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Tárkány Művek: You Etched Your Face in Mine - Musical portraiture from Hungary's new wave
Released by: Songlines
Author: Simon Broughton
Date of release: 2011-04-07
There seems to be a bit of a boom in the Hungarian folk scene right now, with some interesting new groups cropping up - Napra, for instance. The jazz-meets-folk group Tárkány Művek formed in 2008. It's led by cimbalom player Bálint Tárkány-Kovács, who studied at the Liszt Academy with Kálmán Balogh, with three instrumentalists on sax, viola, and double bass, fronted by singer Julianna Paár.
more>> "Remélem, hogy még sokáig együtt megyünk tovább" - Szalóki Ági, Kishúg
Released by: mr2.hu
Author: Leirer Tímea
Date of release: 2011-01-11
A 2010-es esztendő egyik legérdekesebb hazai újdonságaként emlegette a könnyűzenei újságírás az azóta saját albumot megjelentető és jó pár élő koncertet is maga mögött tudó Kishúg nevű formációt. A zenekart két, látszatra egymástól távol álló zenei világot képviselő művész, a főként népdalokat, sanzonokat és gyerekdalokat éneklő Szalóki Ági és az egyik legkeresettebb magyar dobos, Borlai Gergő alapították.
more>> Napra: Holdvilágos (In the Moonlight) - The rock sound of trad Hungary
Released by: Songlines
Author: Simon Broughton
Date of release: 2010-11-07
Napra is a Hungarian folk band that deserves to be heard. They bring a rock attitude to traditional music with Miklós Both on lead electric guitar, taking the place of prímás fiddle, and a rock-style drum kit alongside accordion, violin and electric bass.
more>> Prímás Parade in Songlines
Released by: Songlines
Author: Simon Broughton
Date of release: 2010-07-12
In Hungarian, primás usually refers to the lead fiddler of a band, but other instrumentalists, such as the cimbalom player, could equally be the lead musician. Assembled for Primás Parade is a supergroup of musicians drawn from the folk, jazz, rock and classical scenes with a common root in traditional music. An entire primás group does conjure up an Orwellian paradox: everyone is a primás but some are more primás than others.
more>> Fakutya Ensemble: Egyéb Veszély – Danger Sign
Released by: Songlines
Author: Simon Broughton
Date of release: 2010-07-07
Irreverent Hungarian magpies get nabbed by the folk cops
The opening track of this CD will need some explanation. There’s a snatch of the Monty Python theme tune on shepherds f lutes, followed by breaking glass, screaming sirens and a radio announcement warning that the ‘Folkrendorség’ (Folk Police) are coming to arrest the Fakutya band and locking them up. Telephone callers to the Folk Police get put on hold with Scott Joplin’s ‘The Entertainer’, which is then transformed into a Carpathian folktune.
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