Singer-songwriter Veronika Harcsa and guitarist Bálint Gyémánt have been working together since their studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. After having recorded four succesful albums with various projects, they started to work as a duo. After the release of their first duo album, Lifelover, released on Traumton, they performed successfully at the European Jazz Showcase of jazzahead! 2015 in Bremen, fllowed by numerous concerts in Europe. The ultimate sound of their brand new Traumton release, Tell Her, based on Veronika’s musical ideas and lyrics, was shaped by New York-based producer Jeremy Friedman. The songs yield extremely personal inspiration, revealing both depth, freedom and humour. The visitors of the concert should prepare themselves for a unique encounter of contemporary jazz and improvisational pop music.

“Harcsa is an amazingly versatile musician, a brilliant vocalist and gifted entertainer in the best sense. Her facial, vocal, gestural and musical expressions were mutually reinforcing. With her clear and supple voice she not only can get almost everywhere. She captures 'it' in an open smile and inviting gesture. It all happens in an almost effortless flow and a mildly stylized way. She has found her very own thing and performed it on a high level with great impact. What she was doing defies categorization and makes comparisons superfluous. Her performance not only had great variation but also unfolding, focusing, draught and pointedness, ending up in a great Indian flavored piece. (...) Guitarist Bálint Gyémánt entered fully into the interior of the music interlocking intensely with Harcsa. What the duo is doing has its pop-sensitivities but these emerge from precious substance.” Henning Bolte (All About Jazz)

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