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Gombszorp
'Music Of The Future'

Carpathian folk music. Gömbszörp is made up of members of other bands in the Hungarian folk music movement: Méta, Fix-Stimm and Galga. The title of the record comes from their belief in the notion that authentic Hungarian folk music can be taken into the 21st Century.
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Agi Szaloki, Gergo Borlai
'Kishug, Little Sister'

"Kishug, Little Sister, the electro-acoustic project of Agi Szaloki and Gergo Borlai, which combines Hungarian, Roma, and Turkish songs with contemporary Hungarian poetry, promises to be one of the most exciting productions of 2011..."
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TransylMania
'El ne add az osi hazat'

Third release from TransylMania. "TransylMania has found the key – both in music and texts – in the ever clearer and accomplished harmony..."
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Robert Lakatos, Kalman Balogh, Agi Szaloki ao
'Csillagok, Csillagok, Stars, stars... A Celebration Of Hungarian Music'

A gathering of some of the finest Hungarian folk musicians interpreting folk songs collected by Bela Bartok and others. Many of the folk and gypsy musicians in Hungary know each other and are friends who occasionally get together to explore an idea or concept. This CD seems to be the fruit of one such 'meeting of minds'.
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TransylMania
'El ne add az osi hazat'

Second release from TransylMania. The band are from the Transylvanian town of Baraolt, and were formed in 2002. It is rock music Transylvanian style.
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Rozsdamaro
'Then and now... Egykor es most...'

'The debut album of Rozsdamaró Ensemble mostly contains music from Transylvania, the western part of present-day Romania, where Romanians, Hungarians, and many other ethnic groups live together. ... the tunes they play are Hungarian, although quite often one cannot clearly separate the Hungarian and Romanian music of the region.
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TransylMania
'May It Be As It Was, Legyen ugy, mint regen volt'

Rock music Transylvanian style! TransylMania are from the Transylvanian town of Baraolt, and were formed in 2002. "Transylvania hides treasures. It tries to mask and preserve them from the world which keeps destroying itself....
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Vasmalom
'Vasmalom II'

The band has toured regularly since its foundation putting out high energy, successful concerts. While on the road they also hold workshops and seminars to cultivate interest in Hungarian and southeast European folk music.
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'The Rough Guide to Hungarian Music'
Various Artists

'A compilation which sets the standard… this is an album which will have you reaching for your atlases, your history books and your dancing shoes….a hard act for other compilers to follow.'
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Vasmalom
'Vasmalom III'

The Budapest-based Vasmalom combines Hungarian and southeast European traditional music with elements of improvisation and contemporary music. The band mixes the power of traditional music and the playfulness of contemporary music to create an energetic, exciting and unique sound. 
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'Laszlo Lajtha Instrumental Folk Collection' (Balassagyarmat, Sopron)

Wonderful archive mono recordings of Hungarian folk music.
Edited by Lujza Tari
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Zengo
'Hungarian Folk Music'

The group, which was founded in 1983 and has appeared many times on radio and TV. Besides collecting, teaching and arranging folk-music, the group have toured at home and abroad.
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Janosi Ensemble
'Rhapsody, Liszt and Bartok Sources'

The Hungarian folk music adapted and used by composers Franz Liszt and Bela Bartok played in its original style, or as close to it as research permits.
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Zengo
'Víg Óra - A Time to be Merry'

'A spontaneous course in Hungarian folk dance, to be enjoyed by young and old alike....'
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Piko And His Band
'Song Of Ördöngösfüzes (Hungarian Folk Music from Transylvania)'

'...The word ördöngös (devilish) does not mean that one is in the devil's power, but is used for someone who has exceptional, supernatural power. The music of Füzes is keeping this power. The music is blessed with a special power that is both healing and consoling'.
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Békés Banda
'ZSOK JOC Romanian Village Music from Hungary'

'The Békés Banda, from the Southeast Hungarian county of Békés, have been collecting and playing the traditional music of the Slovaks, Germans, South Slavs and Romanians of the region.
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Adam Istvan Icsan
'Es Bandaja'

Icsan's band was the most popular in the Csipkeszeg area of Szek, where still today they serve as the musical model. The singing of Mark Josef and Szabo Varga Gyorgy reveals a unique style that preserves features of Hungarian shaman singing.
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Elveszett Eden II - Lost Eden II. The selected songs of Sándor Fedor 'Dimo'

Lost Eden Volume 2
2 x CD set of Folk music recordings Sándor Fedor "Dimo" Born in 1915  in Szatmár County, this Gypsy man was of exceptional talent..
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'Hungarian Folk Music From Szatmar Region' (Instrumental), Collected and Edited by Hans Hurtig And Andras Vavrinecz

Hungarian folk music from collected from one of the most fertile regions. Much of this material has been used and interpreted by many of the modern folk music ensembles around today.
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Figur Banda
'Magyar népzene Szlovákiából, Hungarian Folk Music in Slovakia'

'Felvidek is in the northern reaches of the Hungarian language area and is an area especially rich when it comes to folk music traditions. Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly already noticed this region in the early period of their field collection work.'
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Kis Gergely Marton
'Citerat Pengessetek, Play the Zither'

Receiving the award 'Young master of Folk Art' in 1994 for solo zither playing Kis Gergely Marton presents on this release songs and melodies from various regions where the Hungarian language is spoken.
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'KI MIT TUD?'
Various Artists

Ensembles featured on this CD: Fix Stimm, Amaro Suno,  Kalman Balogh, Lenko Peter and others.
A selection from the best performers of a TV competition on new folk music artists. Instrumental folk music and folk songs.
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