My Buddy Moose
The four-member band from Rijeka, My Buddy Moose, creates, records and performs a mixture of garage rock, punk, soul and country. They are beloved by the audience prone to the so called Americana sound, but also the fans of good, quality rock. Whilst in studios they cooperated and shared the stage with some truly legendary international names of rock‘n’roll.
Luka Benčić (on lead vocals, guitar and harmonica), Matko Botić (on guitar and mandolin), Ištvan Širola (on bass and back vocals) and Jasmin Đečević (on drums) – better known as the greatest worshipers of Cosmic American Music, but also the garage energy of The Sonics and The Stooges – have been together for more than ten years.
After their first demo recordings and furious club performances, they entered the studio and recorded an album with production assistance from Dalibor Pavičić, from The Bambi Molesters. Praised by critics, the album led them to big festival stages and all the more frequent guest appearances on concerts of foreign rockers.
Their second collection of original tracks, the album Wonderful Feeling Of Emptiness, is recorded four years later. Playing on the album as guests are the greats of the Americana sound Howe Gelb (from Giant Sand) and Chris Eckman (from The Walkabouts). With Eckman, now as the bands producer, they create their third album, Shine! Shine! Shine! in 2013.
– In Rijeka live some guys who make sensationally beautiful music – wrote the popular Croatian journalist and writer Ante Tomić, referring to the members of My Buddy Moose, the band gladly listened to and always warmly welcomed in Novi Sad. You might say that the young Croatian rockers – who had performances in front of audiences in Liverpool and London – found their strongest fan base right here in the capital city of Vojvodina!
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