Cilindar () is a new wave,

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and

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band from

Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

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formed in the early 1980s, in the then

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. Today its former members are respectable solo or band artists in the

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scene: *Dimitar "Mite" Dimovski - (

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) is a drummer of

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Arhangel. *Petar Rendžov - (

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) became a prominent

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and

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guitarist as well as studio musician for other popular artists. *

Risto Samardžiev Risto Samardžiev (; born 17 August 1964 in Skopje) is a North Macedonia, Macedonian singer and songwriter. He started his musical career when he was 16 years old. He formed the Cilindar group in 1981, which was one of the first New wave music, N ...

- (

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

) - after the dissolution of Cilindar in 1983 he formed the new wave and later

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band

Haos in Laos Haos in Laos () was a Macedonian new wave and pop-rock band from Skopje, SR Macedonia from 1984–1987. Its frontman Risto Samardžiev, formerly a vocalist of the band Cilindar, later started a successful solo career as a pop singer, while its dr ...

in 1984. In 1987, he started a successful solo career as a pop singer winning an award for best performance at the Makfest festival in the same year. Later he was also a vocalist of the popular Macedonian band Memorija. Several times he was also a candidate at the Macedonian national preselections for the

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. The band recorded several songs and videos for the national

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of which ''Samo eden del'' is the most popular. After its split in the mid-1980s, the band members gathered again for a reunion concert at the

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tribute festival held in Skopje in 2008.

Trivia

The name of the band is a misspelling of the word ''Cylinder'' (') which means a cylinder.

External links

Interview with Petar Rendžov at the Macedonian Music Network
Macedonian new wave musical groups {{Europe-band-stub