Until now, Áron Tálas's art has found its most natural medium of expression in the piano. As a pianist, he has worked with almost every significant figure on the Hungarian jazz scene (inlcuding Mihály Borbély, Zoltán Lantos and Kornél Fekete-Kovács), while as the leader of the Áron Tálas Trio, he has shown his talent as a composer. The trio have also performed at several European festivals and played in front of a full house at Müpa Budapest, while their second album won the Gramofon magazine's Jazz Album of the Year in 2018. He had cherished the ideas for Beats From My Heart for a long time. On the record, he plays the Moog, a Fender Rhodes, the piano and the drums. He has recently developed a greater familiarity with the latter, which is perhaps how he was accepted as a drummer onto the Focusyear scholarship programme in Basel, which invites just eight musicians a year. The record features a wide array of influences and inspirations: the tight grooves of Jamiroquai, the world of Robert Glasper and J Dilla, the lightness of Incognito or Mezzoforte, the relaxed tones of John Scofield's Überjam, as well as the intriguing rhythmic twists of Tigran Hamasyanra and Avishai Cohen. All this is woven together with Áron's idiosyncratic approach to creating the album's final, inimitable form - this is how to create beats from the heart. And as he and his fellow musicians lay down this certain beat with their instruments, two-time Hungarian slam poetry champion Saiid, that is Márk Süveg, will do the same with words.

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