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Sleep Paralysis

ALBUM​          LENGHT   72 min          RELEASED   31 October 2020​          LANGUAGE   Croatian & English

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SLEEP PARALYSIS FOLLOWS CHAVKE DRIFTING OFF ON A PLANE AND SLIDING INTO A COLLAPSING DREAM-WORLD WHERE TIME SLIPS, CITIES ROT AND LOVE TURNS POISONOUS.

 

PART A MOVES FROM GLOSSY, TIME-OBSESSED POP INTO BASS-HEAVY EMPTINESS, POLITICAL FURY, STRAY DOGS, CAVES, AND A HILL UNDER AN ECLIPSE. PART B TWISTS THE SAME THEMES INTO COLDER, SHARPER SHAPES: FAST-LIVING ARROGANCE, LOVELESS RELATIONSHIPS, PSYCHEDELIC DRIFT AND AGGRESSION THAT KEEPS TIGHTENING TOWARD A SUFFOCATING CLIMAX.

 

SONICALLY IT SHIFTS BETWEEN WARPED POP, MURKY HIP HOP, ABRASIVE VOCALS, JAGGED GUITARS AND HAZY, CINEMATIC INSTRUMENTALS, ALL STITCHED INTO ONE LONG UNSTABLE DREAM YOU ARE NEVER FULLY SURE YOU HAVE ESCAPED.

1. Nikad

PART A

LENGHT

4:24

LANGUAGE

Croatian

On a late flight, Chavke slumps into his seat with headphones on. A glossy pop track is playing, obsessing over time, how fast it runs away, and how little control anyone has over it. He stares out the window, thinking about those lines, while the engines drone beneath everything. Slowly the music starts to wobble and smear, as if time itself is stretching, and the cabin sounds drift further away. The pop hook about time keeps looping in his head as it breaks apart, and he slips into that fragile first layer of sleep where nothing is fully real, but nothing has disappeared yet.

2. Prazni Prostori

PART A

LENGHT

4:12

LANGUAGE

Croatian

He opens his eyes into a world of concrete corridors and echoing halls. The air is heavy, the low end hits like a weight in his chest, and every step sounds far away. Goals he has not reached and expectations he has piled onto himself start to lurk in the corners like moving shadows. He feels that soon the whole world will see who he really is, and that thought curls into fear instead of pride. In these empty spaces, the silence is crowded and the dream turns uneasy, ghosts are circling.

3. Paranoid Eyes Staring At The Eclipse, Pt. 1

PART A

LENGHT

1:57

LANGUAGE

English

*INSTRUMENTS

Chavke & Dušan Šafranko

The corridors dissolve and he finds himself at the foot of a hill with an old guitar in his hands. The sky is still clear, the air thinner, and his voice sounds small and honest, like a kid playing alone in his room. Someone has told him there is a hill to climb and doubts he will ever reach the top, but he quietly decides otherwise. He begins to climb through trees and mist, repeating to himself that he will rise above, no matter how long it takes or who believes in him. This is the moment where he chooses his own path, even if he does not yet understand where it leads.

4. Virgil

PART A

LENGHT

2:41

LANGUAGE

Croatian

*WRITERS

Marko Čavužić (Chavke) & Igor Glodić (Iggy Biznis)

*PRODUCERS

Chavke & Iggy Biznis

*VOCALS

Chavke & Iggy Biznis

The scene jumps to Zagreb at the end of high school. Chavke is moving through the night in designer sneakers, mixing street clothes with luxury brands. He smokes too much, but only the finest, he drinks too much but insists on expensive bottles, wanting to be both wild and refined at the same time. Underneath it all there is still insecurity, but on the surface he is a kid who has things figured out, using style and attitude to cover the cracks.

5. Watch Your Step, Shit Ahead

PART A

LENGHT

5:17

LANGUAGE

Croatian

The path in front of him turns into a mess of warnings and opinions. People tell him what he should be doing, what is too much, what will ruin him, what he should never say out loud. He keeps walking anyway, kicking through their judgement and muttered threats. Every step feels like it might land in something dirty, but he accepts it as the price of moving forward on his own terms. If there is shit ahead, he will step in it himself rather than let anyone else choose his route.

6. Banda

PART A

LENGHT

4:33

LANGUAGE

Croatian

*WRITERS

Marko Čavužić (Chavke) & Andro Jukić Nuhanović (Fjukic)

*VOCALS

Chavke & Fjukic

Zagreb tilts into a darker, more absurd angle. Chavke slips into the voice of a local kid hustling on the side, drifting through neighborhoods under a corrupt mayor and a party that seem untouchable. He raps from the middle of it all, half resigned, half furious, watching how corruption slides from polished offices down to the street. The character in him jokes, sells, survives, but beneath that is a burning question: why does everyone keep tolerating this? The dream then rips closer to his own truth as he faces the mayor directly, spitting out insults and disbelief, ending with the quiet decision to look for hope in another city. The final electric buzz cracks the image of Zagreb open and throws him somewhere else.

7. Sanjam?

PART A

LENGHT

1:20

LANGUAGE

Croatian

Everything cuts to the inside of an apartment. A girl is on the phone, while a small dog barks non-stop in the background. She snaps at it, calls it by name, tells it to shut up, but the barking won’t stop, like a glitch stuck on repeat. In another room someone is skipping through old recordings: tiny Chavke at the piano, half-finished tracks, memories flickering in quick fragments. The moment feels ordinary and unreal at the same time, like a dream borrowing pieces of real life but misplacing the context. The question hangs in the air: is he awake, or already gone?

8. Sanjam Sam

PART A

LENGHT

3:51

LANGUAGE

Croatian

Chavke finds himself alone with the memory of a girl he once loved without ever truly having her. The room around him feels blurred, as if the dream is holding him in place while he lists all the ways he has already accepted that nothing will happen. Even with that acceptance, he cannot shake the feeling of being chained to her, like some part of him refuses to fully detach. He calls her the reason for his agony, and the word lingers in Croatian, breaking apart into an echo that sounds like “goni je”, an instruction to push her away. He knows he should send her out of his life, but for now he stays in the ache.

9. Paranoid Eyes Staring At The Eclipse, Pt. 2

PART A

LENGHT

3:08

LANGUAGE

Croatian

*INSTRUMENTS

Chavke & Dušan Šafranko

The hill returns, but the sky above it has changed. An eclipse hangs overhead, turning everything into a strange twilight. Somewhere in the distance, that same small dog from earlier starts barking again, louder and closer, like a nerve that will not stop twitching. The sound drives deeper and deeper into his head until he finally raises a gun in the dream and shoots, forcing the barking into silence. Moments before the shot, the darkness around him speaks clearly for the first time, no longer just a feeling but a presence with a voice. Whatever has been watching him from the edges of this journey has now introduced itself. The first part of the story ends with Chavke stepping into a cave, letting that voice and the surrounding dark swallow him whole.

10. Živit Ćemo Brzo

PART B

LENGHT

3:27

LANGUAGE

Croatian

It sounds like morning by the ocean, you can hear the calming waves listening from the cave, but Part B of the story punches in like a sudden gear change. Chavke is racing through the night again, this time with no hesitation, just speed and hunger. He is living fast with someone by his side, chasing thrills, treating caution like a joke. The arrogance is deliberate: the same themes from earlier are here (youth, desire, escape) but stripped out their doubts, leaving only raw impulse. For a while he lets himself believe that going faster will fix the feeling that something is wrong underneath.

11. Kad Kažeš Da Me Voliš

PART B

LENGHT

3:22

LANGUAGE

Croatian

After that rush, he stands in front of someone who says, “I love you,” and feels almost nothing. The words land like empty props in a scene that has already ended. Instead of breaking down, he hardens; arguments flare, and his reaction turns sharp and confrontational rather than sad. It no longer matters whether she means it or not, because he has crossed a line where tenderness does not move him the way it used to. He walks away from the idea that love should soften him, choosing to keep his guard up even if it means burning that bridge.

12. Rofhada

PART B

LENGHT

6:33

Then language falls away. Chavke drifts into a stretch of pure sensation where colors blend into sounds and shapes feel like melodies. There is no clear storyline here, only shifting patterns, pulses and textures that wrap around him. It is as if the dream has peeled him away from his own voice to show him what the inside of his mind looks like when it is left alone. Time feels loose, and for a moment he exists only as a consciousness floating in that psychedelic haze.

13. Problem

PART B

LENGHT

3:17

LANGUAGE

English

He snaps back into a body with fists clenched. “They say I got a problem,” he growls inside the dream, and answers himself: “Yes, and the problem is you.” The anger is no longer subtle or coded; it pours outward at whoever happens to be in front of him, whether or not they truly deserve it. Every line is a shove, every bar a threat, as he pushes blame as far away from himself as he can. Deep down he might know that something is broken inside him, but in this chapter he chooses to point the finger at the outside world and let the rage carry him.

14. Krvavi Mjesec

PART B

LENGHT

2:57

LANGUAGE

Croatian

A blood-red moon rises above the scene that “Problem” left behind. The same “you” now stands in front of him, no longer just a vague target but a person he imagines hurting in specific ways. Under the red light he describes exactly how he would strike back, how he would scare, wound, or crush the one he blames. Yet between the threats, cracks appear: flashes of doubt, questions about why he feels this need to destroy, echoes of family voices and old fears slipping through. The night around him feels both like a battlefield and a mirror, reflecting the possibility that the violence he imagines might say more about him than about the person he wants to punish. The ghosts are back. The prophecy of the starting chapters is almost fulfilled.

15. 20 Years

PART B

LENGHT

6:37

LANGUAGE

Croatian & English

The dream collapses inward into a single long confrontation. Twenty years of memories, frustrations and insecurities pile into one room where Chavke faces another version of himself. The noise is chaotic and aggressive, as if he is wrestling with his own reflection, lashing out at a twin that knows all his weaknesses. For a brief moment the storm breaks into a calm piano passage, a fragile pause where it almost feels like the fight is over. But the sound surges back, louder and more distorted, dragging in fragments from earlier. In that chaos the Sleep Paralysis voice finally speaks clearly, pressing down on his chest and telling him that he is not just trapped in a nightmare, he is the nightmare. He tries to answer, to ask what a dream even is and whether anyone can say something back, but his words dissolve into desperate mumbling, his voice and mind feel paralysed.

16. Paraliza

PART B

LENGHT

15:00

LANGUAGE

Croatian

*INSTRUMENTS

Chavke & Jan Przybyszewski & Dušan Šafranko

Everything that came before folds into one last, stretched-out sequence.

 

In Terrestrial Dissemination, Chavke feels his body detach from the ground. He is hovering just above the planet, gliding over cities and lights, close enough to recognise the shapes of streets and skylines but never close enough to land. Zagreb, Dublin and countless other places blur into one glowing surface beneath him. There is no voice, only instruments carrying this strange calm. He is not awake, but not exactly “in” the earlier dream anymore either; as if he has become the signal that’s travelling around the Earth rather than the person listening to it.

 

Early Forewarning bends the circle back to the beginning. Far below, or maybe inside his own head, “Nikad” returns: slowed, pulled apart and distorted. The pop track about time and our lack of control over it reappears like a coded message he ignored on the plane. Now it sounds less like casual reflection and more like a warning he failed to read, a reminder that this whole journey was built on the fact that time would keep moving whether he was ready or not.

 

Then the light changes. Beguiling Sun rises on the horizon, bright and familiar. The sun looks exactly as it always has, that same shape and glow he has trusted since childhood. Even on the days when clouds hid it, he always knew it was there, unchanged. Now, floating here, he realises that is the deception: the sky repeats itself while he is the one aging, shifting, drifting further from who he used to be. The sun stays constant; he does not. That quiet betrayal, of something that appears steady while he moves further away from himself, is what makes the light feel beguiling: gentle on the surface, dangerous underneath.

 

In Celestial Divulgence, gravity lets go completely. He is no longer just above Earth; he is somewhere between stars, in a space where the rules he knows no longer apply. The sound turns otherworldly. He cannot really hear direct echoes of the hill, the girl, the dog or the city anymore - and he is not meant to. Instead, alien voices speak to him from the edges of this space, distant and unhuman, as if they are commenting on a life he has lived but from a perspective that is not his. It almost feels like everything that happened up to this point did not matter that much, like it could be summarised in a sentence. Yet the weight of it is still there in his chest; he is just hearing it reframed, filtered through mouths that were never part of his world.

 

Deliberate Deception drags him back toward something that looks like waking. He begins to sense his body again: heaviness in the limbs, the outline of a seat or a bed, air on his skin. For a moment he believes this is it, that he is on the verge of coming back. He tells himself it is not his fault, that the terror and chaos are caused by sleep paralysis, by something his brain is doing to him while he cannot move. It is a small attempt to reclaim innocence: if this is an illness, a condition, then maybe he is not the monster after all. But there is still that nagging doubt that even this “explanation” might be another trick of the dream.

 

In Unceasing Juncture, everything builds to a final crossroads. Sounds and feelings from the whole album surge together, like all his lives and choices are being pushed into a single point. It feels, for once, like a clear decision is being made. He realises what the problem is, sees how he has been circling his own fear and anger, and gathers himself to shoot out of this state, out of the nightmare, out of the paralysis, out of whatever this suspended reality actually is. This is the moment where he is sure the dream is finally over, that he has found the exit and is about to break through it.

 

Then Delusive Contentment settles in. The storm drains away into a quiet, reflective piano passage. The panic loosens, replaced by a strange sense of peace. Chavke is still pinned between sleep and waking, but the urgency fades; the situation starts to feel almost comfortable. The melody turns in gentle circles, calm but slightly off, giving the impression that the story could loop and begin again at any point. He lies there in that half-light, not sure if he has truly escaped the nightmare or simply become used to living inside it. The paralysis remains, soft around the edges, and the album lets go with the unsettling feeling that this cycle could start all over again the next time he closes his eyes.

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