UPROOTED, the sound of here and there.

Uprooted is a project curated by Vidal Benjamin. The concept behind the project comes from his own personal experience of being uprooted. Under the wing of Versatile Records, he has decided to launch a collection of double-sided limited edition, vinyl only, celebrating the dualityof people who take their roots from a place and embrace another culture.

The idea is to ask an appreciated music activist with a double cultural pedigree to choose two tracks. One track that incarnates the place where he or she comes from (the sound of there,
side A) and another

No digital for this srie.
Vinyl only.

#1-Vladimir Ivkovic

From Belgrade to Dsseldorf, uprooted or not, I compiled 2 tracks from my 2 cities.
Tracks that were always meant to be released on one 7.

On the Belgrade side there are Rex, Vejvoda, Milan. Rex Ilusivii, Goran Vejvoda and Milan Mladenovi.
Summer of 1984, a short nighttime session on an improvised 4 track 1/4 tape studio setup in Gorans parents small living room in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Three young men getting away from their dry intellectual framework at the tail end of the influence of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Maybe. Maybe not. A recording that should not exist, from the city that does not exist, from the country that could have shown the world how a melting pot can blend and stick together, no matter how countless obstacles lay ahead.

On the Dsseldorf side there is CHBB. Chrislo Haas and Beate Bartel. One track from the first of their four tapes, recorded and self-released in Dsseldorf in 1981. Rough powerful electronics with attitude, the future that happened more than 40 years ago and that is yet to come.

Untitled licensed courtesy of Rua Suboti, Goran Vejvoda and Zadubina Milana Mladenovia.

NbkE licensed courtesy of Beate Bartel CHBB-Musik.

14.9.2022
Vladimir Ivkovi