Söndörgő
Söndörgő, led by the Eredics brothers, is one of the most active and interesting world music groups in Hungary.
They play a style of music that is hugely attractive, but little known and quite different to the traditional, fiddle-led Hungarian repertoire. Their aim is to foster and preserve Southern Slavic traditions of the Serbs and Croats as found in various settlements in Hungary.
In contrast to most groups playing Balkan music, Söndörgő does not play brass band music, but is a tamburitza band. The tambura is a small and agile plucked instrument similar to the mandolin, which is sometimes supplemented by wind instruments and accordion.
The three Eredics brothers and their cousin come from a village on the Danube near Budapest called Szentendre. It is a centre of South Slav traditions in Hungary, which lends a distinctive flavour to the plucked tambura music.
Their new album ‘Tamburising – Lost Music of the Balkans’ features virtuoso dance melodies from the gypsy maestro József Kovács, leader of the Mohács tambura orchestra in the south of the country, and great vocals from Antal Kovács and Kátya Tompos.
Join them in discovering the delicate beauty and effervescent power of a different Balkan sound.