Over the past thirty years, Zlatan Stipišić Gibonni has become one of the most important creative figures on the Croatian and regional music scene – not only as a musician, but also as a poet whose lyrics have built a unique, lyrical, and recognizable world.

The book Tree – Tales About Songs is a one-of-a-kind anthology curated by Đorđe Matić, featuring 26 authors from Croatia and the region who have written literary texts inspired by Gibonni’s songs. The result is a robust dialogue between music and literature, between emotion and word, between song and story.

Gibonni’s songs – emotionally rich, musically refined, intimate, and atmospherically strong – have always been fertile ground for creating and recognizing personal life stories. These songs gave rise to the stories collected in this book – texts that are at once personal and universal, both a literary homage and a new act of creation.

Participants:
Zlatan Stipišić Gibonni
Đorđe Matić
Nebojša Lujanović
Ivo Anić
Marina Vujčić
Tanja Mravak
Music program: GMD Sanctus Domnio
Moderators: Edi Matić and Renata Vojvodić