to make up for my absence over xmas and new years, i’m giving you seven songs in seven days starting with this treat from janko nilovic, an extremely prolific composer and arranger in the late 60s and 70s. his tracks combine jazz with funk, soul and orchestras. his arrangements are complex and exquisite, never more so than on the album rythmes contemporains originally released in 1974 and more recently re-released by cosmic sounds, a london label who also have a seemingly exhaustive janko nilovic discography at their site. if only i could find a similarly detailed biography; its hard to find out much about the man, except the cosmic sounds site seems to imply that he is still performing live. elements of janko nilovic tracks appear on nearly anything that i’ve put together in the last 6 months - take the janko out of faux feels and i’m not sure what you’d have left…

Janko Nilovic - Xenos Cosmos (6.82 MB)