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Lola V. Stain
12+ albums
folkMacedonianneofolkexperimentalbalkan
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Lola V. Stain is an ensemble from Skopje, Macedonia, formed in 1987 as a side project of some members of the band Анастасија (Anastasia). The name Lola V. Stain was taken from Margaret Dirass in order to help describe the sound of this unique band. It is in the tradition of ambient music but also mixes in the traditional folk music of Macedonia, including bagpipes. The founding member of the group was Zlatko Origjanski, who was born in Skopje in 1963. He formed the band Gospodinot Otiden in the mid-'80s and this is the ensemble that formed the roots of what would shortly become Lola V. Stain. Beginning as a trio and adding several other members during its first few years, the group created two albums of its distinctive music which were released on a Croatian label, Blind Dog. The debut album, Ikona, featured remarkable playing from the Macedonian bagpiper Pece Atanasovski, who aged out the other members of the group by at least a decade or two. The second of these discs, entitled Mansarda, featured guest musicians such as Beti Miceva, Cane Krstevski, Goran Trajkoski, Tanja Stankovic, and Vladan Milenkovic. Although an obviously negative impression was created by the series of wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia, the involvement of a Croatian label in releasing Macedonian music was just typical of the kind of artistic cooperation between sections of the country that made the independent record scene successful. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Co
