Luka Radović has been on the Montenegrin music scene for 17 years, and his first appearance was at the "Pjesma Mediterana" festival when he sang a duet ballad with fellow citizen Tanja Jabučanin.
Even then, Luka showed enviable vocal abilities, and through every song he has released since then, that has been his main asset. Although pop and rock are something he finds himself in, each song would bring a different sound and emotion, and he recently rounded off a story that has lasted for more than a decade with his debut album "Colors of Spring", which includes all of his released songs.
Considering that the songs from the beginning of his career are different from the ones he has been recording recently and adapted to his age at the time, he admits that he was worried about how everything would fit together and whether they would be able to form a whole, but he is glad that his musical upbringing can be heard through them.
"Of course there was fear, but they were sung again and the production adapted to the whole. Speaking of the themes, I would probably sing them again and love them as much as I did then, although I might have arranged them differently in a few places, but it's nice to have a clue about what was done and how it sounded."
This story is rounded off by the song "Tražim nebu", which he himself describes as "grey", and for which he was inspired by the many losses in the previous period. The song talks about the whirlwind of dark emotions that we all go through in life. Some manage to cope with such situations, some do not. He reveals how much music helped him overcome all the bad things in such moments:
"It helped a lot. Both 'Chaos' and 'Tražim nebu' are from the 'black phase' and it's nice that the heavy emotion was translated into music. Art saves, but emotions also save art. One 'doesn't work' without the other. Of course, it took a lot of time for a person to shake off the blackness, and art helped, as it has done countless times before," the musician is honest.
We often suppress ugly feelings and, as he himself says, we ignore them. But that's exactly why they become bigger and drag a person to the bottom. Running away from problems is not the right way, and Luka tried to present this through the song "Tražim nebu" and the video that accompanies it. We've all been through such a situation at some point, so it's no coincidence that this is the song that rounds off the debut album. The video was made in black and white and is quite dark. With the symbols that appear, such as "Sisyphus' stone" and black balls, they tried to evoke everything we go through, and it was these symbols that helped them bring the lyrics to life.
"There is no fight in the video, just ignoring those black balls, ignoring all the black balls in your chest, all the negative charges. But if you ignore a small black ball once, the second time it's bigger. The third time it's even bigger, the fourth time it's considerably bigger... until you become a black ball yourself, or that black ball swallows you. So, it's necessary to work on time, to heal, not to ignore problems, not to suppress them... In the video, I was 'swallowed' by black balls, i.e. I disappeared, my hands pulled me towards the sky, I wasn't strong," Radović describes the latest video accompanying the track.
With his debut album “Boje proljeća” he rounded off a story that has lasted for more than fifteen years, and was released under the Croatia Records label. Most Montenegrin artists never decide to release an album precisely because we do not have a record company in Montenegro that could stand behind them. Luka says about this and the cooperation with Croatia Records:
Among other things, the fact that we don't have a publisher in Montenegro has influenced the fact that I've been waiting this long for the album. This is a problem that needs to be approached systematically and systematically. Thanks to Dražen Bauković "I am in contact with the people from Croatia Records and I thank them for their unreserved help and mediation between Montenegrin authors and musicians and the people at Cro Rec. I admit that I am proud that they approved the release of this album, or rather that I was shortlisted and that I met their criteria," Radović is honest.
Although the album has just been released, the Montenegrin musician already has three new songs. "Colors of Spring" has rounded off a chapter in his musical career, and as for whether he will continue to build on the story with the new tracks or whether they will also bring a new Luka, he reveals:
"Well, Luka is always new with every new project (laughs). The new songs will have a more modern sound, more electro moments and more experimentation. The arrangements will be different, and the lyrics will be as meaningful as the ones so far, with, I believe, memorable but not at all easy melodic lines," promises Radović.
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