Cilindar
Cilindar is a new wave, ska, 2 Tone and reggae band from Skopje, North Macedonia formed in the early 1980s, in the then SR Macedonia.
Today its former members are respectable solo or band artists in the [Ethnic North Macedonia|Macedonian music|Macedonian music] scene:
- Dimitar "Mite" Dimovski - Димитар Мите Димовски is a drummer of Macedonian cult band Arhangel.
- Petar Rendžov - Петар Ренџов became a prominent ethno jazz and blues guitarist as well as studio musician for other popular artists.
- Risto Samardžiev - Ристо Самарџиев - after the dissolution of Cilindar in 1983 he formed the new wave and later pop-rock band Haos in Laos in 1984. In 1987, he started a successful solo career as a pop singer winning an award for best performance at the Makfest festival in the same year. Later he was also a vocalist of the popular Macedonian band Memorija. Several times he was also a candidate at the Macedonian national preselections for the Eurovision Song Contest.
After its split in the mid-1980s, the band members gathered again for a reunion concert at the Bob Marley tribute festival held in Skopje in 2008.