"Kantautor" is the title of ARSEN DEDIĆ's fourteenth studio album, released in 1985. In the double album with the ironic name "Kantautor", the author covers and publishes covers of J. Brel, Leonard Cohen, Lennon, Gino Paoli, Bulat Okudžava and others, but also performs compositions written and composed by others (such as Golob, Diklić, Britvić, Monteno, Mlinarec) in a minimalist arrangement accompanied by Stjepan Mihaljinec. (wikipedia)
"Rimska ploča" is the title of ARSEN DEDIĆ's eighth studio album, released in 1979. The album was released for "PGP RTB". The album contains standards such as the music of Tin Ujević's song "Odlazak" (in collaboration with Sergio Endrigo), "Zagrli me" and the soundtrack for Petar Krelja's film "Vlakom prema jugu". (wikipedia)
"Arsen 2" is the title of ARSEN DEDIĆ's second studio album, released on LP in 1971. The album contains the anthological compositions "Ne plači", "O, mladosti" and a cover of Brela's "Ne me quitte pas". It also contains a number of chansons with a humorous and cabaret feel. The album was filled with original songs, less commercial than its predecessor. The song "Gazela", for example, was only broadcast once on all radio stations in a year. As the soundtrack for Tomislav Radić's film "Živa istina" was being produced at the same time, the songs "Takvim sjajem može sjati" and "Balada o prolaznosti" were created, also included in "Arsen 2". (wikipedia)
ARSEN DEDIĆ (Šibenik, 28 July 1938 – Zagreb, 17 August 2015) was a Croatian composer, writer, translator, poet and singer-songwriter. "Homo volans" is the title of Arsen Dedić's third studio album, released on LP in 1973. With 22 tracks, it is the first double album in Croatian and then Yugoslav discography. "Homo volans" was also the first conceptual album in the aforementioned circles. It is considered "a milestone in the author's breakthrough from the traditional entertainment-music framework." Velimir Cindrić believes that the songs on the album sound "more developed, more profound and more experienced" and that Dedić made "a big leap and created a kind of amalgam of avant-garde, classics and hits". Atonal sounds and the influence of jazz are noticeable. However, the album is dominated by a singer-songwriter style through the songs "Tvoje nježne godine", "Laku noć, muzičari", and "Modra rijeka". Only the song "Tvoje nježne godine" achieved greater commercial success than the songs on the album, but Nenad Polimac maintains that "the album was full of songs that were quite pretentious and very original and did not even aspire to any place on the radio charts." It was critically well received, and was later considered "one of Dedić's best and most ambitious albums." In May 1974, it reached eighth place on the top ten best-selling albums chart. (wikipedia)
