Cilindar ( mk, Цилиндар) is a new wave, ska, 2 Tone and

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band from

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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 Macedonian

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. *Petar Rendžov - (

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) became a prominent

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

Risto Samardžiev Risto Samardžiev (Macedonian: Ристо Самарџиев), born 17 August 1964 in Skopje, is a 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 th ...

- (

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

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band Haos in Laos 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 Eurovision Song Contest. 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