Dresch Húros Quartet
VII Óbuda World Music Week in Kobuci Garden!
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Dresch Húros Quartet
On the closing day of the festival, Mihály Dresch will come to us with his Húros Quartet. The Kossuth Prize-winning artist is certainly a world-class representative of the Hungarian jazz scene, who is unavoidable in terms of music history. Just as Garbarek brought the Northern European or Coltrane the Afro-traditions into jazz, Dresch brought the typical elements of Transylvanian authentic folk into jazz. Dresch works on a single material, revealing ever more subtle layers of the same vast musical world, at once personal and common to the point of impersonality. His unique instrument of his own design, the fuhun, will be heard again on Sunday evening at the Garden. "I had an inner need to make an instrument for myself. I played Hungarian and Romanian songs on my six-hole flute, beautiful ancient music, more ancient than that played on violins, for example. I took to it like an abalone, you can make a nobler, more expensive one from wood, but I made the tube from hickory and put keys on it. It's not like a traditional flute that's only for a certain melody or set of notes, it's a special flute sound." (Mihály Dresch)
Schedule
Szilvia Bognár - Bori Magyar - Ági Szalóki
The trio of Szilvia Bognár, Bori Magyar and Ági Szalóki promises a new, exciting musical delicacy for world music lovers. Szilvi, Bori and Ági are highly acclaimed singers with their solo albums and formations, and are key players in Hungarian folk music, world music and crossover productions.
They are representatives of two successive generations who have toured most of the Hungarian stages. Their new production was born out of a shared desire to experience the joy and power of singing together. In the new musical formation, besides arrangements of Hungarian folk songs, Bulgarian, Greek, Spanish, Gypsy, Sephardic Jewish, Portuguese and Spanish melodies are also performed.
The lively, danceable and lyrical songs are accompanied by excellent jazz and world musicians.
Szilvia Bognár - vocals
Bori Magyar - vocals
Ági Szalóki - vocals
Babcsán Bence - wind instruments
István Tóth - guitar
Lóránt Péch - keyboards
Zoltán Kovács - bass
Sándor Födő - percussion
Kobuci kert
World music evenings, jazz stories, underground, folk music in all its forms and some very serious blues. All this at Kobuci, one of Budapest's best outdoor venues with a garden.