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Album · 1976

Tracklist


A1 Mali Crni Brat 3:15
A2 Skakavac 3:25
A3 Plejboj 2:51
A4 Usamljena Devojka 3:30
A5 Dodji Drugi Put 3:48
B1 Hiljadu Žena 2:08
B2 Ekspres Novi Sad 8:08
B3 O Ljudima Danas, O Ljudima Juče 2:45
B4 Vremena Je Malo 3:30

Line-up/Musicians

Bass – Čarli Novak
Drums – Ratko Divjak
Guitar, Vocals – Janez Bončina
Keyboards, Vocals, Conductor, Producer – Pop Asanović
Percussion – Braco Doblekar
Saxophone [Tenor] – Jernej Podboj
Trumpet – Pero Ugrin
Vocals – Zdenka Kovačiček

About this release

Jugoton – LSY 63055 (Yugoslavia)

Recorded December 1975. and January/February 1976. at studio "Akademik", Ljubljana

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This is the second solo album of renowned keyboardist/organist Tihomir Pop Asanovic, issued in 1976.

Asanovic took some extra time during his engagement with JUGOSLOVENSKA POP SELEKCIJA, a short-lived supergroup that gathered a dozen or so important Yugoslavian musicians, to record his second solo album. He kept his standard collaborators, J. Boncina, P. Ugrin and B. Doblekar in the team. These formed the core around which the band SEPTEMBER was about to release their debut the same year. Drummer R. Divjak (ex-TIME) was also kept in from the previous album "Majko zemljo". Instead of Josipa Lisac, Asanovic invited here another celebrated female jazz and rock vocalist, Zdenka Kovacicek. The vocal tracks were shared among her, Boncina and Asanovic (This time around, Dado Topic was missing).

"Pop" (Asanovic's nickname), as the vinyl was titled, is far less interesting work than its predecessor. It is not that the sound is more "pop", but the style is overall less challenging and set more into the mainstream crossover jazz/R'n'B territory. That would not be a serious problem if the material were better composed and arranged. In this way, it all sounds a bit lame and does not provoke a listener.

Some songs like "Plejboj" (Playboy), "Hiljadu zena" (A Thousand Women) and "O ljudima danas, o ljudima juce" (On People Today, On People Yesterday) are rather banal. On the instrumental side, it is very good record. Asanovic and Ugrin are brilliant especially in keyboards/trumpet dueling tracks, "Skakavac" (Grasshopper) and lengthy improvisation "Ekspres Novi Sad". "Vremena je malo" (There's Little Time) with its almost honky-tonk piano sounds a bit like taken from a scene shot in a drunken Western saloon. Zdenka Kovacicek gave good singing in "Mali crni brat" (Little Black Brother) and "Dodji drugi put" (Come Another Time), but she is surely capable of better things to do.

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