Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra, Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Gypsy King in Hi-Fi (1976) [Hi-Res]
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- Title: Gypsy King in Hi-Fi
- Year Of Release: 1960/1976
- Label: Artia Records
- Genre: Romani, Folk
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC / 24-bit/96kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 00:44:19
- Total Size: 216; 752 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
It is scarcely more than one hundred and fifty years since the world first became aware of Hungarian music. The great Viennese master such as Schubert and Beethoven called attention to the Hungarian when a certain, exotic, accented dance rhythm appeared. Until this time Hungary was a nation unknown to the music world. It is strange that a country which had existed for more than a thousand years, in part with a glorious past, should be musically discovered so late. Hungary lies on the boundary where European and Asiatic cultures clashed repeatedly. It is a land which had to suffer grievously from the storms of history. In the beginning of the 16th century, when in the more fortunate West great urban musical cultures were developing, the Turkish wars and foreign domination of Hungary deprived the authentic voice of its people of a higher cultural development. However, as it was discovered in the 19th century, a great number of beautiful folk songs were born in these bitter days. Music was the only way by which the peasantry could overtly express their feelings. The thoughts came easily from the hiding, dirty, starving soldier, and as he was thinking out loud his friend, just as hungry and lonely, accompanied him, playing a tune on his flute, “YOU ARE QUITE A MAN” … (side 1 # 3) “pal, not like the others who betrayed our country. There are few like you, but one or two, not even there will win the war” … Thus songs were born, sad, bitter, angry, violent, and even happy, according to the specific circumstances.
As time went on and people began to breathe easier, a new tune, or rather a dance, was created to express their hunger for freedom. It reminded them of the “old, glorious and wild day”. Now the soldier would get up and dance, faster or slower according to the musican’s feeling. The dance became famous and reached the houses of the nobility and the castles of the royalty. They called it “VERBUNK” (sidde 1 # 2). It has rhythm of the Chardas, but whereas the “CHARDAS” (side 1 # 4) is always a fresh happy tune, the Verbunk is more emotionally moody.
A few centuries later another soldier sang quite a different song: “CSINOM PALKO”, (side 2 # 5). “Csinom Janko” - to his friend. In his fancy clothes he asks his friends to dance with their sweethearts. Then there were other kings of songs, of the poor people who didn’t fight in the wars but worked in the fields under tremendous pressure. There were songs of the young people, men and women, and of their loves and fun. “THE HORGOS INN” - part of the Old Hungarian Songs (side 2 # 4), is a bright example of the lighter and gaier side of their liver lives. Its theme is that of an ambitious who is seeking a husband for her daughter. There is a group of musicians, each male soloist being a possible for the girl. As each of the soloists performs, the mother scrutinizes him carefully, conscious of her ever present intentions to find a suitable son in law.
In this great search for a vanished past the Hungarian gypsy played an important role. The gypsies are peculiar people who stay in one place for any length of time. They appear to the outsider to be usually dirty as not, thieves. Nevertheless, the gypsies have a special talent - the remarkable ability to adapt themselves musically to their environment. Wandering from one Hungarion village to another, they absorbed the music they heard about them and performed these folk tunes in an embellished rich and virtuosic gypsy manner. Thus they quickly won the hearts of the city-folk who longed for a musical home-land. These beautiful folk songs painted hundreds of pictures of the country, of beautiful blooming lands, flowers and forests. In almost every folk song the element of nature play a major role.
An example of this is the story of a girl in love, walking, “IN THE GREEN WOODS” (SIDE 1 # 6). In her happiness, deeply aware of everything around her, she spies a little bird building its nest. Next time she goes to the same place in the forest she sees nothing, for she has lost lover and has become insensitive to the elements of nature. In another song, again set in the forest. “tHE LITTLE BIRD” - part of the Old Hungarian Songs - (side 2 # 4), builds its nest in a tree. The girl who is watching this realizes that everyone belongs to someone, yet she is alone.
The bird seems to be a favorite symbol of the “free and carefree life” in Hungarian folk music. This is probably because birds are free to go anywhere at any time. In a humorous song “THE BIRD MAY FLY”, (SIDE 2 # 2), a poor girl is complaining of her live. Everybody, the bird, the man can go anywhere, but she must sit at home and wait for her lover to return.
The happier and more playful songs were born among the young working men. They gathered together after work or on long winter evenings, usually with a hungry gypsy in their company. With his musical accompaniment they would sing of love, of village jokes or about their work. The girls, as was customary, would sit in another corner of the room. Eventually one of them would start to sing: “MY SWEETHEART MOWS IN THE MEADOW”, (SIDE 2 # 6), “and he does it so nicely and quickly, for a date with me tonight”. A man would readily answer: “Come on men! Let’s compete! I’ll cut the wheat so fast that not even nine girls in a week’s time can pick it up after me.” They would laugh, joke and dance. Then suddenly the gypsy’s violin would play another tune. “UNDER THE CRITARI MOUNTAINS” (SIDE 2 # 3) A man would begin singing to his sweetheart, who had broken her arm falling from a horse.
Since she can’t hold him with a broken arm, - the man would explain - he has to say farewell to her. Such was humor and to a degree the temperament of the Hungrian folk.
On such evenings the tunes their temperaments would change quickly. A girl might begin singing at this point, remembering how she came home after having gone far away. “WHAT IS THAT SMOKE OVER THERE”, - part of the Old Hungrian Songs - (side 2 # 4), perhaps it comes from her mother’s house and she thinks happily that matter where she has gone and what she has done, the best place is at home.
These folk songs portray a people whose lives are full of emotions of sorrow and happiness. One of the most beautiful Hungrian songs is “ONLY ONE GIRL” (side 1 # 1) - a man sings that he is grateful to God for he has the most wonderful girl in the world.
The outstanding characteristics of the gypsy orchestra are the virtuosic violin and haunting cimbalom. These instruments may rapidly be adapted to any melody be it gay and lively like the CHARDAS, or plaintive and melancholy like the FLOWER, and LOVESONGS.
The Hunganan gypsy music is the original gypsy manner of performing popular Hunganan art music: the Verbunk, the Chardas and the Ballad. All three are creations of musical romanticism in Hungary and owe their great popularity especially to the famed gypsy bands in whose elaborately ornamented, imaginative interpretations they took on stinking forms.
The featured artist of this Album, Sandor Lakatos, is the reigning “King of the Gypsies” today, and may be heard playing nightly in Budapest's Astoria Bar.
Notes by San Sozan
Tracklist:
01. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Only One Girl (04:23)
02. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Dances (03:34)
03. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - You Are Quite A Man (03:47)
04. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Variations For Chardas (04:01)
05. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Chardas Concert (03:58)
06. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - I Walked In The Woods (01:38)
07. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Chardas (04:05)
08. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - The Bird May Fly (03:19)
09. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Below The Csitari Mountains (03:23)
10. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Old Hungarian Songs (05:28)
11. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Csinom Palko (03:26)
12. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - My Sweetheart Mows The Meadow (03:13)
As time went on and people began to breathe easier, a new tune, or rather a dance, was created to express their hunger for freedom. It reminded them of the “old, glorious and wild day”. Now the soldier would get up and dance, faster or slower according to the musican’s feeling. The dance became famous and reached the houses of the nobility and the castles of the royalty. They called it “VERBUNK” (sidde 1 # 2). It has rhythm of the Chardas, but whereas the “CHARDAS” (side 1 # 4) is always a fresh happy tune, the Verbunk is more emotionally moody.
A few centuries later another soldier sang quite a different song: “CSINOM PALKO”, (side 2 # 5). “Csinom Janko” - to his friend. In his fancy clothes he asks his friends to dance with their sweethearts. Then there were other kings of songs, of the poor people who didn’t fight in the wars but worked in the fields under tremendous pressure. There were songs of the young people, men and women, and of their loves and fun. “THE HORGOS INN” - part of the Old Hungarian Songs (side 2 # 4), is a bright example of the lighter and gaier side of their liver lives. Its theme is that of an ambitious who is seeking a husband for her daughter. There is a group of musicians, each male soloist being a possible for the girl. As each of the soloists performs, the mother scrutinizes him carefully, conscious of her ever present intentions to find a suitable son in law.
In this great search for a vanished past the Hungarian gypsy played an important role. The gypsies are peculiar people who stay in one place for any length of time. They appear to the outsider to be usually dirty as not, thieves. Nevertheless, the gypsies have a special talent - the remarkable ability to adapt themselves musically to their environment. Wandering from one Hungarion village to another, they absorbed the music they heard about them and performed these folk tunes in an embellished rich and virtuosic gypsy manner. Thus they quickly won the hearts of the city-folk who longed for a musical home-land. These beautiful folk songs painted hundreds of pictures of the country, of beautiful blooming lands, flowers and forests. In almost every folk song the element of nature play a major role.
An example of this is the story of a girl in love, walking, “IN THE GREEN WOODS” (SIDE 1 # 6). In her happiness, deeply aware of everything around her, she spies a little bird building its nest. Next time she goes to the same place in the forest she sees nothing, for she has lost lover and has become insensitive to the elements of nature. In another song, again set in the forest. “tHE LITTLE BIRD” - part of the Old Hungarian Songs - (side 2 # 4), builds its nest in a tree. The girl who is watching this realizes that everyone belongs to someone, yet she is alone.
The bird seems to be a favorite symbol of the “free and carefree life” in Hungarian folk music. This is probably because birds are free to go anywhere at any time. In a humorous song “THE BIRD MAY FLY”, (SIDE 2 # 2), a poor girl is complaining of her live. Everybody, the bird, the man can go anywhere, but she must sit at home and wait for her lover to return.
The happier and more playful songs were born among the young working men. They gathered together after work or on long winter evenings, usually with a hungry gypsy in their company. With his musical accompaniment they would sing of love, of village jokes or about their work. The girls, as was customary, would sit in another corner of the room. Eventually one of them would start to sing: “MY SWEETHEART MOWS IN THE MEADOW”, (SIDE 2 # 6), “and he does it so nicely and quickly, for a date with me tonight”. A man would readily answer: “Come on men! Let’s compete! I’ll cut the wheat so fast that not even nine girls in a week’s time can pick it up after me.” They would laugh, joke and dance. Then suddenly the gypsy’s violin would play another tune. “UNDER THE CRITARI MOUNTAINS” (SIDE 2 # 3) A man would begin singing to his sweetheart, who had broken her arm falling from a horse.
Since she can’t hold him with a broken arm, - the man would explain - he has to say farewell to her. Such was humor and to a degree the temperament of the Hungrian folk.
On such evenings the tunes their temperaments would change quickly. A girl might begin singing at this point, remembering how she came home after having gone far away. “WHAT IS THAT SMOKE OVER THERE”, - part of the Old Hungrian Songs - (side 2 # 4), perhaps it comes from her mother’s house and she thinks happily that matter where she has gone and what she has done, the best place is at home.
These folk songs portray a people whose lives are full of emotions of sorrow and happiness. One of the most beautiful Hungrian songs is “ONLY ONE GIRL” (side 1 # 1) - a man sings that he is grateful to God for he has the most wonderful girl in the world.
The outstanding characteristics of the gypsy orchestra are the virtuosic violin and haunting cimbalom. These instruments may rapidly be adapted to any melody be it gay and lively like the CHARDAS, or plaintive and melancholy like the FLOWER, and LOVESONGS.
The Hunganan gypsy music is the original gypsy manner of performing popular Hunganan art music: the Verbunk, the Chardas and the Ballad. All three are creations of musical romanticism in Hungary and owe their great popularity especially to the famed gypsy bands in whose elaborately ornamented, imaginative interpretations they took on stinking forms.
The featured artist of this Album, Sandor Lakatos, is the reigning “King of the Gypsies” today, and may be heard playing nightly in Budapest's Astoria Bar.
Notes by San Sozan
Tracklist:
01. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Only One Girl (04:23)
02. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Dances (03:34)
03. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - You Are Quite A Man (03:47)
04. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Variations For Chardas (04:01)
05. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - Chardas Concert (03:58)
06. Sandor Lakatos And His Gypsy Orchestra - I Walked In The Woods (01:38)
07. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Chardas (04:05)
08. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - The Bird May Fly (03:19)
09. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Below The Csitari Mountains (03:23)
10. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Old Hungarian Songs (05:28)
11. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - Csinom Palko (03:26)
12. Sandor Jaroka And His Gypsy Orchestra - My Sweetheart Mows The Meadow (03:13)
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