Sonaris Zoltán Lantos' OpenSource

• 1Prelude Noir03:29
• 2Aisma07:56
• 3Street-Bop07:17
• 4Tensegrity06:51
• 5Tarang08:03
• 6Chronoglyph07:56
• 7Monsoon Strangers06:03
• 8Sonaris06:21
• Total Runtime53:56

Info for Sonaris

"Two words. "Nada Brahma" - the world is sound. Sound is God. Two words, but not only words defined as an attempt to describe something you cannot otherwise perceive. It's the chronoglyph of time in a constant flow of sequential rhythm. Like in a mantra, a hidden code is unlocked and manifests itself in whatever you pronounce. Pulse is omnipresent in the act of self- preservation itself. Two words. The syllables of background radiation, the blueprint of everyday banalities, like tiny stickers on the wall. Like future memories. Like you left the coffee on the table. Two words: coffee, table. Whatever you say. Just the same." Zoltán Lantos

“Zoltán Lantos is an excellent composer, and even a better arranger, his music is almost palpable. (…) The five musicians of OpenSource play flawlessly and easily, the music is like the sounds of nature, when one harks the dawn in a forest. (…) Zoltán Lantos spent more than eight years in India in the eighties and nineties, but his orientalism is far from being assertive, it even can’t be noticed immediately: Indian music melts organically and inherently into his musical mother-tongue.” Máté Csabai, Fidelio

Zoltán Lantos, 5-string acoustic and electric violin, resonant string violin, vocals
Áron Tálas, piano, Fender Rhodes, Moog and Nord keyboards
Tibor Fonay,acoustic bass, bass guitar
László Csízi, drums
Andrew J, turntable, live electronics
Veronika Harcsa, vocals (track 4, 6, 7)

Zoltán Lantos
Lantos’s ensemble, the electronic, groove-centric and simultaneously meditative, highly spiritual OpenSource opened a new chapter in its history. “Lantos's compositions provide a very special merger of jazz rock, modern mainstream and Indian music. Listening to the disc, some inexplicable power passed through my body, my heart and soul, through which I saw images and colours and I felt scents.” wrote Károly Gáspár his quite personal feelings about the album on jazzma.hu.

"The five musicians of OpenSource play flawlessly and easily, the music is like the sounds of nature, when one harks the dawn in a forest. (…) Zoltán Lantos spent more than eight years in India in the eighties and nineties, but his orientalism is far from being assertive, it even can’t be noticed immediately: Indian music melts organically and inherently into his musical mother-tongue." Máté Csabai, Fidelio

Veronika Harcsa
is a uniquely versatile Hungarian singer and songwriter, whose greatest strength lies in a clarity, which enchants and bedazzles instantly. She reaches the listener without any detours, gets by without any mysticisms and her voice knows only the most direct way from her soul into the ear of the listener. Her unmistakable combination of timbre, structure and responsiveness consistently result in this rare trait: clarity.

Booklet for Sonaris