Branko Mataja
OVER FIELDS AND MOUNTAINS LP

NUM82LPC1
Numero Group
546Ültimo hace: 2026 AñosFeatures: White blossom vinyl
- A1: Da Smo Se Ranije Sreli
- A2: Tesko Mi Je Zaboravit Tebe
- A3: Tebi Majko Misli Lete (Nikola Skrba)
- A4: Susti Bagrem Beli
- A5: Hteo Bih Te Zaboravit
- A6: Sreo Sam Te
- B1: Tamo Daleko (Dorde Marinkovic) (Dorde Marinkovic)
- B2: Cija Li Je Livada S
- B3: Kafu Mi Draga Ispeci
- B4: Kad Ja Podoh Na Bembasu
- B5: Duboko Je More
- B6: Zapletnicki Cacak
A beautifully haunting and plaintive collection of songs, the album stands as a refracted echo of an imagined life as it may have been in an old country of long ago. With songs reaching out through time and space, it captures a fascinating musical and personal journey of a man displaced from his native Dalmatia (now Croatia) during WWII who eventually ended up in Los Angeles in the mid 60s via time in a German labour camp, West Yorkshire and Canada.
Born in 1923 in the coastal town of Bekar, Branko and his family arrived on North Hollywood in 1964. Abandoning his previous profession as a barber, he began to focus on guitar repair and taught himself to fix various related instruments and studio gear.

