BMC Live | JÜ | Live Session at Budapest Music Center

BMC Live presents JÜ
Live Session at Budapest Music Center

00:00 Oak
04:12 Ash
11:34 Thorn
12:50 Shashka
15:08 Minerva

JÜ
Ernő Hock – bass guitar
Ádám Mészáros – guitar
Szilveszter Miklós - drums
with
Dóra Györfi - vocals
Gábor Kitzinger - visuals

Jü, formed in 2012, has become, by now, one of the most exciting jazz acts on the Hungarian music scene.
With each successive release, the world of the Budapest-based trio band seems to become exponentially larger and encompass an ever-expanding range of vibrant and startling influences.
More than anything, their music reflects a core drive to explore traditions and ideas from far-flung corners of the world, returning with a vital and pulse-quickening sound accented by countless disparate influences yet singularly possessing its own boldly uncategorizable voice.
By pushing their instruments to new limits, the members push their entranced audiences from the constantly flowing present into the future. The band opens minds with their clean, open approach and spirited improvisation, always pushing each other and the limits of the composition, but never allowing the structure to fall apart.
Blending elements of world music, experimental jazz and rock, a vast variety of progressive and traditional musics, bleeding-edge electronica and ancient folk, it is an exhilarating sum even more profound and pulse-quickening than its already brilliant parts.
The straightforward title of their latest RareNoise Records release III reflects the basic fact that this is their third outing as a band and also the tripartite nature of the collective trio. But it also harkens to something mystical and elusive about the number three, a quality of arcane mystery reflected in the number’s vital importance in cultures across the globe.
On III that sound is marked by the now-familiar whirlwind of blistering rock, dizzying prog, ferocious free jazz, mesmerizing ambient textures and alluring Eastern European rhythms. This time out, a strong influence from Southeast Asia bleeds its own way into the mix, particularly the gamelan music of Indonesia and the ecstatic devotional songs of India. The mysticism and spiritual intensity of this music melds with the band’s immersive potency to conjure an overwhelming sound of compelling complexity and breathtaking vigor.

The creation of this live video recording was supported by PKÜ – Petőfi Kulturális Ügynökség / Petőfi Cultural Agency, Hungary.

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