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Téka Ensemble

'A Szüzeké - The Dance of the Virgins'

(TVM113)

Musicians:
Balázs Vizeli - fiddle
Zoltán Porteleki - fiddle, viola
György Lányi - bagpipe, viola, voice
Pál Havasréti - double bass, hurdy-gurdy, hit-cello, voice
Beatrix Tárnoki - voice

With Guests:
Tamas Gombai - fiddle
Erika Bakonyi - shouts
Judit Koczka - shouts

'... In the process of doing folk music research there (Magyarszovat, Transylvania), we were told about a playful, erotic dance custom called the 'virgin's dance'. The last melody of track 11 on this recording, a "szokos" type dance tune ... is the music played for this dance.'

Formed in 1976, they are one of the leading ensembles of the "New wave of folk music". One year after bring formed they gained the title "Young Masters of Folk Art." 

Téka Ensemble plays authentic Hungarian peasant music. Their repertoire emphasizes the traditional style of playing and the original feeling of folk music. They play string instruments (violin, viola, double bass, cello) and other unique folk instruments (bagpipe-bõrduda, hurdy-gurdy-tekerõ, cimbalom, ütõgardon). With these instruments they reproduce a colourful picture of village music from all Hungarian - speaking territories. 

In Hungary they have regularly performed in their own club since 1977.

USD 16.99

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Téka Ensemble

'A Szüzeké - The Dance of the Virgins'

(TVM113)

This symbol  indicates an mp3 sound clip for that track. Click on the symbol and wait for the clip to start. For more information click here. Tracks

1. Kulcsar ferenc pontozoi (6'11")

2. Szemem a szemedbe kacag...oreges csardasok - My eyes are laughing in your eyes (6'56")

3. Lancot veretek szivemre...keserves, lassu es magyar - I’ll put my heart in chains (8'32")

4. Kanasztanc (Del-Dunantul) - Swinerherder’s dance (4'06")

5. Szeretom, a tavalyi...sebes fordulo - Last year’s lver (3'38")

6. Elindulek uj szeretot keresni...- I’m going out to look for a new lover (10'10")

7. Fekudjunk le egy agyba - Let’s get in bed (5'44")

8. Edes kincs a mas rozsaja - Someone else’s lower is a sweet treasure (9'26")

9. Regi tordai es vastaghuros kurazsi (2'36")

10. Hagytunk volna beket a szerelemnek - If we’d only left love in peace (4'22")

11. A szuzeke... osszerazas - Dance of the Virgins (6'51")

12. A megunt szerelem notaja... lassu ciganytanc - Tune for a bored love (3'06")

Duration (71'40")

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TÉKA ENSEMBLE IS 25 YEARS OLD

By Kalman Magyar
(Reproduced from the HAL discussion
group by kind permission)


I attended the Téka 25 years anniversary album concert last Friday [18th of May] at a small Budapest theater called the MU Szinhaz. it was a relaxed and fun concert and it appears that the new Téka album will be an interesting one. May be the most important character of the band is that they remained to be truly authentic and they do not want to be a "show band" but give full respect to their collections and sources they learn from.

Vizeli Balázs is a fantastic violinist, probably one of the best in folkmusic in Hungary. Gyorgy Lanyi on the bracsa and Pal Havasreti on the Bass are solid foundations to the band's music. Beatrix Tarnoki is popular with Téka fans and after several year of singing with the band she now is an important member.

However several guest artists made the evening even more interesting and we should pay attention to their name; Kalman Balogh on the cimbalom needs no introduction. Mihaly Dresch Dudas is one of Hungary's most interesting new jazz or progressive jazz saxophone  players, but he is also a great furulya player as we had a chance to see. Szokolai Balazs is a good Tekero and duda player, but the most exciting guest this time proof to be Ronert Kerenyi, an absolutely wonderful furulya player who is also a specialist in Gyimes and Moldva furulya music. I have not seen anything like him before his love and enthusiasm in playing the furulya shows immediately. There was also Ferenc Sara and Zsuzsa Varga who sang, played music and danced to make the evening more interesting.

The Téka will hold their "official birthday party" on June 16, 2001 from 7 p.m. at the Taban theater. It is planned to be an whole night event completing the night at the Rudas Furdo for the guys and the Racz furdo for the gals. You may not want to miss this event if you are in Budapest around that time.

I could not help but think back about twenty years, when we welcomed the Téka at the 1982 Hungarian folkdance Symposium, as the first "live" [most of the evenings] folk music band in America from Budapest. not much has changes with the Téka since then. They are the same fun loving people as they were then, at least this evening they were.

Kalman Magyar (Reproduced from the HAL discussion group by kind permission)

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