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Luka Stanisavljevic (CINC) Interview in Jun.2004 *How did you start your music? My friend Djordje Ilic and me were playing for ten years together. We started as a punk band, than we reverted to some kind of Manchester style with traces of New American rock. We had a drummer at the beginning, but he has left us. Then, instead of looking for another one, we started playing our songs in acoustic manner, and we liked how it sounded. So, Djordje reverted to acoustic guitar, and I began exercising to make string arrangements. Then we began making gigs in quiet places like libraries. It is important to us that audience can sit back, relax, and pay attention to our lyrics, and to hear subtleness of arrangements. *How was this album made? We have invited two girls from choir and orchestra of Skart group to play violin and viola with us, and we haven't regret it. Two of them, Aleksandra and Danka, were very important for the atmosphere of this album, and they had few nice singing parts as well. Four other people(aged from 17 to 42!) also appeared on this album as worthful guests. We have rehearsed it all at my home, and recorded it within 30 hours, on analog equipment. Vast majority of recordings are "first takes". That is why it sounds so spontaneously. *What is the meaning of cinc? In Serbian, and some other languages, cinc is the word for ordinary RCA plug, the same one that you use for connecting your audio devices etc. Many people wonder why we took that kind of name if we make acoustic music. But we didn't pick it because of that. You see, in Djordje's vocabulary, cinc means peanuts (ONLY in his vocabulary). So we found it funny, and we named ourselves after it. Also, it is short, and it sounds optimistic. Later we found out that the primary meaning of "cinc" in English is "Commander IN Chief". I hope that people won't understand our name that way. *Please let us know the Belgrade music scene? Belgrade has it's spirit. It is very ugly city, and most of music made there is ugly as well. But, from time to time, great things happen in Belgrade. New wave scene at the beginning of 80s was great. Not much worse than in England and USA. These days, most of young people in Belgrade listen to rap and hip-hop or to some awful folk music, with oriental atmosphere. Electronic music and latino are also very popular. Still, there is alternative audience, not numerous but strong. If I should mention some other band, let it be Belgrade Yard Sound System, a couple of inventive dj-s with double bass, and Serbian version of "The Beatles" -the band called Jarboli (it means "masts", they are all very tall and skinny). Their music is funny and energizing. *How about your future activity? . I think that re-release of "Shine of wot?" on Amorfon label will give us a new good spirit. We recorded another album last year, and now we are working on new songs. We have just composed music to poems of Francois Villon, Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, Zbigniew Herbert and other great world poets, and we like how it sounds. Now we have new, very good people in the band: charming alto of Irena, ingenious "Moog" and piano parts of Andra, steadiness of Alexander the Percussionist, rhetorical skill of Uross. We have just invited two nice girls to play flute and cello, I hope they will stay with us. During last few months, we spread our activity to our website at cincplug.com, we make comics, radio-shows, videos and other multimedia stuff, along with enthusiasts like Gojko the Chachanian, Nena Skoko, Skart, Schlitz... |