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Futurstan is a jazz quartet with a twist.
Behind the alto sax, piano, bass, and drums you will find four composers whose roots span the globe from Hungary and Bulgaria to Congo and Russia. Spilling out progressive mix of jazz fusion, Sub-Saharan dance and soulful chants, the band is setting out to make new discoveries.
Behind the alto sax, piano, bass, and drums you will find four composers whose roots span the globe from Hungary and Bulgaria to Congo and Russia. Spilling out progressive mix of jazz fusion, Sub-Saharan dance and soulful chants, the band is setting out to make new discoveries.
Futurstan is a jazz quartet with a twist.
Behind the alto sax, piano, bass, and drums you will find four composers whose roots span the globe from Hungary and Bulgaria to Congo and Russia. Spilling out progressive mix of jazz fusion, Sub-Saharan dance and soulful chants, the band is setting out to make new discoveries.
Behind the alto sax, piano, bass, and drums you will find four composers whose roots span the globe from Hungary and Bulgaria to Congo and Russia. Spilling out progressive mix of jazz fusion, Sub-Saharan dance and soulful chants, the band is setting out to make new discoveries.
Drums
Marci Bognar is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Budapest, Hungary. He has honed his skills as a songwriter, drummer and guitarist with several rock and folk bands in Hungary, including Kamikaze Scotsmen and A Bence Kalandjai.
Alto Saxophone
Fatime Songoro is a saxophone player, freelance artist and entrepreneur from Budapest with Tanzanian roots. She first began studying and performing music as a 6-year-old. The founder of the artistic community Song-Óra, she has organised several multi-disciplinary projects that build a bridge between music and other artforms, proposing free improvisational playing as a method of self-exploration.
Bass
Alexey Zelensky is a multi-instrumentalist and composer born in Moscow, Russia. Having studied music theory and sound design, his solo works embrace jazz, folk, musique savante, Mediterranean epic poetry (Mikroformat No.1), electro punk and literary avantgarde (Prigov-suite, released as Pál Zsertvoly & Magyar Ensemble).
Keyboards
Dániel Biljarszki is a keyboard player and composer from Budapest, Hungary. Born into a family of professional musicians, he studied piano with the prominent Hungarian pianist, Gergely Földvári. He toured with his school's klezmer band as a youth, before developing a career playing in a number of rock, world music (as a gamelan player) and fusion bands.
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