Transzház bemutatja: Kovász x Fanfara Complexa, vendég: Gáska

Kovász: Gergő Kováts, after having played in many free, light and mainly world music formations, saw the time as right to start his own exploration of the endless fields between folk music and jazz. The group, which had joined together for an audio-gastronomic expedition, had put hard bop and free jazz in their jars as a way to get there, and since the fermentation had started, they had been feeding their starter with bitter, slow Hungarian music, with a slow, slow turnaround. And, of course, some hip-hop and funk were mixed in from the air. With the base already nicely pre-digested, they're re-baking classic recipes from John Coltrane to Elek Horváth to Hank Mobley to serve it all up as hot as possible. Máté Pozsár and Attila Gyárfás are the acknowledged authorities on jazz, ubiquitous and inescapable figures of its freer side, and teachers at the Liszt Academy. Ábel Dénes, despite his young age, is still living his cross-genre life in a routine way, having achieved great success with the Nagy Emma Quintet and Söndörgő, among others. The band recorded their first studio album at the end of the summer, which will be released by BMC Records.

Fanfara Complexa plays rhythmic dance music based on Moldavian Csango, Romanian and Gypsy melodies. The Balkan-influenced instrumental music, performed with saxophones, accordion, cobos and drums, evokes the somewhat eclectic, ballroom and wedding atmosphere of a rural world that seems to be disappearing. Nowadays, in Transylvanian and Moldavian folk music, traditional melodies are increasingly being overshadowed by folk hits and Romanian ethnopop, or manele, broadcast mainly by Romanian radio and television channels. Over the past decades, these musical trends have gradually submerged the authentic tradition and are even dominating the repertoire of village musicians. The orchestra's latest album, Pașaport control, presents a colourful collection of selected melodies from this tradition-destroying hit music.