, playing keyboards, guitar and bass, joined the band adding a new sound quality to the electronic matrix background. Unlike Ida, the band founder and the Lollobrigida constant, other band members were changing rather frequently. The prefix VIS has been also added to the band name. (A sort of sentimental homage to pop-rock music of socialistic times). During that year Lollobrigida started working on their new album, 'Lollobrigida Incorporated', finally released in May 2008, following the promo-concert taken place in Zagreb club Tvornica. In 2005 the single 'Bubblegum boy' was released. Soon after, the accompanied video spot was broadcast by

MTV Adria in November 2009.[2]
In 2010. Lollobrigida released the single and videospot 'Bivša djevojka' ('Ex-girlfriend') and in 2011. the singles and videospots 'Kompjuter' and 'Sex on TV, sex on the radio'. In numerous interviews in Croatian media Ida Prester announced in 2011 work on the third band's album. Immediately before its promotion the single 'Malo vremena' was released. The third album by Lollobrigida, 'Pilula', was premièred on 21. January 2012 at the concert held in the club Tvornica, Zagreb. On 18.6.2012. single and the video 'Ja se resetiram' ('I'm resetting') was released, immediately attracting some international attention.[3]

Musical style and performances

Band Lollobrigida at the streets of Zagreb in one of their concert outfits.

Lyrics, music and stage performance appear to be equally important elements of the way that Lollobrigida band communicates with its audience. By insisting on honesty, simplicity and originality Lollobrigida keeps distance from standard musical and textual stereotypes, choosing instead a sort of genre indeterminacy. At variance with the latter elements, the perfection of their musical and vocal interpretations is not particularly cultivated. Ida Prester authors the lyrics of all the songs being simultaneously, taking into account the whole opus up to now, a leading author of all music as well. Critics have expressed variety of opinions about Lollobrigida; some are denying any value and/or musical importance[4] while there are also those remarking '...Lollobrigida is the biggest thing that Croatia gave to the international music scene in the past years...'.[5] Time Out (magazine), in its edition focusing life in Croatia, inserted band Lollobrigida on the list of 115 most prominent acts/individuals/places of contemporary Croatian culture.[6]

Since their start-up Lollobrigida was performing at numerous concerts in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary and

O2 World
hall. Among their live performances one can especially single out a sequence of six well-accepted performances, from 2005 on, at
EXIT (festival)' s
stage, ' Riffs&Beats' (2013.).

Discography

EXIT (festival)
, 10. July 2010.

Albums

  • Cartoon Explosion (2005)
  • Lollobrigida Inc. (2008)
  • Pilula (2012)

Singles

  • "Party" (2004)
  • "Nesretan Božić" (2004)
  • "Straight Edge" (2005)
  • "Bubblegum Boy" (2005)
  • "Ružna Djevojka" (2005)
  • "Moj decko je gej" (2006)
  • "Mrs. Right and Mr. Wrong" (2008)
  • "Volim te" (2009)
  • "Bivša cura" (2010)
  • "Kompjuter" (2011)
  • "Sex on TV, Sex on the Radio" (2011)
  • "Malo vremena" (2012)
  • "Ja se resetiram" (2012)
  • "Pilula" (2012)
  • "Stroboskop" (2013)
  • "Reklama" (2013)

References

  1. ^ Pure MTV Adria Chart list, 30.08.2009.
  2. ^ "MTV Hrvatska". Archived from the original on 2009-09-23. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
  3. ^ "New Order? No, It's Croatia's Lollobrigida (Fresh Electropop Sounding "Ja Se Resetiram" Clip) - europopped". Archived from the original on 2012-11-23. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
  4. ^ examples may be found at Cartoon Explosion)
  5. ^ announcement of the invited participation at the Budapest Sziget festival 2008, http://www.budapestinfo.hu/en/calendar_of_events/sziget_festival_2008[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Time Out Croatia | the best things to do in Croatia".
  7. ^ "MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 :: 05.11.09 :: Berlin". Archived from the original on 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2009-10-12.

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