Blues
The Blues Fools' third album, "On The Move", includes a well deserved endorsement from Charlie Musselwhite. Since the release of their debut ("Fools In The Blues"), they have attracted wide interest, and appeared at festivals across Europe, but not mainland Britain (yet!). They sound like an authentic West Coast harp-led band, although they hail from Hungary.
The opening bars of "Swingin' All Night Long" grab your attention with an explosive combination of harp and horns. The Blues Fools proceed to swing their way through a tune that could quite easily have come from the pen of the late, great William Clarke. In fact, it is the first of 11 (out of 12) original tracks. They follow it with a more jump blues oriented number ("Fat Mama Boogie") before a real boogie (a la Canned Heat) on "Too Tight To Tame", where the band's excellent guitarist Laszlo "Jack" Horvath handles vocals.
Band leader, Matt Pribojszki, is something of a harp maestro, and shows off his more mellow side on the classy cool jazz of "Coffee Break". After Toots Thielemans meets jump blues on "Foolin' Around", the horn section are reintroduced for the album's only cover track, a belting version of Slim Harpo's "Dynamite".
The album then provides a breather, with the low key piano dominated "Soul Stealin' Mama". They then shuffle their way through "Bad Things About You", before the jazz influence resurfaces on "Sharp Dressed Boogie Boy".
Eventually the horns return to round it all off in fine style on "High Class Baby". It is another real swinger, blending harp and horns in perfect harmony once more. The band certainly know how to write a catchy hook line, and this one just leaves you reaching out to punch the replay button.
With "On The Move" the Blues Fools have moved on to a higher plane. This time around, the band have broadened their base to include swing and jazz elements which add to the band's overall sound. The end result is a very good album, from a very tight unit, that is well worth checking out (try their web site www.bluesfools.com) They may be from Hungary, but "On The Move" shows any doubters that the Blues Fools know and can play the blues.
By Gordon Baxter.
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Mátyás is a 34-year-old man in command of a full range of creative talents – he appreciates all the legendary blues harp masters who inspired him, but next to being faithful to traditional roots, he builds his own contemporary style which will probably open a new chapter in harmonica playing – and not only in the blues genre alon. Mátyás is out touring and performing, from one country to another and proving, festival after festival, that he is not only a true harmonica talent, but a singer, a songwriter and an amazing showman as well.
He started playing the harmonica at the age of 15, when he listened to a rare recording of the late Sonny Boy Williamson. In 1995 he founded his first band, the Blues Fools. The band’s reputation quickly grew, and the band became the most well-known Hungarian blues band on the European blues scene. During the 10 successful years together with his Blues Fools Mátyás recorded three albums with them.
In January 2004 Mátyás invited some new, mostly jazz-influenced professional musicians to form the Mátyás Pribojszki Band. His purpose with this main project is to achieve progressive music goals with a multi-genre band in which each member has great experience. The last album, titled flavours (released in January 2005) contains entirely original contemporary compositions testify to the varied and accomplished art of Mátyás' quartet, together with their perception and mastery of other genres. For this album Mátyás specially invited three of his contemporary guitarist friends such as Ian Siegal (UK) and Mike Sponza (Italy).
The mátyás pribojszki band consists of harmonica, keyboards, double bass and drums – without a guitar originally in the quartet. Mátyás enjoys inviting great guitar players as special guests to join him for tours, as well. Besides his musician career, as a most amazing world-class jazz/blues harmonica performer, Mátyás is the official distributor of the best harmonica companies, the Hering, Syedel, Suzuki and dealer of the great Hohner harmonicas too! He has a nice webshop with all these great harmonica brands. On the other hand, he has dozens of young harmonica students in Hungary and Mátyás also the author of a Hungarian harmonica school-book for beginners, titled “Harp School”.
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Erik Kovács- Piano, Keyboards
Mátyás Pribojszki- Harmonicas, Vocals
Ferenc Szász- Guitars
Lajos Gyenge- Drums, Percussions
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01. Swingin' All Night Long - 4:18
02. Fat mama Boggie - 3:26
03. Too Tight To Tame - 3:42
04. Coffee Break - 4:49
05. Foolin' Around - 2:53
06. Dynamite - 5:34
07. Soul Stealing' Mama - 5:46
08. Bad Things About You - 5:15
09. Sharp Dressed Boogie Boy - 2:56
10. Educate Man - 4:17
11. Shoot With Another Gone - 5:21
12. High Class Baby - 3:49
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