Cinc - a distinctive Belgrade band

photo: Darja Bekan

We exist since 2001. We are based in Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia (also known as Yugoslovakia).

They say that we are a brand new thing in Serbian music. Actually, we are rather a brand new thing in Hungarian music.

Our name doesn't mean "Commander in Chief".
It should not be pronounced as sink, as you probably think.
It should be pronounced as chinch, which is a cinch to learn.
It also doesn't have anything to do with chinch bugs.
It is merely a sound.

Our names are:

• Luka Stanisavljevic - bass, guitar, voice, drum patterns
• Djordje Ilic - guitar, voice, percussion
• Irena Vanic - voice
• Srdjan Stojanovic - violin

• Uros Miloradovic - voice, rhetorical skill, now in Republic of Italy
• Andrija Pavlovic - piano, moog, now in various Republics
• Ana Vranes - cello, now in Republic of England
• Ana Ruza - flute, now in Federal Republic of Norway

We play (so they say):

• Psychedelic folk
• Chamber pop
• Vaudeville punk
• Comedy rock
• Eclectic fusion
• Interactive fission
• Fender precision

Hear this brief sound definition that we used in an announcement for a gig.

Albums:

• Shine of wot?, first released by Skart group, Belgrade, in 2001, re-released by Amorfon, Tokyo, in 2004
• Attitude, released by Templum (Skopje, Macedonia), in 2003, re-released by Listen Loudest (Zagreb, Croatia), in 2007
• Polyphonic Poetry, released by Amorfon, Tokyo, in 2006

We also have a band with Yoshio Machida, it is called Walk with the Penguin

Compilations with us:

• Music for Baby, released by Amorfon, Tokio, 2004
• 11. bombardiranje Njujorka, released byListen Loudest, Zagreb, 2007.
• Šta treba maloj deci, released byKornet, Beograd, 2007.

We had gigs at:

• National library, Belgrade, three times. Here you got photos and recordings from the last gig there
• "Milutin Bojic" library, Belgrade, five times. Here's a photo
• Izba gallery, Novi Sad, 2003. Photo
• Cultural centre of Ruma, 2003. Photo
• off programme of Ring Ring festival, 2003
• SKC centre, 2004. Here are photos
• Botanical garden, Belgrade, 2004. Photos...
• Rex, Belgrade, 2004. Photos...
• PGA Conference in Jajinci City (where Irena was a volunteer), 2004, no photos
• Gavez place, with Slovenian oldie Marko Brecelj, 2004. No photos
• Gavez place again, within Schlitz comic workshop. Photos...
• Cultural centre Tocka, Skopje, Macedonia. Photos...
• Baba club, Veles, Macedonia. Photos...
• On Panonija TV, Novi Sad City. Evo fotke
• In Werkstatt Kassel
• On Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart
• In ZKM - HfG, Karlsruhe

We took part in:

• Coproduction of Belgrade and Paris artists "Dreams / Reve" 2002. with Slaice (in a form of slide-show)
• Few competitions for comics, like Crtani Romani Show, Zagreb, Croatia, 2004., with Addiction
• Short electronic form fair KEF 5, in 2004, where won the first prize of the audience. Video is at KEF page (Cinc - Savcici)
• Short electronic form fair KEF 6, in 2005, where won the third prize of the audience. Video is at KEF page (Cinc - Shutz und Trutze)
• We took part in the radio programme at B-92. Now we take our part in first Serbian podcast show at B-92.
• Our video for March was screened in Germany at Loop Pool 2006. in Oberhausen, Cologne and Hamburg. DVD with works from this festival was released by Graw Boeckler
• Our video for June was also screened in Germany and other states at Loop Pool 2007.
• We took part in Belef festival 2007. on Kalemegdan, in a rap opera "The Land of Happiness" by Vladica Pejkovic, and in project "Unnecessary" of Prota and Žole group

Press:

• An interview with my highness in prestigious Yellow Cab magazine, July 2005
• Review in Politika daily, by Ah Nesa, June 13th 2005
• Review of Osečev sjaj and Polyphonic Poetry, Belgian radio Psyche Van Het Folk
• Review of Music for baby compilation Belgian radio Psyche Van Het Folk
• Review of gig in Skopje, Utrinski Vesnik, by Boban Ristevski, January 2005
• Shine of Wot review at French website Infra Tunes
• Review of Polyphonic Poetry, Polish website Gaz - eta
• Review of Polyphonic Poetry, English website Terrascope - Rumbles
• Review of Ponašanje, Croatian website Terapija
• Croatian band Radost! critically listens to music of obscure group Cinc
• Recenzija Walk with the Penguin, American website Delusions of Adequacy
• Review of Polyphonic Poetry and Walk with the Penguin, Spanish website Bodyspace.net
• Review of compilation Šta treba maloj deci, Serbian website Popboks
• Review of compilation Šta treba maloj deci, Croatian website Groopie.hr
• Review of compilation Šta treba maloj deci, Croatian website Terapija.net
• Review of compilation Šta treba maloj deci, Slovenian daily newspaper Politika

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Thesaurus

This is, above all, a humour that, in cabare manner, connects sentiments, social stuff, childhood and shit. Usually consisted of language stripes, musical poetry of Cinc recycles and archives our intimate memories in language: people's and poets' words, conversations, bizarre, bump words - rare examples, musical lecture, movies, pictures on the wall - places, cities, titles, traveling, slang, quotes, sentiments, calembours. Since words like Canada, bullet, weed, chetnik, Al Kaida, Marakana, Sarajevo, Chinese, 200 bucks... are also part of this memory, these songs sometimes have a very subtle social meaning. Your house nourished you, your state nourished you... If they float around one's inner thoughts, unaware of their own existence, holiday and army songs, čschoolbooks and rubbish, cream commercials in Slovenian, this is their thesaurus that processes your files.

(An excerpt from a review by Danica Minic, who have also been our guest vocal in Fiffie the sailor man)