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world music, jazz, popular music
Zagar
Bits, Bytes and Mysteries
13 February 2009, Friday
7 pm - 9:15 pm
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Produced by Müpa Budapest

Balázs Zságer – keyboard- and electronic instruments Andor Kovács – guitar Ákos Zságer-Varga – bass Tibor Lázár – drums, percussion instruments DJ Bootsie – Scratch Kata Kántor – choreography, dance Katalin Dombi – dance Melinda Virág – dance László Keszég – director György Árvai – scenic design Edit Szűcs – costume design Kemuri and Urbanizer – video Márton Németh – sound Antal Varga – lights The band continues to elaborate on the idea that they touched upon in their latest album (Cannot Walk Fly Instead) already: the people of the 21st century searching for the mysterious amidst the technocratic, information-polluted world. ‘Mysterion‘ is the Greek for ‘mystery’ – and people in the modern world, too, meet a growing number of mysteries: problems impossible or seemingly impossible to solve. The disillusioned players of the rational world seem to develop a new longing for mysteries and spiritual experience. In the topics chosen by Balázs Zságer and his band, too, their interest in the absurd appears increasingly frequently: secrets, the unsolvable and the relation between the cosmos and God, life and death, reality and imagination. This night, it is adaptations of their psychedelic, instrumental pieces that are to be performed, giving more room to improvisation and process music. The process of the “musical swim”: the real adventure, is accompanied by film and literature excerpts, video and theatrical elements. The band, as they always do, merges the past and the future: as if, at a cosmic night, characters from Middle Age mystery plays co-appeared with the space creatures of the film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. Artists who are at home in the world of theatre, like director László Keszég, stage designer György Árvai, costume designer Edit Szűcs and choreographer Kata Kántor, have been invited to assist the performance. „Bits and bytes are altered but the wind still blows over Savannah..“ Charles Bukowski

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