Hungarian Albummm! #11 Rapülők: Geszti Péter
Hungarian Albummm! #11 Rapülők: Geszti Péter
This programme is held is Hungarian.
A Hungarian Albummm! series listens to records in the presence of the author or performer, recalling their own experiences, at the Library of the House of Music, from whose ever-expanding record collection we selected the albums, and which thus becomes a playroom for a major domestic music record at the series' events. This time the Rapülők 1992 classic debut pop-rap album is put on the turntable, and the host Horváth Gergely 's guest will be the former band's frontman, Geszti Péter.
"What’s this swagger, when the point is who you look like and who you perform for, since you stop being twenty and you stop being forty, and you fade away slowly, beautifully and quietly…"
When on the morning of the regime change Rapülők burst in supersonically with their reworking of LGT’s song "Nem adom fel", it could not yet be known that the lyricist-rapper protagonist, Geszti Péter, would make the line from the song that soon became a classic his artistic ars poetica. So much so that Rapülők, as a "play without stakes" and a "cheerful system glitch", became one of the comet-like phenomena of Hungarian pop music, demonstrating that the marriage of rap and pop can be successful in the mainstream in Hungarian too, while raising the domestic standards of professional showbusiness so high that we still see stars. The question arises: if you are past forty and past fifty, who do you look like and who do you perform for? And is the Party Zone still playing?
Albummm: RAPÜLŐK: RAPÜLŐK (1992)
Guest: Geszti Péter
Host: Horváth Gergely
If we still remember how we listened to music when Little Richard sang on shiny black records, then we also know what record playing gave to music fans: time dedicated to listening, deep attention, lyrics to browse and memorable covers. And even more, because the medium itself influenced songwriting; the A and B side markings of singles already raised the question of the priority and order of songs, which brought about the birth and application of the musical or conceptual idea that organizes the whole album. A record is a tangible object that strongly shapes the personal relationship with songwriters and performers as well. We revive the ritual of record listening by jointly listening to albums by domestic artists that in some way contributed excitingly to the history of Hungarian popular music.
Those of us who still remember how we used to listen to music back when Little Richard sang from shiny black vinyl discs also know what playing records gave music fans: time dedicated to listening to the music with deep absorption, printed lyrics to browse and memorable album covers. And there was even more, because the medium itself influenced the songwriting: the very designation of sides A and B of singles raised the question of the priority and order of the songs, which brought with it the genesis and application of the musical or ideological concept that served as the organising principle behind the entire album.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
