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Kárpát Möbius: Kuruczlemez

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by AAJ Staff
December 1, 1999

Kárpát Möbius is Sándor Cziránku, “Barbaro" on guitar and István Csik, “Kashmir" on (Marc Anderson-ish) percussion. I really like the raw energy and rebellious joy inherent in this release. Cziránku and Csik seek to unleash lost modes of music by free improv based on the “genetic imprints" of all the music of cultures of the planet, even the lost ones! So what's this stuff sound like? Envision a gestalt of Hungarian folk motifs, hordes of nomadic hunters on ...