It's never an easy task, for any musician, to be able to merge diverse music genres in an almost faultless style, especially when playing in a free-form way.
Although no music artist would ever doubt their own skills and talent, for the Hungarian drummer Marton Juhasz must have been a special, pleasant surprise what he was able to accomplish through the release of Juhasz brand new record, called Metropolis.
For those who knows a little not only the talent of the Hungarian drummer but also about his desire to move always forward, musically speaking, it won't come as a major surprise the fact that Juhasz wanted, through his new record, to explore new sonic alleyways where Juhasz's drumming style would breath freely, without the risk of being pigeonholed within a specific genre.
In that respect, the work done by Juhasz and his marvelous musicians, respectively Charley Rose on Sax, Fabio Gourea on guitar, Jérémie Krüttli on Bass and Lorenzo Vitolo on Fender Rhodes on the 8 compositions present on Metropolis, is breathtakingly fresh and inspiring.
Like every intuitive musician, Juhasz understood that he could let genres like Fusion, Contemporary Jazz and Desert Music flow within the way he portrayed the compositions, supported by musicians able to provide a sort of "Call And Response" among themselves, where Jurasz would indicate very often the path to be followed, but without hesitating to follow himself moments of improvisation and sudden changes of direction brought by his fellow musicians.
It's that constant change of sonic direction the decisive game changer and the real deal of a record like Metropolis. The opening tune Plato's Clave, just as an example, sees Juhasz going completely free-form, changing constantly the guidelines of the composition through his drumming, with his musicians following him like a platoon would follow their general in a battle, with awesome and inspiring artistic results.
Whilst Juhasz loves his improvisational style and his constant desire of pushing his drumming style further and further, one of the Hungarian artist's many merits, on his new album, it is to allow enough breathing space to every musician, who shows, from time to time on the album, how precious and important their contribution is on the construction of every composition, either when they are allowing to take solos or by being, all of them, a solid part of Juhasz's foundation of every single composition included in Metropolis.
Entertaining, flamboyant and extremely well played, Metropolis is a truly fun record to listen from beginning to end, sipping every note played on the album like one would do with a rare vintage bottle of champagne at the best music party in town. Kudos to Juhasz for such a vibrant and inspired album.
Metropolis is out now and it is available to be purchased via Unit Records
