Gonda Sextet

Samanenek (1976) ...

 Ambitious Hungarian sextet jazz from 1975 ...

Shaman Song ... 

The sextet consisted of János Gonda (piano, electrical piano), Gábor Balazs (bass), Tamas Berki (vocal, guitar, percussion), Péter Kántor (soprano and alto saxophone), Istvan Dely (conga, percussion) and Gyula Kovacs (drums, percussion).

"The album's story is about the dramatic conflict of sensuality and spirituality in an ancient, cultic world. This is better symbolized in the opening track, where the choir of the Tibetan lamas dives into an oriental vocal solo, swept away by the entrance of a dialogue between fender electric piano and saxophone, slowly departing the archaic world and approaching 70ies European jazz stylings. Then come afro-cuban primeval rhythms, tribal percussive patterns from the islands of West Indies until the group reaches motives swinging upwards to suddenly fall like an avalanche and end the album in a rock influenced pulsation. In the closing section the playing ends in an upward arching eruption with sweeping dynamic..."  mutant-sounds...

A thousand flowers bloom ...