Ever since their formation in 2010, Ivan & The Parazol have aspired to bring new things and creative ideas to life. Müpa Budapest is a completely new world for artists making popular music: the stage set-up is different, the audience is different, and the acoustics are different. It's exactly these differences, however, that make it interesting and worthwhile for a rock band to play its music in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall. A thousand examples have borne this out: there is crossover between popular and classical music. Naturally, this can only work if you arrive at Müpa Budapest with a fully developed concept, and even then only if you come with something that hasn't already been presented somewhere else. The musicians of Ivan & The Parazol also feel the need to create a one-time, impossible-to-repeat work on this stage, and one in which the opportunities afforded by the venue allow for what is essentially a rock band to display its multiple dimensions.
Ivan & The Parazol were already famous for cherishing Hungarian rock history, but now they are digging even deeper by paying tribute to the classic band Syrius with a full-length programme. They're doing this by reworking and reshaping in their own image the music of the singles from 1968 through 1973 as well as, naturally, certain compositions from the eternally classic album Az ördög álarcosbálja (Devil's Masquerade), which is 45 years old this year.

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