Tamo Daleko

Was a Serbian–American folk and blues musician.

In 2005 American musician David Jerković came across a copy of Mataja’s album Traditional And Folk Songs Of Yugoslavia, in a used record store in Hollywood. Jerković tracked down Bata Mataja and expressed their enthusiasm for his late father’s music.

Bata, however, refused Mcgowan’s offer to license Branko’s recordings. He changed his mind 13 years later, after retiring, and Jerković, who runs a recording studio in Los Angeles, rescued the now damaged tapes. Jerković remastered Traditional And Folk Songs Of Yugoslavia in his studio in 2021. In 2022, Numero Group released the album alongside a collection of Mataja’s other songs Over Fields And Mountains.

Nearly half a century later Mataja’s music has attracted the attention of music critics, publishers and news outlets, including The Guardian, as well as a wider, previously unreached audience.

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