Canarro: New York – Paris is published
Canarro is one of Hungary’s finest manouche swing bands, their career started as a street musician duo, and since then, as a five-member band, they have taken their place on the stages of MÜPA and SZIGET, boasting numerous international successes. Their favorite venues are still the stages of small clubs, where the audience can experience the immediacy of their music. Canarro’s new album is available on Fóno’s webshop and distributors.
After a concert, one fan described the band as follows: “When I listen to Canarro, it’s as if the old musical clubs and elegant salons of New York, Paris, Budapest come alive again, and these distant worlds meet on one stage.”
The title of their album was derived from this apt phrase, with guest artists from the 19th century, they evoke the atmosphere of Budapest, New York and Paris from the beginning of the past. Báró Maszkura, Lilla Orbay and Izabella Caussanel contribute to the album with their vocals, as well as Vilmos Lakatos Jr., who is almost a permanent member, joined them on a few songs on solo guitar. it is rare that both solo guitarists are present at the concert, but the album also includes two songs in which you can witness a virtuoso “guitar duel” performed by Viktor Jakab and Attila Sidoo.
The interesting thing about the new material is that, in addition to jazz standards written in the style of Django Reinhardt, it also includes four own songs, compositions by Szabolcs Bíró, Jakab Viktor and Zoltán Marosi.
“I like Canarro’s sophisticated soundscape and I can honestly say that the Hungarian speakers are the tastiest, which can be a delicate question for a foreign musical style – although as a confirmation of my ears – they still represent manouche swing in a very homely way. It was an experience to be able to associate with the record material, to work together with excellent musicians, as a dreaded common built-in treasure, with the pulsation of manouche swing on Canarro’s latest record. (Szabolcs Bíró “Mask”)
Canarro: New York – Paris – Budapest
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Tamás Szakál – violin/violin, vocals/vocals
Jakab Viktor. guitar/guitar
Márton Soós – double bass/double bass
Attila Sidoo – guitar/guitar
Zoltán Marosi – accordion/accordion
Guests:
Izabella Caussanel and Orbay Lilla (Ephemere duo) – vocals/vocals
Szabolcs Bíró (Maszkura) – vocals/vocals, accordion/accordion
Vilmos Lakatos – guitar/guitar
1. Russian lullaby (Irving Berlin) 3.23
2. Guilty (Richard Whiting | Harry Akst | Gus Kahn) 3.46
3. Goodbye dear (Viktor Jakab) 2.35
4. Je Suis Seule Ce Soir (Jean Sablon) 3.16
5. Joseph Joseph (Sammy Cahn | Saul Chaplin) 2.36
6. After You’ve Gone (Henry Creamer | Turner Layton) 3.01
7. Paris under the sky (Hubert Giraud | Kim Gannon) 3.23
8. Lady Be Good (George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin) 2.48
9. On Margaret Island (Szabolcs Bíró (Masquerade) | to the poem by Géza Gárdonyi) 3.13
10. I count (Judge Szabolcs (Maszkura)) 3.17
11. J’attendrai (Dino Olivieri text: Nino Rastelli, Hungarian: Kálmán Kovách) 3.12
12. Z Musette (Zoltán Marosi) 3.42
13. Them There Eyes (Maceo Pinkard | Doris Tauber) 4.00
14. On the sunny side of the street (Jimmy McHugh | Dorothy Fields) 3.56
15. Ménilmontant (Charles Trenet) 3.29
The recordings were made by sound engineer Attila Mazán at Csend Studio.