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Kárpát Möbius: Kuruczlemez (CD, 49:26); Trottel Records TR055CD

	Kárpát Möbius is Sándor Cziránku, “Barbaro” on guitar and István Csik, 
“Kashmir” on (Marc Anderson-ish) percussion. I really like the raw energy and rebellious 
joy inherent in this release. Cziránku and Csik seek to unleash lost modes of music by 
free improv based on the “genetic imprints” of all the music of cultures of the planet, 
even the lost ones! So what’s this stuff sound like? Envision a gestalt of Hungarian folk 
motifs, hordes of nomadic hunters on horseback, wild dances by bonfires, garage-days 
Metallica, Hendrixian abandon, Steve Tibbetts/Marc Anderson ripping it up, howling 
wolves, cold winds coursing through the Carpathian heights, thunderclaps, echoplexed 
riffs, reverby overdriven axe growls, and flashes of Darryl Dobson-ian fusion. The CD 
insert shows 20 tracks of indecipherable Hungarian names. A picture of a doubleneck 
electric guitar like John McLaughlin and Stan Whitaker used is a good clue to the eclectic 
mayhem happening here. There is even a Zeuhlian tone is these bizarre songs. I have but 
one complaint and one suggestion. First off, this recording is not the best mix I have 
heard. The percussion is okay but the guitar is somtimes weak, one-dimensional, and 
distant in the mix, (garage days, echo-laden, and somewhat muddy at times). Second, I 
suggest Cziránku and Csik find some bandmates and do this type tunes again! This 
material has very high potential for seriously interesting ethno-jazz-rock, world-fusion. 
I’d love to hear this stuff reworked with a bass/Stick, fiddle, and keys added! My hats to 
you guys for getting this eclectically tasty morsel out into the light! Recommended 
world-fusion and weird-rock.	~ John W. Patterson




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