Back To Mine with Vaghy

Hungarian pianist-composer Tamás Vághy will release his stunning debut album Minimalism on Théque Records this month. Accomplished pianist Vaghy has spent many years playing piano, synths and other instruments with a variety of different bands. He is one of the main artists and organisers of Piano Day Budapest and previous releases have come in the form of a compilation album of minimal pieces on labels like Blue Spiral Records. He is also a notable live performer and improvisational artist who has played with names like Lubomyr Melnyk, Lisa Morgenstern, Simeon Walker, James Gillespie and iamyank.

The main goal of this debut solo album was for vaghy to explore himself and experience being a solo artist after 20 years of playing as part of a band. The concept behind ‘Minimalism’ was to write and arrange songs with as few instruments as possible. A small old Swedish pianette with 64 keys was used as a synthesizer and modified by all kinds of materials and tools before long hours of experimentation. It gave rise to all tracks bar one, ‘Genesis’, which is the result of an improvised session on an old worn-out Russian piano. A copy of Moog Taurus, designed by vaghy himself, accompanies the album throughout, as do old analog monophonic synthesizers and a zither, even though its sound becomes unrecognisable in his hands.

And now he brings us a stunning Back To Mine collection, sit back and enjoy these gems…

 

Pink Floyd – The dark side of the moon

This was the first album I ever listened to. At that time it sounded completely new to me. Now it has become iconic.

Brian Eno – Ambient 1:Music for airports

When I first listened to this album I discovered an inexplicable feeling, the only thing I was sure of was that it was so cool.

Herbie Mann – Stone Flute

An album made in 1970 by my favourite flutist in the world. It has so many new wave elements played by acoustic instruments.

Groove Collective – Groove Collective

Full of various, exciting musical elements played by really talented artists, absolutely one of the favourites.

Boards of canada – The Campfire Headphase

Absolutely the best album to chill out.

Masakatsu Takagi – Journal for people

I understood what glitch sounded like during listening to this album. Its concept is based on a novel.

Moderat – III

Partyyyyy music!

Simeon Walker – Mono

I love Simeon’s compositions, we had a concert together in Budapest. I highly recommend this album to you, it has a very intimate feeling.

Thelonious Monk – Thelonious himself

He is my absolute favorite pianist. On this record he and his instrument alone form something truly pure.

Thom Yorke – The Eraser

For me this is the best album that he ever made. The concept and the arc of the compositions are brilliant.

 

Artist: vaghy
Title: Minimalism
Label: Théque Records
Release: 18th February 2022
Cat No: TQ2202
Format: Vinyl, digital

www.vaghy.net/