For the better part of ten years, this band that started life in Eger in 1995 under the name Kerekes Ensemble held dance houses constructed around folk music from the Gyimes (Ghimeș) region of Transylvania and from Moldavia and released records based on their authentic collections. In 2006, however, they started to employ this musical world primarily centred around the recorder and cobza in the service of their own songs, injecting it with funk, a unique dance music sound that launched the Kerekes Bank on its path to conquer the world. Pimasz, the album that they released at that time, was listed by Songlines, the world's most prestigious world music magazine, as one of the best new releases of the time, and this was followed by multiplying numbers of ever greater accolades and awards as their records went gold and platinum. They have written film music (for Argo 2), performed concerts at numerous leading European festivals, and on their most recent album, Rewind, they 'kerekesbandified' hits by Jimi Hendrix, Prodigy, Daft Punk and others. Their eclectic sound, which places the sweeping and psychedelic variability of the recorder in the foreground, has now taken on new colours, with Asian influences, meaning it will be guaranteed excitement to board Trans-Nomád Express with them for a journey through different countries.

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