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'World Music' music
CDs.
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Details of Muzsikas music CD releases.
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Muzsikas
Hungary based folk, klezmer and gypsy, music
label.
Artists include:
Muzsikas, Marta Sebesteyn.
Muzsikas on the web: www.muzsikas.hu
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Selected CD releases from the Muzsikas catalogue:
CD cover
artwork
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Description of CD releases from Muzsikas
Where available mp3 sound samples
are included, click on links for
approx 30 second sample.
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Muzsikas with Marta Sebestyen - Live at the Liszt Academy of Music (MU005)
CD
The Budapest Spring Festival is one
of the major events in the Hungarian
cultural calendar. Muzsikas and
Marta Sebestyen have regularly
appeared at the Spring Festival
since 1999. This release is a
compilation of concerts, mainly
based on their appearances in 2003
where they performed together with
the Pro Musica Choir.
'Great playing that takes Bartók
back to the future.
... The live atmosphere lends a
particular edge to the recording,
and the rhythmic, syncopated beat of
a dancer's feet give some of the
material tremendous urgency. Very
fine stuff indeed''
Songlines magazine Nov/Dec
2004
Digipak with 28 page booklet with
notes in English and Hungarian.
My Sweet Gregory (mp3
sample)
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Muzsikas with M
Sebestyen, A Balanescu - Bartok Album (MU001)
CD
Muzsikas decided to show the
'collector' side of Bartok in this
album. Joining them is the Romanian
born violin vituoso Alexander
Balanescu, who adds his unique
techniques to this masterpiece.
'Now, when I work with Muzsikas
ensemble, I feel that something
important is happening to me. I can
feel just how important for me is
the cultural background against
which I grew up, the area from where
I came.' A. Balanescu.
CD with 80 page booklet in Hungarian
and English.
Mérai lassú csárdás és szapora (mp3
sample)
Máramarosi táncok (mp3
sample)
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Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen - Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania (MU002)
CD
Everybody knows klezmer music, but
what we can hear on this exceptional
album is the ancestor of klezmer -
the forgotten old Jewish music of
the Carpathian Basin. Muzsikás has
recorded these songs after years of
research, which produced interesting
results - for example collecting
music from gypsies, authentic
players of klezmer, or finding
instruments such as the guitar-like
'zongura' or drum with cymbal. The
results of this research are all
here on this wonderful album. The
beautiful trustworthy voice of Márta
Sebestyén brings a special breath
to this recording.
Kohsid Wedding Dances - Chaszid
lakodalmi táncok (mp3
sample)
Jewish Csardas Series from Szek - Széki
zsidó csárdások (mp3
sample)
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Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen - Morning Star (MU003)
CD
"Their
ace is unquestionably singer Marta
Sebestyen, whose pure, soulful tones
are the kind to make knees buckle
and tears flow."
Q magazine, UK
'Transylvanian instrumental music
embodies centuries of aesthetic
values. In our concerts, we have
repeatedly had the experience that
these melodies, reflecting
essentially pure feelings and
irresistible impetus are able to
powerfully communicate to people, no
matter where in the world they are
from . On this album, we aimed to
play and sing as our village masters
did: all together, breathing as one,
watching each other as we play, in
order to express this music's inner
life.' Muzsikas
Madocsai Szolo-Orzo - A Song
from Madocsa (mp3
sample)
Ej, Csillag, Csillag - Oh, Morning
Star- Farewell To Soldiers (mp3
sample)
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Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen - Blues for Transylvania, Osz az ido (MU004)
CD
"Muzsikas
has created its own style and sound
in folk music. The classical album
of this sound is 'Blues for
Transylvania"
fRoots magazine, UK
"Their playing alternates
between fiery, fiddle-induced
instrumentals of a celebratory
skirt-raising kind and impossibly
sorrowful sounding ballads with
lashings of hurdy-gurdy pipes. Their
ace, though, is unquestionably
singer Marta Sebestyen, whose pure,
soulful tones are the kind to make
knees buckle and tears flow."
Q magazine, UK
Besides
the usual string instruments the
distinguished folk band use on this
album instruments recalling the old
times in music - bagpipes, pan
flutes and hurdy-gurdy.
"Muzsikas has created its own
style and sound in folk music. The
classical album of this sound is
'Blues for Transylvania"
fRoots magazine, UK
Szapora (mp3
sample)
Betyárnóta - Outlaw Song (mp3
sample)
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Below are other similar music labels we
distribute.
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Etnofon
Hungary based Balkan folk, jazz,
gypsy, Klezmer music label.
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Artist roster includes Odessa
Klezmer Band, Zurgo, Karpatia, , Ferenc Kiss, Primasok - Musicians from Transylvania and Moldavia, Ivan Lantos, Tecso Band, Nigun, Vodku V Glotku, Lilla Polgar with Gajdos Ensemble, Romanyi Rota and others.
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Fono Budai Zenekar
Hungary based folk, jazz, gypsy, music
label.
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Artist roster includes Besh o droM, Csik Ensemble, Parno Graszt, New Patria Series, Kallos Archive, Fono Orchestra,
Ghymes Ensemble, , Amaro Suno,
Dresch Quartet, Felix Lajko, Roza Bancseva and Orkestar Slavia,
Rila and others.
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Vujicsics
Hungary based Serbo-Croat folk music
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Artists include:
Vujicsics, Sondorgo.
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Teka Village Music
Hungary based folk music
label. |
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Artists include:
Teka, Our Master's series, Mihály Bársony, Ferenc Kádár and others.
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