Ognjen Savija

About Ognjen Savija

Display Name:

Ognjen Savija

Bio:

Ognjen Savija:
Member of Cultural Association Ambrosia.
Guitar player, musician, composer, producer, sound designer, multi medial artist & DJ - the explorer of Infinity and its possibilities.
Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1971.
Have taken classical guitar lessons from Mile Praljak.
Simultaneously, worked with electronics and audio engineering, and have studied several other music instruments.
1986, together with brother Nebojsa Savija-Valha, begun music and sound experiment projects within contemporary music, new age, avant-garde jazz and ambient.
At the same time played with several alternative rock bands.
1991-1996 was a leader of a goth rock band the Invisible Fields.
During 1993, together with his brother developed an audio-visual project "Twilight Whisper" that is performed at the beginning of 1994 involving several more people. The project was a milestone for his future work. Soon after they recorded music for a feature film "Mladi muzi poznavaji svet" directed by Radim Spacek in production of the Czech Television.
Together with several people is a founding member of a Cultural Association Ambrosia , which was established at the end of 1994. Participated in over 100 different art projects done by the association in following years.
At the same time played with acid jazz band Fabrizzio Und His Friends latter renamed as Kaiten. The band opened the 1st Sarajevo Jazz Fest.
During mid 90ies started projects in electronic music and have developed the Ambrosia Musica projects, AAM and Techno Experimental Sound System.
Between 2002 and 2004 cooperated with DJ Kunoichi in the techno project Echogenic.
Have been working in a lot of solo projects for several years...

Homepage:

http://www.musicforte.com/member/ognjen

Artist Information

Style:

Freestyle, Ambient, Jazz, Experimental, Free music...

Instruments:

guitarist, other

Influences:

John Coltrane, Eberhard Weber, Duo Resonante, Keith Jarret, Jan Garbarek, Ray Lynch, Charels Mingus, Vangelis, Stephan Micus, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, Art Blakey, Joe Pass, Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, David Torn, Return to Forever, John Cage, Hector Villa Lobos, Fela Kuti, Trilok Gurtu, Osibisa, The Doors, John Mayall, Lydia Lunch, Joy Division, The Sisters Of Mercy, Bauhaus, Einsturzende Neubauten, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Hallucinogen, Midi Miliz, Spiralianz, GMS, Astrix,The Delta, X-Dream, The Prodigy, DJ Surgeon, Omni Trio, Portishead, Bjork...

Record Label:

Ambrosia Musica

Interests

Movies:

sci-fi, 2001-a Space Odyssey, Matrix...

Television:

Discovery Channel, Nacional Geographyc...

More Details About Ognjen Savija

Gender:

Male

Marital Status:

Single