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Libar


Founded in the city of Split, Croatia in 2007, the band LIBAR (local word for THE BOOK) has won the audience from the beginning; their shows were sold out from their very start. Taking a basic form of traditional “klapa music” (a cappella male multi-part singing, in a special traditional way, typical for Dalmatia region in Croatia) and accompanying it with standard rock band set-up, they have brought new and fresh readings of domestic and international hit songs. They released their first album in spring 2008, titled “Libar Prvi” (Libar, the 1st), successfully combining acoustic rock and ‘klapa’ way of singing. Twelve cover songs are clearly showing the way which band choose as uniquely their own – they “heretically” dismissed canons of traditional singing, moving artistic borders onward and erasing them with modern and progressive approach to autochthonic values, also breaking up language and style barriers in the process. The album has won public and critics’ acclamation and won international discography award ‘Indexi’ in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina for best ethno-fusion album in region in 2009. During that year, with few line-up changes and new creative forces in the band, LIBAR announced heavier, r’n’r approach to covering songs, playing some of Croatian evergreens in heavy-metal manner, and also filling up their repertoire covering songs by Talking Heads, R.E.M., Peter Gabriel, Muse, RHCP, Depeche Mode and others in the same style, while th...

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