Center za dehumanizacijo (CZD)
Meljska cesta 9, SI-2000 Maribor
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Center za dehumanizacijo (CZD)
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Background - CZD in the 1980s
The band's roots go back to the end 1970s and the start of 80s, when in the rural and partly proletarian outskirts of Maribor an alternative cultural scene was growing. The short lived punk rock bands Masaker, Džumbus and Butli were bred out of it, and out of their remains, the much more persistent band CZD was formed. Besides actively taking part in the scene, the band started recording and self-releasing music that was provocatively addressing the at once turbulent and narrow social climate of that time. Music-wise, they soon strayed from standard punk patterns, incorporating samplers, synthesisers and other electronic equipment into their innovative rendition of punk music. For all of this, in 1987 CZD received the Golden Bird Award, a distinguished Slovene award for young creativity.
The band's leader, guitarist, singer and lyricist Dušan Hedl has been active in all fields of cultural activism since the end of the 70s, when he got involved in managing Mladinski in rock klub Trate [Youth and rock club Trate]. He soon razširil his involvism towards organising likovne exhibitons, directing videos, publicistic and editoprial delovanje, writing articles etc. He founded the Front Rock label, the non-governmental cultural institution Subkulturni azil Maribor and Studio at the Border and is also heading the festivals Festival at the Border and No Border Jam Festival and other musical cycles, festivals, ahppenings and led a number of other projeczts and institutions. Is somewhat less rabidly creative and producitve, other (past and present) members of CZD have also made their mark in a variety of cultural and artistic fields.
CZD discography, performances and side projects
In 1986, when CZD's first album was released, the band performed together with the groups Lačni Franz, Pankrti, Gastrbajtrs and Masaker as the first punk initiative at the Ljubljana Student Residency. A number of concerts followed, and besides througrough touring of Slovenia they also played a lot in other Yugoslavian countries and in Austria, Germany and Netherlands. They also continued with recording and since 1989 all of their albums were released by the label Front Rock. As videos were an integral part of hteir artistic approach, a video casette called "Center za dehumanizacijo 1985-1991" was also released in 1991.
The 80s saw approximately 5 of their music releases and a slightly greater number of them followed in 1990s. The latter decade was for them creatively very productive and they strayed and developed deeper an deeper into musical experiments. A cult album of that time is their album Ajajajajajajajaja from 1995. Since the year 2000 the have concentrated on released a lot previously unreleased material from previous times and also re-released into digital form some of their work.
istematičnega pospravljanja, sortiranja in digitaliziranja hišnih arhivov. (Maske, Forma Živa, DemoNstracije '87). In a somewhat slower tempo theri new work was also coming out. Worth a mention is their 2003 album Gverilci brez mej ('No Border Guerillas'). It was accompanied by the Tamburaški orkester Cirkovce and recorded and broadcast at the Izštekani 'Unplugged' show on Radio Sovenia). All their albums have been recorded at the Studio at the Border. They are also featjured on numeros compilations and in the last three decades, CZD appeared on most of the relevant festivals in Slovenia and in many the Ex-Yu countries, and have also toured a number of European countries. Graz
In 2004, the American-Slovene avant-garde music project Punkappella was formed by (Dušan Hedl, Bojan Tomažič, Mike Pride and Jessica Pavone. It was launched and presented in Germany and New York. Some of the Punkappella songs have also been interpreted by CZD and one of them, I am Broke (translated into Nimama dnara), was even a music video hit on Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia).
kupi gonja
CZD song Nimama dnara [I have no money] from the album Kupi gnoja [Piles of shit] with a video by the artist Neven Korda.
In 2010, Front Rock in association with the web based Slovenian Punk Rock Portal aslo embarked on a project called Zrcalo Dehumniazcije [Mirror of Dehumanisation], which was a call for covers of CZD songs. Many Slovene, Serbian, Bosnian, Austrian, English and intzernational bands with different rock credos enrolled and subsequently a record Zrcalo Dehumniazcije came out in 2011.
kupi gonja
CZD song Nimama dnara [I have no money] from the album Kupi gnoja [Piles of shit] with a video by the artist Neven Korda.
Bibliography
CZD have also had a dedicated chronist in the person of Rajko Muršič, a proffersor at the Faculty of Arts and a well known ethologist and musicologist. His first book about them, called Center za dehumanizacijo: Etnološki oris rock skupine [CZD: Ethnologic Outline of a rock group], was published in 1995. Another followed in 1999. Both of them were dealing with the band in the context of the regional artistic scene (which was also a theme of his Ph.D. thesis) and were published by the Subkulturni Azil Maribor - also set up by Dušan Hedl managed book založbo Frontier.
They also published their lyrics in two books, the first one coming out in 1993 and the second one in 2007. They also featured photos and some other artwork.
Line-up
The Center za dehumanizacijo line-up consists of: Dušan Hedl (guitar, vocals), Boštjan Imenšek (guitar, vocals), Franci Novak (drums), Bojan Tomažič (sampler, effects, vocals) and Silvo Zemljič (bass, vocals).
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Formed as a punk rock trio in 1984 in Maribor, Center za dehumanizacijo (CZD) (Centre for Dehumanisation) has since then developed its own variation of punk rock music, characterised by a strong inclination towards experimentation. +
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