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Danubians

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This is strange but compelling music performed live by Seattle musician Amy Denio (accordion, saxophone, guitar bass), the Czech drummer Pavel Fajt, and Hungarians Csaba Hajnoczy (guitar and bass) and Gabi Kenderesi (violin). The music is a hybrid of folk, jazz, rock, and electronic music. It is always full of energy, but never seems to take itself too seriously. These are four musicians having big fun playing together, and the listener is going to have big fun, too. At a time when so much "rock" music seems so trite and commercial, the Danubians are truly a breath of fresh air blowing in from the east. I'll take Amy any day over Britney, Christina, or Madonna!

Amy Denio is a living treasure here in Seattle, a City that barely knows what to make of her. This release is a stunning project she did with a bunch of Magyars, (Hungarians) and I'll probably end up eating it in my CD player as it is so utterly charming.

Every cut has its compelling charm and the flow of it all is exceptional. I thanked old Feigenbaum for putting it out.

It essentially welds elements of knitting factoryish experimental music to traditional Hungarian folkloric noise.

And her Magyar is impeccable as she sings. You have to know Amy's voice to be able to tell her from Gabi Kenderesi, an actual Hungarian, on the opening charm loaded cut, Mirror Talk.

To me, Magyar is one of the planets most beautiful languages even though I only understand a few words of it. I own nearly everything Muszikas ever put out and helped some other remarkable Magyars, Ujstilus, years ago.

I'm sure Marta Sebestyan would approve and I hope Amy had time to hang with Csaba Okros when she worked on this.