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Since establishing our duo project in the winter of 2019 we have been aiming for a truly responsive approach to interacting with each other in the context of improvised music. We felt it was a natural choice to avoid using quantized rhythmic patterns and to root the pulse of our music in the flow that is just as present in the sounds of nature as it is in human languages.

The sounds heard in our music come from a broad palette of sources: a partly self-designed conglomerate of software instruments paired with several midi devices and a repurposed Nintendo Wii controller, an acoustic drum set equipped with leather membranes and with cymbals that were hammered by gong smiths of the Wuhan region, a set of the famous Coron drum synthesizers from the 1980s, an amplified and ring modulated wind gong, as well as pre-recorded samples of speech, musical fragments and noises to which we are attracted.

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TABBIS is an hommage to Mihály Babits, one of the most influential Hungarian poets of the first half of the 20th century. We chose nine of his poems that resonated with us the most and we used them as sources of inspiration while recording the improvisations presented on this record. Our primary goal was not to find means to recreate the mood or to communicate the essence of these writings, but rather to treat these poems as additional influences besides the usual factors like our current state of mind, the presence of the audience or the acoustics and the lighting conditions of the room that we perform in.

The text of the poem Húnyt szemmel... is partly presented in the tracks Sue Lent My MHz and Mule Zest Hymn, and warped fragments of words taken from Sárga lobogó can be heard in the piece entitled Solar Goo Bag. The only improvisation on this album that has been recorded with a predetermined length is Seek Its Red, which features a synthesizer that was programmed to follow the pitch and rhythm of Babits’s voice on an early recording of his poem Esti kérdés, in which his unique approach to reciting becomes obvious.

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We were sure that the titles of the improvisations had to be connected to the titles of the poems, however, we also felt it would have been too direct of a reference to use the same words since the link between the music and the texts is rather loose and abstract. Therefore, we decided to search for anagrams in English based on the letters of the original Hungarian titles, creating a new layer of playful secondary meanings.

Aerial Murmur Scent – based on Sunt lacrimae rerum
Aka Lab – based on Kabala
Sue Lent My MHz – based on Húnyt szemmel...
Mule Zest Hymn – based on Húnyt szemmel...
Ask Got Freeze – based on Fekete ország
Global Karaoke Jar Hat – based on Bogárkák jó haláláért
Seek Its Red – based on Esti kérdés
Do Khaki Nova – based on Vakok a hídon
Solar Goo Bag – based on Sárga lobogó
Huzza to Sick Zoos – based on Az őszi tücsökhöz

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credits

released January 15, 2022

Bálint Bolcsó - electronics
Attila Gyárfás - drum set, gong synth, Coron DS-7

Recorded on 16 August 2021 at SuperSize Recording Studio, Hungary
Recorded and mixed by Dániel Fejér (Dexter)
Mastered by Gábor Halász
Cover photo by Gergely Ofner
Cover design by Attila Gyárfás
Produced by Róbert Zoltán Hunka

Attila Gyárfás plays Dream Cymbals and Gongs.

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