Balázs Elemér Quintet

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Elemer Balazs, one of the most recognized jazz drummer in Hungary founded the Group in 2000 which became popular soon. The Group created its unique sound in which the contrast of the male and female voice have high importance and complement one another. Melodious themes are characteristics in their style with the accompaniment of asymmetrical rhythms. They like having adventures in world of ethno music or drawing inspiration from different musical cultures. According to the critics this immersed music could be enjoyable in any situation. They released 4 CDs inviting outstanding guests for each, the first CD was issued with recommendation of Pat Metheny (Around the World-2002 BMC Records -Feat: Mihály Dresch, David Yengibarian), (Our Worlds Beyonds-2003 BMC Records - Feat: Charlie Mariano, László Dés), (Refracting sounds-2004 BMC Records: László Dés, Mihály Borbély, Miklós Lukács, György Cvikovszki), (Hungarian Folk Songs-2005 X kiadó - Bea Palya, Ági Szalóki). The music of their latest album called Refracting Sounds was originally written for the film of Andras Salamon and it won the Fonogram prize in 2005. The band gives concerts regularly at Hungarian and international festivals (Wien, London, Berlin, Hague, Prague, Bratislava, Skopje). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.