Ep392: Art During Wartime w Gino Yevdjevich of Kultur Shock

Gino Yevdjevich (Srđan Jevđević) grew up in Sarajevo, son of a high judge and became a music superstar before age 20. When the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict came, Gino and his artist community dodged nightly sniper fire to make music. Today Gino shares his story and his continued pursuit of art and music.

Topics include:

• Gino intros
• Kultur Shock single on Alternative Tentacles
• Meeting Jello Biafra
• Connecting with Billy Gould and Chris Novoselic
• Disclaimer for potentially asking dumb questions
• Gino grew up as privileged youth, mother a Supreme Court justice
• Fascination with being an artist from youth
• Were records easy to get as a kid?
• Gino’s records were destroyed in the war
• Access to Western Music records
• The records / artists that inspired Gino
• Spending 9th grade in Colorado
• The creation of the band “Zov”
• Making a hit song while in high school
• The impact of being a successful artist in high school
• The journey from “Zov” to “Gino Banana”
• Still getting requests for the song “Mače Moje Čupavo”
• The discography of Gino Banana
• What were the band plans before the war?
• Gino may have been an executive at Diskoton
• He considers himself a “war profiteer”
• The war shaped Gino into a different artist and person
• Being a target for snipers
• Revisiting the streets of Sarajevo
• Putting the musical Hair on during the war
• Inspiring other artists to create during the war
• Being discovered by Joan Baez to come to the United States
• Almost not making it out of the country
• Will he be releasing the Kultur Shock catalogue on vinyl?
• Interview wrap up

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