Album “nouvi sad” (2019)

Album Panontikon (2014)

Video “Puščava”

Video “Jok”

– Among Slovenian bands that have emerged in the last two decades, the quartet ŠKM banda from Prekmurje region can without exaggeration be labeled as one of the uniques. We could search for genres that influenced their instrumental music of their previous works in jazz, post-rock, ethno, noise and folk music, but would always have to conclude that this band defies clear-cut genre definitions and mixes up the musical worlds.

– The beginning of the band goes back into the year 2000, when the original band members met for the first time and in 2003 they named themselves after a local hero from the 2nd World War, Štefan Kovač – Marko.

– They released their latest album nouvi sad in 2019 under KAPA Records and GBTM Records.

About their latest album:

Over 15 years into their fruitful career, with four excellent studio albums and fluid kneading of their unique musical reality named post-jazz, Prekmurje’s instrumental wizards are returning with a new creation. While their previous effort Panontikon was characterised by the ethnographic stylisation of soundscapes, the fifth record sees the foursome returning to the form typical of their early years, with a harsher and rawer sound range.

The complex compositions are led by imaginative guitars, while the solid, yet nimble rhythm section envelopes the sound within a contemplative integrative whole, underlined by a quiet melancholic touch. On “nouvi sad”, recorded live in Ljubljana and Gornja Radgona, ŠKM banda evokes a broad palette of emotions and impressions through their peculiar intertwining of genres, flowing from faint romantic sighs to frenetic commotion and ecstatic rage – similar to that restless dream that grips you long after the abrupt awakening of album closer “bejli”.

DISCOGRAPHY:

Patentat (2005)

Šamar Janka (2008)

Izštekani (live) (2010)
Rdeči (2011)
Panontikon (2014)

nouvi sad (2019)

LINKS

Bandcamp page
Facebook page