“The Unza Unza music is the product of sophisticated, state-of-the-art laboratories where attempts were being made at developing the atom bomb that was meant to protect the Balkan peoples’ integrity and sovereignty. What came out of those labs instead was a music that claimed to be the most effective way of producing extra proteins – those fundamental substances that control the most basic function of any living being: love. The Unza Unza music is a bunch of different musical flowers from the Balkans, bound up in a single rhythm of two quarter notes that is called Unza Unza after the sound of its beat. But, beware: the word Unza must be repeated at least twice, as in Unza Unza. Only by uttering it twice can the production of extra proteins be possible and effective. The results of scientific tests conducted on blood samples taken from people who had seen Emir Kusturica’s film Black Cat, Wild Cat – the first truly Unza Unza movie – have shown that when you listen to this music, the production of extra proteins is increased 7-fold, compared to when you eat, say, a lemon, honey, nuts or garlic, 8.4-fold compared to when you make love, or even 11-fold compared to when you make use of cocaine or other powerful drugs.
In their desire to help make it easier for humankind to produce extra proteins, scientists have declared the No Smoking band as the first band truly representative of Unza Unza music and have agreed to recruit them as the greatest generator of extra proteins.
If you want to help yourself or your loved ones, you should play the band’s CD every day and repeat to yourself the Unza Unza syntagma, for this is the best way to produce extra proteins. Your perseverance will be rewarded.
Through their research work, scientists have discovered that you need to dance to the rhythm of this music if you want to improve your production of extra proteins and discover the only truth that matters: “The dance is sex”.
-Dr Nele Karajilic, Institute for extra proteins investigations, Sokolac
encontré otra mucho más convencional sobre lo que significa este unza unza: al parecer es la designación del estilo que toca la banda según Stribor Kusturica (el hijo de Emir) en alusión al “sonido rítmico de la guitarra cuando toca la danza folklórica Serbia en allegro 2/4 (ver explicación)”. Unza unza conforma, junto con la “versión balcánica de la rumba”, el estilo característico del grupo. Con música que incluye elementos de rock (que se remonta a los tiempos de Tito y la gran Yugoeslavia), jazz, tango, música gitana, pop y techno el arte de No smoking también es fruto de la casualidad, la guerra y la censura. Con miembros que se han separado (como el país), talento nuevo y la imagen mediática de Kusturica uniéndoseles en el camino No smoking pasó de ser un olvidado de la escena musical balcánica a todo un ensemble multicultural que ha conquistado muchos escenarios europeos y en el resto del mundo tal como puede verse en el documental Super 8 stories. Su discografía incluye:
