STRANCI – a garage rock band from Celje (Slovenia)The group was founded in May 2002 when Peter Schmidt, the singer, joined Matjaž Naglič, the guitar player, and Dare Gozdnikar, the drummer. After the original bass guitar player left, Tomaž Brumec joined instead of him and since then the group has remained unchanged.

In December 2003 Stranci closed themselves into Studio Ant in Zadobrova pri Celju and, with the help of sound master ITZ (Iztok Mravlje), recorded the material for the new CD with the title Zavrnjeno (Rejected). The recording of ground, that is bass, drums and rhythm guitar took three days whereas the additional recordings of guitars and vocals as well as the final mix took a few months because of problems with time adjustment. Damjana Brumec from studio Umbra is responsible for designing the cover. So in October 2005 the new CD from Stranci finally came to light.

The CD Zavrnjeno was published by the author with a limited edition of 500 copies. Stranci believe that the CD is somewhere between the music of garage bands and hard rock. The texts which are Slovenian and Croatian are ironic and full of black humour.There are 12 authorial songs on the CD and also an adaptation of the song Lepi in prazni (The beautiful and the empty) by the legendary Pankrti.Stranci have been gathering mileage in different Slovenian clubs and other places, for example Zlata činela in Ljutomer, the Rock Otočec pre-selection in MCC Celje, the 4th Annual Bikers Meeting (the largest moto-gathering in Slovenia, organized by MK Panther), at Pivo in cvetje in Laško, club Reppluged in Vienna, festival Lent 2006 in Maribor, festival Trnje 06 in Pivka….Otherwise, the members of Stranci are old acquaintances from all sorts of bands, such as: Lokalne pizde, Baby zdravo, Ritem sestre, The Stroj, Daddy's pudding, Phone Box Vandaly etc.On November 12 Stranci finished shooting their first video for the song Pozabi takšno demokracijo (Forget this kind of democracy). The shooting took part in Ljubljana and also in the Panther's club in Celje. In the months to come Stranci will promote their new CD Zavrnjeno in different concerts and media houses. Meet them there!

More information:Dare GozdnikarTel: +386(0)31577791e-mail: dare.gozdnikar@gmail.come-mail: dare@stranci.com web: http://www.stranci.com/