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Artist
Miroslav Evačić
12+ albums
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Miroslav Evacic was born on 30th March 1973 in Koprivnica, a small town in Podravina (north-west region of Croatia by the Drava river). The first music influence came from his grandfather who played accordion and often used to sing old folk-songs. Early, at the age of eight, along with his older brother he began collecting LP-s of eminent rock, country and blues artists. He himself started playing guitar at the age of thirteen, completely on his own, with no tutor. He intuitively found his own approach and expression which he developed trough his years of growing up. Along with his passion for guitar grew his awareness of his own traditional background so he also became a member of traditional folk ensemble of his region. There he played tambura bugarija, found many interesting themes, songs and dances that years after he conjucted with his specific guitar playing. He also made enormous effort to find cimbule (hammered dulcimer) that used to be common instrument in folk-ensembles in 19th and early 20th century, but in the 80-s was almost completely lost. His passion for music led him even further-he began playing different types of tamburas, percussions, guitar tunes... In his early teenage period he played in a few local rock bands, but even then in his mind he started to create a vision of music that would unite those great two loves: blues-rock and traditional music. Soon he formed Scukin Berek - a blues-rock trio that played cover of traditionals. Later on the band beg