Renowned vibraphone and "bottlephone" virtuoso Zoran Madžirov was born in 1968 as a son of a jazz drummer and a theatre actress. In his early age he received classical education in music and piano while also studying drums with his father, who taught him two distinctive drumming styles: Macedonian traditional and jazz drumming. He grew up listening to Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, playing Bach and Mozart on the piano at school and gigging at night with pop, rock and Balkan folk musicians on drums. Madžirov went into a more modern direction by the end of 90's, turning towards improvisational, jazz, electronic and creative music in New York City. He is one of the true modern mavericks of Macedonian music and a superb and innovative musician who has distilled a variety of influences from various styles and sounds into something that is uniquely his own. Roots on a Roof - Balkano Nuevo is his most distinctive and personal album to date, released by Skopje SJF Records.
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