Csaba Palotaï The Deserter

The Deserter, Csaba Palotaï’s new BMC release, is a solo work with eleven short, fascinating compositions. Because of the title we would be inclined to look for abandonment and desolation and at first listening, on the surface, the music seems to meet our expectations. Nonetheless, the stripped-down, lean and haunting sounds of the guitar and the dreamlike musical fragments of most different genres call forth an absolutely original and compact style. This “garage jazz” is a special mixture of proto-jazz, ambient, noise, pop, rockabilly, blues or fragments of half-forgotten romances and folk-tunes – this all mellowed to some very personal, emotionally rich and unique musical texture, through the deeply honest and sincere way of expression.