Songs
Song about Magyarszovat in Transylvania
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- country:Hungary
- region:Central Europe
- style(s):East European, New Age
- label:Twelvetones
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:vocal
- artist posted by:Twelvetones
Line up
- Arnold Antoni (guitars)
- Csaba Faltay (keyboards)
- Ferenc Kisvari (drums)
- Gabor Bruzsa (bass)
- Kata Horvati (vocals)
- Mihaly Borbely (saxophone, reeds)
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Popular music has been having the kind of rebirth that classical music had at the beginning of the last century. Composers who are searching for new paths have found a flood of inspiration in the basic foundations of musical resources, most of all in folk music.
Katan plays adaptations of Transylvannian-Moldavian-Hungarian folk themes and motifs.
Kata Horvati sings these songs in such a pure, strong and powerfully expressive way that is a characteristic of performers who have truly mastered the forms of Hungarian Folk songs.
And the musical "accompaniment" is an equally important companion to the new and well formed structures.
It's one of the peculiarities and strengths of the band that different great artists who represent different genres of music play together. For example Mihaly Borbely, a prominent figure in Hungarian Jazz culture, Ferenc Kisvari, who has played the drums on records that count as milestones in the history of Hungarian popular music, they all gave to this record their own uniqueness and the atmospheres of the genres they play in, creating an interesting fusion with folk music.
There is a great variety of what is on offer in the markets of so called "World Music". Many "musicians" use melodies from folksongs and they just insert them into popular material without any imagination, in a shallow way, without making much mental effort.
The producers of Katan, Csaba Faltay and Ferenc Kisvari didn't just use the foundations of folk music, but they enriched the songs with their own special contributions and with incredible musical arrangements and unique musical structures.
The musical heritage the great Hungarian composers, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, the world famous adaptors of Hungarian folk music, was the inspiration for these songs. The world of these great composers can be felt in the harmonisation and in the motifs of Katan's music, which is a kind of respectful bow from the members of the band to those great musicians of the past.
