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Miroslav Evacic started playing guitar
at the age of thirteen, completely on his own, with no tuthor. He
intuitively found his own approach and expression which he developed trough
his years of growing up.
Along with his passion for guitar he also made enormous
effort to find cimbule (hammered dulcimer) that used to be common instrument
in folk-ensmbles in 19th and early 20th century, but in the 80-s was almost
completely lost.
His passion for music led him even further-he began
playing diferent types of tamburas, pecussions, guitar tunes and also
started intensively work as a sound engineer and producer in a professional
studios. During that time he went deeper and realy touched the roots of his
tradition and, spending lots of time in his own studio, experimenting with
ideas, he found a way to express his vision and he came out with music he
called Csardas Blues.
He found that roots of the blues and his own
traditional music are almost identical so Chardas Blues came out as
something natural, simple, pure music without any makeovers and massive
orchestrations. The world music movement was something quite unknown in
Croatia so it took some time till a reponse from the world came. Then the
Croatian medias started to aprechiate it, too. fROOTS
magazine and BBC Radio made a great
contribution in presenting it to the world, and everything went to follow...
At this point Miroslav Evacic is eminent Croatian world
music artist. He performs all over the world, solo or with Chardash Blues
Band (guitar, bass and drums). At the special events the band enters a
virtous cimbule (hammered dulcimer) player and vocalist
Gordana Evacic who is also a winner of the
national Status awawd for the best instrumentalist playing traditional
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