Bodan Arsovski

Bodan Arsovski
Background information
Born	1956 (age 64–65) Kumanovo, Macedonia, Yugoslavia
Genres	Ethno jazz Instrumental rock Jazz fusion Progressive rock
Instruments	Bass guitar
Labels	PGP-RTS Jugoton
Associated acts	Leb i sol
Website	Official website
Military career
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Service/branch	Yugoslav People's Army
Rank	Private

Bodan Arsovski at a concert at the Music Club in Niš (Serbia), 1981

Bodan Arsovski (born in Kumanovo, 1956) is a Macedonian bassist and a core founding member of the rock group Leb i sol, one of the most important rock bands in the former Yugoslavia. He is the only band member to have played on every Leb i sol record. He also released four solo albums.

Biography[]

Arsovski was born in Kumanovo on the north of today's Macedonia. However, early in his life, his family moved to Skopje, state's capital, where he soon after met Vlatko Stefanovski, with whom he founded the legendary Yugoslav band Leb i Sol. Before Leb i Sol, all band members played together in 's band . As a solo artist, he has released four albums, two of them in collaboration with the . In addition, he recorded with original Leb i sol keyboardist Nikola Kokan Dimuševski a reworking of band material in a release titled (in English) "Sketches From the Past." All About Jazz called the album "warm, dark and stunning in its stark presentation."^[1]

Playing Style[]

Arsovski's style, both solo and with Leb i sol, mixes traditional Macedonian rhythms, melodies and instruments with modern rock sensibilities. The ethnic influence is more apparent in his solo albums than on many of Leb i sol's later, pre-2006 reunion recordings. He composed four of nine total tracks on I taka nataka, a Leb i sol album featuring a different line up from its earlier incarnations as well as some guests like Peca Atanovski and a Serbian actor Sergej Trifunović.

Discography[]

Recordings with Leb i sol[]

• Leb i sol (1978)
• Leb i sol 2 (1978)
• Ručni rad (1979)
• Beskonačno (1980)
• Sledovanje (1981)
• Akustična trauma (1982)
• Kalabalak (1983)
• Tangenta (1984)
• Zvučni zid (1985)
• Kao kakao (1987)
• Putujemo (1989)
• Live in New York (1991)
• Live in Macedonia (2006)
• I taka nataka (2008)

Solo albums[]

• Endless View (1995)
• Tiresias (1998)
• Broken Beats (1999)
• Elegija (with Ezgija Orchestra)

With Vlatko Stefanovski[]

• Zodiac (1990)

With Nikola Kokan Dimuševski[]

• Sketches from the past (2006)

References[]

External links[]

• Bodan Arsovski home page
• Kokan Dimusevski home page^{[permanent dead link]}
• Kokan Dimusevski facebook page
• LEB I SOL home page^{[permanent dead link]}