Cul-de-Sac - Accelerated Evolution Orchestra Event

Cul-de-Sac?s music is based on improvisation, elements of free improvised music, free jazz, noise avant rock, electronica and contemporary music. Sometimes it is structured and very often it is completely improvised.

Franjo Glu?ac (el. guitar, eff ects)
Neven Juri? - Nenchi (f. horn)
Andreja Kurelec Ko?avi? (vocals, trumpet)
Miro Manojlovi? (vibraphone, xylophone, percussions) Ivan Marincel (trombone)
Igor Pavlica (trumpet)
Damir Prica Kafka - Capri (saxes, keyboards)
Darko Rundek (bass, eff ects)
Bruno Vorberger (drums, percussions)
Nikola Vincelj - Jinks (visual artist)

Cul-de-Sac was formed by Dragan Paji? - Pajo (el. guitar, ef- fects) and Damir Prica Kafka - Capri (reeds, keyboard) in 1986 in Zagreb. The first line up included Predrag Dubrav?i? (drums) and Nino Markovac (bass). From 1987 to 1991 the group was joined by Igor Pavlica (trumpet), Neven Juri? - Nenchi (f. horn), Mario Bari?in - Bara (bass), Ivan Maru?i? - Klif (drums), Darko Rundek (bass, effects) and Nikola Santro (trombone). Visual art- ists Nicole Hewitt and a little later Nikola Vincelj - Jinks worked with Cul-de-Sac, Hewitt producing posters and tape covers, and Jinks creating slides, posters, tape and CD covers.
During that period Cul-de-Sac published few audio cassete tapes andmade the soundtracks for Nicole Hewitt?s films ?Herman?s Burden? and ?Notes of continuity?, and for two of Boris Matas? films ?Mr. Elliott trip? and ?Transplanta?; as well as collaborating on projects with D.B Indo? House of Extreme Music and the con- temporary dance group Gesta.

Cul-de-Sac performed concerts in Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Copenhagen and Berlin. The last performance of the original line up took place in June 1991 on the balcony of the skyscraper on the main square in Zagreb. A few months later war broke out in the former Yugoslavia.
From 1993 to 2000 Cul-de-Sac worked in Amsterdam and played in a formation of duo or trio with Ivan Maru?i? - Klif (drums), and Andreja Ko?avi? (vocals, trumpet), as well collabo- rating with Nikola VIncelj - Jinks who created posters and cov- ers for CDs and slide shows for the gigs. At this time Cul-de-Sac became part of the improvised and experimental music scene in Amsterdam and played in clubs and venues like :?OCCII?, ?Villa Omval?, ?Dijk Theater?, ?Gallery W 139?, ?Vrij media cafe?, ?Entrepotdok?, ?Zaal 100? and in the squat ?Tacheles? in Berlin (1993).

After his return to Zagreb in 2000, Pajo and the long term members of the group got together with a younger generation of musicians and Cul-de-Sac evolved into a large collective Cul-de-Sac Accelerated Evolution Orchestra, including some- times up to 20 musicians. In recent years the Orchestra has performed at the No Jazz festival ?edno uho and the festival of Contemporary music Showroom of Contemporary Sound in Zagreb, as well as performing in Austria (Klagenfurt), Bosnia (Sarajevo Winter Festival), Macedonia (Prilep Jazz Weekend 2015 and Gevgelija Bosh Festival) and Serbia (31st Belgrade Jazz Festival).
Dragan Paji? - Pajo died on the 23rd of February 2014. Pajo was one of the first improvising musicians in the region. His musi- cal influence on the experimental and improvised music scene is great, and he has left behind himself a large musical legacy.
Cul-de-Sac Accelerated Evolution Orchestra has continued playing after Pajo?s early demise as nonet.