Berlin-Budapest Express: The Marvellous Journeys of Huba and Vazul

The Berlin-Budapest Express will pull up for the second time at the House of Music in September, with artists and forward-looking music from Berlin, Budapest and other European cities with cross-genre performers presenting innovative music. On Friday 15 September, Catalan artpop star Marina Herlop and Slovenian avant-folk trio Širom, whose 2022 album really put them on the map, are performing on the opening day of the autumn event. Stepping up to play on Saturday 16 September are the spacey, electronic-ambient, minimalist American performing artist-singer-clarinettist Holland Andrews, and London-based experimental techno producer-DJ-songwriter Beatrice Dillon. Both days will close with free open-air concerts: on Friday the improvisational psychedelic group Huba és Vazul csodálatos utazásai / Huba and Vazul's Marvellous Journeys are taking to the stage; while on Saturday a group of Moldovan musicians, Kalagor, are playing. The Berlin-Budapest Express weekend is organised by the House of Music Hungary in cooperation with the Berlin-based cultural organisation Digital in Berlin with the aim of connecting two culturally vibrant European capitals and creating a forum for cross-genre exchanges and innovative musical activities.

Huba and Vazul's Marvellous Journeys
Huba and Vazul's fundamentally blues-rooted, highly improvisational, trippy psychedelic music is made even more special by exciting instruments, objects, and performative musical features. Their songs are sometimes fully acoustic, sometimes transformed with electronic effects. The meditative and pensive moods of the pieces unfurl to create space for the magic of the moment and then, with elegant simplicity, slam into the listener's face. Typically, the duo has played in unusual venues all across Europe, but because of its made-in-the-moment character, their music never sounds the same twice. Vazul is a virtuoso accordionist who plays many other instruments, and whose passion for playing is unmistakable, his trippy music explores different worlds, and his unique instruments are often played through effects and loops. Huba is an omnipresent figure on the Hungarian underground music scene and has played guitar and bass in many bands. The most prominent of which are Napokon, Seen, Soulbreakers, Esclin Syndo, QJÚB. The duo released their album Szét Vissza Szerte Össze [Apart Back Over Together] in 2022, which summarizes their 17 years’ worth of mutual journeying.