Henri Gonzo and Papírsárkánok will take the stage of A38 Hajó with a single presentation before their new album coming in the spring. The city's newest melancholic art-rock band, singing in Hungarian and approaching literature, is preparing for an all-night concert.
The soundscape of the Paper Dragons is unique in the Hungarian musical sphere. It can mostly be compared to the orchestration of film scores, but it still sounds different from Henri's first band, Fran Palermo.
During the covid period, in a quiet and gloomy January, the formation took its first steps towards the realization of a new Hungarian musical vision. During that period, Henri Gonzo, Farkas Zazie and Issiaga Camara began to develop Henri's early song ideas as a trio in an apartment in the Buda castle, where they worked together for almost a month while they got to know each other better.
After a few months of absence, travels, relocations and rethinking, more and more songs began to emerge in Henri. Over time, songs began to come together from notes and half-ideas.
Their first song released in March 2022 was ``Tv Hangyák'', about which Tamás Pajor wrote an extremely good ``review'' for the band personally, and then they were immediately invited to the Margó Literary Festival, as well as the Colorado and La Boum festivals, and in the fall they also performed on the stage of Pontoon and Manyi. Since then, two of their songs have been published, one of which is a poem by Sándor Csoóri set to music.
What was once only a half-idea in Henri - partly thanks to an inspiring meeting with the contemporary poet Simon Márton and the helplessness locked in the long quarantine - will bear its first fruit this winter, the single.
At the same time, the entire repertoire of the band can be heard in a big band lineup at the concert, but the album is promised for spring!
And who or what influenced the band in its first period?
Here are some keywords for those who prefer to limit things in this way, e.g.: The Velvet Underground, Kistehén: Ember A Fán album,
Balaton Ensemble, A.E Bitzokás, Tamás Pajor...poet Sándor Csoóri, poet Júlia Márta Nagy, poet György Petri...paintings by János Vaszary. Wanderings in Naples, an uninhabited island found on a Venetian lake, strawberry and blueberry wine, quarantine insomnia, dream and nightmare diaries, thoughts in the bathtub, bad politics, modern psychology...
The evening will be opened by the solo production of the well-known Nóvé Soma (Mordái, Middlemist Red), so you should arrive early!
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