FANFARA COMPLEXA (HU)

Fanfara Complexa plays Moldovan folk dance music. They have had several tours, among them they also visited China and turkish part of Kurdistan. The traditional mix of flute, lute and drum is completed by the sound of the saxophone now more and more popular in Moldova.
Members of the band often travel to collect music from authentic resources. The relationship with authentic musicians remained the main inspirational source for the band. Band's leader Bede Péter is a saxophone player, graduated at the Department of Jazz at the Liszt Ferenc Musical Academy in 2007. He is an active folk musician: with his own band, Fanfara Complexa he plays traditional dance-music from Moldavia, while with the band Szigony he plays the folk music of the Gyimes region (Romania). He also played with Besh o Drom, while currently he is the member of Szilvia Bognár's ensemble, and also the Balogh Kálmán Gipsy Cimbalom Band. He had been involved into making the music of several dramas and he also participates in formations playing experimental, improvisatory music.
Line up:

Bede Péter - saxophone
Tuzko Csaba - alt sax, tarogato (hungarian turkish based woodwind instrument)
Roka Szabolcs - koboz (ancient lute),
Benke Felix - drums

Here's a short video of their performance at Etnika festival in september 2008 in Maribor, Slovenia / more at: www.etnika.si