This is a very special album. Time travelling to the past to hear samples from original Phonograph Cylinder recordings of Béla Bartók from 1909-1910. And the same tunes at Pure DSD 256 recordings of the Attacca World Music Band from 2022.

Béla Bartók worked tirelessly to collect and study the folk music of the surrounding peoples. He looked for ancient, old-style melodies: those that were the most typical of different ethnicities. He found these in peasant communities where, in the early 20th century, people still led a traditional form of life. He also examined how neighboring communities influenced each other’s folk music. From 1909 to 1918 he collected nearly 3,500 Romanian instrumental and vocal melodies.

The music you will hear on Attacca World Music’s Bihar album uses this abundant collection as source material. Our musical interpretations were inspired by the instrumental and vocal melodies that Béla Bartók collected in Bihor county. The album also contains the arrangements of a few Hungarian folk melodies from Transylvanian Hungarians. Folksongs, a shared work by Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, was originally published in 1923. The arrangements combine authentic folk music elements from the Carpathian Basin with our own world music sound.

This is a Pure DSD 256 Stereo album. Available exclusively in its original recorded format of Pure DSD 256 Stereo, as well as Stereo DSD 512, DSD 128, and DSD 64. It is not available on SACD.

Attacca World Music
Eszter Suranyi – Vocals
Lili Trager – Vocals
Veronika Szekely – Violin
Daniel Mester – Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Csaba Hetessy – Piano, Keyboards
Tamas Gyanyi – Double Bass
Zoltan Bordas – Percussion

Special Guest
Kalman Balogh – Dulcimer