Ghymes

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Ghymes
General information
Genre (s) World music , jazz
founding 1984
Website http://www.ghymes.hu/
Founding members
Vocals , double bass , guitar , choir , long neck lute, fretless bass , lute
Gyula Szarka
Vocals, violin , guitar, Koboz , double bass, fretless bass, drums , long neck lute, choir, bass drum
Tamás Szarka
Andor Buják (until 2004)
Current occupation
Vocals, double bass, guitar, choir, long neck lute, fretless bass, lute
 Gyula Szarka
Vocals, violin, Koboz, guitar, double bass, fretless bass, drums, long-necked lute, choir, bass drum
 Tamás Szarka
Synthesizer , choir
 Csaba Kún
Alto saxophone, flute
Peter Jelasity
Alto and sopranino saxophone, flute, bassoon , choir
 Bori Varga
Synthesizer, bass drum, choir
 Balázs Neumann
Double bass, choir
 Imre Molnár
Drums, drums
Tamás Széll
singing
 Bernadett Kiss

Ghymes [ gɪmeʃ ] is a world music ensemble made up of Hungarians living in Slovakia .

Band history

The Ghymes Ensemble was formed in 1984 at the Nitra University of Education from musicians who had previously devoted themselves to rock music, classical music and Renaissance music. They were supposed to play the backing music for a dance group, but it never came about. Its name is derived from a small town of the same name (Hungarian Ghymes , Slovak Jelenec since 1948 ) near Nitra.

The ensemble started with traditional Hungarian folk music from Transylvania . In doing so they tied in with the dance house movement that conquered the Hungarian student subculture in the 1970s. While Ghymes was initially a dance band, the group went over to mainly playing concerts in the late 1980s. During this phase, the musicians also decided to become professionals.

These years also represented a time of "purifying fire" for them, in which they slowly combined folkloric elements and their own creative ideas. This is how Ghymes' very own style of music was born. The rhythms became even more captivating, harder, and to the original folkloric instruments violin, viola, cymbal , bagpipe , double bass, lute, Koboz (short-necked lute), Tökcitera (literally "pumpkin zither", corresponds to the long-necked tambura ), tárogató (similar to the clarinet) saxophone and drums were added, improvisations were created, and without noticing it or consciously following it, they found themselves in the category of so-called world music.

During this time the Ghymes ensemble also took part in the Europe- wide successful production Vents D'est (Ostwind). The multicolored (folklore, jazz, contemporary music) and, in terms of its origins, diverse (Mediterranean, Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian and Slovak) music of the 17-member international band itself forms a “musical mosaic” that is extraordinary in its form. The "father" of the band and its leader is the French-Occitan musician and composer Miquéu Montanaro. In 1991 Hungarian and French television produced a film about this band. The first Vents D'est CD was released in 1993 under the title Migration , followed by the second recording in 1996. At Montanaro's request, in 1993 the Ghymes ensemble took part in creating the music for the largest European open-air theater event at the “Theater de la Mediterranée”.

Despite these activities on a European level, Ghymes made his big breakthrough in Hungary only in 1998 with the title Tánc a hóban (Dance in the Snow) from the album Rege , which has since been one of the greatest Hungarian folk rock titles. At this time, their monthly club evenings in Budapest also became extremely popular. While only a few dozen people attended these evenings in 1996, in 2001 the tickets for the 400–500-person hall were sold out weeks in advance.

The high point of their world music phase was the album Smaragdváros , released in November 2000 . It reached eleventh place in the European World Music Charts Europe in March 2001 - Ghymes' greatest measurable international success to date. The most beautiful song in this album ( Szárnyaskezű szeretők ) also achieved a single release and the shooting of a music video .

After these successes, a slow movement towards jazz began in the musical development, with the original folkloric elements continuing to persist in several tracks in each album. A comparison of the two latest albums ( Üvegtigris 2. and Messzerepülő ) is therefore hardly possible with the records released 5–6 years ago, which long-time fans sometimes complain about.

As much as their music continues to change, the group's love of children remains unchanged. In addition to the two children's song collections Bennünk van a kutyavér and Csak a világ végire ... , they also played the accompanying music for the two fairy tale albums, on which Hungarian artists performed short fairy tales and stories. Furthermore, they give several concerts every year especially for children.

It is also worth mentioning that different theaters always asked for music for productions and received it from Ghymes, for example the Budapest Volkstheater ( Der Schirm des Saint Peter , 1996), the open-air theater in Komárom ( Our Lives , 1995) and the Wuppertal Dance Theater Pina Bausch (2000).

Discography

Albums

  • 1988: Az ifjúság sólyommadár (The youth are like a falcon)
  • 1991: Ghýmes
  • 1993: Üzenet (message)
  • 1995: Bennünk van a kutyavér (We are always planning something) (HU: goldgold)
  • 1996: Tűzugrás (fire jump ) (HU:goldgold)
  • 1998: Rege (Sage) (HU:platinumplatinum)
  • 2000: Smaragdváros (Emerald City)
  • 2001: Üzenet (news) - reissued
  • 2002: Héjavarázs (Habichtzauber) (HU:platinumplatinum)
  • 2003: Koncert (Concert)
  • 2004: Éghymese (Heavenly Tale)
  • 2005: Csak a világvégire ... (Only to the end of the world ...)
  • 2006: Messzerepülő (Flying Far Away)
  • 2007: Mendika (HU:goldgold)
  • 2008: Álombálom (HU:goldgold)
  • 2010: Szikraszemű (HU:goldgold)
  • 2012: 30 Fényév (HU:goldgold)
  • 2016: Mennyből az angyal

Singles

  • 2000: Szárnyaskezű szeretők (lovers with winged hands )
  • 2002: Állatfarm ( Animal Farm)

Collaborate with other artists

  • 1993: Migration with Vents D'est (compositions by Michel Montanaro)
  • 2001: A Nagy Mesealbum (The Great Fairy Tale Album )
  • 2002: Bakaballada (soldier ballad ) with Hobo Blues Band
  • 2003: A Nagy Mesealbum II. (The Great Fairy Tale Album II.)

Film music

  • 2006: Üvegtigris 2nd (Glass Tiger 2nd)

Video albums

  • 2003: Koncert (Concert)

Awards

  • 1999: The album Bennünk van a kutyavér is declared an official teaching aid by the Hungarian Ministry of Education
  • 2001: Hungarian Art Prize; Don Quixote Prize
  • 2002: eMeRTonPrize of the Hungarian Radio in the category of "Hungarian ensembles residing outside the borders of Hungary"; "Golden Giraffe" by MAHASZ (Hungarian Association of Sound Carriers) in the category "Best Jazz / World Music from Hungary" for the album Üzenet ;
  • 2003: MAHASZ's "Golden Giraffe" in the category "Jazz / World Music Albums" for the album Héjavarázs
  • 2006: Béla Bartók Memorial Prize

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not to be confused with the Transylvanian region Gyimes
  2. ↑ Awards for music sales: HU

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