Man Is A Dream About A Shadow Qiyan

• 1 Fidanico de Yasimin - Turkish 23:34
• 2 Yo era nina 12:37
• 3 Morenica - for Schönberg 17:05
• 4 Mahala 20:45
• 5 No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá 06:50
• Total Runtime 01:20:51

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In addition to our Sephardic roots, the album also includes pieces from the Carpathian Basin. We play, among others, a Sephardic lament, a Schoenberg quotation and a Mahala (Romanian, Hungarian and Gypsy dance). The themes try to draw out - despite their diversity - a structural building system in which the individual parts show a very different face at the micro and macro level. This is helped by the fact that our music is always improvisational, with a core around creative music and free jazz, and I hope that these improvisations consolidate and unify the musical worlds used," says Péter Ajtai, the leader of the band. "As the famous graffiti says, 'talking about music is like dancing to architecture', so I would encourage everyone to dance to buildings."

Péter Ajtai, double bass
Ákos Szelevényi (Akosh S.), saxophone
Dániel Cseke, saxophone
Vito Szelevényi, trumpet
Ádám Czitrom, guitar
Ádám Mészáros, guitar
Áron Porteleki, drums

Peter Ajtai
is one of the young and radical jazz generation, not only breaks with conventions but is also able to play his instrument to the highest standards. Despite his young age he already explored a wide variety of genres such as free jazz, mainstream and folk music.He started his double-bass studies at age sixteen. After graduating from high school he was studying with Jozsef Barcza Horvath. He also studied classical double-bass techniques with Zsolt Fejérvári and Gergely Jardanyi.

He is currently member of various bands including the Geroly Trio, A.M.P., KAMP, Jazz Byzantium, several formations of Bela Agoston. He has been playing in groups lead by such as great musicians as Frank London, Don Byron, Mihaly Dresch, Gabor Gado, Istvan Grencso and Istvan Balo. He performs regularly both in Hungary and in foreign countries on concerts collaboration with the greatest of free and avantgarde improvisation musicians like Johannes Bauer, Lewis Jordan, Eduardo Maraffa, Marco Einedi or Rudi Mahall.

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