Úzgin Űver
Patak

  • Format: LP
  • Band: Úzgin Űver
  • Title: Patak
  • Band's Origin: HU
  • Style: psychedelic Rock, World Music, mainly instrumental
  • Rating: 4
  • Release Year: 2018
  • Recording Year: 2016-2017
  • Production Year: 2018
  • Record Company: Mana Mana Records
  • Item's Number: MANAVL-002
  • Color of the Label: coloured
  • Edition: original
  • Extras:
  • EAN: 5999882870656
  • Weight: 226 g
Grading
  • Visual: new
  • Acoustic:
  • Cover: new

Lollipop Shop Release Information



The new album by this enigmatic Hungarian cult band is now available on vinyl from Budapest’s Mana Mana label, and on CD from Berlin’s Lollipop Shop label. Patak is the best work by Úzgin Űver so far. It also marks their 27th anniversary as a band.

In recent years, it has rarely been possible to meet with Úzgin Űver from the southern Hungarian town of Kecskemét. Now they have released an album fully-loaded with precious new territories. It’s their 8th album since the group formed in 1991, and the first released on vinyl. All recordings are composed by the three founding members, Marcsi Farkas (violin), Gyula Majoros (wind instruments) and Péter Homoki (guitar and producer).

There are six new tracks. The title track, Patak, starts the album and roams and grooves for 16 minutes. In its closing part, this massive track pays homage to Kecskemét’s legendary underground cult band Nagy Palibi, which Homoki had co-founded in the 80s. It is also the first occasion that the band features a guest vocalist and aims for some kind of “real” song. In the track Shirat HaYam, PollyFlow (Flóra Polnauer) sings in Hebrew about the Red Sea.

In the music of Úzgin Űver, traditional folk is stretched far beyond the average world music. Of course, this calm, psychedelic, rich and scale-based instrumental process music draws from a mix of genres and methods, and has an ancient layer as well as some unique velvety emotional and electric charge. The disregard for any current trends gives the music a timeless attraction, and yet takes you on a precise kind of psycho-geographical journey.


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This album is currently (October 2018) at the 7th place of the European World Music Charts. If you like floating around the ceiling, here is the fuel required.

Just listen yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj3_QDd7kYc


Tracklist



Side A


1. Patak 16:19
2. Gázló 5:30

Side B


1. Shirat HaYam 5:14
2. Sodrás 6:35
3. Örvény 6:29
4. Nádas 3:57