Bodan Arsovski (Leb i Sol), Muzicki klub u Nisu, 1981

Bodan Arsovski (born 22 April 1956) is a

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bassist and a core founding member of the rock group

Leb i sol Leb i sol ( mk, Леб и сол) is a Macedonian and former Yugoslav rock group founded in the 1970s by Vlatko Stefanovski (guitar), Bodan Arsovski (bass guitar), Nikola Kokan Dimuševski ( keyboards) and Garabet Tavitjan (drums). Tavitjan ...

, one of the most important rock bands in the former

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. He is the only band member to have played on every Leb i sol record. He also released four solo albums.

Biography

Arsovski was born in Kumanovo on the north of today's

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. However, early in his life, his family moved to

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, state's capital, where he soon after met

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, with whom he founded the legendary Yugoslav band

Leb i Sol Leb i sol ( mk, Леб и сол) is a Macedonian and former Yugoslav rock group founded in the 1970s by Vlatko Stefanovski (guitar), Bodan Arsovski (bass guitar), Nikola Kokan Dimuševski ( keyboards) and Garabet Tavitjan (drums). Tavitjan ...

. Before Leb i Sol, all band members played together in

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's band Breg. As a solo artist, he has released four albums, two of them in collaboration with the Ezgija Orchestra. In addition, he recorded with original Leb i sol keyboardist Nikola Kokan Dimuševski a reworking of band material in a release titled (in English) "Sketches From the Past." ''

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'' called the album "warm, dark and stunning in its stark presentation."

Playing style

Arsovski's style, both solo and with Leb i sol, mixes traditional Macedonian rhythms, melodies and instruments with modern rock sensibilities. The ethnic influence is more apparent in his solo albums than on many of Leb i sol's later, pre-2006 reunion recordings. He composed four of nine total tracks on ''I taka nataka,'' a Leb i sol album featuring a different line up from its earlier incarnations as well as some guests like Peca Atanovski and a Serbian actor

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Discography

Recordings with Leb i sol

* ''Leb i sol'' (1978) * ''Leb i sol 2'' (1978) * ''Ručni rad'' (1979) * ''Beskonačno'' (1980) * ''Sledovanje'' (1981) * ''Akustična trauma'' (1982) * ''Kalabalak'' (1983) * ''Tangenta'' (1984) * ''Zvučni zid'' (1986) * ''

Kao kakao Kao kakao ( eng. ''Like Cocoa'') is ninth album of Macedonian rock group Leb i sol. It contains 9 songs. Biggest hits from this album are Mamurni ljudi (''Hungover again''), Čuvam noć od budnih (''Night watchman''), Čekam kišu (''I'm waiting fo ...

'' (1987) * ''Putujemo'' (1989) * ''Live in New York'' (1991) * ''Live in Macedonia'' (2006) * ''I taka nataka'' (2008)

Solo albums

* ''Endless View'' (1995) * ''Tiresias'' (1998) * ''Broken Beats'' (1999) * ''Elegija'' (with Ezgija Orchestra)

With Vlatko Stefanovski

* ''Zodiac'' (1990)

With Nikola Kokan Dimuševski

* ''Sketches from the past'' (2006)

References

External links

Bodan Arsovski home page

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