Zságer Balázs

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First I wanted to have a career as a visual artist, but soon I exchanged my pencil and paintbrush for a Commodore 64 and a Russian upright piano. In the middle of ‘80s I was programming music on a C64, beside of that I began to play the piano for myself. At the age of 18 I started to play in a band, we played blues cover versions. After that I kept switching groups and mingling styles through blues, progressive rock and acid-jazz. First real success was the Garderobe project (12” vinyl, Future Sound of Budapest vol 3).



Then I started to contribute on Yonderboi’s debut album Shallow and Profound which was distributed world wide and it won the Golden Giraffe prize in Hungary. As a member of the Yonderboi Quintet I have played on more than 160 concerts all around the continent. We formed another project with Yonderboi called Trevira Modern(10” vinyl maxi). Some tracks of this project were licensed by the BBC and the CHANNEL 4 Television. Presently I am the keyboard player of Yonderboi and the Kings of Oblivion on the Splendid Isolation tour.



Since the beginning of 2001 I have been producing own tracks under the name Zagar . Together with guitarist Andor Kovács, scratchmaster DJ Bootsie and drummer Tibor Lázár and the featuring vocalist György Ligeti the Zagar has become a real headliner stage band in Hungary. Our debut album, the Local Broadcast was released in 2002 in Hungary (UGAR/UCMG) and in Austria (Universal Jazz) now it is distributed world wide by the Berlin based MConnexxion. This album was selected for the chart of the 50 all time’s most important Hungarian records by the music magazine WAN2. Presently we are working our new studio album.
I compose music also for feature and short films (Szezon.Eastern Sugar, Tower, Beautiful Wilds, Monuments, Live…), TV series (CSI, CSI: NY, Las Vegas) and theatrical plays (Hungarian National Theater, Csiky Gergely Theatre, TÁP Theatre…) Besides I contribute many artist in the independent music scene in Budapest (The Puzzle, Erik Sumo, Gábor Deutch, dj Mango, Sena, Albert Márkos, Skeg).

DISCOGRAPHY



COLLABORATIONS



COMPILATIONS



VIDEOGRAPHY

Escape from the Earth // directed by Menzkie 2009
Wings of Love // directed by András Nagy 2007
Three Seasons Fall // (werk video) directed by Menzkie 2007
Sounds and Lights // directed by Fabricius 2006
Screen Cowboys // (live video) directed by Sándor Kristóffy 2005
Bossa Astoria (Erik Sumo rework) // directed by B.A.L. 2004
Taste of Snow // directed by Patyomkim 2004
Eastern Sugar // directed by Daniel Garas 2004
Bossa Astoria // directed by Fabricius 2003
Cosmic Disaster // directed by Fillcell 2002

FILMOGRAPHY

Mission London // UK-Bulgarian-Hungarian feature film // (dir. Dimitar Mitovski) 2010
They Came From.. // Norvegian snow board documentary // Factor Films 2010
Adrenaline and Turbulence // documentary DVD 2009
CSI – Commutted Sentences // TV series 2007
CSI New York - Go To Hell // TV series 2007
CSI – Blindflight // TV series 2004
Live by Fabricius // Image film about the Sziget Festival (dir. Fabricius) 2006
Szezon.Eastern Sugar // feature film (dir. Ferenc Török) 2004
Tower // short film (dir. Fabricius) 2004
Monuments - The Bottle Opener Lady // documentary (dir. Ferenc Török) 2004
Beautiful Wilds // TV film (dir. Ferenc Török) 2005
Bossa Astoria // animation film (dir. B.A.L.) 2004
Taste of Snow // animation film (dir. Patyomkim) 2004

MUSIC FOR THEATRE

Apaches (G. Bereményi, K. Nagy, dir. Ferenc Török) // Radnóti Theatre 2009
New Year’s Eve (Gy. Spiró, dir. László Keszég) // Hungarian National Theatre 2008
Tales from the Wienna Woods (Ödön Von Horvath, dir. László Keszég) // Hungarian National Theatre 2007
Henzáp! (dir. Nina Umniakov) // Mu Theatre 2006
Susogó ligetek ünnepe (Koenigsmark, dir. István Znamenák) // Csiky Geregely Theatre 1999

PRIZES

Best band of the year 2009 by Antropos Culture Magazin
Regional Awards Nomination in MTV European Music Awards 2009
Best Local Act Nomination in MTV European Music Awards 2008
International Songwriting Competition 2008 second prize for Wings of Love
Fonogram Prize in electronic music category for CWFI album 2008
Album of the Year 2007 for CWFI Album by Radiocafé Audience Voting
Song of the Year 2007 for Wings of Love by Radiocafé Audience Voting
Zagar as a brand is selected in the CoolBrands Year-Book 2006
Zagar the Best Band of the Year 2005 in Hungary by Antropos Culture Magazin
The Best Hungarian Producer and Band 2005 by e-Vote online competition
The Hungarian Film Critics‘ Prize for Szezon.Eastern Sugar Soundtrack 2004
Nominated for Fonogram Prize for the best soundtrack category 2004
Brazilian Fluxus Film Festival First Prize 2005 for Bossa Astoria video
Hungarian Flash Animation Tender First Prize 2004 for Bossa Astoria video
San Francisco Flashforward Contest Finals in Story 2005 for Bossa Astoria video
Hungarian Flash Animation Tender Second Prize 2004 for Taste of Snow video
Local Broadcast is selected for the chart of the 50 all time’s most important Hungarian records by the music magazine WAN2

ZAGAR IN CSI TV SERIES I.


ZAGAR IN CSI NEW YORK TV SERIES II.