Nikola Čuturilo
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Nikola Čuturilo also known as Čutura (Чутура, trans. Water-bottle) is a Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

. He is known as a guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band
Rock Band
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 Riblja Čorba
Riblja Corba
Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...

, as well as for his solo works.

Early career

Čuturilo started his career as a teenager, in 1976, playing as a guitarist for the band Kredit, which also featured Igor Popović (who would become frontman of Jakarta
Jakarta (band)
-Band history:The band was formed in 1981 in Belgrade. During the initial period the band went through numerous lineup changes, before original members Igor Popović and Jane Parđovski started performing with Rade Bulatović , Miloš Petrović and Ivan Fece .They released their debut album Maske za...

 in 1981, vocals), Časlav Stanković (guitar
Electric guitar
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), Srđan Đurić (bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

) and Milan Bubalo (drums
Drum kit
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). However, Kredit soon disbanded (Stanković, Đurić and Bubalo would later form Laki Pingvini
Laki Pingvini
Laki Pingvini were a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. While initially being a New Wave act, throughout their later career, the band turned towards synthpop and pop rock....

), and in 1977 Čuturilo and Popović, with Srđan Đurić (bass guitar), Slobodan Đurišić (later would play for Mama Co Co, Točak Band
Radomir Mihajlovic
Radomir Mihailović , also known as Točak , is a Serbian rock guitarist. He is best known as the guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Smak. Mihailović is considered one of the top and most influential guitarists of former Yugoslav rock scene.-Studio albums:*R.M...

, Spori Ritam Bend and YU grupa
YU grupa
YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....

, drums) and Saša Lokner (later would play for Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...

, keyboard
Musical keyboard
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), formed the band Paviljon.

After a year spent in Paviljon, Čuturilo became a member of Bicikl. With Bicikl Čuturilo recorded single with songs "Palanačka hronika" and "Dečja pesma", released in 1981. Čuturilo soon had to leave Bicikl due to his army
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army , also referred to as the Yugoslav National Army , was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.-Origins:The origins of the JNA can...

 obligations, and after he returned from the army in 1982, he joined Siluete
Siluete
Siluete was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock band from Belgrade, notable for being one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.-1961 - 1971:...

. A year later Čuturilo moved to the band Zamba, with which he released the album Udarac nisko. In 1984 Zamba disbanded and Čuturilo accepted the invitation from Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...

 leader Srđan Gojković to join Električni Orgazam on tour.

Riblja Čorba

In September 1984 Čuturilo became a member of Riblja Čorba
Riblja Corba
Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...

. He and Vidoja "Džindžer" Božinović
Vidoja Božinovic
Vidoja Božinović , also known as Džindžer , is a Serbian musician. He is best known as the guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...

 became new Riblja Čorba guitar duo, replacing Rajko Kojić
Rajko Kojic
Radislav "Rajko" Kojić was a Serbian and former Yugoslav guitarist best known for his work with band Riblja Čorba.-Biography:...

 and Momčilo Bajagić
Momcilo Bajagic
Momčilo Bajagić "Bajaga" is a highly popular Serbian rock musician born in Bjelovar. He is best known as the leader of the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Bajaga i Instruktori, as well as a former member of the hard rock band Riblja Čorba.-Early career:Bajagić started his musical career as a...

. Čuturilo remained a Riblja Čorba member until 1989, appearing on albums Istina
Istina
Istina is the sixth studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....

, Osmi nervni slom
Osmi nervni slom
Osmi nervni slom is the seventh studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba in 1986....

, Ujed za dušu
Ujed za dušu
Ujed za dušu is the eighth studio album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1987.Except "Član mafije", which had elements of the Caribbean music and criticized League of Communists of Yugoslavia, album did not feature any other song with political-related lyrics,...

and Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi
Prica o ljubavi obicno ugnjavi
Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi is the ninth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1988....

.

Solo

Čuturilo released his first solo album 9 lakih komada (9 Easy Steps) in 1988. He was the only album author, and played guitar and sung on the album recording. Bass guitarists Bodan Arsovski
Bodan Arsovski
Bodan Arsovski is a Macedonian bassist, a core founding member of the rock group Leb i sol, one of the most important rock bands in the former Yugoslavia. He is the only band member to have played on every Leb i sol record. He also released four solo albums.-Biography:As a solo artist, he has...

 (of Leb i Sol
Leb i sol
Leb i sol is a Macedonian rock group founded in the 1970s by Vlatko Stefanovski , Bodan Arsovski , Nikola Kokan Dimuševski and Garabet Tavitjan . Tavitjan ceded the drumwork to Dragoljub Đuričić for some of the albums, while Kiril Džajkovski replaced Kokan on Kao Kakao and Putujemo...

) and Žika Jelić (of YU grupa
YU grupa
YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....

), drummers Dragoljub Đuričić
Dragoljub Đuričić
Dragoljub Đuričić is a Belgrade, Serbia-based Montenegrin musician. He is known as the drummer for the bands YU grupa, Leb i Sol, and Kerber, as a member of Zdravko Čolić's and Đorđe Balašević's backing bands, as well as for his solo work.-Biography:Đuričić was born in 1954 in Cetinje...

 (of Leb i Sol) and Ivan Ranković (of Ekatarina Velika
Ekatarina Velika
Ekatarina Velika , sometimes referred to as EKV for short, was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock group from Belgrade, being one of the most successful and influential music acts coming out of former Yugoslavia....

), keyboardist Saša Lokner (of Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori
Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...

) and guitarist Vlada Negovanovuć (of Tunel
Tunel (band)
Tunel was a former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade.-1980 – 1992:The band was formed in 1980 by Ljuba Ninković , Vladimir "Vlada" Janković "Džet" , and Steva Stevanović...

) participated in the album recording. Mile Lojpur
Mile Lojpur
Milan "Mile" Lojpur was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock musician, arguably the first Serbian, Yugoslav rock and roll musician.-Biography:...

 appeared as a guest musician in the song "Kad je Lojpur svirao" which is referring to himself. The album was well received and Čuturilo formed Laki Band (Easy Band) which featured Van Gogh
Van Gogh (band)
Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...

 member Zvonimir Đukić (guitar), Dragoljub Đuričić
Dragoljub Đuričić
Dragoljub Đuričić is a Belgrade, Serbia-based Montenegrin musician. He is known as the drummer for the bands YU grupa, Leb i Sol, and Kerber, as a member of Zdravko Čolić's and Đorđe Balašević's backing bands, as well as for his solo work.-Biography:Đuričić was born in 1954 in Cetinje...

 (drums) and Ruž member Dejan Grujić (bass guitar). With Laki Band Čuturilo recorded his second solo album, Raskršće (Crossroads) in 1989. Album was produced by Saša Habić, and, alongside Easy Band members, featured Laza Ristovski
Laza Ristovski
Laza Ristovski was a Serbian and former Yugoslav keyboardist, best known for his involvement with Smak and Bijelo Dugme rock bands, as well as for his eclectic solo work that spawned many different musical genres.-Biography:Laza Ristovski was born in Novi Pazar as his father, a JNA officer, was...

 and Saša Lokner on keyboards and Dejan Cukić
Dejan Cukic
Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cukić was the frontman of the New Wave band Bulevar, releasing two albums with the band. After Bulevar disbanded in 1982, he retired from music...

 on backing vocals. During the same year Čuturilo wrote the music for the theatre play Najbolji ludi dan (The Best Crazy Day) which was set at the stage of Nova Gorica
Nova Gorica
Nova Gorica ; 21,082 ; 31,000 ) is a town and a municipality in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy...

 theatre. On September 14, 1989 Čuturilo officially left Riblja Čorba and formed the band Oblaci (The Clouds) which featured Nikola Čuturilo's brother Darko (keyboards), Zoran "Baki" Radovanović (drums), Dejan Grujić (bass guitar), and Saša Ranđelović (guitar). Čuturilo and Oblaci (under the Čutura & Oblaci moniker) released the album Rekom ljubavi (Down the River of Love) in 1991. The album was produced by Saša Habić and brought a number of radio hits: "Glorija", "Pustiću radio", "Reka ljubavi" and "Srećan put". Album featured Pera Joe, Jelena Galonić, Nenad Milosavljević
Nenad Milosavljevic
Nenad Milosavljević , also known as Neša Galija , is a Serbian singer and songwriter. He is best known as the frontman of the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Galija.-Biography:...

, Dragi Jelić
Dragi Jelić
Dragi Jelić is a Serbian rock musician, best known as a singer and guitarist for the band YU grupa, which he formed in 1970 with his brother Zika Jelić. During the 1960s, alongside his brother Žika, he was a member of the beat band Džentlmeni.-References:...

 and Žika Jelić as guest musicians. In 1991 Čuturilo participated at the Retrospective Evening of the Belgrade Spring Festival, performing a cover of Oliver Dragojević
Oliver Dragojevic
Oliver Dragojević is one of the most popular Croatian pop singers. A native of Vela Luka from the island of Korčula, he emerged onto the music scene in the 1970s thanks to the popular Split Festival, one of several musical annual events which began in the former Yugoslavia and still is being held...

's song "Molitva za Magdalenu" which was released on the album Beograde.

At the time Čutura & Oblaci went on the Rekom ljubavi tour, Yugoslav wars
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...

 broke out, and in November 1991 Čuturilo went to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. In London Čuturilo performed mostly in clubs, playing with Paul Rodgers
Paul Rodgers
Paul Bernard Rodgers is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for his success in the 1970s as a member of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist. He has recently toured and recorded with...

 and Micky Moody
Micky Moody
Michael Joseph "Micky" Moody is an English guitarist, and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleague Bernie Marsden he founded the Moody Marsden Band, and later, The Snakes...

, among others. In 1998 he recorded his fourth studio album I.D.. The album was recorded in London with David Duncan (bass guitar) and Neil Findlay (drums), produced in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 by Vlada Negovanović, and released through Komuna Belgrade
Komuna Belgrade
Komuna is a Serbian record label and media production house. Established in 1985, its headquarters are in Belgrade, Serbia with a branch office Budva, Montenegro...

.

In 2006 Čutrilo released his fifth solo album Nemir (The Unrest), recorded with Dejan Grujić on bass guitar and Blagoje Nedeljković on drums. The album was produced by Block Out
Block Out (band)
Block Out is a grunge/alternative rock band from Belgrade, Serbia. Their musical style is a combination of artistic alternative rock, punk rock, doom metal and psychedelic rock...

 leader Nikola Vranjković and released through PGP-RTS
PGP-RTS
PGP-RTS is a major record label based in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a successor of PGP-RTB which was established in 1958 in Belgrade, then capital of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....

.

Collaborations

In 1986 Čuturilo wrote lyrics for the songs "Blagi bože podigni me" and "Još samo ovu noć mi daj" released on Kerber
Kerber
Kerber is a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Niš.-1980s:The original members of Kerber were Goran Šepa "Gale" , Tomislav Nikolić , Branislav "Bane" Božinović , Zoran Stamenković and Zoran Madić . In 1981, formerly known as Top Kerber (Serbian Cyrillic: Кербер; trans. Cerberus) is a...

's album Seobe
Seobe
Seobe is the third studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band Kerber.The album is considered by both fans and critics alike to be one of Kerber’s finest works...

. During the same year he wrote lyrics for the song "Obeć'o sam drugu" released on Peđa D' Boy's album Laku noć ti mala. Čuturilo wrote lyrics for six songs released on the YU grupa
YU grupa
YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....

 1987 album Od zlata jabuka
Od zlata jabuka
Od zlata jabuka is the sixth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band YU grupa. Od zlata jabuka, released ina 1987, is the band's first album since they reunited the same year....

: "Pogled sa šanka", "Zvuk na vratima", "Neko mi treba", "Ulica kestena", "Ti si otrov moj" and "Slomljen od istine". He sung backing vocals on the album recording. He also appeared as the author of the lyrics on YU grupa's following album Ima nade
Ima nade
Ima nade is the seventh studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band YU grupa.The ballad "Dunavom šibaju vetrovi" is notable for being one of the two YU grupa songs sung by the bass guitarist Žika Jelić...

. Once again, he wrote lyrics for six songs: "Zaboravi", "Divlja mašina", "Mornar", "Dunavom šibaju vetrovi", "Vodi me kući anđele" and "Moj stari band". On YU grupa's 1990 album Tragovi
Tragovi
Tragovi is the eighth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band YU grupa.The album is the first album recorded with the drummer Ratislav Đelmaš since YU grupa's 1975 self-titled album.-Track listing:...

he was the author of all of the lyrics. Čuturilo wrote music for Dejan Cukić
Dejan Cukic
Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cukić was the frontman of the New Wave band Bulevar, releasing two albums with the band. After Bulevar disbanded in 1982, he retired from music...

's 1989 album Zajedno. He wrote music for the song "Bez tebe" and wrote lyrics for the songs "Tvoje oči", "Letnje kiše" and "Ustani", but also participated in the writing of lyrics for the songs "Moja devojka", "Pruži mi ruke" and "Žute cipele".

Legacy

The album 9 lakih komada was polled in 1998 as 99th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav popular music albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike
YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike is a book by Duško Antonić and Danilo Štrbac...

(YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).

Studio albums

  • Istina
    Istina
    Istina is the sixth studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba....

    (1985)
  • Osmi nervni slom
    Osmi nervni slom
    Osmi nervni slom is the seventh studio album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba in 1986....

    (1986)
  • Ujed za dušu
    Ujed za dušu
    Ujed za dušu is the eighth studio album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1987.Except "Član mafije", which had elements of the Caribbean music and criticized League of Communists of Yugoslavia, album did not feature any other song with political-related lyrics,...

    (1987)
  • Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi
    Prica o ljubavi obicno ugnjavi
    Priča o ljubavi obično ugnjavi is the ninth studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1988....

    (1988)

Live albums

  • Nema laži, nema prevare – Uživo, Zagreb `85 (1995)
  • Od Vardara pa do Triglava
    Od Vardara pa do Triglava
    Od Vardara pa do Triglava is the double live and the third live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav and rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1996. Album was compiled of bootlegs recorded on Riblja Čorba concerts held in 1988, during their Yugoslav tour...

    (1996)

Studio albums

  • 9 lakih komada (1988)
  • Raskršće (1989)
  • Rekom ljubavi (1991)
  • I.D. (1998)
  • Nemir (2006)

External links

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