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    EMIR KUSTURICA & THE NO SMOKING ORCHESTRA TO GIVE CONCERT IN YEREVAN

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.02.2010 14:51 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra will
    give a concert in Yerevan on March 5. The concert is organized by
    Avantgarde Folk Music Club and the Ministry of Culture of Armenia.

    PanARMENIAN Photo with the assistance of Khachatur Almazyan is the
    exclusive photo-partner of the event organizers.

    Emir Nemanja Kusturica (born 24 November 1954 in Sarajevo) is a
    Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician of Bosnian origin. Widely
    regarded as one of the most innovative filmmakers of his generation,
    Emir Kusturica twice won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or. He is
    also a recipient of the FrenchOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2001,
    Kusturica directed Super 8 Stories, a documentary road and concert
    movie about The No Smoking Orchestra, of which he is a band member.

    Zabranjeno Pusenje (Bosnian for "No Smoking") was a Yugoslavian garage
    rock band from Sarajevo, closely associated with the New primitivism
    cultural movement and the radio and television satire show Top Lista
    Nadrealista. They were one of the most popular musical acts of the
    1980s in Yugoslavia, selling hundreds of thousands of records.

    The band was formed in 1981 in Sarajevo by a group of friends who
    worked on the early radio version of Top Lista Nadrealista. Contrary
    to the then-prevalent punk rock and new wave, Zabranjeno Pušenje
    created a distinctive garage rock sound with folk influences, often
    featuring innovative production and complex story-telling, sometimes
    even dark premonitions of war. They went on to record four albums and
    tour the country extensively, occasionally sparking controversy and
    even getting into trouble with authorities for their (usually mild
    and sympathetic) criticism of the socialist system, and the habit of
    making light of issues considered sensitive at the time.

    After the band's popularity reached new heights in late 1980s,
    spurred on by the televised version of Top Lista Nadrealista,
    the Bosnian Warwhich followed saw the breakup of the band, with one
    offshoot continuing work in Belgrade initially as Zabranjeno Pusenje,
    later under the nameNo Smoking Orchestra, and the other in Zagreb,
    using the original name.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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