Tárkány Művek | ar

EDDA is a highly successful Hungarian rock band formed in 1974 under the name "EDDA Művek". The word "művek" (works) symbolizes the band originally starting off its career in Miskolc, a typical Central European industrial city also dubbed as "Steel City" EDDA's catchy, melodic rock tunes and touching ballads primarily focus on the social and emotional life of youth. Love, loneliness, alienation, friendship and spirituality. The band performs more than one hundred shows annually throughout Hungary and surrounding Hungarian communities around the Carpathian Basin. However, the energetic and inventive musicianship that EDDA's known for, is best reflected through their dynamic...

Tárkány Művek plays an organic mix of traditional Hungarian music and contemporary improvistional music that is called jazz nowadays. The main connection is the element of improvisation in both music. In a longer term we try to bring the two styles closer to each other and try to create hungarian contemporary improvisational music based on the living traditions. Most themes are traditional Hungarian folk songs, some are Romanian. The lyrics are writen by Bálint Tárkány-Kovács, the leader of the band, but some text are traditional or writen by the great poet János Pilinszky. The tunes are arranged by Bálint Tárkány-Kovács....