Bori Praper

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About Bori Praper
Bori Praper is a Slovenian musician, writer and translator, living in the Canary Islands. Currently he focuses predominantly on his slightly belated literary efforts (Bori published his first novel in English at the tender age of 36) as well as on "Cynicism Management", his progressive / alternative rock band; "Ray Kosmick", his psychedelic rock / indietronica / soundtracks alter ego; and a few shorter-term side projects.
Bori's debut novel "Cynicism Management", a satire with elements of sci-fi/cyberpunk, was published in 2013 by a small U.K. e-book publisher. In 2015, Bori decided to hop on the indie author train, so he published the updated 2nd edition of "Cynicism Management". In March 2016, he published "Pendulum Pet", his second novel. In 2019, the publisher River Boat Books saw fit to include Bori's debut novel Cynicism Management: A Rock & Roll Fable in its list of new releases for the summer/autumn of 2019.
Bori is currently collaborating with Rick Harsch on his "communal" novel titled The Assassination of Olof Palme. He is also writing Dog Days, the third book in the Cynicism Management series, as well as composing music for it.
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Blog postA new single by Rok Predin has just been released.
Rok Predin: music, lyrics, arrangement, video; vocals, guitar, keyboards
Borut Praper: arrangement, production, mix; bass, drum programming, darbuka
Mastering: Shawn Hatfield at AudibleOddities.
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Blog postA new single by Rok Predin has just been released.
Rok Predin: music, lyrics, video; vocals, guitar, ukulele, additional keyboards
Borut Praper: arrangement, production, mix; bass, keyboards, drum programming
Gregor Zemljič: mastering
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Blog postThe new album – or, more precisely, the radically renovated 10th-anniversary edition of Cynicism Management’s first album, “Tit” – is out. You can grab it on Bandcamp (free / pay what you want), in most digital stores, or hear it on your favourite streaming service.
ALBUM CREDITS:
Monika Fritz: vocals
Jan Urbanc: guitar
Borut Praper: drums, keyboards, programming, bass, guitar
Aljaž Tulimirović: guitar and bass on Iniquity; guitar on Herbal Haze; guitar, e-bow g1 year ago Read more -
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Blog postThe girl from the post office was extremely good once again: recently, she delivered the second part of Rick Harsch‘s communal novel The Assassination of Olof Palme to our currently slightly isolated volcano in the middle of the Atlantic. Both volumes of the rather extensive novel, to which I’ve had the honour and pleasure of contributing quite a few pages, are now available from corona/samizdat.
About The Assassination of Olof Palme from Rick Harsch’s blog:
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Blog postIn its strategic development document titled “Our Diabolical Plan”, the evil megacorporation in my more than ten-years-old comic sci-fi satire Cynicism Management ponders how to force depraved little nanorobots on the entire population and thus transform people into perfect consumers – out of altruism, of course, to prevent any other corporation with poorer commercials from doing it first. Apart from the most standard ways of disseminating nanotechnology (the food chain, waterworks, chemtrail1 year ago Read more
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Blog postTo expand on last week’s short notice a bit…
My first novel Cynicism Management, a rather politically incorrect satire with sci-fi elements, has just been published in Slovenia in a tangible, paper form as a part of the independent imprint called corona/samizdat. The eye-popping and relatively thick pocket-sized paperback only costs a measly 12 euros plus postage, so if you feel like supporting the entire “cause”, it won’t cost you much. Even if you’re not interested in my book at2 years ago Read more -
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Blog postA tangible, paper edition of my first novel “Cynicism Management“, now already a ten-year-old satire with sci-fi elements, has just been released in Slovenia by Rick Harsch‘s independent press corona/samizdat. The pocket-sized paperback is available from https://coronasamizdat.com for a measly 12 € plus postage.
The novel contains links to music (allegedly) recorded by the fictional musicians appearing in the story – to the actual soundtrack for this literary work. You can download it2 years ago Read more -
Blog postMr Zachary Tanner has just finished the cover for Cynicism Management (the novel), which is to be published soon as a part of Rick Harsch‘s independent imprint called corona/samizdat:
Cover art adapted from the mixed-media artwork “Kraljica noči” by Rok Predin © 2008. Used with the permission of the artist.
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Blog postThe original soundtrack for the novel Cynicism Management: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable has just been updated with new versions of songs.
The original music for the novel is now more than ten years old and my technical capabilities as well as expertise in music production have improved quite a bit during the last decade. About a year ago, I therefore started releasing the so-called “augmented” versions of the relevant tracks (not remixes, but thoroughly reworked versions of songs – click her2 years ago Read more -
Blog postAnother Place Another Time (Augmented), the twelfth (and final) track for the upcoming Cynicism Management release Tit Augmented, planned for about a year from now, has just been published on SoundCloud. Incidentally, this happens to be my absolute favourite on the ten-year-old debut album Tit by Cynicism Management.
This wraps up the project of “radically renovating” the songs in time for the publication of my first novel, which the music was actually written for: as it happens, a2 years ago Read more