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Ferenc Kiss - Nagyvarosi Bujdosok, Outlaws of the City (ERCD020) CD

Ferenc Kiss
'Outlaws Of The City-
Nagyvárosi Bujdosók
(ERCD020)

USD 17.99

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Ferenc Kiss

'Outlaws Of The City-
Nagyvárosi Bujdosók

(ERCD020)

Musicians:
Ferenc Kiss - koboz, viola, voice

with:
Zsigmond Lázár - fiddle, synthesizers
Mihály Huszár - bass guitars, contra bass,
Béla Ágoston - saxophone, clarinet, kaval, bagpipe, Alp horn
Károly Babos, Balázs Jakabffy - ethnic percussion
Kálmán Balogh - cymbal, wooden cymbal
Tamás Gombai - fiddle
Sándor D. Tóth - viola
Zsolt Kürtösi - contra bass
János Hasur - fiddle
Zoltán Szabó - Croatian bagpipe, okarina, bass prime tambur, Alp horn
Szokolay Balázs - saxophones
Ferenc Kovács - trumpet
János Mazura - tuba
Dániel Bolya - román kaval
Vera Berán - cello
Éva Auksz, Katalin Juhász, Péter Novák, Tünde Rémi,
Annamária Prókai, Bea Palya - voice

Record label - Etnofon, Hungary

Ferenc Kiss commenting on his new release
"The 'Outlaws of the City' is a thematic or as it is nowadays called a concept album. In the songs, lyrics and performance I used a lot from what I have learnt in the past 25 years about folk cultures, and the way we can use them today. The prosaic supplements, which I call texts that accompany the songs, cannot be sung, but they all relate, at some places closely, at others loosely, to the imagery of the songs."
Ferenc Kiss

Ferenc Kiss has been involved in Hungarian folk music since the Tanchaz revival in the 1970s, being a founding member of Viszonto and Kolinda. He established the Etnofon recording label and folk music archive in Budapest, and has worked with folk singer Kati Szvorak. He is currently a member of the world music group ‘The Stonemasons’. This new release is a thematic work based firmly on Ferenc’s love of Hungarian folk art. It is both a musical and literary work containing prose and poetry as well as music. Although entirely in Hungarian, the work will undoubtedly appeal to most folk music lovers - its scope encompasses many different aspects of traditional and avant-garde music from the tango to spiritual choirs. Instrumentation is varied but again firmly footed in the folk tradition.

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Ferenc Kiss - Nagyvarosi Bujdosok, Outlaws of the City (ERCD020) CD

Ferenc Kiss

'Outlaws Of The City-
Nagyvárosi Bujdosók

(ERCD020)

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Tracks

1. The dream of the outlaw

2. The wanderer's song from Brassau to Bruxelles

3. Ady's verbunk

4. The march of the lumps

5. The lament of Kicsi Ferkó

6. Knife and grave tango

7. Radnóti's diary

8. Four lines by Pilinszky

9. Prayer for the Hungarian prisoners
of war

10. The deers of Bartók

11. Those good old days

12. The curse of the outlaw

13. Song of life and death

14. Appendix

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Reviewer: Kalman Magyar (Courtesy HAL Discussion Group)

Zoltan Zsurafszki's Budapest Ensemble's New Perfromance:
Nagyarvarosi Bujdosok November 20, 2000, Budapest, Merlin Theater

I was fortunate yesterday to be in Budapest and attended the opening night of Zoltan Zsurafszki's Budapest Ensemble first performance which was inspired by the recently published CD of Ferenc Kiss: Nagyvarosi Bujdosok [Exiles of the Big City]. Although it was a wonderful evening of mostly modern dance based on Hungarian folkdance motives, it is a complex presentation of dance, literature, story telling and versatile musical arrangements and "living" photographs.

Those who are familiar with Zsurafszki's work know that he is often inspired by powerful published music and his creative talent takes him to interesting dimensions. This one act performance was held at the Merlin Theater in Budapest, is an intimate performance space in the heart of the city. The Ensemble's physical closeness to the audience added to the excitement of the show, which was made up of distinct choreographies intermingled with recitation by Ferenc Kiss, the composer for the show.

Kiss is an intellectual who grew up during the "belated 1960's" in Hungary. Due to the communism the sixties arrived to Hungary almost 10 years late and it coincide with the early seventies folk revival movement. His upbringing, his love of folksong and literature made him a very interesting and creative person, as it is observed on the CD he created. It was interesting to hear about his observations of the 1956 revolution, reminiscence of his parents' war stories and poetic approach to Hungarian literature. He is obviously a great fan of those Hungarian poets, who also lived in an other turbulent and romantic era like, Endre Ady an Attila Jozsef. Kiss is one of the many talented musician, composers and young creative persons today in Hungary. The music he composed for this performance is new and original.

Zsurafszki's choreographies, were versatile and interesting. In the "Dream of the Exile" we saw a painfully subdued group of individuals who seem to never find calamity in their always moving sad world. The other dances entitled "Exiles Song from Brassov to Brussels", "Marching Song of the Bums", "The Memories of Radnoti" and the conlcuding "Nice Old Times" created all different feelings and moods with familiar emotions form Hungarian history. The composition in Memory of his mother, "Anyam", is a beautiful and emotional dance which was originally staged a few years ago, and the piece called "Ady's Verbunk" was very funny, showing off all the wildness, crasiness and drunkenness of the late 19th century Budapest, all danced to the verbunk from Mezoseg. The dance was very funny and sad at the same time. My favorite dance was titled "Konyorges a Magyar Hadifogjokert" [Prayer for the Hungarian Prisoners] was a very sensitive and beautiful choreography, in its simplicity and tenderness.

All in all, the evening was full of emotions, energy and sense of belonging. Zsurafszki has shown again that he is a creative and versatile artist who possesses a distinct choreographic tradition and style which defines folk based Hungarian modern dance today. His collaboration with the composer Ferenc Kiss was a very successful one.

The show will be staged again on the same place next Monday, the 27th, I will go to see it again.

Kalman Magyar (Courtesy HAL Discussion Group)

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Ferenc Kiss 'Outlaws Of The City- Nagyvárosi Bujdosók

Ferenc Kiss 'Outlaws Of The City- Nagyvárosi Bujdosók

Ferenc Kiss

'Outlaws Of The City-
Nagyvárosi Bujdosók

Ferenc Kiss

'Outlaws Of The City-
Nagyvárosi Bujdosók