AKI DUDÁS AKAR LENNI …
HE WHO WANTS TO BE A PIPER ....
Hungarian Folk Music
Hungaroton, 1982, SLPX 18070
The great label Hungaroton issued a lot of LPs about traditional and revival music in Hungary up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then other record companies appeared but Hungaroton is still on the run.
Here we have a compilation of some of the Hungarian bands of the time. Gereben has 5 tracks and Unikum has 2 tracks. We can listen also to Éva Fábián at the beginning of her career as well as the ensemble Kapos. ''Gypsies'' are also part of the programme with the singer Mihály Váradi who founded the well known group Kali Jag in 1978 and the tambura ensemble Rom Som.
The title of this LP is the beginning of a Hungarian proverb which served as a name for a Hungarian Television programme broadcasted in 1979. The proverb goes as ''aki dudás akar lenni pokolra kell annak menni'' ''he who wants to be a piper should go to hell'' something that was said about pipers and their music in many places in Europe.
Short presentation of the artists in Hungarian and English
