The kora music of Toumani Diabaté performed on solo classical guitar.

Jarabi (Passion)

Momo Wandel Soumah - Félenko Yéfé

Fast and furious, fingers flying with a fiery panache, Söndörgő are one of the most exciting bands in Europe. With their signature instrument, the tambura, the band brilliantly combines respect for tradition with a desire to innovate and a fizzing virtuosity. 

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Listening to the band play, you soon hear it’s nothing like traditional violin-led Hungarian music. Söndörgő’s sound is light, springy and delicately plucked. Their signature instrument is the tambura, a mandolin-like instrument, probably of Turkish origin, used by the South Slav (Serbian and Croatian) communities in Hungary.  

The band is made up of three brothers, Áron, Benjamin and Salamon Eredics, plus cousin Dávid Eredics and Attila Buzás, the only non-family member, on bass tambura. Áron Eredics is also part of the band Vujicsics, winners of Hungary’s most prestigious state-sponsored cultural award, the Kossuth Prize, in 2014.
Tamburocket is Söndörgő’s second international release and features revived tunes drawn from the rich Hungarian archives and annals of the countries esteemed song-collectors and musicologists of yore. 

Tracks featured here that were first collected by national hero Béla Bartók include the dance tune ‘Drago Kolo’, played as a duet by Áron and Salamon; ‘Srpski Madjarik’, arranged for the basszprímtambura (alto tambura) and cello tambura and ‘Majka Kceru’, a rather sedate wedding song in its original version but reworked by Söndörgő in a more ferocious rhythm. 

The two melodies from ethnographer Tihamér Vujicsics were both collected by the Drava river, a tributary of the Danube, which marks much of the border between Hungary and Croatia. The opening ‘Jozo’ is a nonsensical love song, with the original Croatian bagpipe part transferred onto the samica, a small, home-made tambura. The closing ‘Kolovoda’ is a dance song for a kolo ring dance, the most popular folkdance of the South Slavs. 
‘Marice’ is a popular Croatian song named after a girl that all the guys lust after, but can’t get. ‘Evo Srcu’ features two slower Serbian melodies from Vojvodina, the northern region of Serbia. ‘Hulusination’ is based on a Macedonian čoček dance tune, but Söndörgő have brought in a sort of Chinese snake-charmer’s pipe called the hulusi (hence the punning title), plus other wind and percussion to create a powerful trance-like track.  

What Söndörgő combine brilliantly is a respect for the traditions, a desire to innovate and a fizzing unstoppable virtuosity. 


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Söndörgő: Jozo (taken from the album Tamburocket Hungarian Fireworks)

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Sounds start like a journey of the flesh walking on a desert, feeling a caustic desert soil on his feet, and purple energy of the earth follows him. Then, the purple energy of the earth appears and ask the reason of his journey. He talks about percussions of his brain orchestra, contrabass on his heart (8:59). He says that he want to find his unique and perfect love on this longest route. The energy lets him to go to find "unlimited tolerance, goodness, charity and awareness through love"(9:20). After the scream of truth(9.52), the flesh starts to purify from some of body pieces and continue to follow the unfinished route of mountain. Hence, this route hosts a white plume, heavy and viscous clouds, unexpected fire on tiny dessert sands, sand spout in daylight. Black and white together.

The "energy" whispers behind the passenger:
"I'm glad that God has chosen me to be your host,
I'm glad to see you again."

The passenger smiles and whisper by himself: "It's rude to whisper in front of others. You look behind my body, i'm in front of you. I will be quiet. It's early to talk like it's just last coincidence"

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Söndörgő: Jozo (taken from the album Tamburocket Hungarian Fireworks)

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