RELEASE : Mandoki.Soulmates.Utopia.For.Realists.Hungarian.Pictures.The.Visual.Album.2021.COMPLETE.MBLURAY-MIDDLE
DATE : 2022/01/23
RUNTIME : 2h05m
AUDIO : LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
VIDEO : [1920 | 1080]
SUBS : [n/a]
GENRE : Progressive Rock
IMDB : n/a
RATING : n/a
COMMENT : On Utopia For Realists: Hungarian Pictures , Leslie Mandoki plays together with
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Jack Bruce (Cream), Nick van Eede (Cutting Crew), Chris
Thompson (Manfred Mann s Earth Band), Bobby Kimball (Toto), David Clayton-Thomas (Blood,
Sweat and Tears), John Helliwell (Supertramp), Al di Meola, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker,
Till Br nner, Bill Evans, Cory Henry, Richard Bona, Tony Carey (Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow),
Jesse Siebenberg (Supertramp), Steve Bailey, and Julia Mandoki
Mandoki Soulmates staged a global live stream event earlier this year which has achieved
over half a million plays on Youtube and over 700.000 on Germany s leading TV channel ARD
since its release
01. Session In The Village
02. Utopia For Realists
03. Transylvanian Dances
04. You ll Find Me In Your Mirror
05. Return To Budapest
06. Pre-Barbaro
07. The Torch
Background on Hungarian Pictures :
Hungarian Pictures is constructed as a suite, based on compositions and themes by
Bart k, supplemented with the bands original songs. Together with Greg Lake of Emerson
Lake & Palmer, and Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Leslie had worked on the seed of this idea
years ago.
Leslie explains:
For Bart k, diversity in culture creates enrichment. He believed that it is precisely
from these differences that art draws the strength that enables further development. He
mixed sounds and traditional melodies from different regions of the Carpathian Plain in
order to set an example against the burgeoning threat of National Socialism (Nazism) through
the unifying aspects of music. That unifying impulse inspired Jon Lord, Greg Lake, and me.
After completing our Mandoki Soulmates Wings Of Freedom tour through Europe, we gave a
concert in New York s Beacon Theater. The Soulmates show was a great success with an enthusiastic
New York audience, standing ovations, and positive press reviews.
For me, a former asylum seeker who over four decades ago fled from a communist dictatorship
to freedom, this success in the Land of the Free is a very special moment. After the concert,
I spent a few days with my children in Van Morrison s former house in Topanga Canyon, one of the
old hippie neighborhoods of Los Angeles. I used this free time to reflect on social developments
over the past few years.
It became clear to me that we as artists are being challenged to become louder, to be a thorn in
the side of society, and to bring progressive jazz rock back to real socio-political relevance.
This is how the first ideas for a new album came about. It is the most ambitious and best project
we ever worked on.
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