Goran Trajkoski

Goran Trajkoski ( mk, Горан Трајкоски) (born 21 November 1963) is a Macedonian musician. He rose to international prominence as a frontman of the group

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which was featured on the soundtrack album for the

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-nominated movie '' Before the Rain'' directed by

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. He started his musical career as a member of the punk rock band Afektiven naboj from Struga. After moving to
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he joined the punk band Saraceni led by Vladimir Petrovski Karter. Later he was a
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of the influential 1980s group Padot na Vizantija. He played bass guitar in the Macedonian
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from 1986 until 1987. After the reunion of
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in the 2000s, Goran Trajkovski became its new frontman. He is also involved in solo projects, for instance as an author of
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under the
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''Gotra'' (Готра) as well as a composer for
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and
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music.

See also
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Music of the Republic of Macedonia Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...
* Anastazija *
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* Padot na Vizantija *
Arhangel Arhangel ( mk, Архангел , ''archangel'') is a Macedonian alternative rock band formed in 1989. The frontman is Risto Vrtev who has also been part of such rock bands as Mizar and Inola X. The original line-up is: Risto Vrtev, Dragan G ...
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Punk rock in Yugoslavia Punk rock in Yugoslavia was the punk subculture of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The most developed scenes across the federation existed in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, the Adriatic coast of the Socialist Republic of Cr ...

References

Sources

"Mizar - 20 years after" by Miodrag Mišolić at the Mizar Official Website
*Dragan Pavlov and Dejan Šunjka "Punk u Jugoslaviji" (Punk in Yugoslavia), publisher: IGP Dedalus, Yugoslavia, 1990 {{DEFAULTSORT:Trajkoski, Goran 1963 births Living people Macedonian musicians Yugoslav musicians Gothic rock musicians Punk rock musicians Post-punk musicians People from Veles, North Macedonia