Balázs Rodek

Balázs Rodek – Dialogues (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:31 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Balázs Rodek tells us “Playing live is always special. I like the whole process, for me it is like preparing for an Olympic event.

I start preparing weeks before the gig. The goal is to know the songs really well, really deep, to know every aspect of the material, to get your best shape for the concert. When I practice, I always look for new ideas, fresh thoughts for a song, even if I played that for a long time. Because in this way I believe you can open the door for all the good energies that hopefully will occur during your concert and minimize the risk of making mistakes.

Mistakes… well, we are not machines. We do mistakes – sometimes you hit the wrong note at the wrong time etc., but for me it doesn’t matter. Mistakes make the music live, so I try to handle them as a part of the music. How can I make them sound good? How can we make them fit into context? That is the point I think.

Of course, the preparation period can be frustrating, exhausting. Sometimes it is really hard to concentrate, hard to get the motivation, to face self-doubt—just like training for a sport event. But in the end, I know all is worth it.”
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Balázs Rodek – Song Of The Day (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:12 minutes | 476 MB | Genre: Jazz
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I founded the Balázs Rodek Trio in 2018 with such talented and sought-after young musicians as bassist Ádám Bögöthy and drummer Dàniel Ferenc Szabó. You can somehow feel who you are on the same wavelength musically with, who you can imagine working with. For me, Ádám and Dani are like that. I try to go to all their concerts where they play in other excellent formations or with their own formation and get inspired of their playing. With them I made my first trio album, which is titled Song of the day. Song of the day is a concept album telling the story of a day with a composition relating each time of a day. The listener can choose the song that is closest to him or her, the song of the day. We have been performing this show regularly since 2018, we won a special prize at the 2020 MÜPA Jazzshowcase festival, we have played at all the important venues in Hungary several times (Zemplén Festival, Budavár Wine Festival, Budapest Jazz Club, Zsolnay Quarter in Pécs, Szeged, Vác, to name but a few).
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