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Salamon Soma: Tudat alatt
New CD: Salamon Soma: Tudat alatt (Fonó, 2023 FA 527-2). The fragments of the melodies stuck in the folk musician's mind are assembled into a strange new matter. Soma Salamon is known from many Hungarian folk and world music formations, as Magos, Erdőfű, Fanfara Complexa, Buda Folk Band. As an active performer, ethnomusicologist, he is involved in many dimensions of traditional music, and for many years a constant in the Hungarian folk scene. His first individual EP is a solo project in the literal sense of the word, as the author is the sole contributor to the album. In addition, the genre classification of his visionary music is not easy either: it's neither a folk music, nor adaptation, as there are no existing folk tunes on the album. A meditation of a wind musician, steeped in tradition and personal impressions, wandering in the forest of his own thoughts. „If you ask what kind of music it is, I don't know the answer. Curious I was, I set off, along a dim, unknown path, towards myself. Before I turned back, strange tunes joined by my side. They have no age, their merit is a mystery. They break and fuse, hold together and scatter. If you listen to them in one, they have a story perhaps. Fleeting thoughts, forgotten memories: strange drawings of my subconsious.”