Sandor Szabo
Acoustic Poetry
© 2005 Sandor Szabo
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Acoustic guitar muisc based on Hungarian folk music enriched with improvised elements
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Sándor Szabó......guitar artist, improviser, composer
Born in 1956 in Törökszentmiklós, Hungary, he started his studies with a private teacher of classical guitar. After trying different styles from the middle of the seventies, he began to focus on improvisation. His career started in 1980. Since the acoustic guitar has no tradition in the Hungarian music culture, playing acoustic guitar and composing for guitar was not an acknowledged and respected art. That is why he could achieve results mainly abroad with his playing, through playing techniques of different stringed instruments, with his modern pieces, and deep spirituality. His records has been released in England, USA, Germany and Hungary. Sandor Szabo made three solo albums for the german Acoustic Music Records.
In his music he blends the classical forms with meditative mood of the Eastern music, Hungarian folk musical elements and improvisation that he inherited from jazz. The athmosphere of his concerts is intimate and personal.
Up to now, Szabó is repeatedly toured throughout Europe and also performed several times in the USA and Japan, Korea as a fingerstyle guitar player. He also did some master classes in the US and France of his special harmony concept. He is a master of playing 16 string, fretless and baritone guitars.
Sandor Szabo is continously working in his homeland to educate the audience for the acoustic guitar music. He is one of the organizer of the annual Internatioanal Acousticguitar Festival in Hungary.
"If you hear the Hungarian guitarist Sándor Szabó for the first time, you will think that you are discovering the guitar completely anew during every listening minute. You will be fascinated as you discover that Szabó does not simply let us have a glimpse of foreign tonal worlds and cultures through some tiny windows. Instead, he draws us into his own musical macrocosmosm in a gentle but all the more compelling manner. And there is truly much to be discovered here: inspiration from the Near East and Far East, a new awareness of his own Hungarian traditions of folk music, classical concepts of form, as well as much, much space for the free flow of thoughts and ideas- improvisation. Not only is Szabó ˘s musical vocabulary unusual: in addition to the ˛ conventional ˛ guitar, the Hungarian also plays instruments with 8, 13, even 16 strings and frequently relies on custom-made designs with special ˛ Eastern ˛ sound. Szabó succeeds in something that is a rare feat in music: he astonishes the listener, he is the seducer who every listener with a slight penchant for what is special is only all too willing to follow."
1997 Winter Catalog, Acoustic Music Records
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Really nice, worth many listenings.
author: Rikki DonachieA very beautiful and calming sound. The baritone guitar leaves a very peaceful impression. The compositions are all interesting enough to bear out many repeated listenings. Highly reccomended.
This is a fantasitc buy for the baritone guitar lover
author: rjSzabo is a master at his craft and his work with Samba has shown that, but this is a pleasant departure that mixes his jazz influences with traditional hungarian works in a beautiful collection. His gentleness with the baritone guitar reminds one early of Metheny's One Quiet Night, but then travels a road only Szabo knows. A great buy for the solo accoustic lover.