Platon Karatev
2024-12-06T19:00:00.000Z
The orchestra named after the character Lev Tolstoy was founded in 2016 in Budapest. In Hungary they have played to packed houses at the Akvárium, MÜPÁ and A38 Ship, while abroad they have performed at festivals such as Roadburn, Reeperbahn, Eurosonic and Liverpool Sound City. Our first album, For Her (2017), put the band on the international map, and their songs have since been streamed millions of times around the world. The band's second album, Atoms (2020), saw them move away from the acoustic direction they had been taking towards a louder, grander sound. The album is about searching for and questioning our innermost selves, with songs that sometimes plunge towards ourselves and sometimes move away from it. The band's album 'Crying for Shore', released in early 2022, continues this spiral, looking at man through the eyes of water, mountain and forest, and continues to wander around the core of existence. Crying for the Shore was one of the critics' favourite albums last year, according to Artisjus, and was also awarded a Fonogram Award. The band's next full-length album, Sunbathing, is due in 2025.
Dec
06
Schedule
Guest: Józsi Hegedűs (solo)
Józsi Hegedűs grew up in a village in Békés County, and although his family didn't understand what he was doing with the guitar when he moved to Budapest and entered the Kikeltető talent contest, the music community in Budapest quickly embraced him. With his newly formed band, the Wildflower Ensemble, he released the album "Mould Flowers" on 12 April 2024. The author's lyrical world is dominated by reflections on past experiences, it is as much about his personality as it is about the character of the performer, and self-identity is absolutely one of his greatest virtues.