Rock Music of Croatia

There are many other popular and long lasting mainstream rock acts such as the Parni Valjak, Prljavo Kazaliste, Crvena Jabuka, Atomsko Skloniste. They were established in the 1970 and 1980 and for the better part of their careers that resort them to more mellow, the mainstream pop-rock sound. Also Sarajevo school of pop rock changed many of these groups and also include singer such as Zeljko Bebek who later worked in Croatia, however, the Croatian new wave (Novi val) movement spread in 1979 to 1980 throughout the 1980s, and is seen by many to be the high-water mark of Croatian rock music which make both the terms and the quality of commercial success. The most powerful and most well-known bands of Novi val were Azra, Haustor, Film, even early Prljavo Kazaliste and other famous group.

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In the mid 1980’s, the region of Istria became the home to some musicians and the so called Ca-val, which is often used as the Cakavian dialect and the elements of the traditional music from the regions of the Istria and Kvarner. The new wave of the scene got an end in the 80s, to be replaced by the newcomers such as Tutti Frutto band, Dalela Obala, Majke and Laufe, though Daleka Obala sported the pop-rock sound that influenced the Novi val Croatian pop and even the Dalmatian folk, Majke were a back-to-basics, garage-rock act pattern that influenced the groups such as Black Crowes, Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, as well as their Serbian members Partibrejkers. Laufer, led Damir Urban (who later went on to create the Urban & 4) in the early nineties that alternated the rock band.

 In the beginning of the late 1980s the folk rock groups also grew across the Croatia, the first is said to be Vjestice who join Medimurje folk music with rock and set the stage for the artists such as Legen, Lidija Bajuk and Dunja Kneb, at the same vein on the other side of Croatia, in Istria, a group known as Gustafi began to play their own strange amalgamate or rock and Istrian folk, but it took several year for them to reach the nationwide audience.