Jelusick - 'The Great Divide' (Acoustic live on Early Radio)

I parted ways with common sense,
it makes no difference,
shadows still remain
and the cross I carried fell apart,
now I carry an empty heart,
and I still feel like a stranger
and I think it's time to stop

How many times can you wash
your face in a desert sand?
how many times can you try to pretend?

I'd pretend and I'd lie
just to be here by your side
there ain't no way to cross the great divide
every day, every night,
I keep looking for a little light
to shine on me, across the great divide

It's getting harder every year,
but I got nothing left to fear
I know you're coming home.
scenes from yesterday come and go
my anxiety starts to grow
and I just wanna know
when it's time to end the show

And how many times can you wash
your face in a desert sand?
all I know is to pretend.

Ο Dino Jelusick (ή Jelusić όπως είναι το πραγματικό του επώνυμο) είναι Κροάτης τραγουδιστής, μουσικός και συνθέτης. Προ εικοσαετίας είχε λάβει μέρος στον παιδικό διαγωνισμό τραγουδιού της Eurovision (με το δικό του μουσικό κομμάτι, "Ti si moja prva ljubav") και την ίδια χρονιά (2003) κυκλοφόρησε και ο πρώτος προσωπικός του δίσκος ("No.1").

Το "ξεπέταγμα" το έκανε μέσω του hard rock συγκροτήματος Animal Drive, έχει συνεργασθεί με πληθώρα γνωστών μουσικών, από το 2016 αποτελεί μέλος των Trans-Siberian Orchestra και από πρόπερσι των Whitesnake (ως πληκτράς και δεύτερα φωνητικά).

Το βιογραφικό του τα αναφέρει αναλυτικότερα:

«Dino Jelusick (Dino Jelusić), born 4 June 1992, is a Croatian rock singer, musician, and songwriter. He was the founder, principal songwriter and lead singer of hard rock band Animal Drive, which was formed in 2012 and dissolved in 2020.

Besides working on several hard rock and metal projects, Dino became a permanent member of American rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra since 2016.

He also worked with Gus G, Mike Mangini, George Lynch, Will Hunt, Jeff Scott Soto, Joel Hoekstra, Steve Smyth, Jon Oliva, Kip Winger, John Macaluso, Deen Castronovo, Phil Demmel, Mike Portnoy, Henrik Linder, Justin Johnson, Tony Franklin, Kyle Hughes, Virgil Donati, Kiko Loureiro, Jordan Rudess, David Coverdale, Tommy Aldridge, Reb Beach, Michele Luppi and others.

Dino got his master’s degree in the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, in 2020. On July 27th 2021, David Coverdale and Whitesnake announced that Dino became new snake and member of Whitesnake!

After a part of the Whitesnake farewell tour was canceled, August 2022, Dino jumped in to sing for The Dead Daisies, replacing legendary Glenn Hughes. So far Dino recorded numerous songs and albums with some legendary musicians: World of War 2 (Michael Romeo), Dirty Shirley with George Lynch, Magnus Carlsson’s Free Fall, Ralph, Stoneleaders...

As his parents also played musical instruments, Dino was introduced to music and singing at the age of three and started performing at the age of five by appearing on television and on international festivals.

Dino participated and won the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Denmark with his own song “Ti si moja prva ljubav“. He released his debut solo album, No.1 in 2003 and an English version in 2004.

He toured the United States, Scandinavia and Australia until 2005 and the tour included four concerts in Denmark with a total audience of 100.000 people. The same year Dino became the youngest nominee of the Croatian music award Porin at the age of twelve.

In 2005, he was one of the three main acts at the Langeland festival in Denmark along with UB40 and Ronan Keating. In Croatia he released a conceptual album “Prošao sam sve” inspired by Marijan Gubina’s book “260 days”.»

Οι Jelusick αποτελούν το νέο προσωπικό σχήμα του Κροάτη καλλιτέχνη. Σχηματίσθηκαν προ διετίας και βλέπουν ήδη σε κυκλοφορία το ντεμπούτο τους, το οποίο φέρει τον "Follow The Blind Man". Στην παρούσα ανάρτηση θα παρακολουθήσουμε το βίντεο με την ακουστική απόδοση του τραγουδιού "The Great Divide"...

Band: Jelusick
Country of origin: Croatia
Formed in: 2021
Genre: Melodic Metal / Hard Rock
Years active: 2021-present

Video: "The Great Divide" (acoustic)
Camera 1: Matea Marusic
Camera 2: Tesa Lipovski

Album: "Follow The Blind Man"
Type: Full length
Release date: September 29th, 2023
Label: Escape Music
Label: Deko Entertainment (USA, Canada)
Label: Aquarius Records (Croatia, ex-YU)
Label: Ward (Japan)
Label: Hellion Records (Brazil)

Engineered by: Dino Jelusick, Mario Lepoglavec
Mixed and Master by: Simon Jovanovic
Produced by: Jelusick
Executive producer: Dario Jelusick

Track listing:
01. Reign Of Vultures 00:01 - 6:32
02. Died 06:33 - 12:22
03. Animal Inside 12:23 - 18:12
04. Follow The Blind Man 18:14 - 24:28
05. What I Want 24:29 - 28:06
06. Acid Rain 28:07 - 32:25
07. Healer 32:26 - 37:01
08. The Great Divide 37:02 - 41:46
09. Fly High Again 41:47 - 45:35
10. Chaos Master 45:36 - 49.55
11. The Bitter End (Chaos Master pt.2) 49:56 - 53:35

Line-up:
Dino Jelusick - Vocals, Keyboards, Piano on tracks 4 & 11, Hammond on song 1, Acoustic Guitars
Ivan Keller - Lead and rhytm guitars, Acoustic guitar on song 3
Luke Broderick - Bass
Mario Lepoglavec - Drums, Loops and Samples