Miklós Both

Miklós Both
Background information
Born (1981-06-03) 3 June 1981
Budapest, Hungary
Origin Budapest
Genres World, ethnic, rock
Occupation(s) Musician, composer, folklorist
Instruments Guitar, violin, vitar
Years active 2001–present
Associated acts Napra, Both Miklós Folkside

Miklós Both (born 3 June 1981, Budapest, Hungary) is a well-known composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, singer for the band Napra, guitarist, and vitar violin player.[1] He won the Fonogram and Budai awards, and honored with the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit. His folklore film database has recordings from Ukraine, China, Transylvania, Iran, India and others.[2] In 2015, he was chosen by Öröm a Zene! as musician of the year.[3]

Career

Both attended Pázmány Péter Catholic University, majoring in aesthetics and also studied communications. He independently learned to play the guitar. Inspired by the Galloping Coroners and Kárpát Möbiusz. In 2004, he founded the band Barbaro assistance. Their debut album, produced in 2007 by Ben Mandelson, won a Fonogram award.

In 2009, at the 100th anniversary celebration of Miklós Radnóti's birth, with Dániel Gryllus as host, Both was commissioned to create music for a reading of the poet's works by the series editor of Helicon Audio album.[4] The album was recorded at the Budapest International Book Festival and received the Buda Award.[5]

Both at fieldwork in Ukraine in 2015.

In 2011, he became the head of Cafés & Citizenry, an international project for Romani integration. The project is funded by the European Union, whose members are Hungarian, Italian and Romanian musicians who hold workshops and concerts in several countries.[6]

At the World Music Expo (WOMEX) in Copenhagen in 2011, Both was part of Hungary's opening ceremony along with four other musicians, who later in 2012, founded the Both Miklós Folkside project. The band members are cymbalist Miklós Lukács, Balázs Szokolay Dongó with brass instruments, András Dés with percussion, and Csaba Novák on the bass. Their first album, Csillagfészek, was released in 2013.[7][8]

Miklós Both with Napra in 2008

In February 2014, he traveled to the Yunnan region of China to study the local music for four months and recorded an album. The disc incorporates the inspired songs beyond the purely aesthetic considerations and a higher overall arc of thought appears. During the time he spent in China, Both met with dozens of musicians and reworked and recorded many of their songs. The album also has performers of the contemporary music scene. Both and photos of a diary-documentary disc were released in October 2014, was presented at the Millenáris Theatre Café in Budapest with great success.

In 2014, he prepared an alternative talent search show on MTVA Palimo Story.[9] A small crew traveled through Hungary searching for musicians. Through the series, they explore and actually succeed to showcase the unseen talents that are in the country. Both and musicians whom he has found appear on an eponymous album released in the summer of 2014.

From late 2014 to early 2015, Both searched war-ravaged parts of northeastern Ukraine in villages for vocal talent. Filmmakers documented the journey, and the planned album will be presented on film.

In 2016, Both was a judge on A Dal, the Hungarian national selection for Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest. He reprised this role for the 2017 edition and did so again for the 2018 edition.

In 2016, he was a guest of honor at the Ördögkatlan Festival, along with Dorottya Udvaros and Péter Gerzson Kovács. The festival has its own courtyard in three central Ukrainian villages.[10]

Discography

  • Tisztelgés az Illés zenekar előtt – Amikor én még kissrác voltam, 2005.
  • Barbaro – Barbaro III, 2006.
  • Jaj, a világ!, Napra 2007.
  • Both Miklós – Radnóti, Hangzó Helikon 2009.
  • Rendhagyó Prímástalálkozó, 2010.
  • Cseh Tamás emléklemez – Eszembe jutottál, 2010.
  • Holdvilágos, Napra 2010.
  • Naiv, Napra 2012 (EP)
  • Csillagfészek, Both Miklós Folkside 2013.
  • Both Miklós és a Palimo Story, Fonó Records, 2014.
  • Kínai utazólemez, Gryllus, 2014.

Awards

Further information

References

  1. ↑ Szilvay Gergely: Kína, Erdély, Lakodalmas – Both Miklós világgá megy, ppke.hu, 2013. január 29.
  2. ↑ Szathmáry István Pál
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Nem félt Radnótitól a gitárprímás, hir24.hu, 2009. június 4.
  5. ↑ Budai-Díjat kapott a Hangzó Helikon Radnóti kötete, litera.hu, 2009. április 28.
  6. ↑ Jávorszky Béla Szilárd: HANGSÚLYT A KÖZÖSRE – Both Miklós a Cafés & Citizenry projektről, mediawavefestival.hu, 2012. április 30.
  7. ↑ Both Miklós új lemezzel jelentkezik, kultura.hu, 213. február 5.
  8. ↑ Elkészült a Both Miklós Folkside első lemeze, fidelio.hu, 2013. január 22.
  9. ↑ Both Miklos (2014-08-26), Talent Show With Miklos Both english subtitles I Tehetségkereső Both Miklóssal, retrieved 2018-04-17
  10. ↑ Népszabadság Online
  11. ↑ "Budai-díj". Wikipédia (in Hungarian). 2016-11-16.
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