Times New Román

Our music is based on the repertoire of the most prominent wind musicians of urban folk music who found themselves in Romania, Serbia and Hungary in the last quarter of the last century. It includes virtuoso chamber music that was protected in the restaurants of Romania's big cities, Kolo music, scratched by Serbian Banat cigarette smoke, and the Roma music that permeates the corridors of Budapest's tenement blocks. The clarinet, saxophone and tárogató join forces to evoke this musical world, supporting each other in a distinctive, creative polyphonic sound, underpinned by the unyielding unity of viola and bass, and complemented by the richness of the harmonica. The music we play may have been born into a vanishing world steeped in nostalgia for all of us, but it continues to evolve in our own time, and it is in this that we continue to shape it and play it as we understand it.