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Tomaž Pengov

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Tomaž Pengov
Color photograph of a casually seated middle-aged bearded male wearing casual clothing and resting a guitar on his lap.
Pengov in 2005
Background information
Also known asPigl
Born(1949-09-29)29 September 1949
Ljubljana, People's Republic of Slovenia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
OriginLjubljana, Slovenia
Died10 February 2014(2014-02-10) (aged 64)
Golnik, Slovenia
GenresFolk rock
Occupation(s) • Musician
 • Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s) • Lute
 • Steel-string acoustic guitar
 • Twelve-string guitar
Years active1973–2014
LabelsŠkuc, ZKP RTVL, Sraka

Tomaž Pengov (29 September 1949 – 10 February 2014)[1] was a Slovenian singer-songwriter, guitarist, lutist, and poet.[2]

Life

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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.[3]

Work

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He recorded his first album Odpotovanja in 1973.[3] This album is considered to be the first independently released record in former Yugoslavia.[4] 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 ("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 (Roman road) (1992) and Biti tu (Being here) (1996). In 2011, he published the audiobook Drevo in zvezda (Tree and a star), in which he recites his poems.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Samospevec Pigl bi praznoval sedemdeset let" [Solo singer Pigl would celebrate seventy years]. RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b Drevo in zvezda, nova zvočna knjiga Tomaža Pengova, Delo, 5 February 2011
  3. ^ a b Štamcar, Miha; Crnovič, Deja (3 March 2007). "Pripotovanje hrepenenca" [The arrival of longing]. Archived from the original on 14 March 2007.
  4. ^ "Umrl je eden največjih slovenskih pesnikov 20. stoletja, Tomaž Pengov" [Tomaž Pengov, One of the Greatest Slovene Poets of the 20th Century, Dies]. Dnevnik.si (in Slovenian). 10 February 2014.
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