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BIOGRAPHIE Born in 1956 in Törökszentmiklós, Hungary, he started his studies with a private teacher of classical guitar. After trying different styles from the middle of the seventies, he began to focus on jazz and improvisation. In the begining of the eighties he continued his studies in Budapest in the Jazz Facultaty of Béla Bartók Music Conservatory as a guest student. At that time he already felt that he should approach improvisation not by one certain style, but rather by utilizing his sensitivity and susceptibility and making synthesis of all the musical influences he ever experienced. Immersing himself in Far Eastern music was an ideal breeding-ground to achieve this. His career started in 1980. He was the first who played solo acoustic guitar music in Hungary. Since the acoustic guitar has no tradition in the Hungarian music culture, playing guitar and composing for guitar was not an acknowledged and respected art. That is why he could achieve results mainly abroad with his playing, through playing techniques of different stringed instruments, with his modern pieces, and deep spirituality. His records has been released in England, USA and Germany. His playing can be heard in the three SzaMaba trio albums released in Hungary. In 1980 the talented drummer and percussion player joined to Sándor and they formed the Sándor Szabó / Balázs Major duo. Within a few years they performed in almost all of the clubs and venues in Hungary. In 1988 the English Leo Records company released their first album. In the eighties Sándor Szabó often invited musicians from other countries to play together. They made several concert tours and sound recordings. Playing with Gilbert Isbin, the Belgian guitarist, was one of the first significant collaborations. This period was hallmarked by a succesful duo album released on the English label HWYL Records. This duo in the early ninethies together, with Balazs Major in trio, made a recording in the BRT Studio in Brussels. However, this album has been never released. After this he met Andreas Georgiou, the Greek guitarrist, and they had a succesful Hungarian concert tour but there is no any recording of this collaboration. In his music he blends the classical forms with meditative mood of the Eastern music, Hungarian folk musical elements and improvisation that he inherited from jazz. The athmosphere of his concerts is intimate and personal. He approaches each concert with a sense of mission. The works and the spiritual heritage of Béla Hamvas, the great Hungarian writer, has made a great influence on his thinking. He deals especially with the mystical intuition in that one level of the recognition of the world is the creation by intuition and meditation. That is why he considers the improvisation as a way of creation that goes to the deepest. The hidden deepness of the world can come to light by the intuition. His music is the acoustic project of this invisible but perceptible world. In his music texture the ancient and the modern appear as one unit. His ideal is a complex musicality feeding of ancient sources beyond all the times, the message hidden in the common nature of the sound and silence. He looks for the eternal passages between the precipices of different cultures and ways of thinking somewhere here in mid-east- Europe and right now in the end of a declining materialistic culture and in the begining of a new spiritual culture. Up to now, Szabó is repeatedly toured throughout Europe and performed at numerous festivals. He often plays in exhibitions and performances together with talented artists. He is a founding member of a multimedia art society called Vácz Vocem Video Laboratorium / 3VLab/ in his home town. Sándor Szabó has been searching the new possibilities and technologies for building the (perfect ( guitar. He discovered a new way of building acoustic guitars. The innovator of the new theory is Michael Kasha, the well known scientist. One of the greatest guitar builders is the American Steve Klein who planed an acoustic guitar that a Hungarian luthier, Tihamer Romanek, built for Sándor Szabó. It is a 16 string guitar which is very special in its structure and unique in sound. Tihamer Romanek has built many guitars for Szabó as the result of their collaboration in using the Kasha system. He uses many kinds of acoustic guitars in his concerts. Besides the different tuned and stringed 16 string guitars, he uses an 8 string fretless guitar. Its sound is somewhere between the Indian sarod and the arabic ud, however the 6 and 8 string classical guitars are also used on concerts and in recordings. Besides the acoustic projects, Sándor Szabó composes and plays contemporary experimental music introducing a new sound called AmbiMorph. In the last few years Szabó has conducted far reaching experiments to use the electric guitar sound in a radically different way. He created a new conception called Multishift for developing new interesting electric guitar sounds which based on the psichokinetic hearing. For achieving this he uses his special algorithms in the latest generation of digital effects. |
Acoustic guitar solos Recording: 2000 Time: 41:34 Musicians Sándor Szabó: acoustic guitar CD-TRACKS DRIFTING SONG  ·
ASIAN SONG ·
FOR THE DAY OF THE EARTH ·
THERE IS FOREST, TOO ·
I WOULD GO INTO HIDING ·
CATFISH IN THE WATER ·
OPEN YOUR GATE MY ROSE ·
YOU JUST FADE MY ROSE ·
THE LITTLE BRIDE ·
YELLOW DAWN ·
A HUNGARIAN IN CALIFORNIA
· HUNGARIAN BLUES INFO Der ungarische Musiker Sándor Szabó ist einer der ungewöhnlichsten akustischen Gitarristen unserer Zeit. „Mein Ziel ist eine totale Musik, die Stille und die Töne sind gleichwertig, das Spiel mit der Dynamik steht im Mittelpunkt,“ so sein Kommentar. Tatsächlich entsteht beim Hören von Szabós Aufnahmen das Gefühl, dass er jede Note, jedes Geräusch, das er seinen wundersamen Instrumenten entlockt, intensiv überprüft, ob es wirklich wert ist, die Stille zu unterbrechen. „Dreams Within Dreams“ – das steht für bizarre Klanglandschaften, körperhaft und fragil, erdverbunden und ätherisch zugleich. The Hungarian musician Sándor Szabó is one of the most unusual acoustic guitarists of our time. “My objective is a total music, the pauses and the notes have equal weight, the play with dynamics stands in the middle,” he comments. And indeed, when you listen to Szabó’s recordings, you have the feeling that he is subjecting each note, each sound coaxed from his wonderful instrument to an intense examination to see if it is really worth interrupting the silence. “Dreams Within Dreams” creates bizarre landscapes, corporeal and fragile, earthy and ephemeral at the same time. PRESS REVIEWS „Der ungarische Musiker ist einer der ungewöhnlichsten akustischen Gitarristen unserer Zeit. Für sein neues Album hat er ungarische Folksongs transkribiert und deren wundervolle Melodien und Rhythmen mit moderner Harmonik kombiniert. Er verwendet dafür speziell für ihn angefertigte Instrumente, darunter eine 16-saitige Steelstring-Gitarre und eine 8-saitige Klassikgitarre.“ (Vintage Guitar News, Januar - März 2001) „This Hungarian musician is one of the most unusual acoustic guitarists of our times. For his new album, he transcribed Hungarian folk songs and combined their wonderful melodies and rhythms with modern harmonies. He uses a custom-made 16-string steel-string guitar and an eight-string classical guitar.“ (Vintage Guitar News, January - March 2001)  |
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