Field recordings by F. Sebő

 

FIELD RECORDINGS MADE IN HUNGARY AND 

ROMANIA BY FERENC SEBŐ

cassette 

Ferenc Sebő was born in 1947 and is one of the musicians who initiated the Hungarian revival known as Táncház Mozgalom.
He started as a singer and guitar player during the sixties setting Hungarian poems to music as well as arranging folk songs. He met Béla Halmos and both got closier to traditional music and dancing.
Soon Ferenc travelled in Hungary and Romania (especially Transylvania) recording traditional musicians in the field following a long lineage of musicians and scholars like Bártok, Vikár, Timár etc...
A lot of these recordings managed to be published commercially throughout the eighties onward. But not all were operated and served first as working material.
This is a copy of a tape made by one of the members of the band Dűvő while I was in Hungary in 1984.
The quality is sometimes not very good but it was for me a good way to get to know this Hungarian music a bit better at that time.
There are recordings made in Moldavia (csango fiddle music) and Transylvania (villages of Feketelek and Szék). Most of the musicians are not known to me except István Ádám whose name was mentionned on the tape. Although some musicians introduced themselves (name, age and instrument) it's difficult to understand them.
Lovers of Hungarian music will recognize most of the tunes because they were recorded by revivalist groups and artists or are parts of commercial field recordings. But maybe there are tunes not so known nevertheless.

track 01 : brass band and singing (location unknown)
track 02 : brass band
tracl 03 : solo csango fiddle (Gyimes)
track 04 : two fiddles ('')
track 05 : fiddle and gardon ('')
track 06 : idem
track 07 : idem
track 08 : female singer with two flutes ('')
track 09 : fiddle and gardon ('')
track 10 : idem
track 11 : two fiddles, kontra, double bass (Mezőség, Feketelek/Lacu)
track 12 : cigany tánc ('')
track 13 : sürü csárdás ('')
track 14 : ritka magyar ('')
track 15 : names of the musicians
track 16 : sürü tempo (István Ádám, fiddle)
track 17 : two fiddles (including Ádám), kontra, double bass
track 18 : idem
track 19 : idem
track 20 : idem
track 21 : names of the musicians
track 22 to track 32 : same band maybe as tracks 17 and subsequent

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