Wind from Afar: Najbolji Hrvatski Tamburasi and "Vjetar iz Ravnice"

Happy Valentine's Day! Today's random tune is a romantic one by a Croatian band called Najbolji Hrvatski Tamburasi. Playing a style of music called tamburasi, or tamburica music, the band was formed in 1983 as Zlatni Dukati in the Croatian district of Slavonia and made a name for themselves on a tour of the United States sponsored by the Croatian Fraternal Union. That tour led them to start composing and playing Croatian patriotic songs coinciding with the breakup of the Yugoslav Republic, the establishment of Croatia as an independent nation and the subsequent war. In 1997, they made their name change to Najbolji Hrvatski Tamburasi, which means The Best Croatian Tambur Band. The band meant to use the name only temporarily, but has kept it. You can find this song, Vjetar iz Ravnice, on their 2001 album Sedam Dana and on the Najbolji Hrvatski Tamburasi 2017 greatest hits compilation 50 Originalnih Pjesama (Disc 1).

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najbolji_hrvatski_tambura%C5%A1i