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Interview with

Hidden Orchestra

Hidden Orchestra (UK) /// Vinnie Who (DK) /// Kuriya Makoto (JP) /// A.Skillz (UK) /// Steamroller

(USA) /// Pfirter (ARG) /// Kerekes Band (HU) /// Orchestra of Spheres (NZL) /// Anathema (UK)

Levellers (UK) /// Stranded Horse (FR) /// Tech Itch (UK) /// Belleruche (UK) /// Zeds Dead (CDN)

Hidden Orchestra have just started their European tour which includes their first time Hungarian live show at A38. Now frontman Joe Acheson, responsible for bass and original samples gave us an interview about the band’s works, methods and expectations, and also tells us about their brand new album, Archipelago.

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Vinnie Who is a prodigy from copenhagen, Denmark, who re-corded his first disco-pop songs with his mobile phone. After tak-ing over Europe with his dance hits Remedy and What You Got Is Mine, he started touring with the six-piece Vinnie Who band.Also in this night, Hungarian indie supergroup We Are Rockstars release their brand new EP. Their singer Ligeti Gyuri is known from The Puzzle and the band Zagar, but now focuses on this up-and-coming pop-rock project. Experience W.A.R., Vinnie, indie pop band carbovaris and djs Dictator & Hussar at the first Sound/Effect show!

Technokunst, Budapest’s favourite techno club series invites the best producers from month to month to present us what they know and have that makes them outstanding in a scene so satu-rated. Juan Pablo Pfirter is from Argentina, but made his way to Europe’s greatest clubs like Berghain and publishes at labels like cLR, Stroboscopic Artefacts, or his own MindTrip Records. He creates minimal techno and just made an EP with Monoloc. His name is next to techno-gods like Tommy four Seven, Lucy or Luke Slater (who will be the series’ guest next month...).

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We Are Rockstars (HU), Vinnie Who (DK),carbovaris (HU), Dictator & Hussar (HU)

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Pfirter (ARG)Isu (HU), Dork (HU),látvány: Kiégő Izzók

café Budapest festival and A38 bring you Edinburgh’s most interesting band working with organic samples. Started as Joe Acheson quartet, the band with two drummers, bass and violin soon expanded to be Hidden Orchestra - a full live band with guest musicians at each performance. Their second studio al-bum, Archipelago comes out on 1 October, and - like its ancestor, Night Walks - will be an ethereal mix of jazz, electro and classical music.Their support will be Sonar, who combine ambient music with psychedelic electronica.

Experimental disco from New-Zealand? Sounds like fun! Take the 70s funky and psychedelic music, stir it up in a pot of free jazz and pour some self-made instruments in it like the noto-rious “sexmouse marimba” and wear the craziest outfits ever. Now you have Orchestra of Spheres, a dance collective who are only willing to entertain - both you and themselves of course. They just finished their second album, so we’ll get all fresh and funky at the show!Before them, a nonetheless loony Hungarian band, turning the 90s electropop upside-down.

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Hidden Orchestra (UK), Sonar (HU)Purchase a combined ticket for the Hidden Orchestra and the Orchestra of Spheres shows for only 3000 HUf.Have an English-style dinner at our restau-rant before the show! (see page 6) for an exclusive interview, see page 5.

Orchestra of Spheres (NLZ)Quantum cowboysPurchase a combined ticket for the Hidden Orchestra and the Orchestra of Spheres shows for only 3000 HUf.

Elektro-funk from Holland at its best! Kraak & Smaak are playing live, and they never disappoint the Hungarian audience. Attend-ing their show is a matter of prestige - one can not simply miss Kraak & Smaak. The warm-up band will be the Hungarian talents, The Bras, who will make you dance with two singers, a guitar, a saxophone and a DJ!

Kraak&Smaaklive band (NL)The Bras (HU) Have a Dutch-style dinner at our restaurant before the show! (see page 5)

Levellers are back! After 20 years of music making, they are still full of energy and ideas, at the moment touring with their Static on Airwaves album. This anti-capitalist and openly anarchist band have performed on Glastonbury’s main stage, have their own festival called Beautiful Days, and now they are bringing Brighton folk-punk to Budapest!On this evening, you can also hear finnegan’s Wake, a young Hungarian band who are not just keen on Irish music but they play it whole-heartedly.

Levellers (UK)finnegan’s Wake (HU)Have an English-style dinner at our restaurant before the show! (see page 5)

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Interested in Hungarian traditions but not the conservative kind? Kerekes Band brings you “betyár” rock and roll, and - whatever that means - “csángó” boogie. flute, lute and viola and other Hungarian instruments are playing modern melodies to get all the country dancing! After hit singles Ethno funk and Mr. Hungary, these guys know for sure how to make our folk music sound like a Western pop song with a bit of exotic savor.

Kerekes Band (HU)+ guestHave a Hungarian-style dinner at our restaurant before the show! (see page 5)

Mick Harvey is known for being a fellow musician of Nick cave and a founding member of The Bad Seeds. Multi-instrumentalist Harvey had his first band with cave in his high school years, then played with him in The Birthday Party in the 70s, and, after several common and solo projects, they founded Nick cave & the Bad Seeds. The rest is history, but Mick Harvey is not resting on his laurels: he has contributed to many of PJ Harvey’s albums and has a solo project which now you have the possibility to hear at A38.

As Lynch said: “chrysta Bell looks like a dream and chrysta Bell sings like a dream”, and, knowing the dreamworld of the cel-ebrated movie director, we instantly get an image of a femme fatale, who is sensual, fragile and dangerous at the same time. Isabella Rossellini of Blue Velvet, Naomi Watts of Mulholland Drive... and now, chrysta Bell. She produced her first album, This Train together with David Lynch, the song Polish Poem is on the official score of Inland Empire, but it is her live performance that enchants every single men in a crowded concert hall...

Mick Harvey (AUS)I.O.N. (HU)

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Chrysta Bell (USA)Have an English-style dinner at our restau-rant before the show! (see page 5)

Ocho Macho - a bunch of Hungarian guys, who live life to the fullest and in the meantime, write songs using the best elements of reggae, ska and punk. On stage they aim for the maximum and make the audience go crazy! Krema Kawa are just like their Belgian twins - they are 8, they are melodic and they fuse world music with folk, which results in a real energy boost.

Belleruche is already a favourite of the Hungarian audience, since they made a gig last autumn at A38. Now they are back with their new album, Roller chain with their tripping moods and singer Kathrin DeBoer’s impressive voice.Random Trip is a highly popular improvisational club night in Budapest, which has a special international guest every month. This time, it’s ILLspokinn, the American Mc, next to Judie Jay, our best RnB singer and Mc Zeek, underground Mc of the leg-endary Rewind series.

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Ocho Macho (HU)Krema Kawa (BE)

Belleruche (UK) Random Trip Special feat. ILLspokinn (USA), Judie Jay (HU)& Mc Zeek (HU)Have a cocktail and a sandwich at our restaurant before the show! (see page 5)

Born in Kobe, Japan, Kuriya Makoto is a breakthrough composer and jazz pianist. He attended university in the USA, then toured across Europe, composed soundtrack for an anime (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and made live shows with Hungarian pianist Péter Sárik. On this very special night, he is going to give a solo piano concert with saxophonist Tony Lakatos filled with virtuosity and inventive style.

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Interview with Joe Acheson of

Hidden Orchestrayou made a lot of festival gigs in the summer, and your autumn tour has started a few days ago. What are your expectations for Europe?Playing in Europe is always a fantastic experience - we are always made welcome and are well looked after, and we usually find that the audiences are well-informed, discerning, and appreciative. They know their music and are not afraid to get involved.. So we have been looking forward to doing another big European tour all year.

your new album, Archipelago comes out on 1 October. How it is going to be different from Night Walks? What does the title (‚chain of islands’) refer to?Archipelago is in the same vein as Night Walks - the ideas are more developed, and there are several new additions to the lineup of guest musicians on the record - perhaps you could say that there is more of a folk influence and less jazz, but many of the orchestral and drumming themes remain at the heart of the music. The title can be interpreted to have sev-eral different meanings - such as a reference to the way it is an attempt at a cohesive album, a group of individual islands built from similar materials and col-lected together into the same landscape, not a dis-parate selection of tracks put together just to form something long enough to make an LP. Also it refers to the way that no single instrument holds the spotlight, each track has it’s own distinctive character and ‚solo’ focus - trumpet, harp, or clarinet for example. To what extent are the band involved in social media? What do you think about free album streams?We try to keep it ticking over, you have to in these current times. The important thing for us is that our record label still sell enough music to make it viable for them to release music. Without their global reach and distribution network things would be very different for us. But anything that helps to spread the word and bring more people down to our live shows, or listening to the free online mixtapes... it’s all good publicity.

Instead of machine-generated sounds, you use a lot of organic samples in your songs. How do you get these samples? Are you walking ‚with open ears’ and find them accidentally or you go on special sound-collecting trips?A combination of both. When I am travelling, I usually have a micro-phone handy in case I stumble across something that sounds nice - whether it’s wind in the trees in france, the call to prayer in Istanbul, or the traffic at 4am in cairo... But at other times, I go out into the countryside deliberately just to walk around and see what I can find, sitting next to a pond waiting for a goose to fly past in the middle of the night, or recording waterfalls and rain. The last track on the al-bum features many sounds from finland (drilling holes in an ice-lake, cross-country skiing, footsteps in the snow), which I recorded while I was out there making a radio documentary in 2009.

This is going to be your first time in Hungary. What live guest musicians will you have at the Budapest show?Yes, very excited to be coming to Hungary - the home of one of my favourite instruments and musical he-roes, the cimbalom and Oszkar Okros... We will be featuring guest trumpet player Phil cardwell, who ap-pears on the new album, and has been touring with us quite a bit this year. He is very musically gifted, and also capable of creating an extraordinary array of un-usual (but beautiful) tones with the trumpet.

Have you thought of the next big step after this tour? Any plans for next year?Next year is a bit unknown at the moment, but we are already starting to construct the next European tour.This time we are going to lots of exciting new places (Budapest, Athens, Moscow, Warsaw, Paris, Amsterdam) - and we hope to revisit some of our favourites from previous tours next year, as well as finally getting to some other countries that we have hardly been to at all...

This autumn, A38 Light Painting continues at our exhibition space, supported by Hungarian Electricity Ltd. Hungary’s fa-vourite VJ-team, Glowing Bulbs create each month special light and sound installations for A38, that are unique and never be-fore seen and can be called pieces of contemporary art with certainty.Next installation: 20-21 October, A38 Exhibition Space

A38-MVM Lightworks and Light Painting

We start a brand new music series in October: Sound/Effect bring you both Hungarian and foreign bands who create and perform in the same style. The aim is to show the audience that there is no gap between the Hungarian and the international music scene and that they can produce the same quality. The first guests will be: Vinnie Who from Denmark on 4 October and Belgian Krema Kawa on 25 October. Hungarian bands are: We Are Rockstars, Ocho Macho, Dictator & Hussar & carbovaris. This series is supported by the National cultural fund of Hungary.

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András Bernát started making space studies in 2010. These crystal-lic structures can remind us his 80s work and can be considered the essence of his Object series. As he uses silver powder while painting, changes of light and shadow play a significant role. Depending on the angle of rays of light touching the canvas, we can see slightly different pictures from different perspectives.Bernát’s paintings are in constant movement, nothing being steady on them. The crystal Architecture pictures are similar to rays of light or stretched out wool, and while the Object paintings seemed infinite and recurring, this new set contains not only the origos but also the ending points of every line.The colours are transient, sometimes evoking the sensible atmo-sphere of József Egry’s works.

The exhibition will be opened by critic István Hajdu, music by László Sáry and Bánk Sáry.The exhibition can be visited from 3 to 18 October from 11h to 18h.

Please register at +36 1 464 3940.

18.THU.18:30 Belleruche (UK), Random Trip Special feat. iLLspokinn (USA), Judie Jay & MC Zeek4500 HUf until 15 OctXL sandwich / cocktail

20.SAT.18:30 Supernem, yellow Brick Road (RU), Ozone Mama4000 HUf until 17 OctGrilled sausage with steamed cabbage and mashed potatoes with onion

26.FRI.17:30 Kerekes Band + guest4500 HUf until 23 OctHungarian cock stew cooked red wine with country-style pickles and home-made bread / Home-made strudel with cottage cheese and apricot pulp soaked in palinka

Reserve your table at +36 1 464 3946.

06.SAT.18.00 Hidden Orchestra (UK)5500 HUf until 2 OctBraised steak with BBQ sauce and grilled corn and potatoes

10.WED.18:30 Kraak & Smaak (NL) live, The Bras5500 HUf until 7 Octchicken breast filled with Edam cheese with spaghetti with chili and garlic / Oliebollen with cinnamon sugar

12.FRI.17:30 Levellers (UK), Finnegan’s Wake7000 HUf until 9 OctKnuckle of lamb with green beans and grilled polenta

16.TUE.18:30 Chrysta Bell (USA)6500 HUf until 13 Octchicken breast with prawns, coconut milk sauce with red curry and rice

András Bernátcrystal Architecture

‘Hungry for music?’ dinners A38 Restaurant’s chef, István Halász have come up with a special menu for each show in this series. If you want to try his creations, buy a special advance “concert with dinner” ticket and show up in the restaurant a few hours before the show. The menu is made to match the style of the evening and the gastronomical traditions of the singer’s/band’s home country.

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A38 is the reincarnation of ‚Tripolie’, a Ukranian stone-carrier ship, built in 1968. The name comes from Artemovsk, which is the ship prototype, this one being the 38th unit of the ‚Artemovsk’ class. The re-building project lasted for one and a half years. Architects, ship engineers, acoustic designers, electricians, mu-sicians and promoters contributed their skills and experience to make it an understated but elegant, both artist and audience friendly place.

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A38 Ship is located in Budapest, at the Buda side of Petőfi bridge.Accessible by a few minutes walk from tram 4 and 6 “Petőfi híd budai hídfő” stop or by BKV public transport ships.

Opening hoursTicket desk, info: MON-SUN 6:30 AM to 11:00 PM or until the end of the events.Restaurant: MON-SAT 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

GUITARIST OF NICK CAVE, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, THE BAD SEEDS & PJ HARVEY ON EUROPEAN TOUR WITH HIS NEW ALBUM.

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