Zbogom Brus Li

This punk-rock, post punk music band was founded in 1992. in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. The Band Zbogom Brus Li combines punk rock music with the ethno-music of Vojvodina, and result is a unique music style, which the band themselves describe as "punk-tamboura music". The Band members play typical rock instruments - guitar and drums, together with the traditional Vojvodinian duet - the begesh (traditional Vojvodina double bass) and tamboura. The band was the most active in the 1990's, playing mainly in Vojvodina, Serbia, the states of former Yougoslavia and Hungary. Since 2005. the band has been active again and has had number of concerts, gigs and festivals: - Eurobasket 2005 SRB, - EXIT Festival 2006-08-09 SRB, - Motovun Film Festival 2007 HR, - Sound Of The Streets 2007 MK, - ICWiP festival 2007 H, - IFUS – International Festival Of Street Musicians 2008 SRB, - Beovizija (competition for Eurosong) 2009 SRB, - Ferrara Buskers Festival 2009 I, - CrossCulture Festival 2010 PL, - ROCK Otočec 2010 SLO, - DONAUFEST 2010 D, - LENT Festival 2010 SLO, - Koncert Godine 2011 SRB . . . In 2012. ZBL celebrates its 20th anniversary. On this occasion they are publishing a new vinyl record, an illustrated book and a feature documentary and they're organizing a birthday festival. Band produces a strong , ethno-punk sound and great amount of positive energy on stage. Live performances are enriched with wide variety of costumes. ZBOGOM BRUS LI STORY: The ZBL sound is based on punk rock, but it also incorporates many other genres (such as Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Hard and Heavy, Rockabilly, Jazz, Classical, Pop, Voivodian ethno music (with an accent on tambura), Ska (without Reggae), a little bit of Surf, Hard Core, football fans songs, kazoo) which were combined and mixed to create the unique ZBL sound. The essential characteristics of ZBL live performance are wide variety of theatrical properties and clothes borrowed from our parents' wardrobes. Our faithful followers on gigs are the theatrical troop Black Hole, the orchestra Intoxicated Nights and brass orchestra (trumpet, trombone and sax). The band was extremely active from 1994 till 2000. We played mainly in Voivodina, Serbia, Ex-YU countries and Hungary. ZBL were also welcomed guests and entertainers at the numerous happenings like Svinjokolj of Srem (an event during which people slaughter pigs for their meat) and Kulenijada (Sausage Festival). Gigs have been accompanied with many TV and radio appearances, where we have shocked our hosts and provoked high blood pressure, but on the other hand raised the number of fans. We shot large number of videos (around 15) which were enriched with comical approach to music and the situation in the country and the surrounding in which we live in. In the year 2000, the band temporarily stopped playing because it was pointless. And in the meantime, our personal experiences together with local and global events helped us to sharpen and encircle our anarchistic philosophy and give us a reason to play again. New material is ready. In the summer of 2005, ZBL began playing again. After nearly five years of break, the first gig was held in the center of Novi Sad. It showed that the fans havent forgotten us. Our ambitions in further work are to combine guitar and tambura sound and the replacement of the bass guitar with a begesh (traditional contrabass of Voivodina). In the end, the fans' encouragement to proceed with this guitar-tambura concept is the most important thing. Definitely, our mission is to form the new sound and to define the concept of so called Brand New Voivodian song. Still we remain fiery and loud, with unambiguous text messages. That is how we proved that we are worthy of our goddess Great Cosmic Foolishness ( that some people like to call Life), and worthy of her philosophy which she spreads through us, and people like us, over this Valley Of Tears, Dimension Of Unnecessary Fear and Exhausting Work in which we are trapped in. www.zbogombrusli.org