*. Dah .* (Album + 2 Singles)

Album: Veliki cirkus (1974)
Genre: Prog Rock (Hard Rock/Psych./Heavy)  /  Serbia

The first problem here is that on my copy, the sound quality is absolutely horrendous.  It sounds like MP3s were ripped from a recording of this album on a Certron cassette that had been sitting beneath the passenger seat of someone's car for 20 years. Who knows how much the original album might have sounded like that? I can't tell, although the occasionally weird mixes aren't promising evidence, but I'm not subtracting any points for sound quality issues . . .though I might if that's what the LP actually sounds like. At any rate, I try to listen "through" the horrible sound quality. And when I do that, this isn't a half-bad album. It has elements of prog, psychedelic rock and jam band. However, it's a bit uneven. "Desetorica sa lomače", "Majka Jugovića" and "Dobar vetar plava ptico" are probably the strongest tracks to my ear, and not surprisingly, because I think they're the most interesting compositionally . . .including the in the second half of the latter track, they break into a weird cabaret thing, complete with a variation on "Yes Sir, That's My Baby". The vocalist is very uneven for me, too. However, ""Možda zvoni Miss Stone" suggests the direction they should have perhaps taken instead. It's a straight-ahead blues-rock thing, but the vocalist is incredible on it, with some really weird, effective and impressive falsetto multiphonics and screaming. So overall, not a great band, but not awful, either--good enough to check out if you're a huge prog or psychedelic fan and you want something in your collection from the 70s from Yugoslavia. 
Review by "JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies" (Rate Your Music).

RATING:  7.75 / 10

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Single 1: Šošana / Please, Don't Say Nothing (1975)
Single 2: Žeđ / Misli (1976)

Genre: Prog Rock (Hard Rock/Psych./Heavy)  /  Serbia

Songs / Tracks Listing - Single 1: Šošana & Please, Don't Say Nothing (1975)
01. Šošana
02. Please, Don't Say Nothing

Songs / Tracks Listing - Single 2: Žeđ & Misli (1976)
01. Žeđ
02. Misli

RATING:  8.5 / 10

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