Damn right,

something is new... ;-) More about that, the memories, and changes whatever they bring in one of the post to follow...

MMS (or how & why not)

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts couple of weeks ago we (Viniški tamburaši) were recording song to compete at Melodije morja in Sonca festival (MMS from now on). Music and lyrics were written by Jernej.
Now the deadline for sending entries was Friday, a week ago. And one week later festival commitee was in session to choose the festival participants. And day after that- last Saturday we got first hint by one of the nation's tabloids Direkt (!!!), that song we recorded was not chosen for the festival. I'd be normally OK with that- we are not pop group, Jernej is not professional musician, and the singer- Gašper is only 16. But what upsets me is the fact, that the song nonetheless (even by opinion of some notable musicians who heard it) is by far better, than most of the entries that competed at the festival for last few years. And if you consider the fact that one particular author (of lyrics & music), who has quite some influence over members of entry commitee (let me not be to specific) has 8 (eight!!!) songs on the festival. MMS used to be main and best song festival in Slovenia, but backstage games just transformed it into shadow of what is used to be. Shame really.

Viniški tamburaši performing at internation tamburica festival in Dragatuš

Now the good news is that we were still early enough to enter etno festival Kostel. It's still gonna be on TV, the competence of festival commitee is still unshaken, and I'm sure we'll be good at it. Namely we are already chosen for it. :-) So- sometimes something good comes out of the things that don't start as such...