Description
Brillantin — Rock & Roll brigád, Szeki Graf / Metachord (Audio CD, 1999)
In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!
Product Details
- UPC: 5998661500081
- Catalog Number: SZ010
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Szeki Graf · Metachord
- Artist: Brillantin
- Release Year: 1999
- Genre: Rock & Roll / Rockabilly
- Style: Hungarian rockabilly, neo-rockabilly
Product Features
- Format: CD, Album
- Number of discs: 1
- Number of tracks: 13
- Language: Hungarian (vocals)
- Region of origin: Hungary
- Case: Standard jewel case with folded multi-panel booklet
- Condition: Used — very good; disc and artwork as pictured
Overview
Pure Hungarian rockabilly from the tail end of the nineties. Brillantin's Rock & Roll brigád is a slap-bass, sax-and-harmonica throwback recorded at the band's own Brillantin Stúdió in 1999 — thirteen original tracks that swing between greaser swagger and easy melodic pop. "Margitsziget" opens it; "Brigád Rockabilly" all but states the mission outright; "A Balaton vár!" and "Forró gumi galeri" lean into the summer-cruising mood the genre lives for.
What gives the record its character is the lineup. All four members sing, and the instrumentation is unusually rich for the style — upright bass and double-bass from Kalatovics Gábor, plus Dudinszky Zoltán switching between piano, saxophone, tango accordion and guitar. That breadth keeps the album from settling into one gear; you get straight rockers next to gentler, almost cabaret-tinged turns.
For collectors of Hungarian rock and rockabilly, this is a niche pressing on the small Szeki Graf / Metachord imprint, distributed by Typozen Kft. — the kind of late-nineties domestic release that rarely surfaces in clean condition.
Interesting Facts
- The whole album was tracked at Brillantin Stúdió in 1999, with mastering handled by Szűcs Norbert at Metachord Stúdió.
- Every member contributes vocals, a hallmark of the close-harmony rockabilly tradition.
- Dudinszky Zoltán covers five instruments across the record — vocals, piano, saxophone, tango accordion and guitar.
- Most songs are credited to two writing camps: Stefaich and the Dudinszky–Gönczy partnership, with Kalatovics rounding out the catalogue.
- Sound engineering was by Szita István; cover artwork and graphic design by Őri Magdolna, with band photography by Gönczy Edit.
- The release carries a 1999 copyright on the Szeki Graf imprint (catalogue SZ010).
Track Listing
- Margitsziget — 2:53
- Nem múlt 17 — 3:10
- Találgatom — 2:10
- Nagy szürke kutya — 3:07
- Őt, csak őt — 2:58
- Christine — 2:34
- Búcsú — 4:08
- Brigád Rockabilly — 3:45
- A Balaton vár! — 2:33
- Filléres szerelem — 3:57
- Hosszú az út — 2:44
- Hullámvasút — 3:21
- Forró gumi galeri — 3:25
Publishers Released by Szeki Graf and Metachord, 1999 (catalogue SZ010). Recorded at Brillantin Stúdió; post-production and mastering by Szűcs Norbert at Metachord Stúdió. Sound engineer: Szita István. Distributed by Typozen Kft. Artwork and cover design: Őri Magdolna.
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