Album: Hungarian Gypsy Music
Artist: Khamoro Budapest Band
Catalogue #: EUCD2708
Genre: Hungarian folk music
Label: ARC Music
Release: 31st March 2017
Khamoro Budapest Band is a folklore band that plays authentic contemporary Hungarian gypsy music collected from all over the country. Besides collected music and covers, they write and compose their own original songs. Their virtuosic songs are accompanied with ‘voice bass’ and other colourful ornamentations in the accompanying voices and instruments. The music touches the hearts of the audiences (csacsi vorba) and they can become deeply emotional. The lyrics sung in polyphonic modes are of real life stories about family, love, sorrow and happiness.
The band’s musical style is unique, their songs are sourced principally from the existing treasure of traditional music from Ófehértó, Nagyecsed and the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg-County. Their new album is based on these roots and values. As an innovation in their repertoire, they also added Romanian, Russian and Balkan songs.
Khamoro – meaning ‘little sun’ in the Romani language, endeavours to get gypsy culture accepted and represented at Hungarian and worldwide cultural forums, as they deserve it. The band’s main duty is to improve, propagate and research gypsy music, dance, gypsy language and traditions. Due to the dedication of the band-leader Zsolt Farkas and the whole band, they became one of the most traditional groups in the country.
Furthermore, they campaign for the observance of minority rights (based on Human Rights) and the dual identity of being Hungarian and Gypsy too.
Budapest Band Khamoro Featured Musicians
Zsolt Farkas: singer, guitar, can, cajon, derbuca, tapan, spoon, mouth bass
Róbert Frigur Boby: singer
Gusztáv Balogh Csompi: singer, mandolin, violin, bouzuki
Kálmán Gáspár Leon: dulcimer
Ilona Balogh: singer
Andrea Balogh: singer
Marianna Balogh: singer
Gábor Zsandár-Rinkó: double bass
Attila Kulcsár: double bass
Track Listing: Hungarian Gyspy Music
Given from left to right in Romani/Hungarian/British
- Le shave/A fiúk/The Boys (trad., arr. Zsolt Farkas) - 2:57
- chor/A tolvaj/The Thief (trad., arr. Gusztáv Balogh Csompi) - 2:54
- Moro cino gad/Az én kis ingem/My Little Shirt (trad., arr. Róbert Frigur Boby) - 2:26
- Pocsok pergetője (trad., arr. Zsolt Farkas) - 2:15
- Dukhal moro terno trajo/Fáj az én fiatal életem/My Young Life Hurts (trad., arr. Róbert Frigur Boby) - 3:11
- Baxtalo Rom/A szerencsés/The Lucky One (trad., arr. Zsolt Farkas) - 2:29
- zuralo Bashno/A csípős kakas/Pinching Rooster (trad., arr. Zsolt Farkas) - 3:34
- Am o kasză/Van egy házam/I Have a House (trad., arr. Gusztáv Balogh Csompi) - 2:47
- lilari/A kártyás/The Gambler (Zsolt Farkas) - 3:06
- gav/A falu/The Village (trad., arr. Róbert Frigur Boby) - 3:11
- Roven more jakha/Sírnak a szemeim/My Eyes Cry (trad., arr. Gusztáv Balogh Csompi) - 3:40
- mato/A részeg/The Drunk Man (trad., arr. Zsolt Farkas) - 2:58
- Balkan Toxin (Gáspár Kálmán Leon) - 5:16
- Ando gyaro/A gyárban/In the Factory (trad., arr. Róbert Frigur Boby) - 2:19
- De man mama but love!/Sok pénzt adj nekem anyám!/Mother Give Me Much Money! (Gusztáv Balogh Csompi) - 2:42
- Luludyenge sungasa/Virágok illatával/With Flower Essences (Zsolt Farkas/Gusztáv Balogh Csompi, arr. Zsolt Farkas) - 3:10
- Kanak o rom kamadoj/Mikor a férfi szerelmes/When a Man is in Love (Zsolt Farkas/Gusztáv Balogh Csompi/Attila Kulcsár, arr. Zsolt Farkas) - 3:00
Total playing time: 52:46 min.
For more information please contact Angie Lemon: angie@arcmusic.co.uk | www.arcmusic.co.uk |ARC Music Productions International | PO Box 111 | East Grinstead | West Sussex | RH19 4FZ | United Kingdom