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György Ligeti (musician)
György Ligeti (; born 19 December 1973) is a Hungarian indie musician, record producer, best known as the lead singer, songwriter, lyricist and guitarist of the indie rock band We Are Rockstars, and the disbanded The Puzzle. He is also the singer and guitarist of the Hungarian electro band, Žagar. He is not related to the avant-garde classical composer of the same name, György Ligeti (1923-2006). Early life and personal life Ligeti was born in Kaposvár, Hungary. He attended the Munkácsy Mihály Gimnázium és Szakközépiskola in Kaposvár. Ligeti obtained a Master of Arts in Communication and media studies from the University of Pécs in 2012. Ligeti moved to London, United Kingdom where he worked as a shop assistant at the Algerian Coffee Stores from 2004 to 2009. On 26 February 2009, Ligeti was interviewed by Magyar Rádió. In 2010 Ligeti became the radio presenter of the Stockholm Syndrome Radio which aims to present new Hungarian indie rock bands. On 25 July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time". Born in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in the Hungarian People's Republic before emigrating to Austria in 1956. He became an Austrian citizen in 1968. In 1973 he became professor of composition at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where he worked until retiring in 1989. He died in Vienna in 2006. Restricted in his musical style by the authorities of Communist Hungary, only when he reached the West in 1956 could Ligeti fully realise his passion for avant-garde music and develop new compositional techniques. After experimenting with electronic music in Cologne, Germany, his breakthrough came with orchestral works such as ''Atmosphères'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communication Studies
Communication studies or communication science is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different cultures. Communication is commonly defined as giving, receiving or exchanging ideas, information, signals or messages through appropriate media, enabling individuals or groups to persuade, to seek information, to give information or to express emotions effectively. Communication studies is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge that encompasses a range of topics, from face-to-face conversation at a level of individual agency and interaction to social and cultural communication systems at a macro level. Scholarly communication theorists focus primarily on refining the theoretical understanding of communication, examining statistics in order to help subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest Indie Music Scene
Budapest indie music scene was the indie music scene of Budapest, Hungary in the 2000s. It was often associated with bands like Amber Smith, The Moog, EZ Basic and We Are Rockstars. History Beginnings The early 2000s was the revival of the indie music scene all over the world, which affected Hungary as well. One of the earliest Hungarian band playing indie rock were The Puzzle from Kaposvár. They were the first band whose record, entitled ''Dream Your Life'', was released by an international label, PolyGram in 2000. Successes On 10 March 2006, Amber Smith's third studio album, ''RePRINT'', was released by the German Kalinkaland Records. The album included the song '' Hello Sun'' which brought the band international recognition. On 10 April 2007, The Moog's first full-length studio album ''Sold for Tomorrow'' was released by the American label MuSick. The song '' I Like You'' brought international success for the band. On 18 February 2008, Amber Smith's fourth studio albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed from 1952 into 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares. The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has continuously manufactured the Stratocaster since 1954. It is a double- cutaway guitar, with an extended top "horn" shape for balance. Along with the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG, and Fender Telecaster, it is one of the most-often emulated electric guitar shapes. "Stratocaster" and "Strat" are trademark terms belonging to Fender. Guitars that duplicate the Stratocaster by other manufacturers are sometimes called ''S-Type'' or ''ST-type'' guitars. The guitar introduced into the popular market several features that were innovative for electric guitars in the mid-1950s. The distinctive body shape, which has become commonplace among electric guitars, was revolutionary for the time period, and for the first time a mass-market electric guitar did not significan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Smith (album)
Amber Smith is the fifth studio album recorded by Amber Smith. The album was released on 21 February 2012 by the German Kalinkaland Records. This was the first record with guitarist Gergő Szabados and keyboardist Zalán Póka. Track listing #"Unanswered #"Square 1 #"Bourbon and Soda #"Faster Than the Speed of Light #"Ise #"If I Had A Reason #"Your Life Is My Death #"Cinnamon In My Pocket #"Hong Kong Falls Personnel The following people contributed to ''Amber Smith'': ;Amber Smith * Oszkár Ács - bass * Bence Bátor - drums * Zalán Póka - keyboards * Imre Poniklo - vocals and guitars * Gergely Szabados - additional guitars ;Additional musicians and production * Gábor Cserkész - erhu (5) * Sándor Dániel - recording * György Ligeti - mixing * Enikő Hodosi – vocals (4) * Eszter Polyák - recording and backing vocals (7)(9) * George Shilling George Edward Shilling (born 1966 in Redbridge, London) is an English musician, record producer, composer and audio en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Smith (band)
Amber Smith are a Hungarian pop trio based in Budapest, Hungary formed in 2000 by Imre Poniklo. The band's current line-up is Imre Poniklo (vocals, guitars), Oleg Zubkov a.k.a. Tooff (bass) and Bence Bátor (drums). Amber Smith were one of the most prominent groups of the Budapest indie music scene in the 2000s. History Amber Smith were formed by singer-songwriter Imre Poniklo in 2000 as a side-project in Budapest, Hungary. Imre Poniklo was the guitarist of the Hungarian alternative band Fanzine. At that time the singer of the Fanzine was José Simon, a professional graphic designer, who is currently the stylist of Amber Smith. In 2000 Imre Poniklo asked his fellow Fanzine mates (Ákos Örményi, Péter Egyedi, Ádám Földes) help him recording a demo entitled ''Above the Clouds''. Later the German Firestation Records released four songs from this early demo entitled ''There's No Way''. After releasing one studio album entitled ''Nincs Ránk Szükség'' (''There's No Need for Us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poster Boy
The Poster Boy is a Hungarian indie rock band from Budapest, Hungary. The band's line-up consists of Imre Poniklo from the Budapest-based indie-rock band Amber Smith, Noel R. Mayer from the alternative rock band, The Walrus, and Michael Zwecker from the Pécs-based alternative rock band Kispál és a borz plus Zoltán Fehér "Szegecs". The band members decided to form a band while chatting about the Hungarian indie scene in a bar in Budapest. In a couple of months they wrote several songs which were recorded in late 2011. History Things We Had Time For On 19 January 2012, The Poster Boy released ''Things We Had Time For'' which is a song cycle. The album was recorded by Eszter Polyák and some bits by We Are Rockstars and The Puzzle singer-songwriter György Ligeti. The mastering was completed at the Abnormal studios in Pesterzsébet, Hungary. The band asked Vivek Chugh to come up with a cover. The album was available on the band Bandcamp site. The band doesn't strive to reinve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scythians
The Scythians or Scyths, and sometimes also referred to as the Classical Scythians and the Pontic Scythians, were an Ancient Iranian peoples, ancient Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern * : "In modern scholarship the name 'Sakas' is reserved for the ancient tribes of northern and eastern Central Asia and Eastern Turkestan to distinguish them from the related Massagetae of the Aral region and the Scythians of the Pontic steppes. These tribes spoke Iranian languages, and their chief occupation was nomadic pastoralism." * : "Near the end of the 19th century V.F. Miller (1886, 1887) theorized that the Scythians and their kindred, the Sauromatians, were Iranian-speaking peoples. This has been a popular point of view and continues to be accepted in linguistics and historical science [...]" * : "From the end of the 7th century B.C. to the 4th century B.C. the Central- Eurasian steppes were inhabited by two large groups of kin Iranian-speaking tribes – the Scythians and Sarmatians [.. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parni
The Parni (; grc, Πάρνοι, ''Parnoi''), Aparni (; Ἄπαρνοι, ''Aparnoi'') or Parnians were an Eastern Iranian languages, East Iranian people who lived around the Panj River, Ochus ( grc, Ὧχος ''Okhos'') (Hari River, Afghanistan, Tejen) River, southeast of the Caspian Sea. It is believed that their original homeland may have been what is now southern Russia, from where they emigrated with other Scythian tribes. The Parni were one of the three tribes of the Dahae confederacy. In the middle of the 3rd century BCE, the Parni invaded Parthia, "drove away the Greek satraps, who had then only just acquired independence, and founded a new dynasty", that of the Arsacid Empire, Arsacids. Historical identity and location There is no unambiguous evidence of the Parni in native Iranian languages, Iranian language sources,''cf.'' and all references to these people come from Greek and Latin accounts. In these accounts, which are not necessarily contemporaneous, it is difficult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magyar Rádió
Magyar Rádió (MR, ''The Hungarian Radio Corporation'', also known internationally as ''Radio Budapest'') is Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organisation. It is also the country's official international broadcasting station. Domestic networks With its headquarters in Budapest and several regional offices around the country, MR is responsible for public service broadcasting throughout the Hungarian Republic. As well as maintaining nine regional studios, the corporation produces three nationwide Hungarian-language radio channels (''Kossuth'', ''Petőfi'', and ''Bartók'') covering the full range of public-service radio provision, and a fourth channel (''MR4'') aimed at the country's linguistic minorities. Kossuth Rádió Named after Lajos Kossuth, the channel is the official radio station of Hungary. It is the flagship channel of the Hungarian Radio. Created in 1925, the station nowadays has over 3 million listeners per day. It primarily broadcasts news, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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