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Omega
Gammapolis 1
(concert, Budapest, Hungary, 1994)A Hungarian rock band formed in 1962.
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Omega
Gammapolis 1
(concert, Budapest, Hungary, 1994)A Hungarian rock band formed in 1962.
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Omega
Gammapolis 1
(concert, Budapest, Hungary, 1994)A Hungarian rock band formed in 1962.
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Omega
Gammapolis 1
(concert, Budapest, Hungary, 1994)A Hungarian rock band formed in 1962.
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Omega
Gammapolis 1
(concert, Budapest, Hungary, 1994)A Hungarian rock band formed in 1962.
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The other side of the disc is quite similar 🤓🎶
https://archive.org/details/78_egy-kis-leny-van-a-vilgon-nnken-one-little-girl-in-the-world-for-me_gbia0289421b -
reading up about the #78rpm phonograph era again for an article I'm trying to write and decided to see what new discs had been posted to @internetarchive since last time I looked. Here's an interesting Hungarian-style #cimbalom and #tarogato piece by anonymous artists, recorded in NYC around 1910. The tarogato player may have been called A. Selzer.
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Gábor Szabó – Spellbinder (1966, Hungary)
Our next spotlight is on number 1038 on The List, submitted by miblo.
This was the first album submitted after I pointed out we had a suspicious lack of albums released in 1966 on The List. And now, listening to this album for the first time, it strikes me that on it is a cover of a single from 1966 first released by another artist we added to The List to fill the 1966 gap, Cher, the track being “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”.[1] So, because my mind wanders, that made me want to know if there were other 1966 albums with this track. And, indeed, though it doesn’t appear again on any of The List albums, at least a handful of other artists covered it in 1966 including, of course, Nancy Sinatra’s version on How Does That Grab You?, as well as Stevie Wonder’s on Down to Earth. Also, rather interestingly, the song seemed to cross language lines pretty quickly, covered within 2 years of its initial release in French (by Sheila), Italian (by Dalida), Serbo-Croatian (by Đorđe Marjanović), and Chinese (by Betty Chung). Perhaps it is my age, but this strikes me as odd, as, even in the digital age, there is typically a lag between the release of a song and covers, especially covers making it onto LPs and into other languages. Friends of an older vintage than me, was this a normal thing to happen with songs at the time? Or did this song in particular just knock everyone’s socks off?
Anyway, I digress! This album and Szabó’s playing is, well, spellbinding! This is the second of three albums the Hungarian guitarist released in 1966, showcasing his signature mix of pop and jazz standards with the sounds of his homeland. Included is Szabó’s original composition “Gypsy Queen”, perhaps better known via Santana’s cover on their 1970 Abraxas (as a medley with a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Black Magic Woman”), an album that would later make the “official” 1001 list. Spellbinder and Szabó in general greatly influenced Carlos Santana’s music, particularly Santana’s shift from pure blues rock to “crossover” jazz fusion. And yet, none of Szabó’s 20+ albums are on the official list. Well. That’s why we’re here.
Happy listening!
- The track is on Cher’s first album released in 1966, The Sonny Side of Chér, not the second one which we have on the list, the s/t. ↩︎
#1960s #CarlosSantana #GáborSzabó #guitar #HungarianMusic #Hungary #jazz
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A blog post by Bob Cohen, American fiddler long resident in #Budapest, about fellow #fiddler Zoe Aqua's latest tour in the #synagogues of #Transylvania
I managed to visit a few of those on my trip to Romania almost a decade ago, though I think the only one that was open to see the interior was the one in #Sibiu, where an attendant tried her best to point out stuff to me and my dad in German
#FolkMusic #HungarianMusic #Romania #violin #MusicBlog
https://horinca.blogspot.com/2024/07/zoe-aqua-romanian-synagogue-concert-tour.html -
This online course looks cool-- too bad it's too early to take from the west coast where I am😥🎻 "A Survey of Hungarian Folk Music" by Zina Bozzay
#FolkMusic #HungarianMusic #Bartok #Kodaly #OnlineLearning
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Paul Gifford thought this photo was probably from the 1910s: "The leader here probably was Ernest Hussar, but the others are unknown. Bela Nyary was born Oct. 7, 1872 in Sopron County, Hungary, and died Dec. 5, 1923 in Cleveland (while on tour). He played at the McAlpin Hotel in New York City during the winter season and toured on vaudeville during the summer."
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Funny, I posted this obscure music industry news paragraph from 1921 that I had come across in my research about New York klezmers and my friend Paul Gifford (expert on cimbaloms and Hungarian music among other things) sent me this photo of an earlier incarnation of this same band. He got the photo from the great-grandson of the cimbalom player Bela Nyary (1872-1923), who emigrated to the US from Hungary and worked on the vaudeville circuit.
#FolkMusic #MusicHistory #klezmer #HungarianMusic -
Some tributes and photos have been posted to the band's facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/MuzsikasfolkensembleAnd there's a brief English-language biography of Péter Éri on the band's website:
http://www.muzsikasband.com/en/eri-peter/
#FolkMusic #Hungary #HungarianMusic -
Searched #cimbalom on #bandcamp to find something new and was not disappointed. One of the results was this award winning album by Tcha Limberger's group playing very old fashioned Hungarian string band music. So good. I actually have a ton of LPs in this genre from the 1960s but not recent.
I knew about Tcha from Youtube over the past 15 years or so but that's about it. Apparently a real gifted multi-instrumentalist.
https://tchalimbergersbudapestgypsyorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/fekete-ejszaka-borulj-a-vilagra-songlines-music-award-nominated-2015
#HungarianMusic #FolkMusic #violin #MagyarNóta -
Listening to this great interview this morning with Zoe Aqua, a nice friend and great violinist (although we haven't met in person) about her research over the past year and a half about fiddle music and oral transmission of repertoire in #transylvania 😲👍🎻
https://radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/zoe-aqua/
#klezmer #JewishMusic #FolkMusic #HungarianMusic -
Here in BC/PNW I've never seen any Romanian style cobza playing but I've seen Hungarian groups play it in this style. a lot more like the usual guitar strumming style but with a pretty steady rhythm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQIUepAfOE0
#FolkMusic #koboz #cobza #HungarianMusic -
Youtube algorithm recommended this to me - don't think I've ever heard this artist or album 😲👍 I've found similar LPs in used record bins for sure - Eastern / Central European cimbalom players who had careers as restaurant players in the US and recorded LPs in this general style.
#cimbalom #FolkMusic #HungarianMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLD_-9J4wyo&ab_channel=Horv%C3%A1th%C3%81ron -
My friend Paul Gifford, a historian of dulcimers, sent me this recording "Air Hongrois" from the year of those photos, 1931. Have never heard it before!
https://clyp.it/gptx0ov5
#HungarianMusic #Cimbalom #Magyar #improvisation -
There are a couple of videos of him playing on youtube, mostly from the 1950s. You can see him in this one with his second wife Yvonne Barblan, a pianist and his accompanist with whom he had a truly beautiful musical connection in my opinion, as can be heard on numerous baroque music LPs they made together. I'm not actually sure if the woman in the 1931 photo is Yvonne or not. #cimbalom #HungarianMusic #piano #Hungary
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"Sándor Veress: Threnos - In Memoriam Béla Bartok (1945)" on YouTube https://youtu.be/dBQyY0oHvmk
@classicalmusic
#ClassicalMusic
#HungarianMusic
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Finally managed to listen to the CD that came with the above book - I only have a cd drive on my computer on campus nowadays. Lot of great field recordings but one of the most fun revelations for me was the playing of Joszef Buta, a Transylvanian #cimbalom player. When I looked him up on youtube I realized I'd seen this old field videos of him before. Great stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR6w24pwv3w&list=PL787C65C7F55327AC
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Last day my office is open until the new year and I found this great gift waiting for me this morning, from a klez-friend who was in Budapest. Very cool ! 😍 #cimbalom #FolkMusic #HungarianMusic