''All Stars'' is the second solo album by the

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guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselve ...

Jurica Pađen Jurica Pađen (born 3 February 1955) is a Croatian and Yugoslav rock musician, known as the frontman and leader of Aerodrom and Pađen Band, as well as guitarist for the bands Grupa 220, Parni Valjak and Azra and a member of the supergroup ...

, released through

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in December 2014. The album was recorded from July to October 2014 in ZG Zvuk Studio in

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and contains 12

instrumental An instrumental or instrumental song is music without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through Semantic change, semantic widening, a broader sense of the word s ...

tracks featuring some of the most famous guitar players from the Croatian rock scene like Massimo Savić,

Branimir Štulić Branimir "Johnny" Štulić (born April 11, 1953) is a Yugoslav singer-songwriter, musician and author, best known for being the frontman of the popular Yugoslav rock group Azra. He is known for his charismatic stage performances and inspiring ...

, Husein Hasanefendić, Zele Lipovača,

Neno Belan Nenad "Neno" Belan (born 2 February 1962) is a Croatian rock musician known as the frontman of Đavoli, as well as for his solo work. Biography Early career Neno Belan started his career as a teenager in the band Losos, Kavijar i Marsovi Bizon ...

, Vedran Božić and

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. The album release was followed by video for "Love Is Blue / Al Dente", featuring

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guitarist Mario Domazet. The second single released was "Prijateljska vatra" in June 2015, featuring

. The album debuted at #30 and topped at #10 on the official Croatian Top 40 domestic albums selling charthttp://www.hdu-toplista.com/index.php?what=arhiva&w=details&id=1442 Top of the Shops – Official Croatian Top 40 and at #11 on the combined domestic/foreign chart.http://www.hdu-toplista.com/index.php?what=arhiva&w=details&id=1444 Top of the Shops – Official Croatian Top 50 The album was nominated in two categories on 22nd Porin Music Award in 2015 and was awarded for "Instrumental Album of the Year (outside Classical and Jazz music)".http://porin.org/content/dodijeljeni-prvi-porini-klasi%C4%8Dar-pavao-ma%C5%A1i%C4%87-i-vatra-dobili-najvi%C5%A1e-rade-osvojio-prvu-statuu 22nd Porin Award 2015

Track listing

All music written by

, except track 11 by

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Charts

Personnel

;''Organic band'' *

–

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

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twelve-string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 string (music), strings in six Course (music), courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lo ...

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*Tomislav Šojat –

Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

in tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9 *Damir Medić –

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, cajon,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

s *Remo Cartagine – Bass in tracks 3, 7, 8 and 10 *Mario Domazet –

Charango The charango is a small Andes, Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, from the Quechua people, Quechua and Aymara people, Aymara populations in the territory of the Altiplano in post-Colonial times, after European stringed instruments we ...

, acoustic guitars,

resonator guitar A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar (often generically called a " Dobro") is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar' ...

s *Hrvoje Prskalo – Acoustic guitars, percussions ;Guest musicians *

– Electric guitars in track 2 * Husein Hasanefendić – Electric guitars in track 3 * Massimo Savić – Electric guitars in tracks 1 and 5 *

– Electric guitars in track 5 *

– Electric guitars, acoustic guitars in track 7 * Vedran Božić – Electric guitars and bass in track 6 * Zele Lipovača – Electric guitars in track 4 ;Artwork *Ljubo Zdjelarević – Photography and design ;Production *Jurica Pađen – Producer *Hrvoje Prskalo – Producer,

Audio engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduc ...

References

External links

Official Youtube channel
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