Index – Kultúr – “Nagy Fero would win the Kossuth prize for this one song alone”

Zsolt Prieger, member of Anima Sound System, which celebrated its thirtieth birthday last year, mentions Gábor Szabó, István Grencsó, Gábor Presser and Tamás Cseh among his favorite Hungarian artists, and among the young people, the performance of MC Tink, Barbara Schoblocher (Blahalouisiana), Bori Magyar and Jazzboiz is also impressive. . Anno was beaten in the head by Neurotic, Spions and Beatrice.

My friend’s friend is my friend, as the saying goes. But is it the same with music? Do we like the favorites of our favorites? Or would we like to know them? All of this can be seen in our series, in which we ask the most significant and well-known actors of the Hungarian pop culture about the musical experiences, performers, records, songs, concerts, and festivals that have defined their lives and careers in some way. This time, Zsolt Prieger, everything from Anima Sound System, answered.

Everyone came out of his cloak

“Among my favorite Hungarian artists, the jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó, who emigrated to the United States in 1956, is certainly in the first row, not only with his innovative attitude or his influence on great artists, but also with his minimalism, his weirdness, his brilliant “faultiness”. István Grencsó has had a great influence on me since I was young with his experimental jazz work. I also put György Szabados, who brought national tradition together with contemporary entertainment music, on a world-class level, in the first row, but Gábor Presser is also a great example, who creates, renews, supports young people and composes at a high level for many decades with great passion. Tamás Cseh is also among my saints, without whom there would be no Hungarian songs, and we quickly mention his co-author, Géza Bereményi, because without him there would be no Hungarian lyrics, almost everyone came out of his cloak,” said Zsolt Prieger.

The musician was also influenced by many artists who were not his favorites, but whose material still had a great impact on him, for example, in terms of concept albums, Fonograph Edison’s album, which is János Bródy’s peak performance, or the strange synthesizer magic of Panta Rhei and the innovative machine handling of the Szalay brothers, László The reincarnations of Viktor, Tibi Vangel and Sex-E-Pil and others who are still creating in different formations today and their success is not what gives them their charisma and influence.

You could list the good influences from Sándor Révész to Zoli Beck. Even just one instrument, many drummers, singers, producers or sound engineers. According to him, we cannot forget the excellent Hungarian studio and concert sound engineering school either. Just like the young people, he has a lot of big favorites among them, he finds MC Tink, Barbi Schoblocher, Bori Magyar and the Jazzboiz fascinating.

I listened to Tamás Cseh and János Másik’s album “Levél növvéremnek” in rags, the bastion, gate and castle of my teenage memories, my coming of age, my work as a lyricist. An inimitable masterpiece. Ádám Török, like the Hungarian Ian Anderson, started to influence me, and then I also discovered that particular, naive, Arcadian, peaceful world that far outgrew the Bem rock coast. For me, the Back to the City album is the mystique of my childhood, the world of Gross Arnold, the feeling of longing and returning, the experience of finding and being found: it’s all together on this album. Then I remember that it’s Christmas, we enter the room and under the tree LGT’s CD Loksi is shining. It was a revelation, the concept-album feeling was captured here as well, which has not let go since then as a basic creative attitude. Since then, Uncle Pici has already covered an Anima song to make the picture even more complete from the point of view of fulfillment. I last listened to it two weeks ago, but now that we’re talking about it, I’m going home and putting the disc back on

added the Anima Sound System musician.

You’re making a system out of my nerves

“Anno Pajor Tamás’s Neurotic caught me, impressed me, blew my mind, so I’m going to say Bréke for the first time, out of the blue. Even ahead of Pajor in terms of invention is the band Spions. If I had to mention a song, it should be Russian Way of Life, provocative new wave-leaning art-punk, with Gergely Molnár’s annoyingly chanting voice and Malcom McLaren’s spirit behind them. In addition, Laci Najmányi also belonged to the brains of the band, I went on stage with him several times, we had a joint Joyce presentation in Szombathely and he played with Animaval at the A38. He had a great, subversive, restless mind. Thirdly, I would say Beatrice’s Motorized generation, we listened a lot to the tape recorder of my high school classmate, Gábor Pados – today the head of acb Galéria – and we dreamed of a better world, where we simply push teachers out the window and set police cars on fire without any consequences.

Jokes aside: those who only know Fero Nagy for what he is today are missing out, because he was once a very serious, charismatic performer, songwriter and entity. That’s why the Kossuth award would go to him for that one song as well

Zsolt Prieger declared.

“The Masina concerts in Szombathely are forever memorable for me, they had a revelatory effect on him in the 1980s. Improvisation and ecstasy. Our first brass player, Tamás Németh, also socialized here, and later I also had a joint jazz-hip-hop project with István Grencsó called Dubcity Fanatikz, I loved working together. My biggest stage experience as a teenager was the concert of Neurotic and ETA in Budapest in 1986, which Xantus Jancsi captured in his film Rocktérítő. The then obsessively aggressive Pajor sang out of tune, the power went out, the police came, but his charisma burned. Just like her Beatrice energies, which I was lucky enough to experience in Vasvár, namely in December 1980, when I was barely 14 years old. I lied at home so that I could leave, and later I wrote about the big meeting with the “old” Fero and that a police convoy escorted us from the Szombathely station. At that time, Beatrice was not allowed in the county seats, they had to perform in gymnasiums of small settlements under impossible conditions. I can’t tell you what having the Ramones and the Sex Pistols pushed into my head meant to me in terms of rebellion at the age of 14. I carried the experience of border violation with me forever. I don’t do punk, but some kind of pop music for more than 30 years with Anima, but my basic attitude is new wave and punk since then,” said the musician.