An interview with Klime Kovaceski in Bold Journey Magazine. Below are Klime’s answers; the questions are shortened.
Where does your resilience come from?
I definitely inherited my resilience from my late Macedonian mother, Ratka. She was the most talented, positive, and energetic person I have ever known. To this day, I have never met anyone who could match her strength of spirit, warmth, and unwavering zest for life.
Tell us about yourself and what you are working on.
Most of the 300 songs I’ve released over the past four years have lived within me since the early 1980s. They were born from the profound pain of leaving behind my homeland, my family, my friends, and my band, the Fall of Byzantium.
For me, songwriting has always meant opening a wound in the soul. Yet with every note, every lyric, and every unfolding melody, that wound begins to close. Each completed song leaves behind not pain, but peace.
My new album, BOUND IN SHADOWS, began as one continuous work and has grown into a 23-track neoclassical odyssey. Conceived in a single week and developed over several months, it still carries the unity and unbroken flow of its origin, bound by a shared pulse, a recurring light, and one single emotional thread.
Across its movements, the music journeys from shadowed intensity toward moments of clarity and reflection, guiding the listener through shifting tones, rich textures, and evolving harmonic landscapes, now fully realized as a deep, immersive listening experience.
Which three qualities matter most?
The three most important qualities in anything I do, I believe, are my talent, instinct, and persistence. If I don’t have a talent for something, I simply don’t do it.
My talent gives shape to what I hear and feel. My instinct guides me when there are no rules to follow, only a direction to sense. And my persistence is what carries everything forward, especially when inspiration fades, or the path becomes unclear.
How would you spend the next decade if it were your last?
I want to create something new—something that carries meaning beyond myself, something that others can truly benefit from. Whether it is a restaurant concept where people come not only to eat, but to celebrate the important moments of their lives—birthdays, reunions, quiet victories, and new beginnings—or an album in which they can lose themselves for an hour or two, stepping outside of time, forgetting the weight of the world, and simply feeling.
In both cases, the intention is the same: to create spaces—physical or emotional—where people can pause, connect, and experience something real. Something that stays with them long after the moment has passed.
Having said all that, ultimately, and most importantly, I want to do everything I can to keep the love of my life, Anita Kovaceski, happy.