"Nobody has ever heard those "lost" songs, and we got an idea to "reconstruct"
them ourselves, since only the titles were listed in some books. Titles are the only
Beatles-made stuff here. We were impatient to hear those songs,
so we thought them up." (authors)



1. ALL TOGETHER ON THE WIRELESS MACHINE

2. HOME

3. LITTLE EDDIE

4. I SHOULD LIKE TO LIVE UP A TREE

5. SHIRLEY'S WILD ACCORDION

6. COLLIDING CIRCLES

8. HEATHER

10. BOUND BY LOVE

11. INDIAN ROPE TRICK

12. FOUR NIGHTS IN MOSCOW

13. THINKING OF LINKING

14. WATCHING RAINBOWS

15. RUBBER SOUL


Credits




The producers of the 'Rubber Soul Project' and the members of the band were Nebojsa Ignjatovic, professor of double-bass at the University of Arts, Belgrade, and Miroslav Cvetkovic, bass-guitar player at the famous Yugoslav music group »Bajaga & Instructors«. The later was also the recording engeneer. Cedomir Macura played drums and sang the leading vocal in the 'When I Come to Town'.
In Belgrade, an audio tape edition was published in March 1996 by RTS Records, the biggest publishing company in Yugoslavia as a licence edition, and it provoked good critics and surprisingly emotive reactions both from music critics (No. 1 on Album Top Chart) and from the audience of all ages. An article about the project was published in the 'Billboard' magazine (April 6th 1996).
There are demo-versions of fourteen new songs composed in the same manner, so the next album is planned to be recorded.

'RUBBER SOUL' NOVELLA

The lyrics for the songs were written by Goran Skrobonja, one of the leading Yugoslav SF/horror fiction writters and translators from English. The project is followed with the short story (novella by Goran Skrobonja named 'Rubber Soul' which goes together with the CD.
It had easily won at the annual national competition for SF, fantasy and horror fiction in 1993; in 1994. it was awarded with 'Lazar' prize as the best short novel in the previous year.

Click on the title or on the cover picture below and read it.







VIDEO SPOTS


COLLIDING CIRCLES



Computer 3D animated video spot.
Directed and designed by SRDJAN MARKOVIC & JELENA OBRADOVIC ©, 1997.

The Golden Plaquette Belgrade for the best mini-film at the 45. Festival of Yugoslav Documentary and Short Films, Belgrade 1998.





RUBBER SOUL

Computer 3D animated video spot.
The spot is inspired with motifs from the novella Rubber Soul by Goran Skrobonja

Directed and designed by ALEKSANDAR DEVIC ©, 1997.

YU-ASIFA Diploma for the best debutant’s film
at the 45. Festival of Yugoslav Documentary and Short Films, Belgrade 1998.




CONCERTS

The band who joined Rastko Ciric to perform the Rubber Soul Project songs was not the same one from the CD. At concerts were the musicians from the 'Fathers & Sons' group: Bozidar Skipic (lead guitar, vocal), Branimir Kosar (keyboards), Nedeljko Kusic (bass guitar), NikolaDjokic (drums), and the special guest star Maja Klisinski (percussion).
Until today, more than 10 live concerts were performed at different locations in Belgrade, among which The 'Belgrade Tour 99' was stopped by the NATO bombing of Belgrade:
The British Council Cultural Centre, 16. 3. 1999
The Center for Cultural Decontamination, 19. 3. 1999
Hemingway Club, Zemun, 21. 3. 1999
The Museum of Yugoslav Kinotheque, 23. 3. 1999



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NOTE: The copyright owners for THE RUBBER SOUL PROJECT
are the authors: Rastko Ciric and Goran Skrobonja.
The project is registered in London and Yugoslavia.

Informations and contact:
RASTKO CIRIC
Oblakovska 8, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Tel/fax: +381 11 - 653 243
e-mail: rciric@eunet.yu or rciric@altavista.net

or:

GORAN SKROBONJA
Vojvode Stepe 139/71, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Tel/fax: +381 11 - 471 540
e-mail: goransk@eunet.yu