MAGYARNEMEGYE

 

MAGYARNEMEGYEI HANGSZERES NÉPZENE

VÁLOGATÁS KONKOLY ELEMÉR GYŰJTEMÉNYBŐL 

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INSTRUMENTAL FOLK MUSIC FROM MAGYARNEMEGYE

SELECTION FROM THE ELEMÉR KONKOLY COLLECTION

ETNOFON, 1993, ED-MK 001 

Etnofon is a very interesting label founded in 1992 immediately after the fall of the fall of the communist regime. Most of the albums are CDs but some were issued as cassettes only and never released on CD. Elemér Konkoly is a musician who was part of the Hungarian revivalism in the 70s as well as a musicologist who worked in the field. This cassette is the result of his work on the village of Magyarnemegye. There he met a local gypsy band and brought it to Budapest for a studio recording. The notes in Hungarian and English are short but give enough information about the general context.
For some people this would be just another recording among a huge amount of albums of traditional Hungarian-Transylvanian music but the aficionados would probably enjoy it as it should be.

 

 

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Atay Ogonbayev

 

ATAЙ OГОНБАЕВ

KУУЛѲР ЖАНА ЫРЛАР

KYUS AND SONGS 

Melodiya, 1981, M30 43491-92

 Atay Ogonbaev was a famous singer and virtuoso komuz player who died in 1949. Here several players pay him a tribute by interprating some of his ''hits''.
Now, I got a copy of this album in the early 1980s when I used to go to a cultural center attached to the Soviet Union embassy. I didn't bother at the time with copying the covers but the texts only. So I had to get the covers for this LP which I found on http://records.su. But it seems that it is not the same edition because two tracks B1 and B2 are missing on my copy (Mash Botoy and Gul). Apart from that this is an excellent album.
Texts in Kyrgyz and Russian languages.

 

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