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Soendoergoe, it is a kind of family story : besides his leader Aron Eredics, the other musicians are his three brothers David, Benjamin and Salamon Eredics, more Attila Buzas in the double bass. And he also joins in a family tradition, because their father, Kalman Eredics, is the double bassist of the group Vujicsics, who immortalizes for a long time the Slavonic music of the South in Hungary. The members live in Szentendre, an attractive Serbian town which lines the Danube in the North of Budapest. Visited by numerous tourists, Szentendre is one of the villages spread along the river, where settled down the Serbian and Croatian populations to escape the overhang of the Ottoman Empire, in the XVIth century.
In Hungary, under the influence of the school of Tanchaz (traditional balls), the music remains very close to its traditional roots. " This music is our mother tongue ", explains Soendoergoe. " The purpose is to continue to speak this language, so that everybody can understand it nowadays. While remaining anchored in the tradition, we also bring it something new ". The album was recorded to Novi Sad, capital of Vojvodine, where the technicians are familiar with the subtle and delicate sound of the tambura. In 2008, Soendoergoe won in the same city the prize of the "tambura's bands", awarded for the first time to a Hungarian group.
Their new album Tamburising - Lost Music of the the Balkans takes back the most beautiful melodies passed on by the orchestra band leader of tambura of Mohacs, last bastion of this style in Hungary, with as guests the singer and the actress Katya Tompos and the gypsy singer Antal Kovacs.
Let us discover with them " the other music of the Balkans ", the one of the orchestras of tambura, mixed up with the very powerful music of the Balkan brass instruments ; come to dance coceks and to tipsify in the palinka on the delirious rhythms of this delicious Hungarian group ...
"Their music sparkles with virtuosity and foot-taping joie de vivre". Evening Standard
"This is a kind of gipsy music we don't often hear - more seductive and melancholy than galvanising". The Independant on Sunday
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