Úzgin Űver
99

  • Format: CD
  • Band: Úzgin Űver
  • Title: 99
  • Band's Origin: HU
  • Style: instrumental psychedelic Rock, World Music
  • Rating: 4
  • Release Year: 2015
  • Recording Year: 1999?
  • Production Year: 1999/2015 C
  • Record Company: Lollipop Shop
  • Item's Number: LSCD 013
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  • EAN: 4024572797614
  • Weight: 84 g
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  • Visual: new
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  • Cover: new

Lollipop Shop Release Information



99 is the second album by the Hungarian alternative folk group Úzgin Űver. The album was originally released on Bahia Records, Budapest, in 1999. It had been long out of print, before it was remastered from the original DAT-tape in 2014.

99 reflects Peter Homoki’s obsessive attempts to alter, mix and manipulate fragments of the band’s recorded material. The result were complex and hard to categorize nameless compositions, few of them meant to be played live.

A hybrid mixture of Eastern folk, ambient, ethno drones and psychedelic trance with Marcsi Farkas violin play being the only discernible “Hungarian” sounding element. Balkan, Turkish, Armenian, Persian or central Asian themes and influences augmented by hardware sampling experiments (sampler, HD-recorder).

This approach might resemble or recall Lazlo Hortobagy’s work, however Úzgin Űver sound being less dramatic, sacral or esoteric.

One track of the album (99/V) was featured on the Wire’s Eastern European Compilation in late 1999.

The band’s music has been compared to artist such Omar Faruk Tekbilek (TUR), the Sund of Arqa (UK) or Bill Laswell’s projects Sacred Sound System and Tabla Beat Science.

Úzgin Űver was formed 1991 in Kescemet. The name, deriving from an ancient Mongolian settlement, translates as “waterless territory”or “poor harvest”.

The band represents a similar but different facet of Hungarian alternative/indie music of the 1990s, which gained international reputation through the tireless touring efforts of bands such as Masfel, Trottel’s Stereo Dream, VHK or Korai Öröm. They shared Korai Öröm’s woodwind shaman Miklos Paiz in their early line up.

The band toured extensively with the international renowned Kescement Puppet Theater including Iran and China, composing and performing their soundtracks (documented by the band’s 3rd album for Bahia Records in 2002).

Peter Homoki works as a dj and presenter for the freeform independent Radio Tilos in Budapest. He is specialized in dub, world beats, Chinese and Middle Eastern music.

Marcsi Farkas: violin, vocals
Peter Homoki: guitar, keyboards, sampler, percussions, vocals
Gyula Majoros: clarinet, flutes, kaval, zurna, gaida, duduk, vocals
Miklós Paizs: fuyara pipes, Jew’s harp, hosepipe trumpet, throat singing
Produced by Peter Homoki


Tracklist



1. I 0:20
2. II 8:38
3. III 6:22
4. IV 0:37
5. V 5:01
6. VI 4:59
7. VII 2:36
8. VIII 1:52
9. IX 6:28
10. X 3:10
11. XI 0:45
12. XII 2:00
13. XIII 5:22
14. XIV 1:20
15. XV 5:07
16. XVI 1:17
17. XVII 4:13
18. XVIII 1:04
19. XIX 3:53
20. XX 1:42