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Igra Staklenih Perli (Serbian Cyrillic: Игра Стаклених Перли; trans. The Glass Bead Game) were a former Yugoslav progressive/psychedelic rock band from Belgrade.
[edit] HistoryThe band was formed in 1976 by Zoran Lakić (keyboards) and his old school friends Vojkan Rakić (guitar) and Predrag Vuković (percussion). After visiting Germany and getting interested in the Secrets of the Oriental Pillgrims (from Hermann Hesse's book The Glass Bead Game), Lakić decided to form a band with musical influences by Can, early Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream and Holgar Czukay. Until the arrival of the bass guitarist Draško "Dracula" Nikodijević, the band did not appear live. Their first live appearances were at the Amateur Theatre Tokovi festival in Voždovac and in the Dadov theatre. In 1977, drummer Dragan Šoć was included into the lineup. Having played numerous free concerts at Belgrade's SKC and the New Belgrade's Block 45, the band established cult status and was offered to record an album. In 1978 they entered the studio and recorded their debut album which featured tracks "Gušterov trg", "Solarni modus", "Putovanje u plavo", "Pečurka" and "Majestetski kraj". They described their music as "The music of the sub-conscious". The cover was designed by Vuković. By then, the group was appearing with Goran Cvetić, a disk jockey and a journalist, who was in charge of the light show, slide shows and film projections during the performance. Their appearance at the Belgrade's College of Dentistry was bootlegged by Cvetić on a simple tape recorder for his personal archive. Following the release of the album, Draško Nikodijević left the band and was replaced by Slobodan Trbojević who was a Džuboks magazine journalist. The second album was recorded from August 1979 until January 1980. Vrt svetlosti (The Garden Of Light) was produced by Aleksandar Pilipenka. Cover art was designed by Vuković and designer Dejan Popov, but the first version of the cover was refused by PGP-RTB. The album featured five tracks: "Igrač", "Čarobnjaci", "Vrt svetlosti", "Lunarni Modus" and "Sanjaš". After the release, Vojkan Rakić was replaced by Ivan Pajević. This lineup did not last long and the band stopped performing. Their last public appearance was in 1985, in the Sava Center Concert Hall in Belgrade, on the occasion of the group concert dedicated to the anniversary of the music magazine ITD. Recordings for the third album with the work title ISP III were never released, but can be heard on the band's official myspace (tracks "Amsterdam" and "Serbian Reageae"). Nikodijević formed The White Rabbit Band and in the late 1980s moved to United States of America where his band was renamed to White Rabit Cult. Nikodijević, with EKV drummer Ivan Fece, former Luna and Pekinška Patka guitarist Zoran "Bale" Bulatović, Električni Orgazam keyboard player Ljubomir Ðukić formed the super group Collateral Damage. During the summer 1991, the remaining members with Thomas Werner, the owner of Kalemegdan Disk record label, released three Igra Stalkenih Perli LPs. The first one, Soft Explosion Live, was Cvetić's recording of the Belgrade's College of Dentistry bootleg which features tracks from the first album. In 1993, the album was re-released, reproduced and the some of the tracks were shortened and the track "Majestic End" was replaced by "Soft Explosion". The next release was Inner Flow which featured unreleased material from 1976 until 1979. The third and final German release was Drives, which featured recordings from a four hours session recorded in April 1977, backed with rerecordings made by Rakić, Vuković and keyboard player Zoran Zagorčić (from the band Du Du A). Most of the album covers were designed by Vuković. In 2007 remastered editions of both LPs appeared in Serbia and Germany. PGP-RTS label Retrologija, under which remastered LPs were released, published both studio albums on one CD entitled Igra Svetlosti (The Game Of Light). German label Second Harvest remastered and expanded both albums on separate CDs. The first LP was expanded with live tracks from Soft Explosion Live, while Vrt svetlosti was expanded with the recordings from Inner Flow. Many Belgrade musicians of that time played with the band as guests. Out of the regular team, the following took part: guitar players such as Goran Vejvoda, Ivan Pajević, Aleksandar Žikić (well-known Yugoslav rock critic), guitar player and poet Boyan Kveder, keyboard player Zoran Zagorčić (from Električni Orgazam), and drummer Ivica Vdović Vd (from Šarlo Akrobata). The only female vocal as guest, on the second Igra Staklenih Perli album Vrt svetlosti, was Dragana Šarić, later known as Bebi Dol (this was her debut studio recording). There were also many others who directly supported the band like photographers Goran Grbić (later well known TV lighting designer) and Gordan Skondrić. [edit] Discography[edit] Studio albums
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