Korai Öröm
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Biljarszki Emil - keyboards, Csányi Viktor - drums, Jócsik János - percussion, Kilián Zoltán - bass, Nádasdi Zsolt - percussion, p.m. - fuyara, tilinko, jews harp, trumpet, whistle, Szalai Péter - guitar, Vécsi Tibor - vocal, Bonnyai Zoltán -slide, Szűcs

"... Their ability to fuse psychedelic rock, Eastern-European folk influences and shamanist tradition is stunning. The ingredients of this rich mixture are tribal percussion, pagan flutes, shamanist trance rock, ambient soundscapes, bizarre Hungarian voices harmonising with burning guitar leads; it's all in there. The music of Korai Öröm is overwhelming, visionary and at the same time humane, natural, mindexpanding... real earth psychedelics." - CROHINGA WELL (Belgium)

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Press info from the band:
„the sounds of many nations and galaxies"
Style (as per the media): ambient, urban folk, earth psychedelics, action-music, the folk music of non-existing folks.
Style (as per the band): worldmusic.
The story.

• 1991. Something came from the air and started to assume a form of a band.
  
• 1993. The band was already heading to Germany in Zastava and Skoda cars. It was introduced as "punk aus Ungarn" in the clubs of Berlin.
• 1994. Formation of the band - 10 musicians (lots of percussion and exotic instruments as didgeridoo, fuyara, pipes, self-made accessories) + 4 Vjs. The band was playing in small, yet always overcrowded clubs. After the concerts there were "acid parties", which were new things at that times, as well as the video projection. KÖ organised concerts in unusual places as swimming pools and even outdoors surrounded by nature. The first concert album was released on MC.
• 1995. The first studio album was released in author's edition (this then became a tradition). Its cover and music received positive critics from the media.
• 1996. Second studio album, the favourite of the "orthodox" fans. The album introduced a concert which was held in the most famous Hungarian theatre „Katona Jozsef", showing the widening interest for the music and stage production which is beyond the usual publicity of rock performances. This event became tradition. The band created a website, containing free database of its media, concerts and label contacts. The well-known actor and theatre director Peter Halasz entrusted the band to write and perform live music for his piece „Sanyi, the pilot".
• 1997. Third studio album, concert at the big stage of Pepsi Island in front of ten thousand people. More and more concerts in Hungary and abroad. Three members of the band became DJ's named „Korai Banditos".
• 1998. Release of a remix album. Meantime KÖ became a cult band among the psychedelic freaks of the world. „May be the best psychedelic ensemble around" - wrote the American Wayside, KÖ's album lead the top list of the New Zealandian „Cranium Music". The band was invited by American festivals, but couldn't go due to lack of sponsors. The German „Lollipop Shop" released a vinyl compilation. KÖ became „the concert band No:1 of the year" as per the public vote of the Hungarian „Magyar Narancs".
• 1999. KÖ organised festivals inviting Eastern-European bands. The tours took us to new places including even St. Petersburg, Russia, Italy (representing Hungary on the Day of the Music in Genova). KÖ was the live band of the year again.
• 2000. Besides a lot of concerts around Europe 2 albums were released: one with recordings, previously unreleased on CD and one with new music and 3 videoclips. The German movie „In July" used our music, a soundtrack released by Sony.
• 2001. New tour stops - London, Copenhagen, Dublin. The shortened version of the tour movie got into the new album, which showed the band's new interests in music and featured guests from the well-known gypsy bands: Besh o droM and Szilvási Gypsy Folk Band.

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