Saša Miočić spends his working life making other people's music sound magnificent, first as a producer and then as a live sound engineer. That is a strange apprenticeship for a solo debut, and it shows on "Forgiveness," the lead single from his fifteen-track album *Take What You Need*. This is a record made by someone who knows exactly what a kick drum does to a ribcage in a full room, and who has decided, with admirable perversity, to put that knowledge in the service of a grand piano.

Nobody enjoys being told how to live, and almost nobody is told only once. Unsolicited opinion arrives in relays: the raised eyebrow across the dinner table, the "just saying" that is never just saying, the acquaintance with firm views on your choices. Lisac's "Nobody Asked You" takes this most ordinary of irritations and elevates it to art without raising its voice once.

New Gondoliers released their second album earlier this year. The album is called 'Art Cartel' and is a collection of exciting songs where such styles as alternative rock and country intersect, garage aesthetics and indie folk.

Each of the songs has its own unique story of the initial idea, writing and production. Such a fascinating story is in the song 'Turn It Up (1989)', the Croatian singer and songwriter Manuel Lupen.

Croatian rock band Ape Revolution Bell is preparing for the release of their debut album recorded in 2021 in Florida. 'Smile' is the first single from their upcoming album, which is a powerful hymn to freedom and life.

The Croatian singer-songwriter Alen Čelić has spent more than 20 years of his creative life in Berlin and is now returning with his new project New Gondoliers to capture and form a collection of his own songs as an album. The band's debut album is called 'New Gondoliers Escape Town' and contains 10 songs.

Croatia has its own national heroes and there are real bluesmen. We were lucky to get acquainted with the work of Tony Lee King - a talented Balkan artist with incredible charisma in music and adult lyrics.