The band / the people
An electronic-acoustic band built around the cello, the room around it, and a few people who know how to make a good noise without polishing all the fingerprints off.
We move from baroque and ethno to bossa nova, samba, ambient, film music, electronica, trip-hop, blues and jazz — then let rock in when it knocks.
01 / Tomo
The starting point
Cello / composer / arranger / producer
Born in Karlovac in 1982, Tomo studied at the Zagreb Academy, graduating in 2006. He continued with a master’s in Würzburg in 2008 and another in Zurich in 2011. He has been based in France since 2013.
Along the way, he has played the Concertgebouw, Tonhalle, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Lisinski, Le Corum and Auditorium Rainier III. Those are the grand rooms. The useful part is that the cello still works in the small ones.
His musical range runs from baroque and ethno through bossa nova, samba, ambient and film music, electronica, trip-hop, blues, jazz and rock. ROZMAN & THE SPACE HITCHHIKERS is where those directions stop behaving like separate departments.
02 / The orbit
Different histories, one shared tolerance for following a sound until it gets interesting.
Photos: band archive
02
Producer / guitar / vocals / MC
Ronac comes from the Karlovac scene, where he played in Udriground and Jamaica Hippie Club. He moved through electronic music and sound design before spending 2016–2019 at Zagreb Production Academy. He is one of the people making sure the strange idea survives contact with the speakers.
03
Composer / arranger / pianist
Maro has been a music editor at Croatian Radio since 1994. He writes for film, theatre and radio drama, and has picked up awards at Trsat Film Festival, New York Radio Festival, Prix Nova Bucharest and Prix Marulić. There is more about his work at maromarketmusic.com.
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Composer / arranger / producer
Born in Karlovac in 1969, Begi has been in a long list of bands — long enough that listing them all would start to feel like a separate project. He met Rožman in 1997 and has been composing, arranging and producing around the edges ever since, with the useful perspective of someone who has seen a lot of musical plans go slightly sideways.
05
Producer / sound designer / sound engineer
Igor is a producer, sound designer and sound engineer at Croatian Radio. Based in Zagreb and born in 1978, he brings the patient, technical ear that lets the organic parts stay organic while everything around them gets properly strange.
The first full transmission
The debut album is cinematic film music with one foot in a live room and the other in the edit. Cello, players, production, atmosphere and a little cosmic dust — all making a case for the big screen.
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