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Written in Folk Roots issue 109, 1992

VÍZÖNTŐ
Best
Pan PAN 145CD (1991)

There's a very refreshing dry and alien unhinged Hungarian humour in these tracks culled from Vízöntő's five albums, three made for Hungaroton and one each for Dutch and Belgian labels since 1977. The band is a four-piece, joined on a couple of tracks by cimbalom player Kálmán Balogh (seen over here dazzling audiences as a member of the increasingly wonderful Vasmalom). These are some of their more "acoustic" items; I suppose I know what the sleeve notes mean by that, but it always sounds to me like a strange distinction in an electronic medium. Instrumentation and some of the repertoire (but very little of the singing) resembles that of Vasmalom and Muzsikás disarticulated by a fine sense of chaos.


© 1992 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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