Description
KFT — 25 (1981–2006), Hungaroton (Audio CD)
In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!
Product Details
- UPC / EAN: 5991817122427
- Catalog Number: HCD 71224
- Product Type: Audio CD (Compilation)
- Label: Hungaroton
- Artist: KFT
- Release Year: 2006
- Genre: Hungarian New Wave / Pop-Rock
- Style: New Wave, Pop, Alternative Rock
Product Features
- Format: CD, Compilation (Best Of)
- Number of discs: 1
- Number of tracks: 18
- Original recordings: 1981–1990, digitally remastered for this edition
- Language: Hungarian
- Region of release: Hungary
- Condition: Very Good (used, plays cleanly)
Overview
This is the 25th-anniversary KFT compilation — eighteen tracks pulled from the band's prime decade, 1981 to 1990, and remastered for the 2006 reissue. If you want one disc that explains why KFT mattered to Hungarian music, this is the one to reach for.
KFT came out of the early-eighties new wave but never stayed in the underground. The songs here are the proof: irony, wordplay, and a little absurd theatre wrapped around melodies that whole festivals still sing back. "Afrika," "Bál az Operában," "Bábu vagy," "Balatoni nyár" — these aren't deep cuts, they're the ones people request by name forty years on. The set runs them alongside sharper, stranger material like "Macska az úton" and "Nem sikerül kikúrálni magam," the song that, by the band's own telling, started the whole thing.
The classic line-up is all here: Bornai Tibor on keyboards and vocals, Laár András on guitar and vocals, II. Lengyelfi Miklós on bass and upright, Márton András on drums — four players who also sang, which is part of why the records sound the way they do. Every song is a KFT composition except "Bábu vagy," written by Laár András.
A clean, complete career snapshot for collectors of Hungarian pop and new wave. Sung entirely in Hungarian, with the original release years printed track by track — handy if you're tracing which era each song belongs to.
Interesting Facts
- KFT formed in 1981, growing out of sessions where Bornai Tibor, Laár András, and Márton András had backed the folk-rock group Fonográf on a 1980 East German tour.
- The band's national breakthrough came at the Táncdalfesztivál with "Bábu vagy," performed in white masks with marionette-style movements — theatre as much as pop.
- The name "KFT" is the Hungarian abbreviation for "limited liability company" (korlátolt felelősségű társaság), chosen as a joke about taking only limited responsibility for the state of the world.
- Laár András went on to co-found the absurdist comedy troupe L'art pour l'art; the same deadpan humour runs through KFT's lyrics.
- In 1996 the band filled the Budapest Sports Hall and shared the stage with British singer Hazel O'Connor, performing live with her via a Dublin link.
- "Afrika" (1984) became such a lasting hit that it remained a karaoke staple decades later — the band often cite it as their definitive evergreen.
Track Listing
- Siker, pénz, csillogás — 4:39 (1986)
- A lány, aki nincs — 4:32 (1983)
- Afrika — 4:44 (1984)
- Bál az Operában — 4:10 (1984)
- Andrea — 4:03 (1986)
- A fodrász — 4:18 (1983)
- A pénztárcámat — 3:39 (1983)
- Az idegen lény — 3:33 (1990)
- Volvo — 3:37 (1986)
- Bábu vagy — 3:16 (1981)
- Tea — 4:15 (1982)
- Száll egy pofon a szélben (Mars) — 4:20 (1987)
- Elizabet — 3:59 (1986)
- Fantasztikus lány — 4:05 (1988)
- Nem sikerül kikúrálni magam — 4:55 (1988)
- Balatoni nyár — 4:37 (1986)
- Macska az úton — 5:44 (1982)
- Utcai zenekar — 3:02 (1986)
Publishers Compiled and released by Hungaroton, Budapest (HCD 71224), 2006. Recordings technically updated for the digital edition; sound engineers Küronya Miklós and Ottó Tivadar. Cover design by Sántha Péter; cover photo by Gáspár Andrea (shot in Hawaii, 2005).
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