Rigó Jancsi

Songtext

Sometimes I come and go
She thought she would have been better off on her own
Since all of her friends told her so
But still she’s not quite sure what they meant

Sometimes she comes and goes away
Away from here, into other worlds I don’t know
With other natures and different people,
Where new cities keep bursting out like mushrooms
As new capitalists keep discovering these planets

Look! The first child born here, how far it is
And how high that mountain is, and how far we’ve got, how come?
Without us even noticing, how come?
So far away but you’ve always been here, how come?
How come? How come?
How come? How come?

Description

Rigó Jancsi was a Hungarian Gypsy violinist who conquered the heart of a princess, and turned into a sponge cake with chocolate. A mini collective where different cultural backgrounds meet to makmusic with electronics and instruments, between contemporary art music, indie rock and electronics. Creating fluttering light worlds of sounds and words.

Tell us about the best concert you ever played!

At Goethe Haus In Bolzano, it’s been a pretty intimate concert. I remember with affection when this American man, who was enjoying the concert with closed eyes, said “That’s the winner!” after our song “Untitled (sometimes she comes and goes away)”, and I thanked him and told him that I knew, I knew it indeed, that it was our best song.

To whom does your music speak?

To those who are open. Open towards the possibility of becoming other within sound, open to inhabit borders. To whom is not afraid of borders, but rather drawn to them.

How do you envision your musical journey?

A project open to propitiate encounters between various art forms, if such exist, dreaming to create little poetic worlds. Also dreaming to ennoble many sonic beings that we continuously neglect, such as fridges or creaking parquets, without forgetting the passion for guitars and synths. I’d love to work on an album and play live across Europe on an indie label.