Lolita - HiEnergyTurboPornoFunkEtnoOverdriveCrossoverHardGroovieJazz
Band
web: http://www.ljudmila.org/lolita, http://www.myspace.com/lolitae
email: lolita@mail.ljudmila.org
home: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Band members:
Alt sax: Primoz Simoncic (also played
in Srp, Quatebriga, with
other friends)
Piano:
Neža Naglič
(Salamander Salamandra, Tomaz
Grom and other projects)
Drums: Uroš Srpčič (Polska
malca, Demolition Group and other projects)
Bass: Iztok Vidmar (also
played in Orkester Titanic, Cao Picke,
Basisti)
Bio:
Lolita was founded
in 1987 in Ljubljana (ex-Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) by three musicians. Primoz Simoncic – sax, Blaz Grm – drums, Iztok Vidmar – bass had
previously performed in various Rock in Opposition, Jazz, Punk and New Wave
bands in Slovenia. After a year the guitarist Samo
Ljubesic joined the group. They recorded their
first cassette-tape on a 4-channel tape recorder at their home rehearsal room,
which was released by FV-Ljubljana in 1989. The same company published the LP
called Lolita in 1991. During that time Lolita was playing her own
music in the Ana Monro Theatre play called George Dandin.
That year the guitarist Samo and the drummer Blaz left the group. Mirsad
Sabic replaced Blaz.
Lolita participated with music and movement in the dance performance "Vso
sreco ti zelim (I wish
you all the luck)" together with the choreographer Iztok
Kovac and PTL (Dance theatre Ljubljana) in
a production of Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana. It was also
performed at the dance theatre festival in Budapest 1991. Music from that
experience was released on the tape Pik Pok in self edition. Before the split Lolita played all
around Yugoslavia and also at some concerts in Italy, Hungary, Austria and
Netherlands. With the money earned from writing the music for the performance
"Sluga dveh gospodov" by C.Goldoni/Andrej
Rozman/Franci Krizaj (LG Celje) Lolita recorded
the live CD called BoPa (But It’ll Be).
For the promotion of the CD various Slovenian artists contributed their
illustrations, graphic designs and photos for the Spring
’95 T-shirt. Lolita and KUD France Preseren
released studio-made CD Lolipop in 1996. The
painter Oliver Marceta directed the video spot
Zelenjavna Mavrica
(Vegetable Rainbow), a song from the CD. A guest at another song from that CD, Modri Vlak (The Blue Train), was
the actor Zijah A. Sokolovic,
a Bosnian actor currently working in Austria. Through that friendship a
‘humoresque for jazz quartet and an actor’ called The Bear by Anton
P. Cehov and Zijah
A. Sokolovic was put up in 1997 for the European
Month of Culture in Ljubljana. After more than 30 re-runs it is still
performed around Slovenia and Croatia. With The Bear violinist Jelena Zdrale
joined Lolita and drummer Marjan Stanic replaced Mirsad,
which gave Lolita a new Ethno-Balkan flavour. In 1998 Lolita wrote the
music for the short movie Hotel Intercontinental by Oliver Marceta. Together with the new guitarist Igor Bezget a new CD called Lulu, recorded
live in the club Channel Zero, was released in 1999. At that time
violinist Matjaz Sekne
replaced Jelena. Following the release of the CD
Lolita again became a trio: Primoz Simoncic - sax, Marjan Stanic - drums, Iztok Vidmar – bass. In 1999 the trio performed in a show
called Trnovo Orchestra where seven
musicians conducted by the actor Zijah A. Sokolovic improvised on his cues and thoughts. The concert
was recorded at the home bakery and released in limited edition for fans on the
CDR Trnovo Orchestra Dance. The year 0
was also the year of Lolita’s jazz festivals: they performed at Jazz
festival Cerkno 2000 (Slovenia), Ljubljana
Jazz festival ’00 (Slovenia), Pepsi Sziget
2000 - Banán Jazz Stage (Budapest, Hungary), Kumanovo jazz festival (Macedonia), Nishville
Jazz Festival (Nis, Belgrade, Yugoslavia). In the next years Lolita played
at Jazz Festival Kragujevac 2001 in Novi Sad (Yugoslavija), IZ(Z)VEN jazz festival 2002 (Maribor, Slovenija), Jazzeuropa
Festival 2004 (Tel-Aviv,
Israel) and at Ljubljana Jazz
festival 2005, where the
band performed together with German trumpeter Axel Doerner. The cooperation with different musicians
resulted in the project of improvised music, called Lolita Libre. Live
recordings from the period between 2002 and 2006 were gathered on a double live CD Lolita Libre - Nero e Bianco, which was released in 2003 (6CD release
on internet free download). The basic Lolita trio of Primoz, Iztok and Marjan, was joined by Tomaz Grom (double bass), Matjaz Mancek (guitar), Jessica
Lurie (alt sax) - Tiptons, Living Daylights, and Ventzislav
Blagoev (trumpet) - Antoni
Donchev, Vienna Symphony Orchestra – in live
improvisation, recorded on the CD. In 2005 Lolita recorded The
triple X album with Blagoev. Both CDs were very well accepted among the
music critics, as well as among the listeners. Lolita and Zijah A. Sokolovic appeared
at the Monodrama festival in Bitola (Macedonia), winning the 1st
prize for The Bear performance (Chekov-Sokolovic), On
the following Mid and East European tour the show won prizes at the majority of
the festivals (Bitola, Kiev, Mostar,
Yerevan, Moscow, Kiel, Ruma, Nizhnevartovsk, Smederevo),
being awarded for direction and acting, but also for music and innovative
approach. Thus the performance from 1997 began to live again. In 2009 and 2010 some member changes
occurred in Lolita; The pianist Neza Naglic joined and played for the first time with Lolita at Jazz Cerkno 2009, the drummer Uros Srpic replaced Marjan and like all the previous, also this
change caused some changes in 'Lolita music'.
Music description:
"The music is lolipopesque - in
other words: their own. It cannot be classified to any of the modern music
fields because it steals from everybody (free, Coltrain,
funk..). Somebody labelled them as hardboppop...
The music is pleasant, very energetic at moments (drummer cuts loose from
chains), stomping its feet from joy and then the bass barges in which is lyric
after all and the scene is cooled off. Sax, after all these recordings is
clearly recognisable, makes an artistic intermezzo that may be followed by
either everything or nothing at all...".
Rok Juric
Discography:
MC Lolita (1989 FV Ljubljana),
LP Lolita (1991 FV Ljubljana),
MC PIK POK (1992 Lolita Music),
CD BoPa (1994 Lolita Music),
CD LoliPop (1996 KUD F.Preseren),
CD Medved (The Bear) - A.P.Chekov/Zijah A. Sokolovic/Lolita (1998 KUD fp)
CD Lulu (2000 KUD F.Preseren),
CDR Trnovo Orchestra Dance (2000 Lolita
Music),
CDR Trnfestovske - Live at Trnfest (2000 Lolita Music)
CDR Lolita - Novi Sad Jazz 2001 (2002 Lolita
Music)
CD Nero e Bianco - Lolita Libre, 2CDs (2003
KUD F.Preseren)
CD The triple X album - Lolita, (2005 KUD F.Preseren)
CD Arcnije iz Gromke – Lolita, (2011 Lolita Home Recordings)
Compilations:
Nov. 1995 - Surrender /CD Elvis de luxe - compilation /Toaster records
Oct. 1996 - Sivala je deklica
zvezdo /CD Nekega lepega dne - compilation / FV
Ljubljana
Mar. 1997 - Lonec brez medu /CD Druga godba II - compilation
Maj 1999 - RS hit /CD "1998/1999 RADIO STUDENT & CLUB K4 ALIVE"
/Radio Student compilation
2009 Jazz CERKNO / kompilacija
2011 – Risbica / CD1 Jazz Slovenia 2011 / SIGIC Ljubljana – compilation
Some
concerts:
Aug.
1989 Budva Theatre City - Budva,
Yugoslavia
Nov. 1990 Pre Stab Festival - Eindhoven, Netherlands
Mar. 1992 East Culture Festival - Bekescaba, Hungary
Jan. 1993 De Slovenen Komen
- Peron 55, Venlo, Netherlands
Sep. 1995 SOU rock - Krizanke, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jun. 1996 Druga godba - Krizanke, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Oct. 1996 Lolita + Living Daylights
- Druga godba Slovenia
tour, Ljubljana, Novo mesto, Ilirska
Bistrica
Sep. 1998 Forbiden fruits of civil society, Utrecht,
Netherlands
Jun. 1999 Forbiden fruits of civil society, Mala Loka castle, Slovenia
Dec. 1999 Trnovo Orchestra project, Ljubljana, Kud F.P., Slovenia
Apr. 2000 Lolita - Live net casting from Radio
Student, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Maj 2000 Trnovo Orchestra project, Jazz festival Cerkno
2000, Slovenia
Jul. 2000 Ljubljana
Jazz festival, Slovenia
Aug.00 Pepsi Sziget
2000 - Banán Jazz Stage, Budapest, Hungary
Aug.00 Kumanovo jazz festival, Macedonia
Nov.00 Nishville Jazz Festival, Nis, + SKC Belgrade,
Yugoslavia
Aug.01 Banan
Jazz Stage, Pepsi Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Nov.01 Jazz
Festivals Kragujevac, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Nov.02 IZ(Z)VEN festival - Jazz klub Satchmo Maribor, Slovenia,
Mar.04 The Tiptons (ZDA) & Lolita jam session, KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana, SiMay.04 Jazzeuropa Festival, Tel-Aviv, IsraelSep.04 Lolita - Ars Poetica 2004 Festival (Budmerice Slovak Writers Home) koncert @ Studio 12 Bratislava, Slovakia30.Jun.005 Lolita + Axel Doerner (trumpet, Berlin), Jazz festival Ljubljana, Slovenia13.Jun.006 Lolita Libre project, P74 sentvid, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20:30h27.sep.006 City Dreams with sax-Jesica Lurie, painter Danijel Zezelj & Lolita, ZAGREB Croatia28.sep.006 Jessica Lurie + Lolita, concert, SaxPub, Ljubljana, slovenia 21.3023.Jun.007 Lolita - Festival Krakovtrn 2, Sax pub, Ljubljana, Slovenia
05.Maj 009 Mednarodni
festival 14. Jazz Cerkno 2009
23.Sep 010 Revija v reviji Festival, Lolita
and slovene haiku antology
performance
Awards for
performance The Bear - A.P. Chehov, Z. A. Sokolovic,
Lolita:
·
1st
prize - Festival na monodramata
Bitola, Macedonia, 11.Jul.003
·
Award
for innovative approach - International festival of monoperformances
"Vidlunnja", Kiev, Ukraine, 21-25.Apr.2004
·
Best
male role and best directing award: Zijah A. Sololovic & Special music award: Lolita - IV
international festival FestPo*04, Novi Becej, SCG, 03.Jul.004
·
Award
to Zijah Sokolovic for the
original realization of performace Medved - 25. international festival, Mostar,
31.aug,2004, BiH
·
Grand
Prix for Best Male Actor - II International One Man Show Festival ARMMONO,
Yerevan, Armenia, 18.Sep.004
·
Grand
prix for best directing - 6. Moscow International One Man Show Festival , 2004 Moscov
·
Media
Award - Zijah A. Sokolovic
for his innovative performance in THE BEAR - 4th international monodrama
festival THESPIS, 12-19 November 2004 KIEL (Germany)
·
Award
'classic as avantgard' Nizhnevartovsk theatre
festival, (Khanti-Mansi, Siberia) Russia, oct. 2005
·
1. prize
on festival PatoSofiranje
(forever young festival) 21-25. jun
2006. Centar za kulturu Smederevo, Serbia
Other projects:
1988 - live music in performance
"George Dandin" by Ana Monro Theatre
1991 - live music in dance performance
"Vso sreco ti zelim" by Iztok Kovac and PTL
1993 - music for performance "Sluga dveh gospodov"
by C.Goldoni/Andrej Rozman/Franci Krizaj (LG Celje)
1994 - T-shirt collection "Spring
'95" from authors: Afrodita Hebar,
Anton Vidmar, Blaz Grm, Dolores Gerbec, Gregor Kokalj, Maja Gspan, Miha
Skerlep, Petra Varl Simoncic, Sinisa Lopojda, Strip Core, Tadej Pogacar, Vesna Vidmar, Zora Stancic,
Ziga Koritnik, Zoambo Kolumbo
1997 - performance Medved
(The Bear) - Cehov/Sokolovic,
performed by Zijah Sokolovic
& Lolita
1998 - Hotel Intercontinental, music for film by Oliver Marceta
2001 - Reinkarnacija - video Neven Korda, music Nikoli - Lolita
2002 -
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art /party music - Tivolski
grad, 21h Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lolita members projects:
1983 - MC
Cao picke/Via ofenziva (I. Vidmar - member of Cao Picke)
1984 - LP SRP - Srp (P. Simoncic
as member of Srp)
1984 - LP '84 - compilation (I. Vidmar as member of
Cao Picke)
1993 - CD Pieces of cake - P. Simoncic (solo project)
1995 - performance Jantar Jupiter by Mojca Dimec (music by I. Vidmar )
1995 - CD La Dolce Vita - Data Direct (gost P. Simoncic)
1995 - CD Pro Choice - Borghesia (gosta
P. Simoncic, M. Sabic)
1997 - dance performance Quintet of Suzana Koncut (sax&act: P. Simoncic)
1996..99 - Dertum Band, 2 CD’s –
(Marjan Stanic’s band)
2001 – theatre performance Lenny (Julian Barry, Jasna Merc) by Z. A.
Sokolovic (sax&act: P. Simoncic)
2002 - Marjan is dancing in OBcutno OBcasno/ATsense ATtime - Choreography & dance: Matej
Kejzar, Gregor Lustek, drums: Marjan Stanic. music: Aldo Ivancic
2002 - CD
release of band Srp, Zadnja
Vecerja (Primoz's band from
previous century)
Former
members & guests:
drumers: Blaz Grm (..1990), Mirsad Sabic (..1997), Marjan Stanic (..2010)
singers: Mojca Dimec
(1988), Alenka Vidrih
(1989), Alenka Marsenic
(guest on LP Lolita)
guitarists: Samo Ljubesic
(..1992), Igor Bezget(1998..99)
violinists: Jelena Zdrale(1997..99),
Matjaz Sekne (1999)
from press:
... Overall though, the band does a fine
job in filling the two generously packed discs with music of continously varied color and mood.
Derek Taylor, cd Nero e Bianco, The Cadence
magazine Sep. 2004 (p121)
... Lolita is one of the rare musical
ensembles from around, whose decision to improvise isn't just a fling or a
detached step away- but it is literally a cultural political gesture, an
implication of their own history, a sharp self portrait pointing to the always
fading memory that music should never be caught by anybody. Lolita, as the name
of the band suggests, is not to be tamed and she has her own wayward ways.
cd Nero e Bianco preface - Miha Zadnikar, 2004
... An other discovery of the festival was Chekhov’s
“Bear” presented by Slovenian actor Zijah Sokolovic under the accompaniment of jazz quartet, in jazz
rhythms, with some unexpected inner feelings of the character, the mode of
scenic existence unbelievable for a drama performance, very fresh, with
dramatic discoveries so well motivated, with turns of the plot so naturally
developed in such paradoxical unrealistic circumstances.
from ITI One Man
Show Forum board meeting report, 2004
(http://www.iti-worldwide.org/pages/onemanshowforum.htm)
We have nothing about technology here ,nothing
digitally performed Here , But Still Lolita the Band from Slovenia contribute
great innovations in creating quality music with Their sexy sax Leading this
trio of brilliant musicians ! Now there you have it , Innovative does not
always means you have to include technology in music or Music about the future
, It is simply one word for an Artistic mind "Be Free"!
Innovative
International Radio, mp3.com, x.x.2000
iziDoesntLikeIt... a certain haunting quality from the low hum... I
love the laid back groove for the first 3 minutes... great preparation for when
it kicks up just a bit... that great bass line taking over after 5 min.... the
guitar riding over the horn stabs... a different, almost otherworldly melody...
intense... definitely the kind of fresh tasting music there should be more of. peace ;-)
buddha
man December 10, 2000, www.soundclick.com
Music for a 1950s
hot-rod movie.
Catchy horn lines riff over a stop-and-start rhythm that turns into a driving
Surf backbeat. The wild, screeching sax solo makes you wanna
drive fast and get in trouble.
Noah E. listen.com
review, x.x.1999
The smoothly
flowing soundtrack, in total opposition with local film and music tradition. Also: an extension beyond Lolita's narrow circle of
fans, a step into "the easy-listening marshes", without dirtying one's
own galoshes.
Jasa Kacin, The best CDs of the
year, Mladina 53, 28th December 1996.
...The soundtrack music is lolipopesque
- in other words: their own. It cannot be classified to any of the modern music
fields because it steals from everybody (free, Coltrain,
funk..). Somebody labelled
them as hardboppop... The music is pleasant, very
energetic at moments (Sabic cuts loose from chains),
stomping its feet from joy and then Vidmar's bass
barges in which is lyric after all and the scene is cooled off. Simoncic's sax, after all these recordings and his own CD
Pieces of Cake clearly recognisable, makes an
artistic intermezzo that may be followed by either everything or nothing at
all...
Lolita Lolipop, Rok Juric, Muska,
October 1996.
...But of course Lolita isn't listening to the same
radio stations and records and isn't attending the same concerts as an Slovenian everyman. But she thoroughly examines the
motives from Radio Student announcements, Yutel's
commercials (supposedly for Sipad) and opera's arias,
shocking in Zorn-like manner with abrupt invasions of noise, sucking up with
the Pink Panther theme, fiddling in accompaniment to the
"railway-station" poetry of Zijah Sokolovic and at the end kissing goodbye Kraftwerk in front of wheezing Transeurope
express. Everything, without stepping with both legs onto the slippery but
profitable area of covers, and simultaneously in a true film sequence of melted
songs, rather short than prolonged, ment to be
whistled during one's bath...
Lolita: Lolipop, Jasa Kacin, Mladina
25, 18th June, 1996.
...Already the fact of the society's global
disinclination throughout all these years hasn't succeeded to block the
extremely special efforts of such a sensitive aggregate, which a jazz trio is,
should be counted among cultural phenomena deserving all the attention. And it
is also simply overwhelming when such a long aspiration concludes in a richly
fragmented artistic standpoint that Lolita has firmly set up in our cultural
space over the past few weeks, simultaneously in both, for musical activity,
representative ways: with an album and a concert at Druga
godba Festival. In both cases she demonstrated a
surprising professionalism in making her own ideas true, together with loaded
roundness, perfectedness and creative maturity of her
characteristic musical expression..
Lolita: Lolipop, Zoran Pistotnik, Dnevnik, 9th July 1996.
Contacts:
Primož Simončič, tel.: +386 51 702710;
eMail: primoz.simoncic@gozdis.si
Iztok Vidmar, tel.: +386 31
236274; eMail: iztokx@siol.net
Snail
mail address.: Iztok Vidmar, V loki 14, SI-1351 Brezovica, Slovenia, Europe
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