Istvan Martha is a Hungarian composer who released two underground cult records of the 1980s: Hearts and The Wind Rises (1987). The latter was recorded live in the countryside by a group of rock, jazz and classical musicians, and it features sounds of the countryside itself (nature, people, traditional music). The album in its entirety sounds like a tribute to the life of rural people. The music, far from being merely pastoral and elegiac, is also a veiled, allegorical attack against communism, the oppressive regime of the time. The eight-minute introduction, The Wind Rises, is a free-form collage of natural and instrumental sounds. The traditional folk lament of Ruin acquires a much deeper meaning in the hands of the improvisers. Ditto for the driving dance of Kapolcs Alarm. These pieces exude a violence and a frustration that have little in common with the lives of the peasants. Originally recorded and released in Hungary in 1987 as KREM SLPX 17963 by Hungaraton..
Featuring: Amadinda Group , Mandel-quartet , WYXIMPHONIC Group
Featuring [Cembalom]: Kálmán Balog
Featuring [Pipes]: Tibor Szemző
Featuring [Shawm]: Györgi Róbert
Featuring [Vocoder], Vocals, Drums: Endre Szkzárosi
Flute: Ádám Török
Guitar, Vocals, Featuring [Suck & Blow]: Sándor Bernáth /y/
Harp: Tünde Kiss
Horns: Péter Füzes
Narrator: Károly Nagy
Saxophone: László Dés
Synthesizer, Percussion, Vocals: István Mártha
Trombone: László Gőz
Vocals: Csilla Szabó , Feró Nagy , Márta Sebestyén , Tamás Cseh
01 The Wind Rises
02 Work Song
03 Timberyard
04 Church
05 October
06 Forest Opera
07 Ruin
08 Kapolcs Alarm
09 The Fields
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