Cilindar

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Cilindar (Macedonian: Цилиндар) was a New Wave, Ska, 2 Tone and Reggae band from Skopje, SFR Yugoslavia in the early 1980s.

Today its former members are respectable solo or band artists in the Macedonian music scene:

  • Dimitar "Mite" Dimovski - Димитар Мите Димовски (drums) is a drummer of the Macedonian cult band Arhangel.
  • Petar Rendžov - Петар Ренџов (guitar) became a prominent ethno-jazz and blues guitarist as well as studio musician for other popular artists.
  • Risto Samardžiev - Ристо Самарџиев (vocals)- after the dissolution of Cilindar in 1983 he formed the New Romantic and later pop band Haos in Laos in 1984. In 1987 he started a successful solo career as a pop singer winning an award for best performance at the Makfest festival in the same year. Later he was also a vocalist of the popular Macedonian band Memorija. Several times he was also a candidate at the Macedonian national preselections for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The band recorded several songs and videos for the national Macedonian Radio-Television of which Samo eden del is the most popular.

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The name of the band is a misspelling of the word Cilinder (Цилиндер) which means a cylinder.

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