Aleksandar Makedonski

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Aleksandar Makedonski Александар Македонски

Background information
Origin	Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Genre(s)	Rock Pop-rock Alternative rock
Years active	1986–1997
Label(s)	Jugodisk
Associated acts	Badmingtons Mizar Kleržo Royal Albert Hall
Former members
Vladimir Petrovski-Karter (guitar, vocals) Zoran Janković (bass guitar) Dean Škartov-Deko (keyboards) Vladimir Dimovski (drums) Melita Stefanovska (backing vocals)

Aleksandar Makedonski (Macedonian language: Александар Македонски, meaning in English: Alexander The Great) was a notable rock band from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

[edit] Biography

Aleksandar Makedonski was formed in 1986 in Skopje, then Socialist Republic of Macedonia as an offshot of the prominent punk rock group Badmingtons, and it included the frontman Vladimir Petrovski - Karter (guitar, vocals), Dejan Škartov- Deko (keyboards), Zoran Janković (bass guitar), Vladimir Dimovski (drums) and the female singer Melita Stefanovska (backing vocals). Unlike Badmingtons, who were a punk band, Aleksandar Makedonski was initially a more pop-rock oriented act.

The third former Badmingtons member, the drummer Boris Georgiev decided to join the gothic rock cult band Mizar and played on their first self-titled album released in 1988.

Aleksandar Makedonski recorded several songs for the national Macedonian Radio-Television music production and soon became popular across the country. The group released its debut album "Za heroje i princeze" in 1988 for Jugodisk record label in 1988. Unlike their previous material, the album was in Serbo-Croatian, because it was the most widespreaded language in the multilingual former Yugoslav market.

Soon, the line-up changed. Melita Stefanovska left and joined the all-female alternative rock band Royal Albert Hall, while Dimovski joined the psychedelic rock group Kleržo together with Škartov, who later moved to Italy in 1991. Karter continued to work with a new bass player Mite Brljamov, but with a different musical style. In 1991, they recorded songs for the second album at the studio of Nikola Kokan Dimuševski of Leb i sol, however it was never released.

After a long pause, they recorded a new material throughout 1996, which was finally released as the Aleksandar Makedonski's second album "Moeto carstvo" for the Makoton label in 1997.

The group finally disbanded, and Karter switched to studio and film work. Later he formed a new group called Opstrukcija which released an album in 1999. In the 2007 he joined the rest of Badmingtons for a reunion.