by Manolis Spanakis

by Manolis Spanakis

Kusturica 4


Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra
Recorded live at Warehouse C during the 49th International Film Festival of Thessaloniki.

Zabranjeno Pušenje (Serbo-Croatian for No Smoking) is a Yugoslavian garage rock band from Sarajevo, closely associated with the New primitivism cultural movement and the radio and television satire show Top Lista Nadrealista. They were one of the most popular musical acts of the 1980s in Yugoslavia, selling hundreds of thousands of records. The band was formed in 1981 in Sarajevo by a group of friends who worked on the early radio version of Top Lista Nadrealista. Contrary to the then-prevalent punk rock and new wave, Zabranjeno Pušenje created a distinctive garage rock sound with folk influences, often featuring innovative production and complex story-telling, sometimes even dark premonitions of war. After the band's popularity reached new heights in late 1980s, the Bosnian War saw the breakup of the band, with one offshoot continuing in Belgrade under the name No Smoking Orchestra, and the other in Zagreb, using the original name.


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