Tihomir "Pop" Asanović (born 16 November 1948) is a
Croatia
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n
jazz-rock
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and
fusion keyboardist
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,
Hammond organ
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player and
composer
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Etymology and def ...
.
Asanović is a keyboardist who has played in 1970s and in early 1980s in various
Yugoslavian musical line-ups and toured with them around the world. On the 1973 tour with
Boško Petrović in
East Berlin
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, he was proclaimed as being the fourth best jazz organist in Europe.
Career
Asanović has finished musical high school in
Skopje
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. With 16 years he started to perform with big dancing orchestra of RTV Skopje. When he was 18 years old, he relocated to Germany, where he performed one year with the band
Montenegro Five, then he joined the band
The Generals and toured with them through Switzerland, where
Janez Bončina
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also joined the band.
In the year 1971 he returned to homeland with the band The Generals, where the band performed on ''Adriatic Show'', which was organised by
Vladimir Mihaljek - Miha.
At the same time he played with Boško Petrović on various jazz festivals. Based on the concerts where he performed he was proclaimed as being the fourth best jazz organist in Europe by the ''Jazz Podium'' magazine. At the end of 1971 the band The Generals disbanded. In the same year Asanović joined the band
Time
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, which had other members
Dado Topić
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,
Ratko Divjak,
Vedran Božić
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,
Mario Mavrin and
Brane Lambert Živković. The band immediately started with their work and in 1972 their first album ''
Time
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'' was released. After the release of this album Janez Bončina invited Asanović to the newly established band
September
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, whose other members were
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,
Čarli Novak,
Braco Doblekar and Ratko Divjak; who has also left the band Time. In between
Jugoslovenska Pop Selekcija band was formed, whose members were all great instrumentalists from the former
SFR Yugoslavia
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.
With ''Jugoslovenska Pop Selekcija'' Asanović has performed the song ''Berlin'' on the
World Festival of Youth and Students
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in East Berlin in the year 1973, for which he received the prize. The song has been released on the compilation album of the festival. In the year 1975 on the initiative of Đorđe Novković the only album of ''Jugoslovenska Pop Selekcija'' was released titled ''Slatka Lola''.
In the year 1973 Asanović performed on the concerts with the bands
YU Grupa and
Smak
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. In 1974 he recorded his solo album ''Majko Zemljo'', on which
Josipa Lisac
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,
Nada Žgur,
Doca Marolt, Dado Topić and Janez Bončina were the singers. The members who have played the instruments were
Dragi Jelić
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During the 19 ...
(guitar), Mario Mavrin (bass), Ratko Divjak (drums), Petar Ugrin (trumpet), Braco Doblekar (congas),
Stanko Arnold (trumpet) and other leading Zagreb based musicians.
Along with Asanović the authors of the songs were Janez Bončina, Dado Topić and
Miljenko Prohaska
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. Around 200,000 - 250,000 copies of this album were sold.
In the year 1976 Asanović has recorded his second solo album titled ''Pop'', for which he wrote the songs with Dado Topić. On this album
Zdenka Kovačiček
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Early life
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and Janez Bončina were the singers.
With the band
September
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, Asanović recorded two albums and three singles. He toured with the band in
Soviet Union
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,
United States
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,
Cuba
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and
East Germany
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. Band has recorded their second album ''Domovina moja'' while on tour through United States, which lasted 7 months. The band disbanded in 1979.
After a longer break, he returned back to the music business in the year 2018 with the album "Povratak prvoj ljubavi". The LP and CD was released for Croatia Records. The album is also featuring Israeli Jazz artist
Amir Gwirtzman on the songs ''Express Novi Sad'' and ''Ludo momče Makedonče.''
Asanović has created a public image of an instrumentalist who has regularly played with jazz musicians or toured through Soviet Union as a member of various bands, amongst which were also the band
Pro arte. Afterwards he distanced himself from the musical scene and focused on the business by opening a musical instruments store.
Discography
Solo
*''
Majko Zemljo'' (1974)
*''
Pop
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Album ...
'' (1976)
With the band Time
*''
Time
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'' (1972)
*''
Time II'' (1975)
*''
Time & Dado Topić'' (1996)
*''
Vrijeme'' (2000)
*''
The Ultimate Collection'' (2007)
With the band September
*''
Luduj s nama'' (1976)
*''
Zadnja avantura'' (1976)
*''
BOOM '76'' (compilation, 1976)
*''
Prle upeco ribu'' (1977)
*''
Randevu s muzikom'' (compilation, 1977)
*''
Domovino moja'' (1978)
*''
Domovina moja'' (1979)
*''
The Best of September
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'' (compilation, 2003)
With the band Jugoslovenska Pop Selekcija
*''
Slatka Lola'' (1975)
References
External links
*
Profile on progarchives.com
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1948 births
20th-century Croatian people
Living people
Musicians from Skopje
Croatian jazz composers
Croatian record producers
Yugoslav composers
Yugoslav musicians
Croatian rock musicians
Croatian jazz organists
Croatian rock keyboardists
Croatian jazz keyboardists
Croatian jazz musicians
Jazz-funk organists
21st-century organists