Hamlet Express // Luka Gluvić in Zasedba
november 21 20:00
Friday, November 21, at 20:00
Cerkno Music School
Tickets: 9 € presale / 12 € at the concert
Photo: promo / Peter Zakrajšek
Photo: promo / Peter Zakrajšek
Hamlet Express (SI)
poetic singer-songwriters’ songs in rock arrangements
Andraž Polič (voice, ac. guitar)
Blaž Celarec (drums, percussion, voice)
Gregor Cvetko (bass, voice)
Miha Petric (ac. guitar, el. guitar, effects)
Luka Gluvić in Zasedba (SI)
blues, folk and country in Slovenian way
Luka Gluvić (voice, ac. guitar)
Peter Zajc (ac. guitar, mandolin)
Dejan Markič (el. bass)
Andrej Jerman (harmonica)
The last concert of the Keltika series this year will feature two Slovenian bands, Hamlet Express and Luka Gluvić in Zasedba (Luka Gluvić and the Band), which cultivate their own unique approach to modern chanson, singer-songwriting and poetry set to music. The Hamlet Express quartet consists of musicians known from other bands of diverse genres from rock to jazz, and is led by the poet and author of all songs and lyrics, Andraž Polič. The band, which has been active for more than 20 years, calls its music “an original mixture of chanson and jazz with original lyrics” and “a fusion of musical styles on the Paris-Istanbul route”. Hamlet Express, which released its sixth album Fantom svobode in 2024, has also performed Polič’s music for several theater performances. Although Luka Gluvić writes and sings his lyrics in Slovenian, he draws from the so-called americana, a genre that encompasses many American styles, from traditional folk and blues to rock and country. He cites the cult singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, who passed away in 1997 and was known for his sensitive and melancholic songs, as his role model. Gluvić’s husky voice, along with the arrangements, is also reminiscent of the early style of Tom Waits. “In the last decade or so, Gluvić has climbed to the very top of our singer-songwriter Parnassus and brought with him the tradition of so-called Americana, the musical history of the US’s South,” wrote Matej Krajnc in his review of the EP Jaz nisem ta.