One of the most authentic and influential acts on the Serbian world music scene, Hazari, will perform on May 29 at the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. The concert starts at 8:30 PM and represents a rare opportunity for audiences to once again experience live a band that has held a unique place on the regional music map for decades.

Hazari emerged in the early 1990s as an original project of guitarist and composer Dragomir Milenković, driven by the desire to create new music based on a fusion of jazz, ambient electronics, and the traditional heritage of the Balkans. As Milenković himself explains, the idea behind Hazari was born from the search for an authentic Balkan musical expression, free from standard Western jazz patterns and deeply inspired by Byzantine, folk, and Oriental musical influences.

Over the years, Hazari developed a distinctive sound that has been difficult to classify within existing genre boundaries. Their music has been described as ethno-jazz, world music, and even as a completely unique musical direction of its own, while Kornelije Kovač once referred to their sound as “psychedelic folklore.”

During the 1990s and 2000s, the band performed at numerous concerts and festivals, leaving behind important releases such as Keepers of the Truth, Balkan Asymmetry, The Book of the Prophet Enoch, and Glimmer Through a Dream. Hazari ceased activity after their performance with Kornelije Bata Kovač at the Nišville Jazz Festival in 2010, making the upcoming concert in Novi Sad a particularly significant return to the stage.

The audience will have the opportunity to hear music that left a profound mark on the Serbian alternative, ethno, and world music scene, and to revisit the work of a band that pushed the boundaries of contemporary Balkan music as early as the 1990s.

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Dragomir Milenković Music by WMAS Records >>