Kovacs The Hun: I've been into music since I was a little kid, so making music is never a challenge but a fun activity to me.ĭoes traditional Hungarian folk music play a major part in your music? What was the biggest challenge in creating Mirror World? Kovacs The Hun: That I'm a gloomy person. What was a major thing you learned while creating this record? The bigger story of what I see - an album as a whole as if it were a book or a movie. The tracks on the album have their own story and stand up individually, but If someone plays Mirror World from start to end, I hope that they will see the pattern. Mirror World is a collection of tunes that fit together not only because of their genre but because of the underlying themes. Kovacs The Hun: The title is a reference to the world we live in today and I think it is also a reference to how I think of the world and the possible future.ĭid you approach ‘Mirror World’ differently from your previous releases? What is the meaning behind the title, ‘Mirror World’? Savages or my other projects, like Savages Y Suefo are happy music with light melodies and catchy loops, some of them are even danceable party tunes, while Kovacs The Hun represents my deeper, more experimental and darker side. How would you describe your music as Kovacs The Hun and how does it differ from your other projects like Savages or Savages & Suefo? Since Attila the Hun, a great ruler and warrior is very well known even outside of Hungary I felt that this can be a good addition to the name Kovacs, plus it also indicates that I'm from Hungary. In recent years I was pretty busy with my other projects and there were no Kovacs releases, however a successful Dutch singer emerged with the same alias, so when The Content Label decided to release my new music, they advised me to add something to Kovacs so there would be no confusion with other artists. In 2007, When the label Budabeats asked me if I had some music to release, I sent them my Kovacs demos and from that time it became kind of an official artist name for me. Kovacs is like Smith in English and it is a very common last name in Hungary, that's why I choose it. That is how Savages was born, and shortly after that I started to use another name Kovacs. After a while there was simply too much different music and I felt that my various musical outputs needed different aliases. Kovacs The Hun: I’ve been making music as a hobby since I was 16, and at first I would just put the last 3 letters, "SSY" of my family name, on every tape I made. Is there a story behind the alias Kovacs The Hun? The Mirror World reflects all of Kovacs' fascinations - sounds and genres coming together on a collective surface. In his sonic palette, hip hop, jazz, and eerie soundtracks mix colorfully with experimental treatments and European musical influences. A talented trumpet player, Kovacs dips into a well of varied musical styles for Mirror World. Born Nándor Kürtössy in the northern Hungarian town Balassagyarmat, Kovacs is known for his Mana Mana Records imprint, his groundbreaking album Five Finger Discount under the name Savages, and his projects Savages y Suefo and Vega Ass. The Content Label travels to Budapest to enlist Kovacs the Hun, for an evocative new album titled Mirror World.
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