“Nigun had started their musical program with crossing East European Jewish music and jazz. Nowadays they speak more in the language of contemporary jazz, based on a complex composition thinking of the band leader. This effort is verified with awesome solos.” Gábor Turi, Magyar Nemzet 2013

“One will love the new album of Nigun whom are interested in how the old melodies take a new lease on life. Not word-for-word but redefined with an extraordinary, very unique and creative vocabulary.” Bálint Bereczki, Jazzma.hu 2013

Nigun was founded by guitarist and composer András Párniczky in 2001. Uniquely in the European jazz scene, the formation originates its music from the Eastern European Jewish traditions. Although Nigun’s music can be best labelled as "Klez-jazz”, the creativity and spontaneous spirit of its musicians are also very significant, as well as their attempt to combine different genres as it is proven on their newly released album album Live inem Sargfabrik (Fono Records). The band scored great success with performing in many prestigious music festivals as the Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival, Bravo Art Festival Brussels, Klezmore Fest Vienna, Jazz Festival Brno, Jazz Festival Bansko, the Mol Jazz Festival, Sziget Festival, Mediawave or the Summer Jewish Festival Budapest, as well as various events all over Europe and overseas.

Nigun often works together with guest musicians, like on their third album Bale Kulturnik (2006), featuring the Israeli saxophonist Daniel Zamir (Satlah). In the same year, members of the group participated in John Zorn's Cobra performance in the Palace Of Arts (Budapest, Hungary) under the direction of Zorn himself. Since 2007 multi-reedits Matt Darriau (Klezmatics, Paradox Trio) has been a recurring guest of Nigun just like the renpwned cimbalom artist Miklós Lukács. They also shared the stage with Don Byron, Frank London, Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob) and Dániel Szabó.

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