

Zasviraj i za pojas zadjeni, studio, 1978


Interesting band with nice organ and guitars and strong vocals, who blended hard rock with some sympho and folk influences. The band is touring all over Croatia and have made another anthology in 2013 to celebrate their 40th anniversary. The album "Bili Smo Raja" became one of the best selling pop-rock album in Croatia that year. They also change the vocalists for the recording of those albums including two more albums in 20. The band change his line-up with a new drummer (Robert Domitrovic) and keyboard player Zrinka Majstorovik. In 2007, Lengyel and Propadalo restart the band with a new album "Kantina". It failed to attract the public attention, so shortly TESKA INDUSTRIJA disbanded. Lendjel left the band in late 1977 leaving the others to complete their third album in 1978. The end of 1976 saw major changes when new members, vocalist Goran Kovacevic, bassist Aleksandar Kostic, drummer Munib Zoranic and another keyboardist Darko Arkus, recorded the eponymous second album. Lendjel's organ and Vajta's raspy baritone were trademarks of their sound. The band developed a sort of "progressive hard rock" with elements of then popular traditional folk themes and "symphonic" arrangements. This line-up was to gain most celebrity and they recorded several successful singles and the first album "Ho-ruk" in early 1976. Seid Memic Vajta soon replaced Toskic as lead vocalist, while Sanin Karic replaced Propadalo on bass. Poet Dusko Trifunovic wrote most of the lyrics throughout their career. Original line-up also included guitar player Vedad Hadziabdic, bassist Ivica Propadalo, drummer Senad Begovic and singer Fadil Toskic. Heavy Industry) was formed 1974 in Sarajevo, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, by keyboard player Gabor Lendjel. In 2007, Lengyel and Propadalo restart the band with a new album.

In terms of prog rock recommendation, first two albums are worth listening especially if you like "heavy" side of prog (like URIAH HEEP or DEEP PURPLE), while two compilations available in CD format are also good overview of the band's career. The final comeback of the band so far happened in 1996 when Hadziabdic gathered another line-up, but again without any results worth mentioning, because the album "Ruze u asfaltu" was more pop than rock effort. The founder Lendjel worked many years as producer and arranger at Radio Novi Sad, Serbia, while during the 1990s moved to Budapest, Hungary. Hadziabdic, as the only original member of TESKA INDUSTRIJA, together with drummer Zoranic, made an attempt to revive the band in 1984 with new members, singer Narcis Lalic, bassist Sead Trnka and keyboardist Zoran Krga, but the resulting album "Ponovo s vama" was unsuccessful.
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Vajta, on the other hand, enjoyed enormous popularity throughout 1980s and 1990s as a pop singer and occasional TV actor. Kovacevic joined Laza Ristovski and Ipe Ivandic who recorded an interesting simphonic prog album "Stizemo" and in the 1980s tried unsuccessfully to launch a solo career.
