Product Description
The box contains one triple LP and one CD from each band.
Panta Rhei: 50 – 3LP
Djabe with Chieli Minucci: Tour of Waterfalls – 3LP
Panta Rhei: Echoes Of The Past – CD
Djabe: The Magic Stag In Debrecen – CD
The 3LP entitled Panta Rhei: 50 was recorded in 2022 in Budapest, at their oeuvre concert at the MOMkult . The live album features the most important pieces of the band’s career, progressive compositions, Bartók, Mussorgsky and other classical covers, the most beautiful songs of PR Computer and Enikő Ács’ poetry songs. The sixth side of the album is a real musical delicacy, three compositions from the concert recorded at the last performance of the classic line-up of Panta Rhei in 1982.
The Djabe triple 180 gram vinyl is a recording of the 2024 Tour Of Waterfalls with Chieli Minucci. The concert was recorded at the Budapest Jazz Club using 24-track analogue technology. Thanks to the excellent recording and the world-renowned sound engineering work of Tamás Barabás, the result is once again an audiophile quality record. The six sides contain the complete concert material, mostly Djabe compositions, given a new impulse and sound by Chieli Minucci. The rest of the album features Chieli Minucci’s compositions, mostly Special EFX tracks. The musical quality and unique sound of Djabe gave these recordings a new breath. Minucci has praised the band, the concerts and the recording.
The CD of Panta Rhei: Echoes Of The Past is a special piece of music, as the recordings were started in the late 90s by the original members of the band, Csaba Béke, Kálmán Matolcsy and the Szalay brothers. Matolcsy’s death in 2004 caused them to stop work, but a few years ago they decided to finish the album. The young musicians who joined the band in 2017 also played a part in making it happen. What fans will get is an unadulterated Panta Rhei album that spans the ages.
The CD produced by Djabe is also a missing piece, as there is no release of The Magic Stag’s 2021 album tour yet. This is a concert recording which was made at the Liszt Hall of the University of Debrecen in 2021. With the exception of two tracks, all the tracks from The Magic Stag album is performed. The original studio album featured several guest musicians, Ferenc Muck on saxophone, Tibor Karvaly on violin and László Szabó on sitar. All the three player took part in the premiere tour, so on more than one occasion, eight musicians can be heard on stage.
The hardcover box is a very elegant, and the accompanying LP booklet gives detailed information about the project. The release is available at a very reasonable price.
Tracklist
Panta Rhei: 50 – 3LP
Side A
1. Alfa Centauri
2. Stratus
3. Toccata
Side B
1. Jól Hangolt Computer / Well Tempered Computer
2. Gyémántok / Diamonds
3. Öreganyó / Frail Old Lady
4. Lidérc / Will-O-The-Wisp
5. Téli Dal / Winter Song
6. Felemás Ôszi Ének / Strange Autumn Lines
Side C
1. Paprikajancsi / Harlequin
2. Román Táncok / Romanian Dances
3. Andromeda
4. Mandarin
Side D
1. Kardtánc / Sabre Dance
2. Lavina / Avalanche
3. A Kijevi Nagykapu / The Great Gate Of Kiev
Side E
1. Peer Gynt Szvit / Peer Gynt Suite
Side F
1. Kvartok / Fourths
2. Napkitörés / Solar Flare
3. Táncszvit / Dance Suite
Musicians
Panta Rhei (2022):
Enikő Ács – vocal, acoustic guitar
András Kálmán – keyboards
Mátyás Milkovics – synthesizers
András Szalay – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, guitar synthesizer, vocal
Dániel Szalay – drums
Sándor Szalay – guitar
Guests:
Miklós Felkai – guitar (a/2, b/4,5, C/4, D/2)
Rotunda Vocal Choir (D/3, e/1)
Panta Rhei (1982):
Csaba Béke – drums, vocal
Kálmán Matolcsy – keyboards
András Szalay – bass guitar, bass synthesizer
Djabe with Chieli Minucci: Tour of Waterfalls – 3LP
Side A
Waterfall
Sunday Afternoon
Daybreak
Side B
Island
Deep Lights
Side C
Without You
Buzzy Island
Side D
Waterfall
Before
Beginnings / Nature Boy
Side E
Speak To Me
Bodybeat
Side F
4000
Lava Lamp
Musicians
Chieli Minucci – guitar
Tamás Barabás – bass guitar
Attila Égerházi – guitar, percussion
Péter Kaszás – drums, vocal
Zoltán Bubenyák – keyboards
Zoltán Zana – saxophone, EWI
Panta Rhei: Echoes Of The Past – CD
1. Help Is On The Way
2. Don’t Cry For Me
3. Dreamer
4. Wind On A Hill
5. Firefly
6. Echoes Of The Past
7. Black Mamba
8. Waltz In The Dark
9. Rainy Day
10. Pacifico
11. Smile
12. Smoky Blue
13. Fish Scale
Musicians
Csaba Béke – drums
Kálmán Matolcsy – keyboards
József Nagy – flute
András Szalay – bass
Dániel Szalay – drums
Sándor Szalay – guitar
Guest:
Gábor Lippényi – keyboards (3,4,12)
Djabe: The Magic Stag In Debrecen – CD
1. In Gyimes
2. Beginning Of Legends
3. The Magic Stag
4. Soaring Hills
5. Two Little Snowflakes
6. Power Of Wings
7. Uncertain Time
8. In Memoriam Szapi
9. Lava Lamp
10. Rising Horizon
11. Far Away
12. Down By The Lakeside
Musicians
Tamás Barabás – bass guitar
Attila Égerházi – guitar, percussion
Péter Kaszás – drums, vocal
Áron Koós-Hutás – trumpet, flugelhorn
János Nagy – keyboards
Ferenc Muck – saxophone, EWI
László Szabó – sitar, guitar
Tibor Karvaly – electric violin