Korál — Ne állj meg soha, Tom-Tom Records (Audio CD)

In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!

Product Details

• UPC / EAN: 5999524960905
• Catalog Number: TTCD-88
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Label: Tom-Tom Records
• Artist: Korál
• Lyrics: Horváth Attila
• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Hungarian Rock / Pop-Rock
• Style: Symphonic Rock, Melodic Rock

Product Features

• Format: CD, Album
• Number of discs: 1
• Total runtime: 50:30
• Number of tracks: 13
• Language: Hungarian
• Region of release: Hungary
• Condition: Very Good (used, plays cleanly)

Overview

This is the album Korál built around their 2006 Kisstadion comeback — the first new studio set the band had put together in years, and a deliberate bridge between their rock past and where Balázs Fecó wanted the songs to live now. Thirteen tracks, every lyric written by Horváth Attila, the music shared across the core line-up.

The record splits cleanly in two. Tracks one through seven are the new material: keyboard-led melodic rock with Fischer László's guitar doing the heavy lifting, the kind of warm, song-first writing Korál grew into after the harder edges of the early eighties. Then comes the Taurus mix — six of the band's older songs re-recorded with the Danubia Symphony Orchestra, arranged by Pejtsik Péter and conducted by Horváth Balázs. That second half is where the album earns its keep for longtime fans: "Homok a szélben" and "A kőfalak leomlanak" reframed with a full string section behind them.

The line-up here is Balázs Ferenc on keyboards, Dorozsmai Péter on drums and percussion, Fischer László on guitar, and Fekete Tibor Samu on bass — recorded at Tom-Tom Studio in 2006. Sung entirely in Hungarian, this one's aimed squarely at collectors of Hungarian rock and anyone tracking the band's later catalogue.

A clean original pressing of a release that doesn't turn up often. If you've been filling in the post-reunion Korál discography, this is one of the harder ones to find in good shape.

Interesting Facts

• Korál was founded in 1978 by Balázs Fecó, carrying forward the legacy of Taurus, the early-seventies group widely cited as Hungary's first hard-rock band.
• The band became one of Hungary's most popular rock acts of the 1980s and toured beyond the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union.
• Every lyric on this album is by Horváth Attila, one of Hungary's most prolific and decorated rock and pop lyricists.
• The Taurus mix tracks were performed with the string section of the Danubia Symphony Orchestra, giving older Korál songs an orchestral re-reading.
• "Homok a szélben," revisited here in symphonic form, was one of the band's signature songs and a flashpoint in the early-eighties debate over Korál's shift from rock toward radio-friendly material.
• Balázs Fecó (1951–2020) was a Kossuth- and Liszt Ferenc Prize-winning musician; his keyboard playing was the band's defining sound from the start.

Track Listing

1. A délutáni napsütésben (Balázs Ferenc – Horváth Attila) — 4:01
2. Hová tűntél te is (Fischer László – Horváth Attila) — 4:14
3. Tükör által, homályosan (Fekete Tibor Samu – Horváth Attila) — 3:38
4. A szálloda (Fischer László – Horváth Attila) — 5:18
5. Mintha itt lennél mindig (Dorozsmai Péter – Horváth Attila) — 3:34
6. Fél szívvel adsz, de két szívvel kérsz (Fekete Tibor Samu – Horváth Attila) — 3:21
7. Nagy varázslat volt (Balázs Ferenc – Horváth Attila) — 4:05

Taurus mix (arranged by Pejtsik Péter):

1. Homok a szélben (Balázs Ferenc – Horváth Attila) — 3:40
2. Előhang (Ugye nem hiszed el) (Balázs Ferenc – Horváth Attila) — 5:00
3. A kőfalak leomlanak (Balázs Ferenc – Brunner Győző, Horváth Attila) — 3:02
4. Anyám, vigasztalj engem (Balázs Ferenc – Horváth Attila) — 2:43
5. A lány, akire szerelemmel nézhetek (Balázs Ferenc – Brunner Győző, Horváth Attila) — 4:20
6. Amit nem mondhattam el (Balázs Ferenc – Horváth Attila) — 3:18

Total time: 50:30

Publishers Released by Tom-Tom Records, Budapest (TTCD-88), 2006. Recorded at Tom-Tom Studio, 2006; sound engineer Dorozsmai Péter. Taurus mix orchestral arrangements by Pejtsik Péter, conducted by Horváth Balázs, performed by the string section of the Danubia Symphony Orchestra.

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