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The Vodku v glotku (Vodka for the throat – Russian) was founded in 1992 in Budapest, Hungary, Central Europe. Members of the group were students at the Arts School of the Budapest University. Initially, Vodku v glotku played only a few songs, and for a few friends only. After the first couple of successful concerts, the group thought that playing Jewish songs might have a future in the cultural life of Hungary.
At the beginning, most of these songs were Russian-Jewish pub songs from the city of Odessa. It was an interesting – and somewhat risky – endeavor to sing in Russian in 1992, when the Soviet Army had just left Hungary and the 40-year period of communism had just come to an end in our country. Nevertheless, during the years 1992 to 2000, Vodku v glotku had many concerts in almost all pubs, restaurants, community centers and theatres of Budapest and other Hungarian towns. Repertoire of the group was broadened, new songs and directions of Jewish music were introduced.
Since its foundation, the Vodku v glotku has become a well-known Hungarian representative of “klesmer”. The klesmer style is an alloy of Jewish music and the national folklore of the Eastern-European country, where it is played. Main purpose of this music is to make the audience cheerful and free-minded. After almost ten years of existence it can be stated that the songs of Vodku v glotku have been serving this purpose quite well. In 2000, the group introduced its first CD, Odesszai trtnetek – Stories from Odessa, which includes the most popular songs played by the band since 1992.
In 2001, the band toured for three weeks in Mexico.
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| A song about a beautiful gypsy girl, who tells you about the future. (The more you pay, the brighter the future will be) |
CD: Still no CDs...
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| An instrumental piece well known for those familiar with Jewish music | |
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| A cheerful song in Russian about the guys, who stole sour cherry from Uncle Vanya's garden |
CD: Still demo. Try next April
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