Cilindar
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Template:Short description Cilindar (Template:Langx) is a new wave, ska, 2 Tone and reggae band from Skopje, North Macedonia formed in the early 1980s, in the then SR Macedonia.
Today its former members are respectable solo or band artists in the Macedonian music scene:
- Dimitar "Mite" Dimovski - Script error: No such module "Lang". (drums) is a drummer of Macedonian cult band Arhangel.
- Petar Rendžov - Script error: No such module "Lang". (guitar) became a prominent ethno jazz and blues guitarist as well as studio musician for other popular artists.
- Risto Samardžiev - Script error: No such module "Lang". (vocals) - after the dissolution of Cilindar in 1983 he formed the new wave and later pop-rock 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.
After its split in the mid-1980s, the band members gathered again for a reunion concert at the Bob Marley tribute festival held in Skopje in 2008.
Trivia
The name of the band is a misspelling of the word Cylinder (Script error: No such module "Lang".) which means a cylinder.