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Presing 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 alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band from 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...

. Formed in 1990 and named after pressure defense in basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 (and some other team sports), Presing were, together with Darkwood Dub
Darkwood Dub
Darkwood Dub are an alternative rock band from Belgrade, Serbia, which, formed in 1988, gradually grew to prominence on the Serbian rock scene. Their music is characterized by gentle bass lines, a mixture of live drumming and electronic percussion, along with frequent use of slide guitar,...

 and Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša
Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša
Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade.- Formation, first releases :...

, representatives of the so-called NeoBeo sound, alternative, guitar-based rock music produced in Belgrade in early 1990s. New York Press
New York Press
New York Press was a free alternative weekly in New York City, that was published from 1988 to 2011. During its lifetime, it was the main competitor to the Village Voice...

 wrote about Presing: "It's a sound that kicks the pants off the recycle-rock of The Strokes
The Strokes
The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....

, The Vines
The Vines
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 and the White Stripes, just to name a few... You can hear bits of the melodic era of The Fall (This Nation's Saving Grace
This Nation's Saving Grace
This Nation's Saving Grace is a 1985 LP by The Fall. It reached number 54 in the UK charts. The album is frequently cited as one of the group's strongest and most consistent...

 through Frenz Experiment
The Frenz Experiment
The Frenz Experiment is a 1988 album by The Fall. It was released on Beggars Banquet Records, and like the group's other albums with the label, it has a different track listing across the various formats on which it was released: LP, CD and cassette. A number of the tracks are credited exclusively...

), some Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

, some Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

–and even some P-Funk
P-Funk
P-Funk is a shorthand term for the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and the distinctive style of funk music they performed...

 via Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...

".

The original lineup consisted of Zoran Radović "Kiza" on vocals, Vladimir Marković "Kraka" on guitar, Roman Goršek on bass guitar and Slobodan Asanović on drums. Radović and Marković remained in the band continuously, while other members kept changing. Highly artistic lyrics of Radović, performed in a rap
Rap
Rap may refer to:*Rapping, performance in which rhyming lyrics are used, with or without musical accompaniment ; while an MC performs spoken verses in time to a beat/ melody**Hip hop subculture**Hip hop music...

 manner, merged with harmonic and somewhat dissonant guitar tunes of Marković, thus creating a style of post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

 sound. Presing members are also involved in other art forms, such as fiction and poetry (both Radović and Marković released their books), painting and sculpture (Radović and Grubačić). They also have musical side projects such as Tron and Stereo Ikar by Radović and Tornado Ptice and Xanax by Marković.

1990s

The band was formed in 1990, in the lineup consisting of former Pasmaters member Zoran Radović "Kiza" (vocals, bass guitar), Vladimir Marković "Kraka" (guitar) and drummer Slobodan Asanović "Boban". Before joining the band, Marković lived in 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...

, working as a window-washer and bassist in a reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 band, but returned to Belgrade on Radović request of joining the band. Soon after, Radović quit playing bass, with former Euforija member Roman Goršek taking over the bass duties. The lineup had their first recordings, the songs "Mačo" ("Macho") and "Oboye" ("Both") released on the various artists compilation Želim jahati do ekstaze, released by Slušaj Najglasnije and Nova Aleksandrija record labels, which, due to the outbreak of the 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...

, did not have a proper distribution.

The outbreak of the war forced the band members to leave the country and for a while bassist Nikola Rađenović, a former Gastrbajters and Avtomobili member, and drummer Blaža Drecun, a former Darkwood Dub
Darkwood Dub
Darkwood Dub are an alternative rock band from Belgrade, Serbia, which, formed in 1988, gradually grew to prominence on the Serbian rock scene. Their music is characterized by gentle bass lines, a mixture of live drumming and electronic percussion, along with frequent use of slide guitar,...

 member, were replacements. On Goršek's return, the band, with the new drummer Miladin Radivojević, a former Klajberi member, recorded their debut album Priča o totemu, duhu koji hoda, psu i razočaranoj ženi (The Story of Totem
Totem
A totem is a stipulated ancestor of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe.Totems support larger groups than the individual person. In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem...

, a Ghost that Walks, a Dog and a Disappointed Woman), featuring elements of punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and noise music. The album, available on compact cassette
Compact Cassette
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 only, was released by Slušaj Najglasnije record label in Croatia
Croatia
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, and a slightly altered version of the album was released in 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...

 by Sorabia Disk. It reached the second Yugoslav album of the year by both the magazine Ritam and the Italian
Italy
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 Udine Radio
Udine
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.

After the album release, the band performed at the Zaječar
Zajecar
Zaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...

 Gitarijada
Gitarijada
Gitarijada is a musical festival held in Zaječar, Serbia in order to promote demo bands. Held since 1969, Gitarijada is one of the longest lasting festivals in Serbia and in South Eastern Europe and the largest festival of young and unsinged bands in South Eastern Europe...

 festival, after which Goršek and Radivojević left the band, forming Plejboj
Plejboj
Plejboj was a Serbian punk rock/ska band from Belgrade.- Formation, rise to prominence :...

, being replaced by the former Kazna Za Uši
Kazna Za Uši
Kazna Za Uši is a Serbian garage rock band from Belgrade.- Band formation, first releases :...

 bassist Rudolf Cibulski and former Sport i Reinkarnacija drummer Saša Bugarčić. The new lineup also started recording new material, but due to Radović's health problems only two tracks were recorded, the song "Mamutska brda" ("The Mammoth
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair...

 Hills") and the instrumental "Godzila" ("Godzilla
Godzilla
is a daikaijū, a Japanese movie monster, first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla. Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video games,...

"), the former being released in 1994 on the various artists compilation Radio Utopia (B92: 1989-1994). "Mamutska brda" also appeared on the Geto (Ghetto) movie soundtrack, however it was never released officially. During the same year, the tracks "Mačo", "Šurikeni" ("Sure-cans"), "Sve zvezde" ("All the Stars"), and "Ona vreba" ("She is Lurk"), appeared on the split album
Split album
A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...

 3, also featuring Overdose and Kazna Za Uši.
The band had a three-year break in its career, during which Marković formed the band Tornado Ptice, also featuring Vladislav Rac (of Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša
Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša
Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade.- Formation, first releases :...

) on bass guitar, Ognjenka Lakićević (later Autopark vocalist) on vocals, Predrag Ilić on drums, Nenad Pejović on the other guitar, Nebojša Mrđenović on cello and violinist Vladimir Nikolić, releasing the album Prozračno poslepodne (An airy afternoon) on Automatic Records. With the former Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša
Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša
Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade.- Formation, first releases :...

 bassist Vladislav Rac and drummer Miladin Radivojević, Radović and Marković reformed Presing in 1996. Two years later, the song "Mačo" appeared on the soundtrack for the Radivoje Andrić movie 3 palme za 2 bitange i ribicu (3 Palm-Trees for 2 Punks and a Chick).

2000s

In 2001, the lineup changed and drummer Radivojević was replaced by Dejan Utvar, a former Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša and Kazna Za Uši drummer. The following year, on June 12, the second studio album 600 nebo (pun
Pun
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 for 6th heaven) was released, recorded during May and June 1999 and produced by Željko Božić. The album was critically acclaimed and it reached #1 on the lists of best albums of the year 2002 in FR Yugoslavia by pop culture monthly OK magazin, Blic
Blic
Blic is a tabloid daily newspaper in Serbia owned by Ringier AG group from Switzerland.Started in 1996, it has gone through a slight format change during the mid 2000s to include more in-depth coverage, but it is still, as its name aptly suggest, a paper devoted to quick, concise,...

 daily and Reporter weekly, and the US weekly magazine Boston Phoenix ranked the album as "one of the best five albums to emerge from Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 in the past decade". The sound of the band on this album evolved towards more harmonic structures of soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

, country
Country
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 and even krautrock
Krautrock
Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...

. The single "Ritam u kojem stojiš" ("Rhythm that You're Standing In") reached #1 in video charts of Radio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...

 3rd Channel, TV Studio B
RTV Studio B
RTV Studio B, more often called Studio B , is a radio and television broadcaster in Belgrade, Serbia, which was the first broadcast station outside the national electronic media system.-Background:...

 and #2 in the lists of best music videos of the year 2002 by TV B92
B92
B92 is a radio and television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Its programs, including the news cover topics with fairly liberal political painted attitudes...

 and Music Television of Serbia.

In 2003 the debut album, Priča o totemu, duhu koji hoda, psu i razočaranoj ženi, was rereleased on CD
Compact Disc
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 by Sensart and Beograund independent record label
Independent record label
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s. The following year, a former Trenje bassist Marko Grubačić "Gega", and E-Play
E-Play
- History :The band was formed in 1997, initially having several lineup changes before the lineup consisting of Biljana Todorovski , Maja Cvetković and Jarboli member Nemanja Aćimović became the default one. The band also had a semi-official band member Sonja Lončar who played an analogous...

 drummer Damjan Dašić became the new band members, immediately starting a year and a half long recording sessions at the Master Blaster and Vesa studios for the third studio album, Zanos bez snova (Enchantment without Dreams), combining a more subtle sound, featuring increased use of string sections of tango
Tango music
Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...

 and modern classical music, with loud and dissonant guitar sound. Guest appearances on the album featured Ivana Smolović (vocals), Dušan Petrović (saxophone), Milica Milojević (flute), Boris Krstajić (synthesizer), Marko Petronijević (trumpet, jaw harp) and Vladimir Nikolić (violin, viola).

Studio albums

  • Priča o totemu, duhu koji hoda, psu i razočaranoj ženi (1992)
  • 600 nebo (2002)
  • Zanos bez snova (2006)

Compilation albums

  • 3 (1994) - split album
    Split album
    A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...

    , with Kazna Za Uši
    Kazna Za Uši
    Kazna Za Uši is a Serbian garage rock band from Belgrade.- Band formation, first releases :...

     and Overdose
  • Bombardiranje New Yorka vol. 10 (2001) - split compilation

Other appearances

  • "Mačo" / "Oboye" (Želim jahati do ekstaze; 1991)
  • "Mamutska brda" (Radio Utopia (B92: 1989-1994); 1994)
  • "Mačo" (Muzika iz filma '3 Palme Za 2 Bitange i Ribicu; 1998)

External links

  • Official website
  • Zoran Radović official site
  • Presing at Myspace
    Myspace
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  • Presing at Youtube
    YouTube
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  • Presing at Discogs
    Discogs
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  • Presing at Rateyourmusic
  • Presing at B92.fm
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