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Karavan Familia

'La familijaki zor, The Power Of Family'

Musicians:
István Nagy - vocals, lead guitar, guitar, tamboura, mandolin, tambouritza, harmonica
Ica Farkas - vocals
Niki Nagy - vocals
István Nagy jr. - vocals, guitar, percussions

Guest:
József Horváth "Plutó" - bass guitar, double bass

Label - Karavan Familia, Hungary
Release 2008

"The music of Karavan Familia group involves incredible human emotions and love and they are able to give back this love to their surroundings with their music. The audience feels that musicians with such strong cultural roots and talent are very rare to find. They play and sing with a total and true emotional background.

The Karavan Familia do not want to be suited for any fashion or trend. This CD is full of joy, dance tears, spin and life from the beginning to the end. We must know that nowadays a band like this is extremly rare since they represent the true eternal lasting MUSIC, which stands above different cultures."
Fruzsina Szép, director, Music Export Hungary

From band:
"The Karavan familia Gipsy world music and folk group plays traditional folk music arrangements from the different dialects of their native culture with individual effects and sounds. They have in their performances Gipsy music not only from Hungary, but from the Balkans, Romania, Russia and from Spain – formed to their own style.

The group was formed by István Nagy in 2002. He was born 1969 in Budapest. He taught himself and was influenced by various kinds of folk music and the afro American blues. When he was 15 he was already performing as a blues-musician. (guitar & blues harmonica)

At the end of the 1980’s he connected to the Hungarian Gipsy folklore movement. In 1989 joined the Romanyi Rota ensemble, with which he worked for 13 years. (He did different arrangements, wrote lyrics in Gipsy Romani language, and he was one of the main singers of the group, he played guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, tambura and wooden spoons.) As a member of the band he was awarded the Hungarian distinction of 'Young Master of Folk Arts' in 1995. He made two CDs with the mentioned group which are till nowadays the most authentic Gipsy folk records. (Romanyi Rota: O cerhariko – 1994 Etnofon; Romanyi Rota: Phiravelman kalyi phuv – 1999 Fonó Records)

Simultaneously he was one of the founded members of the Gipsy band of Romano Kokalo with the famous Gipsy cimbalom player, Kálmán Balogh. The two musicians combined their artistic manner and so Romano Kokalo was converted the most progressive Hungarian Gipsy band in the end of the 1990’s."

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Karavan Familia

'La familijaki zor, The Power Of Family'