Tomaž Pengov

Biography

Tomaž Pengov (29 September 1949 – 10 February 2014) was a Slovenian singer-songwriter, guitarist, lutist, and poet.

Life

Pengov was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied comparative literature at University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts.

Work

He recorded his first album Odpotovanja×Odpotovanja1973 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracksA1Cesta4:34A2Danaja3:21A3V nasmehu nekega dneva3:51A4Potovanje nespečih3:37A5Matala2:24A6Čakajoč nase, brat4:18A7Nerodna pesem3:02A8Kretnje3:12B1Druga jesen3:49B2Oče7:20B3Sarkofagi4:42B4Ladje prostora8:10B5Epistola5:25 in 1973. This album is considered to be the first independently released record in former Yugoslavia. It was reissued in 1981 in stereo; the original mono edition is very rare now.
Pengov sang and played the lute, steel-string acoustic guitar and twelve-string guitar. His music was lauded by many music critics as being original, and his style was very similar to that of the early Leonard Cohen.
He took eight years, from 1980 to 1988, to record his second album, Pripovedi×Pripovedi1988 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 9 tracksA1Rodovnik vina4:10A2Prišla je3:25A3Pegam in Lambergar6:10A4Starec in morska zvezda4:10B1Vanitas3:05B2Vrnitev3:45B3Tihe so njive3:18B4Dolga reka4:30B5Bela izba4:18 ("Narratives"), which was released in 1988. It was recorded with guest musicians. The music is still acoustic, but more varied.
In the 1990s, he recorded two more albums, Rimska cesta×Rimska cesta1992 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Na daljnem kolodvoru3:352Vandrovček3:373Generali4:354Kamor greš4:175Bila sva vse3:526V nasmehu nekega dneva4:167Ladje konkvistadorjev4:378Stari klovni3:499Kam?2:3110Ostani lepa3:2111Črna pega3:0712Vrtna vrata3:4213Obrazi padajo2:34 (Roman road) (1992) and Biti tu×Biti tu1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Obisk4:492Drevo3:303Glažek vinčka2:564Cesta4:295Dekle moje3:206Sojenice in klateži3:237Škrat Tom4:418Begunci4:069Pomisli4:4910V neki loži4:0011Gea4:24 (Being here) (1996). In 2011, he published the audiobook Drevo in zvezda (Tree and a star), in which he recites his poems.