Niko Nikolić i Ništavila

Niko Nikolić is a musician from Trstenik who has been living in Belgrade for the past few years. Drugo mesto is the name of his debut album, imbued with the elements of nostalgia, loneliness and daily escapism, packed in arrangements with dominant folk guitars, soft keyboards and expressive melodies.

Pavle (Niko) Nikolić has been playing music since he was eleven years old, and since there was not much in the village where he grew up, he learned everything from everyone, from hard rock classics to folk music and ex-Yu rock. He was a member of the indie rock band Kuvade, in which he sang backing vocals and played bass and slide guitar. He created most of the songs from his first studio album with the intention of recording them for this band, but in the past two to three years, he actually reinvented all those songs, added some new ones, and completed the album Drugo mesto during 2020.

He finds inspiration in honesty, childhood, the relationship between the countryside and the city, in love, geography, heritage, as well as in the relationship between the Balkans and the rest of the world. Some of the topics in his songs are personal experiences, such as relationship break-ups, isolation and thoughts about leaving his homeland. He also likes to imagine visual atmospheres, so he often places his feelings in imaginary environments.