[02.15.2008] Take on - Djabe 2008 studio album out now
The long awaited new studio album from Djabe just released.
The "Take on" CD is a worthy continuation of the band’s traditions and the values represented by them so far.
The composing ability of Tamás Barabás integrates all the talent of the members of the band, creating a new quality by that.
The compositions are fresh, unique, still sound familiar.
In 2008 Djabe goes on with a renewed energy. In January we finish the long awaited studio album entitled Take on. The official release date of the CD version is 18th of February. The DVD Audio incarnation of this release with a lot of visual extras will come out end of March. Promoting the new album Djabe goes on tour on three continets, Europa, North America and Asia.
Djabe works as a quintet, there is no replacement in the line up of unforgettable Sipos András. Otherwise Djabe has a special guest at some gigs in Hungary and USA. Rochester based John Nugent on saxophone will join to the band. John played among others with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Benett, Clark Terry, a Temptations, Steve Ray Vaugh and he was a member of the Woody Hermann Orchestra.
Please check the tour page for further details.
The Sipi memorial and charity concert was a huge success. Great spirit and floating music. We plan to release the whole show on DVD. Some further contribution with Steve Hackett is on the Horizons. The postprudoctions of the 2006 and 2007 live shows are still ongoing projects. We hope the Slices of live double DVD can come out this year too.
15th of January 2008
Banai Szilárd – drums
Barabás Tamás – bassguitar
Égerházi Attila – guitar, percussion
Kovács Ferenc – trumpet, violin, vocal
Kovács Zoltán – keyboards
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[10.08.2007]
THE DJABE AND STEVE HACKETT
„András Sipos Charity and Memorial Concert”
30th November 2007 - 7 PM Petőfi Csarnok
1146 Budapest, Zichy Mihály út 14. - Teleohone: +36 1 363 37 30 Ticket ordering:www.jegyelado.hu, www.gramy.com
Guest musicians: Said Tichiti, Kálmán Balogh, Mihály Dresch, the Magony Ensemble and actor friends.
Founding member of the Djabe, percussionist and singer András Sipos unexpectedly died at the age of 53. He left a vast void after him both on stage and in the band. He was a determining member, forming the sound of the Djabe and he took the lion’s share in achieving the success and various awards of the orchestra both in Hungary and abroad. His friends, fellow musicians and actors, as well as the general public loved and respected him for his colourful, cheerful personality. He delighted the audience with his performance with the Djabe in around 19 countries outside Hungary.
Many knew him as an actor. He graduated from the former College of Theatre and Cinema Studies (Színház- és Filmművészeti Főiskola) in 1981, then became the member of the Comedy Theatre of Budapest (Vígszínház) for 18 years. His memorable roles are unforgettable for theatre-goers. He most fondly remembered the plays Book of the Jungle, The Attic (A padlás), Let’s Dance Together (Össztánc) and Play it Again, Sam. He was also awarded for his high performance as a dubbing actor.
The role to suit his personality most was the Hrabal play titled Dance Lessons for the Advanced in Age staged by the European Renaissance Honour group.
Along with István Bubik and Tamás Ruzicska, he co-founded the Macumba percussion ensemble, which later became a big success.
Sipi, as people called him, could play on hand percussions with such virtuosity that the audience believed they were listening to a native African musician if the lights were switched off. This is what happened in the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The black audience was almost ‘indignant’ as a white man could play as they did…
He played amazingly on every instrument he touched but he was really the king of the djembe.
András Sipos is mourned by the acting society, his musician friends and most of all, his family: his wife and three young daughters. Tercsike is seven, Anna and Ágota are four years old.
The organisers have offered the whole returns from the concert to the family. All the performers and service providers have denied to accept their fees.
The program of ”András Sipos Charity and Memorial Concert”
Actor colleagues pay homage to him in the first part of the program.
Following the introduction in prose, the Djabe will appear on stage. The group will say farewell to their friend and fellow musician with a program specially set up for this evening. Several musicians who earlier used to play in the group will also appear, including Said Tichiti, a singer and percussionist of Moroccan origin, who has joined the group on several albums and at various concerts.
An outstanding guest of the concert is Steve Hackett, former guitarist of the Genesis, who cooperated on the album titled ‘Sheafs are Dancing’ (‘Táncolnak a kazlak’) and appeared in concert with the group in London 2004. He accepted the invitation without hesitation. He will also perform a separate block of songs from Hackett’s own repertoire. Naturally, Steve will play several songs together with the Djabe during the concert.
The audience can also hear Ferenc Kovács and his ensemble, the Magony; they will remember Sipi accompanied by Kálmán Balogh cymbal player and Mihály Dresch.
Of course, we cannot say everything about the concert in advance and there will be several surprises but one thing is sure: with the help of the technology and the video projector, the Djabe will play together with Sipi for one last occasion.
The group would like to remember András with a performance worthy of him; therefore they are to put on stage one of the most exciting Djabe programs ever, the standard of which will be further enhanced by the appearing guest musicians.
We hope many of you will be interested to experience this one-of-a-kind concert as you can help the grieving family with every ticket bought.
Ticket prices:
Student ticket: HUF 1800
Student cards (with the valid sticker) are to be presented on entry.
Full ticket: HUF 3800
Entrance ticket + Djabe: Thank you, Sipi CD: HUF 5800
Tickets are available: In ticket offices of Concert and Media, in the office of Gramy Records and on the venue. Online booking: www.jegyelado.hu, www.gramy.com
”The Djabe is making a farewell CD for Sipi. The band is recording the material of the album in the studio in early October. We play every note for András. With the help of old tunes, never before played compositions, archived and unused recordings, Sipi will also be present in the studio and on some of the tracks.
The album is closed with Witchi Tai To, the last song played at Sipi’s last concert at the Debrecen Jazz Days on 7th September 2007.
If we had known that this would be the last time, we might never have left the stage.”
Attila Égerházi
Without whom the concert could not have been arranged: Votec, HG Event Technics, Perfect Design Factory, Duotone Repro, Print America, Pharma Press Kft., Pont Reklám, QIB, Jazzy Rádió, Duna TV, Concert és Média Kft.
We are constantly refreshing the list of the concert’s sponsors.
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[09.06.2007] German speaking gigs!
Djabe plays in Portugal at Porto Covo
Djabe will play this September in Berlin and Wien.
The Berlin gigs will take place at Wabe on 21st and Quasimodo on 22nd.
In Austria they play at the famous Joe Zawinul’s Birdland in Wien on 29th.
[04.19.2007] Djabe: Message from the Road
Double live CD and DVD, GR-071/072
The album was recorded during the Slices of Life 2006 tour in the USA, Europe and Hungary.
The first disc is CD and the second is dualdisc.
The CD side of the dualdisc contains the Part II of the concert, meanwhile the DVD side offers the whole live material in surround 5.1 DTS and dolby digital.
In the DVD’s extra features can be found a radio interview originally broadcasted in Berlin in German and English language. The DVD also contains a 71 minutes road movie recorded during the tour with much live footage.
Djabe, the number one national hit on the stage of Hungarian jazz/world fusion and an invited guest star of prominent festivals abroad, has always been keen on presenting its musical genre by multimedia means. Notably, a good example for this is their tour in 2003 called ’Sheafs were dancing’ wherein the band was inspired by the masterpieces of Imre Égerházi, a painter reputed all over Europe. While enjoying the music played, the audience could have been absorbed in the paintings projected on the stage screen as well as the film shots of the motifs that inspired such masterpieces. ’Iceworld’ has been a particular memento of these, where the major themes of the paintings have been animated on the screen. The creators animated those pieces of the picture series that depicted the painter’s experiences sensing the proximity of death. The band accompanied all this in the frame of a live performance in a real surround sound. The audience found itself in the heart of the music in a concert hall surrounded by loudspeakers as though having been seated in front of the home movie system. ’The sheafs were dancing’ double DVD set benevolently revives exactly the same audiovisual sensation again. And even more than that: documentaries, road movies, werkfilms and a concert footage in Germany by the band and other shots about the painter Imre Égerházi have been included in this set. As many as 300 minutes have been included in this high quality digipak double DVD set.
Double DVD
Digipak
Concert length 131 minutes
LPCM stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround Extras:
Multiangle: screen films
More than 100 minutes documentaries and concer footage
Photo Gallery
Djabe plays a series of concerts in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary in September and October! The band continues the succesful Slices of Life tour. Details can be reach here. Don't miss it!
Another good news that the double live DVD, recorded during the Sheafs are dancing tour is at the final stage of the production, and will be come out in October. More than two hours spectacular show in surround sound, screen films, and approximate two hours bonus footage recorded beetwen 2003 and 2006.
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[07.07.2006] Summer tour of Djabe was a sweeping success!
Djabe has just finished another successful tour. Known as the Slices Of Life 2006 Summer Tour, it involved 5 counties with nearly 15 thousand people enjoying the music of the band.
In Lithuania, at the Klaipeda festival Égerházi Attila, the band leader, even picked up an award!
Djabe gave 4 concerts in Rochester, New York state, USA. The audience ardently welcomed Barabás Tamás’s unique compositions and virtuoso instument solos. There were many who had already seen the band 2 years ago who were there specifically to watch the performance of Djabe. Others even chose for the special Hungarian band, changing their earlier choice of a James Brown concert.
Another concert of the band took place in Italy at the Udine Jazzfestival resulting a positive surprise for the audience.
The tour ended in Krakow, Poland in the auditerium of the radio of Krakow.
Inbetween the foreign performances, Djabe could be seen twice in Budapest also, at the Colombus Jazz boat and the Petofi Muzeum.
"Like a Buster Poindexter goulash, the rudiments and retro worldliness of traditional Hungarian music get the jazz jolt from Djabe, a Hungarian sextet centered around the brilliant bass of lead composer Tamas Barnabas. The band’s polyrhythmic play coupled with a brassy jump from the horns certainly has collision potential, but ultimately swings with both feet – each one in any number of genres and grooves. Unexpected, unique, and fun."
Rochester Festival critics about Djabe (FD)
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[03.24.2006] Djabe concert will be broadcasted on 27th at 11.45 pm (GMT+1) on Duna TV!
The Hungarian satellite TV will broadcast Djabe's show filmed in 2003 at the Pesti Vigadó, Budapest. That was the last show of "Sheafs are dancing tour" in Budapest. The length of the concert video is 62 minutes.
Recieving possibilities: Europe digital and analog transmission
satellite: Hot Bird 6 (East13 degree)
Frequency: 10,815 GHz
Polarisation: horizontal
Width: 33 MHz
Duna Televízió (mono audio): 6,5 MHz
Duna Televízió (stereo audio): 7,02/7,2 MHz
satellite: Hot Bird 3 (East 13 degree)
Frequency: 12,149 GHz
Polarisation: vertical
Symbol speed: 27,5 MS/s
FEC: 3/4
PID: Duna Televízió, video: 96 decimális
USA and Canada Satellite: Intelsat America 5
Position: 97 degree West
Frequeny: 11,867 GHz
Polarisation: vertical
Symbol speed: 22 MS/s
FEC: 3/4
code: MPEG2/DVB-s
[03.13.2006] The 2nd Surround Sound Music DVD from Djabe has released!
Djabe’s “Sheafs are Dancing” album was nominated for Surround Music Award 2005 in L.A. and now the new surround sound music disc has just came out! You can enjoy the tracks of the new studio album in dts and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. For the stereo fans the disc provides uncompressed LPCM stereo tracks. The new release is fulfilled with plenty of extras again:
- 53 minutes concert footage recorded 2004 in Budapest at the New Orleans Music Club
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5 minutes live television broadcast
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7 minutes on the road movie recorded during the Scandinavian tour in 2005
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PAL, regio code: 0
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Playable in all DVD player
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DVD video format
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DVD 9
[11.28.2005] The Sheafs are Dancing DVD-Audio is nominated for Surround Music Award 2005 in the Best additional features category!
2005 SURROUND MUSIC AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED DTS Presents Fourth Annual Event on December 15, 2005
NEW YORK, NY (November 28, 2005) - CMP Entertainment Media, producers of the Surround Music Awards (SMAs), have announced the list of nominees for this year's event, which is taking place December 15, 2005 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The fourth annual SMAs are presented by surround sound pioneers DTS.
The finalists were chosen from more than 100 submissions, and are being judged by a distinguished panel of surround sound journalists and producers.
In addition to the judged awards, there are several awards decided by the SMA Steering Committee and one award chosen by the public. This year, the SMA Steering Committee will award Phil Ramone the Surround Pioneer Award and Jackson Browne the Surround Artist of the year Award.
The public is eligible to vote for the Listener's Choice Award, which is presented by High Fidelity Review. To vote for the nominees in this category, visit www.highfidelityreview.com. The winners will be announced at the gala event taking place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on December 15, the first night of the two-day Surround 2005 Conference and Showcase. For more information and to purchase tickets for the Surround Music Awards, visit www.surroundexpo.com.
This year's nominated titles are as follows:
BEST ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• A High Resolution Music Experience; Various Artists [AIX Records]
• Guero; Beck [IGA/Interscope]
• Rumor Mill; The Carl Verheyen Band [AIX Records]
• Running on Empty; Jackson Browne [Rhino Entertainment]
• Sheafs are Dancing/tancolnak a kazlak; Djabe [Gramy Records]
The Surround Music Awards honor the year's finest surround music productions, and are part of the Surround 2005 Conference and Showcase, which takes place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on December 15-16, 2005.
For more information on the Surround Music Awards and the Surround 2005 Conference and Showcase, visit www.surroundexpo.com.
[11.15.2005] Out now!
Djabe - Slices of Life - CD - GR-063
The long awaited new Djabe studio album has released.
This music based on the Sheafs album's style, but became more dynamic and structured.
The main composer is Tamás Barabás again.
Ben Castle beautifully played the saxophone parts on the recordings. The band gives its best on this excellent album again.
Djabe will be on tour with this material in Hungary between 24th of February and 4th of March.
Slices of Life tour 2006 02/24/2006 - Szolnok
02/25/2006 - Debrecen
02/26/2006 - Miskolc
02/28/2006 - Pécs
03/01/2006 - Veszprém
03/02/2006 - Mosonmagyaróvár
03/03/2006 - Budapest
03/04/2006 - Keszthely
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[09.28.2005] Djabe concert will be broadcasted by the Bayerisher Rundfunk alpha
On the 2nd of October, at 21.15 (GMT+1) the Munich BR alpha television will broadcast the Djabe concert which was recorded at the Burghausen Jazzwoche 2005 on 15th of April.
Please check your local cabel network provider.
The successful concert was held on the stage of Wackerhalle. This was the last night when Tóth Viktor alto sax player - who had been worked for one year with the band -played with Djabe.
Don't miss this unique performance of Djabe which will be presented in 5.1 surround sound.
[09.19.2005] 9:30 Collective - Momentary Fame
The story of The 9:30 Collective dates back to 1998, when the band released its first album in Hungary, which received an unusually intensive media response for a jazz album. The teeming lineup has only made a limited number of live appearances, one of which was at the first Hungarian Jazz Festival. The show was televised in a separate program on National TV.
[09.07.2005] Djabe - Goes to festivals
Very shortly Djabe will finish its new studio album, The Slices of Life. However, compositions can be heard from the new CD before the actual publishing in November the 2nd, as the opening songs of the Djabe go to festivals. Besides the two latest compositions, a 26 minute concert recording is being placed onto the record, which was recorded at selected festivals, from the mixing board. The set contains local introductions of the band's most memorable moments of the Djabe festival from Rochester, Kaunas, Burghausen, Pori and Stockholm.
Djabe plays in Stockholm
at
Skeppsholmen Stora stage
[07.29.2005] Finnish and Sweedish jazz fans are fascinated by Djabe
Djabe stepped on the stage of the Pori Jazz festival,
celebrating its 40 th jubilee on a bright sunny evening.
The momentum and freshness of the one-hour-concert,
which started at 8 o’clock in the evening, and
its Hungarian characteristic captivated the audience,
who welcomed the compositions and solos with continuous
frenetic applause.
In the 21 of July program of Pori
world class stars like Charlie Haden, Jamie Cullumn
and Kenny Garrett stood on the stage.
Stockholm Jazz
2005, the other world wide known festival was a great
success as well in the life of Djabe. The huge stage
was set up on the Isle of Skeppsholmen, in the heart
of Stockholm. In front of it was the auditorium, where
approximately 5,000 people could sit down or stand
while viewing the concert.
After the stormy concert
the audience of Stockholm attacked the CD stand, later
a crowd was standing in front of the dedication tent.
From among the brand new enthusiastic Djabe fans
it was exclaimed that Djabe’s performance was
the best, while on the 23rd of July such stars as Johnny
Griffin, Toots Thielemans, Lisa Nilsson, Didier Lockwood
and Peter Cincotti also performed and the day before
the last performance, Lee Ritenour, Roy Haynes, Lauryn
Hill and John Abercrombie.
Djabe gives a concert next in Bulgaria at the international
Bansko Jazz festival.
[2005.06.17] Steve
Hackett - Live archive 05
Recorded at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on the 3rd April 2005 during the recent
Acoustic Trio Tour
This 2 CD set features the entire show, including song introductions from Steve,
John, and Roger, allowing you to enjoy the full audio experience from a virtual
front-row seat!
As Steve says, he is also his own support act in as much as the first half of
the show is simply Steve and guitar. The trio is then completed with the addition
of John Hackett on flute, and Roger King on keyboards when they join Steve for
the second half.
'Metamorpheus' is the natural successor to Steve's
last orchestral album, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
The album is a musical expression of the legend of
Orpheus and his passage through the Underworld, combining nylon guitar with
orchestra, seamlessly linking the small and large
musical forces
Packaged in a jewelcase with 16 page booklet inside a deluxe card slipcase
[2005.03.16] New
vinyl version of the "Sketches of Satie" album
from 2000
Limited edition, manufactured and imported from Hungary
Get 'em while you can!
"...John and I had long talked about a project involving Satie's music. Would
it require an orchestra or could we use the full tonal range of our own two favoured
instruments to create a sound canvas worthy of the keyboard-based writing? Either
way it would be a return to our musical roots when we first became aware of 'Atmospheric'
music, brave enough to remain rhythmically static yet all the more poignant precisely
because of that 'held-back' quality. There always was a love of music in the
family home but not specifically the 'Classical' tradition - I'd say we found
our way to this music ourselves without being pushed. For us, Satie was definitely
a man ahead of his time. Unlikely modulations abound and the Minimalists were
to take from him as would Jazz, and where would 'Ambient' music be without his
example?
I can't fully describe my delight and joy that the sessions went so well and
that the album, long overdue, is now complete. I may be sticking my neck out
here but I don't believe John has ever sounded in finer form, he was obviously
born to play Satie - as I am sure you'll agree!
Horgas Eszter, the well known and popular flutist prepared
a special gift for the Christmas of 2004: she introduces
herself from a completly new side to the guaranteed wider range of audience.
The greatest
hits were recorded to her new album, in a fresh, exacting
sound engineering manner.
[02.15.2008]
Djabe: Message from the Road
Djabe - Sheafs were dancing
Djabe gigs in Europe this autumn!
Recieving possibilities:
The Sheafs are Dancing DVD-Audio is nominated for Surround Music Award 2005 in the Best additional features category! 
Out now!
Djabe concert will be broadcasted by the Bayerisher Rundfunk alpha
9:30 Collective - Momentary Fame
Djabe - Goes to festivals
Steve
Hackett - Live archive 05
Steve
Hackett - Metamorpheus 
New
vinyl version of the "Sketches of Satie" album
from 2000
Horgas
Eszter's new album out now
