CROATIAN MUSIC - DALEKA OBALA

Daleka obala no longer has its original lineup, but, to paraphrase Bregović, "remember them by their songs". Compositions like "Ruzinavi brod", "Morska vila", "Valovi", "Tonka", "Sušac blues"... which today are registered in the Croatian pop and rock songbook anthology, confirmed their original diagnosis of "stage case" called Daleka obala. Their Split heritage is especially seen when performing in their concerts with an increasingly tuned band and charismatic Marijan Ban. Nobody can still take their crown as the most Split band out of all participants of the Split pop and rock renaissance from the end of the last and beginning of the new century. Because, Daleka obala is simply the mecca of Split music tradition, since the festival of Prokurative, the bohemian heritage of Toma Bebić, rockers from the Split's "energetic streets" and lastly, omnipresent "southern comfort". Daleka obala simply succeeded in their songs which are in essence "rock universal", and at the same time with music and text immersed in Split, Dalmatian, even Mediterranean music tradition. That Obala which even without Marijan Ban, who retired from the scene, remained the same until the end. Zlatko Gall music critic, journalist and publicist