VOJNICKI DANI

Like all other fit young men in SFR Yugoslavia, Laza Ristovski had to serve the army too. Being a successful musician, whose "Merge" album had been amongst the best selling instrumental music records those years, he was destined to do the same privileged duty in the military. Nothing wrong with that. The Army needs musicians along with infantry.

Since the army in question was JNA, obvious part of the repertoire were patriot songs with revolutionary lyrics celebrating the WWII struggle of Yugoslav Partisans and their leader Tito. But Tito was already gone 4 years before this recording! No matter, He will always live - "and after Tito - there is Tito". The King is dead - long live the King!

So why not release an LP record of old Partisan songs (and some recent military marches as bonus) newly arranged and instrumentally improved with these awesome high-end synthesizer sounds instead of those old-fashioned boring choirs and symphonic orchestras? Yeah why not; and a nice title could be "The Military Days". And it was released indeed. Out of 8 tracks there is even one almost listenable - "Bilecanka"! Good job. It could have been worse. Are you sure? No, it could not have...

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