Bonton Baya

Bonton Baya was a short lived Sarajevo new wave/art rock band from the early 1980s remembered today almost entirely because of their single album Elpi and the few music videos they made. Unlike many popular rock groups of the Yugoslav scene, Bonton Baya operated on the fringes with a distinctly intellectual, experimental sensibility that set them apart from the more commercially oriented bands of the era. Their music balanced new wave energy with a quirky, sophisticated artistic edge (e.g Talking Heads or David Bowie), making them something of an oddity within the Sarajevo rock ecosystem that was primarly focused on the "New Primitves" movement.