Artist description Lolita - HiEnergyTurboPornoFunkEtnoOverdriveCrossoverHardGroovieJazz Band

Music Style Jazz, Rock, Funk, Alter, Ethno

Musical Influences John Zorn, Madona, Lounge Lizards, ...

Artist History Lolita was founded in 1987 in Ljubljana (ex-Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) by three musicians. Primoz Simoncic – sax, Blaz Grm – drums, Iztok Vidmar – bass had previously performed in various Rock in Opposition, Jazz, Punk and New Wave bands in Slovenia. After a year the guitarist Samo Ljubesic joined the group. They recorded their first cassette-tape on a 4-channel tape recorder at their home rehearsal room, which was released by FV-Ljubljana in 1989. The same company published the LP called Lolita in 1991. During that time Lolita was playing her own music in the Ana Monro Theatre play called George Dandin. That year the guitarist Samo and the drummer Blaz left the group. Mirsad Sabic replaced Blaz. Lolita participated with music and movement in the dance performance "Vso sreco ti zelim (I wish you all the luck)" together with the choreographer Iztok Kovac and PTL (Dance theatre Ljubljana) in a production of Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana. It was also performed at the dance theatre festival in Budapest 1991. Music from that experience was released on the tape Pik Pok in self edition. Before the split Lolita played all around Yugoslavia and also at some concerts in Italy, Hungary, Austria and Netherlands. With the money earned from writing the music for the performance "Sluga dveh gospodov" by C.Goldoni/Andrej Rozman/Franci Krizaj (LG Celje) Lolita recorded the live CD called BoPa (But It’ll Be). For the promotion of the CD various Slovenian artists contributed their illustrations, graphic designs and photos for the Spring ’95 T-shirt. Lolita and KUD France Preseren released studio-made CD Lolipop in 1996. The painter Oliver Marceta directed the video spot Zelenjavna Mavrica (Vegetable Rainbow), a song from the CD. A guest at another song from that CD, Modri Vlak (The Blue Train), was the actor Zijah A. Sokolovic, a Bosnian actor currently working in Austria. Through that friendship a ‘humoresque for jazz quartet and an actor’ called The Bear by Anton P. Cehov and Zijah A. Sokolovic was put up in 1997 for the European Month of Culture in Ljubljana. After more than 30 re-runs it is still performed around Slovenia and Croatia. With The Bear violinist Jelena Zdrale joined Lolita and drummer Marjan Stanic replaced Mirsad, which gave Lolita a new Ethno-Balkan flavour. In 1998 Lolita wrote the music for the short movie Hotel Intercontinental by Oliver Marceta. Together with the new guitarist Igor Bezget a new CD called Lulu, recorded live in the club Channel Zero, was released in 1999. At that time violinist Matjaz Sekne replaced Jelena. Following the release of the CD Lolita again became a trio: Primoz Simoncic - sax, Marjan Stanic - drums, Iztok Vidmar – bass. In 1999 the trio performed in a show called Trnovo Orchestra where seven musicians conducted by the actor Zijah A. Sokolovic improvised on his cues and thoughts. The concert was recorded at the home bakery and released in limited edition for fans on the CDR Trnovo Orchestra Dance. The year 0 was also the year of Lolita’s jazz festivals: they performed at Jazz festival Cerkno 2000 (Slovenia), Ljubljana Jazz festival ’00 (Slovenia), Pepsi Sziget 2000 - Banán Jazz Stage (Budapest, Hungary), Kumanovo jazz festival (Macedonia), Nishville Jazz Festival (Nis, Belgrade, Yugoslavia).

Group Members alt sax: Primoz Simoncic; drums: Marjan Stanic; bass guitar: Iztok Vidmar

Instruments sax, bass guitar, drums,

Albums TDK SA 90, Lolita, BoPa, Lolipop, Lulu, Trnovo Orchestra Dance

Press Reviews --------------------------------------------------------------------------------We have nothing about technology here ,nothing digitally performed Here , But Still Lolita the Band from Slovenia contribute great innovations in creating quality music with Their sexy sax Leading this trio of brilliant musicians ! Now there you have it , Innovative does not always means you have to include technology in music or Music about the future , It is simply one word for an Artistic mind "Be Free"! Innovative International Radio, mp3.com, x.x.2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------iziDoesntLikeIt... a certain haunting quality from the low hum... I love the laid back groove for the first 3 minutes... great preparation for when it kicks up just a bit... that great bass line taking over after 5 min.... the guitar riding over the horn stabs... a different, almost otherworldly melody... intense... definitely the kind of fresh tasting music there should be more of. peace ;-) buddha man December 10, 2000, www.soundclick.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Music for a 1950s hot-rod movie. Catchy horn lines riff over a stop-and-start rhythm that turns into a driving Surf backbeat. The wild, screeching sax solo makes you wanna drive fast and get in trouble. Noah E. listen.com review, x.x.1999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------The smoothly flowing soundtrack, in total opposition with local film and music tradition. Also: an extension beyond Lolita's narrow circle of fans, a step into "the easy-listening marshes", without dirtying one's own galoshes.Jasa Kacin, The best CDs of the year, Mladina 53, 28th December 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...The soundtrack music is lolipopesque - in other words: their own. It cannot be classified to any of the modern music fields because it steals from everybody (free, Coltrain, funk..). Somebody labelled them as hardboppop... The music is pleasant, very energetic at moments (Sabic cuts loose from chains), stomping its feet from joy and then Vidmar's bass barges in which is lyric after all and the scene is cooled off. Simoncic's sax, after all these recordings and his own CD Pieces of Cake clearly recognisable, makes an artistic intermezzo that may be followed by either everything or nothing at all...Lolita Lolipop, Rok Juric, Muska, October 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...But of course Lolita isn't listening to the same radio stations and records and isn't attending the same concerts as an Slovenian everyman. But she thoroughly examines the motives from Radio Student announcements, Yutel's commercials (supposedly for Sipad) and opera's arias, shocking in Zorn-like manner with abrupt invasions of noise, sucking up with the Pink Panther theme, fiddling in accompaniment to the "railway-station" poetry of Zijah Sokolovic and at the end kissing goodbye Kraftwerk in front of wheezing Transeurope express. Everything, without stepping with both legs onto the slippery but profitable area of covers, and simultaneously in a true film sequence of melted songs, rather short than prolonged, ment to be whistled during one's bath...Lolita: Lolipop, Jasa Kacin, Mladina 25, 18th June, 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...Already the fact of the society's global disinclination throughout all these years hasn't succeeded to block the extremely special efforts of such a sensitive aggregate, which a jazz trio is, should be counted among cultural phenomena deserving all the attention. And it is also simply overwhelming when such a long aspiration concludes in a richly fragmented artistic standpoint that Lolita has firmly set up in our cultural space over the past few weeks, simultaneously in both, for musical activity, representative ways: with an album and a concert at Druga godba Festival. In both cases she demonstrated a surprising professionalism in making her own ideas true, together with loaded roundness, perfectedness and creative maturity of her characteristic musical expression..Lolita: Lolipop, Zoran Pistotnik, Dnevnik, 9th July 1996.

Location Ljubljana - Slovenia

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