Inspired by non-European traditional musics, non-tempered tuning systems, psychedelic ritual performances and the legendary Jon Hassell's Fourth World music, Budapest based Decolonize Your Mind Society was founded by Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label and Opal Tapes affiliate Bálint Szabó Gosheven as a natural continuation of his creative focus and work. The band has an absolutely unique sounding thanks to the special instruments they use like the glissotar wind instrument or the refretted just intonation guitar, not to mention the retunable analog synthesizer that further expands their mind blowing musical planet. They float in a hazy no man’s land between microtonal psychedelic rock, avant-garde, jazz and experimental music. Just intonation music needs new approaches, new instruments and their effort on their debut record seems quite extraordinary. On “Anabatic Prism” they tried to celebrate life through the sheer joy of playing together and they wanted to present these extremely colourful tunes to the public as a reminder that there is always a bright side of this amazing magical universe.
"It's the same kind of healing through sound that Decolonize Your Mind Society are aiming for on this irresistible debut - and exactly what the world needs right now." (The Wire, Daniel Spicer)
“NYC’s 75 Dollar Bill is a useful reference for Balint Szabo’s guitar groove, but the ensemble playing fills out the picture over a wide horizon ... [their music] travels far on a pulse of Can, spiritual jazz and resonant folkloric melodies.”
“Modern Marrocco’s sound moved somewhere in the ‘70s of European psychedelic period of Don Cherry’s with a lot of twisted synth … organic heavy kraut-rock sound which can enhance the experience adding a new layer of beauty for each audition – a psychedelic ritual performance.” (George Staicu, Muzica De Vest)
Album of the month by The Attic
https://decolonizeyourmind.net/
https://decolonizeyourmind.bandcamp.com/
Band members:
Áron Porteleki - drums, vocals
Ernő Hock - double bass, vocals
Máté Pozsár - synth, una corda, vocals
Dániel Váczi - glissonic, vocals
Gergő Kováts - saxophone, vocals
Bálint Szabó - just intonation guitar, vocals
Dorota was founded in 2009 by three Hungarian musicians, Aron Porteleki, Daniel Makkai and David Somlo. With the success of our first untitled adventurous art-rock album, and the second triple(!) album ‘Frik’ the band has become a major player in the experimental music scene of Budapest, and is celebrated as one of the most unique contemporary bands in Hungary.
We released our third LP on the 26th of September 2019 titled "Solar The Monk". The album focuses on the metaphor of being a monk. Solar The Monk is a retreat, a reflection, the exploration of new ways and forms of existence in a world rushing to the end. Following the practice of earlier records on free improvisation, Dorota's new album blends raw and powerful punk rock sounds with Sufi, Berber, Mongolian, Buddhist influences. Despite its diversity, the nearly hour-long album 'Solar The Monk' manifests in a coherent listening experience. After the album release, Solar The Monk got attention by the Hungarian alternative press, and became the best album of the year in international category at Recorder.hu and 444.hu put the song “Solar The Monk I.” the third best song of the 2010s.
