Presing

Experimental Rock

Band formed in Belgrade, Serbia, in the end of 1990 The founder and the leader of the band is Zoran Radović aka Kiza, the bass-player of the extremely interesting Belgrade band Pasmaters , the distant relative of the New York no wave band James Chance & Contortions. The person who mediated the creation of the band is Miki Ristić, the bass player of another Belgrade band of the same generation, Darkwood Dub, who used to play in the high school punk-rock band together with Kraka(Vladimir Marković), and who recommended Kiza this guitar player as an intriguing alternative for the new band of his. The only problem was that Kraka used to live in London at that time. After hearing from Miki about new band plans, Kraka comes back to Belgrade almost immediately. The first rehearsal was held in the end of November 1990 in the basement of SKC, the birthplace of the whole 1980’s Belgrade new wave scene. It proved immediately that the junction of the Kiza’s and Kraka’s vibrations is very fruitful. The first line up was a trio, as Kiza used to play the bass guitar, but in the first half of 1991, Kiza wants to be hands free to concentrate on singing, and the new bass player comes to the band, Roman, at that time the bass player of Euphoria. The band was given the name “Pressing”, meaning pressure defence in basketball, the sport Kraka used to practice in high school. The band remained attached to the post new wave guitar sound as a dominant for all the years of its career,...