Hungarian Albummm! #14 - Péterfy Bori & Love Band: Medúza
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Hungarian Albummm! #14 - Péterfy Bori & Love Band: Medúza
This programme is held in Hungarian.
In the Magyar Albummm! series we listen 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-growing record collection we selected the albums, and which thus becomes a playhouse for a prominent domestic record at each event of the series. This time the Péterfy Bori & Love Band Medúza titled 2025 latest album will be put on the turntable, and the host Gergely Horváth’s guest will be the main figure, Péterfy Bori.
"Football football football football, soup soup soup soup, cigar cigar cigar cigar, hush."
The young women are outspokenly playful, while the Love Band molds a noir-pop art world from the neon lights of Budapest’s nightlife, the underground of the eighties and today’s alternative pop, where body and soul argue with one another as the songs flow into each other like a long, unsettling dream. The heroine not only captivates but is herself trapped: at once a femme fatale and an enclosed personality. She sings of lies, a toxic relationship, love turned to stone — and of the moment when all of it can nevertheless be let go.
Albummm: Péterfy Bori & Love Band: MEDÚZA (2024.)
Guest: Péterfy Bori
Host: Gergely Horváth
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 to music, deep attention, lyrics to browse and memorable covers. And even more, because the medium itself influenced songwriting; even the A- and B-side designation of singles raised the question of the priority and order of songs, which brought with it the birth and application of the musical or conceptual idea that organizes the whole album. A record is a tangible, hand-held object that powerfully shapes the personal relationship with authors and performers as well. We revive the ritual of record listening with joint listening sessions of albums by domestic artists that have in some way made an exciting contribution 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
