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Andrej Kljaković, pianist, composer, producer (Zagreb, September 12, 1961)
Born into an artistic family, he completed secondary music education in his hometown, majoring in piano, and continued his education at the Jazz Conservatory in Paris, specializing in composition and arranging. Andrej paves the way for the first Jazz-Rock band Lotus in the former Yugoslavia, and in the 70s and 80s he participates in numerous projects such as Promise Of The Spring, Digitron, Put lješte, Aerodrom and works with Josip Lisac. In the 90s, he worked in London as a music producer for V2 Universal and Sony/BMG record companies, and as a composer for Bucks Music and Westminster Publishing. The works for Universal and V2 (Virgin Records) record company were published all over the world, and the album Latino Megamix was ranked in the top 10 albums of the world. With Fly Records he released albums under the name Excused Boots which regularly topped the UK charts. His later compositional work on the albums Simulakra and Terra Incognita was released on Bucks Music. Since 2005, Andrej Kljaković has devoted himself to the original and progressive world music project Voices Of Nature, which attracted the interest of the American-Croatian company IDM Music, with whom he signed a publishing, iTunes and record contract. He released two albums Exotika and Abazar with the same label. The compositions — sheet music transcriptions from the Abazar album — were published in Stih. Voices Of Nature is an eclectic, fusion band that performs its original music and is the "child" of Andrej Kljaković, who has dedicated himself to redefining the boundaries of eclectic music in recent decades. The group presents a new concept in electro-acoustic heterogeneous fusion and combines it with explosive textual improvisations found in world music and jazz. On the albums Exotika and Abazar, all compositions, arrangements and texts are mostly Kljaković's work, and texts written in invented languages are his trademark. With music, he presents the voices of various cultures that are carried by exotic rhythms and called from the musical tradition of the ancient world.
Along with the multi-ethnic project Voices Of Nature, Kljaković launches the progressive project Kljaković Eklektik Company. With his musicians, he recorded and released the album Artaxerxes, named after the Persian king, in 2013.
Andrej Kljaković is a member of the Croatian Music Union, the Croatian Society of Composers, the Croatian Association for the Protection of Performing Rights (HUZIP), PRS in Great Britain and ZAMP in Croatia.
WORKS: Albums: Music Too Hot, 1984; Child Of The Sun, 1989; Digitron, 1997; Simulacra, 1999; Latino Mega Mix, 1999; Terra Incognita, 2001; Lino Rocha, 2002; Exotics, 2009; Abazar, 2011; Artaxerxes, 2013.
Kljaković Andrej, pijanist, skladatelj, producent (Zagreb, 12. rujna 1961.)
Rođen u umjetničkoj obitelji, u rodnom gradu završio je srednje glazbeno obrazovanje, predmet glasovir, a školovanje je nastavio na Jazz konzervatoriju u Parizu, specijaliziravši se za kompoziciju i aranžiranje. Andrej utire put prvome Jazz–Rock sastavu Lotus u bivšoj Jugoslaviji te u 70–ima i 80–ima sudjeluje u brojnim projektima kao što su Promise Of The Spring, Digitron, Put svjetlosti, Aerodrom te radi i s Josipom Lisac. U 90–ima u Londonu radi kao glazbeni producent za V2 Universal i Sony/ BMG diskografske kuće te kao skladatelj za Bucks Music i Westminster Publishing. Radovi za Universal i V2 (Virgin Records) diskografsku kuću objavljivani su diljem svijeta, a album Latino Megamix svrstan je u top 10 svjetskih albuma. S Fly Records objavljivao je albume pod nazivom Excused Boots koji su redovito bili na britanskim top listama. Njegov kasniji skladateljski rad s albuma Simulakra i Terra Incognita objavljen je za nakladničku kuću Bucks Music. Od 2005. godine Andrej Kljaković posvetio se orginalnom i progresivnom world music projektu Voices Of Nature za koji se zainteresirala američko–hrvatska tvrtka IDM Music s kojima potpisuje publishing, iTunes i diskografski ugovor. S istom kućom izdaje dva albuma Exotika i Abazar. Kompozicije — notne transkripcije s albuma Abazar — objavljene su u nakladi Stih. Voices Of Nature je eklektični, fusion bend koji izvodi svoju autorsku glazbu i ‘dijete’ je Andreja Kljakovića koji se posljednjih desetljeća posvetio redefiniranju granica eklektične glazbe. Grupa predstavlja novi koncept u elektro– akustičnom heterogenom fusionu i kombinira ga s eksplozivnim tekstualnim improvizacijama koje nalazimo u world music i jazzu. Na albumima Exotika i Abazar sve kompozicije, aranžmani i tekstovi većinom su Kljakovićev rad, a tekstovi pisani na izmišljenim jezicima njegov su zaštitni znak. On glazbom prikazuje glasove raznovrsnih kultura koji su nošeni egzotičnim ritmovima i prizvani iz glazbene tradicije antičkog svijeta.
Uz multi–etnički projekt Voices Of Nature, Kljaković pokreće progresivni projekt Kljaković Eklektik Company. Sa svojim glazbenicima snima te 2013. godine objavljuje album Artaxerxes, nazvan po perzijskom kralju.
Andrej Kljaković je član Hrvatske glazbene unije, Hrvatskog društva skladatelja, Hrvatske udruge za zaštitu izvođačkih prava (HUZIP), PRS–a u Velikoj Britaniji i ZAMP–a u Hrvatskoj.
DJELA: Albumi: Musiki Too Hot, 1984.; Child Of The Sun, 1989.; Digitron, 1997.; Simulakra, 1999.; Latino Mega Mix, 1999.; Terra Incognita, 2001.; Lino Rocha, 2002.; Exotika, 2009.; Abazar, 2011.; Artaxerxes, 2013.
