Siddharta (Slovenia)

Siddharta (Slovenia)

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Biography

Siddharta is the name of a rock band from Slovenia, a group of six guys who have devoted the last 10 years of their young lives to making music surpassing all their homeland has heard before. From the beginning they played other bands' music in small clubs, working on their own as time went by. Eventually they put together enough material to release a full album. All the songs were in English, though they decided to translate them to their native language later on and released their first album ID (cf. Freud) in 1999. It was a huge success, only surpassed by their next album Nord two years later. It went straight to number one of the album-selling charts, breaking all known sales records. An incredibly successful tour followed and lasted until summer 2002. (A remix album was released during that time as well, where Siddharta's songs were remixed/remade by the more or less big names in the business, including Laibach, DJ Umek and others.) After that the band retreated from public life, taking a short vacation and started working on their latest masterpiece, their third album Rh-, which was released in the summer of 2003. A special-edition English version of the album, packed in a bloodbag, was released and sold out immediately. The tour-opening concert took place in an overcrowded football stadium in Ljubljana, the capital city of Siddharta's homeland, Slovenia in September 2003. People from all parts of the country plus foreigners gathered to see Siddharta who ? accompanied by the RTV Slovenia's Symphony Orchestra and 60 dancers ? performed before a crowd of over 30,000 people and a few thousands who could not get in as the concert had been sold out way in advance. The stadium concert was the beginning of an amazing tour. Playing two to three times a week, the Rh- tour visited all parts of the country, took a detour to Austria for a day, and ended just after Christmas, in a sold-out concert just like all were. The New Year brought for Siddharta a short vacation, a line of public recognitions of their work ? be it their music, the sales of Rh- or the bloodbag design ? and a break across the borders of Slovenia. On 13th September Siddharta?s latest video masterpiece My Dice was shown on MTV European as world premiere and the band was put up as MTV?s Artist of the Week. A week later ?My Dice? swarmed all other important music TV stations across Europe: MTV, Viva and Vh-1. They are 6 guys who liked Hermann Hesse's book and gave themselves the name Siddharta because it sounded nice. They are 6 guys who enchanted Slovenia with their music. They are 6 guys with a willpower that is almost out of this world. But it's not. It's real alright. Go visit their web page at www.siddharta.net and see and hear for yourself. And while you're there, do visit the forum. It is a gathering place of Siddharta's huge flock of fans, who support them on every move and to whom Siddharta express their gratitude all over as they are thoroughly wary of the importance of the band?s fan support. It was the fans? wish for live performances of some older tracks that made Siddharta decide to go on a mini tour across Slovenia in the end of 2004 to do just that. In March 2005 Siddharta released an international version of their best-selling album Rh- in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Croatia and Slovenia. With Europe opening up, the journey for the 10-year-old Siddharta has only just begun and by recently receiving MTV?s EMA (Europe Music Award) the band is apt to win wider recognition on the music scene of Europe. Siddharta are now finalizing their work on the new album and preparations for the release. Petrolea is due on June 4th 2006.
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