Psychedelic World
Meszecsinka is one of the 12 best Hungarian world music bands according to the WOMEX edition of Dal+Szerz? magazine. The band’s name means „Little Moon” in Bulgarian. Meszecsinka sings in seven languages (Hungarian, Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Italian and their own), comes from four countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland) and leads you into a Wonderland, where Bulgarian and Hungarian folk lives together with flamenco and psychedelics, Oriental and Experimental. The band tours frequently in many European countries. They visited the USA and Canada, recorded video on the Red Square in Moscow and a Balkan road movie. Their art video “Kinyílok (I open up) reached the sixth place on the video chart of World Music Network (UK) and fRoots Magazine (UK). In 2015 Meszecsinka gave lessons and workshops about Hungary in schools and universities in Denmark. Meszecsinka performed at WOMEX (World Music Expo) in Budapest. “Awake in a dream” is the newest work of the band, supported by the Armenian-Russian guitarist and producer Karen Arutyunyan. It was called “genius” by the Hungarian magazine HVG and “Maybe the best world music album of this year” by Magyar Narancs. In this album Meszecsinka goes deeper and higher into their unique magical world. 2017 started for Meszecsinka in New York, where they performed at the APAP (Association of the Performing Arts Presenters) conference with great success. During the year they toured in Germany, Belgium, Russia, Bulgaria and Macedonia. Line up: Annamária Oláh: vocal, flutes, Emil Biljarszki – keyboards, guitar, Frenc Somogyi – bass Dávid Krolikowski – percussion + guest: Karen Arutyunyan – guitar
