Frédéric Chopin
Sergei Prokofiev
W.A. Mozart
Bartók Béla
Ligeti György
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Edith Piaf
Keith Jarrett
Jimi Hendrix
The Beatles
The Doors
Michael Franks
Beck
RadioHead
Sigur rós
Blur
Kraftwerk
Tomita
Depeche Mode
Air
Dj Shadow
Mathew Herbert
Trentemoller
Brian Eno
Rhythm & Sound
Nino Rota
Phillip Glass
Goran Bregovic
Szabó Gábor
Másik János
Vukán György
MOVIES
Federico Fellini : 8 1/2
Huszárik Zoltán: Szindbád
Terry Gilliam: Brazil
Andrej Tarkovszkij: Stalker
Wim Wenders: The Million Dollar Hotel
J.L. Godard: Feminin, Masculin
René Laloux:Les Maîtres du temps
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now
Milos Forman: Men on the Moon
Michael Gondry:Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Roman Polanski: Rosamary's Baby
Agnes Jaoui: Le gout des autres
Harmony Korine: Gummo
Gárdos Péter: Uramisten
Pálfy György: Taxidermia
Stanley Kubrick
Jim Jarmush
Orson Welles
Luis Bunuel
John Cassavetes
Woody Allen
Ingmar Bergman
BOOKS
Krúdy Gyula: Szindbád utazásai
Szerb Antal: Utas és holdvilág
Boris Vian: L'Écume des Jours
Soren Kierkegaard: Either/Or
Dostoyevski: Crime and Punishment
Kaffka: Die Verwandlung
Oscar Wilde: Pictures of Dorian Gray
Alessandro Baricco: Silk
Paolo Coelho: The Alchemist
Charles Bukowski
Hamvas Béla
Paul Auster
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
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
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
Oh beloved Zságer Balázsasaurus. You are the winner of the SEXIEST SCALES AWARD!!! The competition may not be quite what it was in the late cretaceous, but nevertheless YOU DID IT!!! Anyway, do we have a prize for you...our reseasoning (i.e. remix) of Goodie Mob's-Soul Food will make your cold blood a cozy lukewarm temperature...just the way us dinos like it. Enjoy, spread the word and leave us your thoughts. Also, If you are in the L.A. area come check us at The Low End Theory on Dec. 9th!!!!
RobotRock @ Kuplung w/ TMX (Kollektiva), DJ Palotai (Tilos), Misandry Pénteken Warehouse fless a Kuplungban !!!!
2009.11.20 Péntek
November 20-án új helyszínt próbálunk ki és felforgatjuk a Kuplungot! Az estét a 2 kellemes hölgyből álló Misandry duo indítja el. Hogy hatékonyabb legyen a dobhártyaszaggatás vendégül hívtuk TMX-et a Kollektivából, akit nemrég Tommie Sunshine, a színtér apafigurája, kötött le. DJ Palotai pedig újra megmutatja, hogy még mindig egy lépéssel mindenki előtt jár és zenei eklektikája utánozhatatlan. És természetes mi is ott leszünk, veletek együtt! Line-up:
RobotRock DJs DJ Palotai (TILOS) TMX (Kollektiva) Misandry
Lesz sok lézer, füst 40 nm-ni vetítő felület és Vj Digitalistik ! :)
Belépő: 500 HUF Start: 21h Hely: Kuplung VI. Király utca 46.
Aki nem ismerné a helyet: Korhatár nincs, Deákról 10p, 4-6 villamos Király utcai megállójától 4p séta.
Yo Zságer Balázsasaurus. I just found out that we're related...and as a special family only present we've made a new song for you called "End of Days" (start doing backflips now). It's an epic instrumental opus to the moment when our ancient Dino relatives saw a large fiery object plummeting towards them. Please come to our page, give it a listen and let us know if it makes you feel like something catastrophic is gonna happen. If the song upsets you too much we will be holding several s support groups (read: comcerts) in the near future. Check our page for locations, dates and times.
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