László Kollár-Klemencz (lead singer, guitar) Ádám Gálos (drums) Róbert Farkas (accordion, guitar) Peter Dorogi (guitar, vocals) Sándor Kiss (bass, vocals) János Nádasdi (beatbox, percussion, vocals) Roland Kasza (vibraphone, piano, keyboard) Béla Valkó (cello)
LITTLE COW
Little Cow is a fine mix of joy and melancholy, humor and lyricism. Dadaism dance music and classic ballad songs are performed by high energized charismatic musicians.
The style is a crazy listening underground poetic pop.
Little Cow rocked. I loved it! The band sounded great and did a really good job. It was really everything I expected…a great band: unique, fun and interesting. (Joe’s Pub, New York)
"Hungary’s hottest export since goulash" (Funkhaus Europa 103,3)
A fantastical gypsy-like pop rock group from Hungary. They are absolutely crazy, fun and lovely! (Hide Out Festival Chicago)
STORY
Little Cow was founded by László Kollár-Klemencz after the great success of his songs for the ‘Little yellow cow’ animation series. This funny figure and his story were brought to life by him.
László Kollár-Klemencz has been the composer of songs and the writer of lyrics from the beginning. He managed to make two albums with various musician friends in the meantime: The Little Cow came out in 2002, and Naughty in 2004. In 2007 Naughty became a Platinum Album in Hungary.
The band in its current form ganged up in 2005, which was also the year of the incredible success of their song “Cyber boy”. It became quickly wide-known and popular with the mediation of the internet. The song burst out as a Nr. 1 hit on all the home charts and was chosen as the ‘Song of the year in Hungary’ on the Fonogram Award. Shortly it gained fame even abroad - it was selected for the British ‘Beginner’s Guide to Eastern Europe’ compilation album.
By 2006 they became one of Hungary‘s most popular bands. Their new album I’m in Love with Every Lady was released that year by EMI Hungary and the international version came out on Berlin based label Eastblok Music in February, 2007. The album is available all across Europe. The release gig was in February in Berlin.
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In 2007 the band did a succesful tours in Europe, had a debut gig in the UK (Bestival Festival) and had some storming gigs including the Lowlands Festival in The Netherlands. Their song “Virágok a réten“ (featuring their gypsy friends Romano Drom) has been selected for the Top of the World album of the Songlines Magazine, UK and the Gypsy Grooves album released by Putumayo.
At the beginning of 2008 they played at the very prestigious global FEST, New York City. New York based Yonas Media agreed to help the band and be the launch pad for their carrier in the US.
At 2008 summer they were take a part of many festivals in Europe, including Esperanzah Belgium and Paaspop Festival NL.
In September 2008 they returned to the US and Canada for a 5 week tour, doing 31 shows.
Besides the festival and club concerts they also had acoustic performances in theatres. The gigs included the Chicago World Music Festival, and the Hideout Block Party. They rocked New York’s Joe’s Pub and absolutely stormed the Lotus World Music Festival in Bloomington, IN. They also played some fantastic clubs including Safari Sam’s on the Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and in Slim in San Francisco. The band started recording their new album in New York and San Francisco with American producer Ben Yonas, to be released in Fall 2009.
In September 2008 they released a special new album, entitled A Man in a Tree, performed by Little Cow Melancholics. There are personal lyrics and poem singing audible from Kollár-Klemencz László on the album in melancholy waltz rhythm.
LITTLE COW MELANCHOLICS:
The Little Cow Melancholics are more than theatrical, acoustical version of the Little Cow. The instruments are widened with a few special and first of all classical musical instruments. Violin, cello, vibraphone, piano, renaissance percussion instruments are sound at a concert. The played songs were written especially for Melancholics.
On the whole diffuse very human and gladsome mood from the performance of the Little Cow Melancholics what thanks to songs and the high individual performing and musical performance.
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