“Starry Night” review on JazzMusicArchives
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/hashima/starry-night Starry Night (Zvezdana Noć) je treći album srpskog kvarteta Hašima i njihovo drugo izdanje za američkog izdavača Odradek Records […]
Tijana Stanković – Interview + Album Review – Ars Sonora – Radio Beograd
Politika “Starry Night” album review
Hashima – Starry Night (Odradek Records) U oktobru 2015. godine, kvartet Hashima otvorio je prvi srpski showcase na Beogradskom […]
AllAboutJazz -“The Haywain” album review
Hashima: The Haywain By GLENN ASTARITA August 28, 2018 968 Views https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-haywain-hashima-metropolis-music-review-by-glenn-astarita.php This Serbian band often develops passages with the impetus […]
Prilep Jazz Festival 2016 – Interview
Interview on Serbian and Macedonian: 1.Definitivno Vas karakteriziramo kao uspeshan bend, koja je Vasha tajna….? Tajna predpostavlja da nešto tajimo, […]
The New York City Jazz Record – December 2014:
“Hashima, an unusual confluence of classicism, Balkan folk forms, avant garde racket and lyricsm.”
– Thomas Conrad
JazzTimes, All About Jazz, Stereophile
JazzMusicArchives.com – Jazz Online Forum
“One of the biggest discoveries of last years. Balkan jazz has their heroes from now.”
– The Haywain album review
OnlyJazzBlog.com:
“Masters of the eerie and unsettling”
– Mary James
London Jazz Promoter
ABOUT THE BAND:
Hashima is a Belgrade jazz quartet that combines various musical experiences into a new music defined by a well known jazz critic Thomas Conrad (USA) as “an unusual confluence of classicism, avantgarde racket, lyricism and Balkan folk forms”. Among musicians that inspire them, they prefer Wayne Shorter, John Zorn, Igor Stravinsky, improv, post-rock and folklore. Their poetics draws on European arthouse film and literature, which are subliminally intertwined with the core of their original music giving it a programmatic character. The themes of Igor Miskovic’s compositions mainly consist of musical motives that are fully developed through arrangements and free improvisations, without restraining from noise or subtle lyrical miniatures. Four different instruments and sensibilities convene in form, stripped from traditional stylistic features, its content inspired by the distant abandoned island in Japan – Hashima.
