Kalemegdan Disk - ROCK FROM EASTERN EUROPE

Tracklist

Side A

1. Ti si genije (You’re My Handy Man) 3:58
2. Budi dobar (He’s My Pilot) 2:24
3. Opet sam slobodna (I’m over You) 3:21
4. Život s njim (Crazy Love) 3:50
5. Svako zlo nosi nešto dobrog (When You Find Someone who Loves You) 3:36

Side B

1. Ne štedi se (Love Is Alive) 3:51
2. Bila sam žena (Soon as I Touched Him) 3:19
3. Naša zvijezda gubi svoj sjaj (Take this Heart) 3:16
4. Čarobna moć mjeseca (Moondance) 2:58
5. Tko zna kog vidiš u meni (What You See Is who I Am) 4:01

Full album at YouTube

Croatia Records Release Information

The vinyl reissue of the album “Made in U.S.A.” by Josipa Lisac, which was recorded in 1979 at Studio 55 and Sounds Good Recording in Los Angeles is on sale.

After the acclaimed debut album “Dnevnik jedne ljubavi” (Diary of One Love) both audience and critics hoped for more of this. Josipa Lisac participated in the rock opera “Gubec-beg”, and then completely unexpectedly, with Boško Petrović and his B.P. Convention Big Band International recorded a jazz album. And after that, even more unexpectedly – instead of enjoying a secure career on the domestic market – Josipa Lisac and Karlo Metikoš went to US America, to study and start from scratch – a path that hardly anyone would have chosen. Josipa returned to Yugoslavia in 1979 with the album “Made in U.S.A.” which was published by Jugoton at the end of the same year, showing numerous disco, blues and jazz influences to which Josipa had been exposed.

“We loved listening to US American and British music, we read a lot and we came up with the idea why not experience firsthand the music that enchanted us and that we dreamed of? We wanted to examine the terrain because stories are one thing, and experiencing it all together yourself is another. There we also met spontaneity, in two and a half years we visited many cities, got to know customs and spent a lot of money.” Josipa says today about the reasons for their transoceanic transition.

On the album Josipa worked with first class US American collaborators including Ira Newborn, Mike Herbert Lang, Steve Schaeffer, and Ernie Carlson, while the album was originally mastered by the famous Bernie Grundman. However, Josipa chose Tony Mandich, who was the vice president of the American record giant Atlantic Records for 30 years, as her key partner.

“Only someone who has unlimited faith in his own abilities could do what Josipa did – to leave everything and start again from the beginning after years of effort, work and success, and without an urgent need,” said the legendary music journalist and publicist Petar “Peca” Popović from Belgrade, who followed Josipa’s career from the earliest days.

“Our going to US America was our great courage, everything we experienced was first-hand, our US American story enriched us both culturally and musically. In the later songs “Pazi, oštar pas” (Watch out, Sharp dog), “Make up” and “Magla” (Fog) you will find words that describe how we dealt with criticism. It was a human response to malicious comments.” Josipa concluded.

The album “Made in U.S.A.” contains ten compositions, including “Ti si genije” (You Are a Genius), “Budi dobar” (Be Good), “Bila sam žena” (I Was a Woman) and “Život s njim” (Life with Him). It was remastered by Goran Martinac in the Croatia Records Studio and comes with a download card for downloading mp3 versions of all songs. The lacquer cutting of the recording was done at the Abbey Road Studios in London by Sean Magee, the winner of the Grammy Award for the Beatles’ “Mono Box Set”.

Darko Kujundžić is responsible for the artistic design of the reissue, while the booklet that accompanies the edition contains texts by Petar “Peca” Popović and Željko Luketić, an interview with Josip Lisac and numerous photos from the period of Josipa’s stay in US America.