Lepi Jova
The band from Novi Sad Lepi Jova numbers six, met playing in an art center. Milorad Kukić plays the pipe and is the guitarist, on clarinet and saxophone Miloš Mijatović, Miroslav Majstorović plays the violin, Željko Džakić plays the guitar, Tibor Sabo on bass, while Njegoš Krakić is liable for the percussions (tarabuka, bongos…).
The idea to make a band combining pipe kolo and rumba was born in 2005, when the guys were with their folk troupe in Greece. The band was formally formed three years later, and from then on had successful performances on numerous festivals across the country and abroad. Musical critics note that Lepi Jova very steady and skillfully managed to merge the Serbian kolo, the so called Balkan beat and jazz with rock and electro music.
Lepi Jova is a person from Serbian folk songs and dances. In them he is often characterized as the fastest, prettiest, best, strongest… right after Marko Kraljević. Lepi Jova from Novi Sad creates original instrumental music, full of energy, bizarre ethno motives with quick shifts in rhythm, but also play interesting, unexpected covers. The pipe, as they say, was pulled out of folk, the so called twosie, and they gave it a greater freedom as a melodic instrument.
They record their most important performances on the Nisville Festival in 2010 and 2012. They also played on the Festival Of Ambient And Ethno music Carousel in Čačak and on the World Music Summit in Dom Omladine Civic Center in Belgrade, while in Novi Sad they performed on the public beach Štrand’s Festival Of Food and in the Serbian National Theatre and in Studio M. On the Street Musicians Festival, the multi-instrumentalist Kukić and his palls you will expect to hear playing tracks recorded on their premier album released two years ago.
