Author: Kristóf Hajós

Every first Monday of the month, exactly at noon, they test the air defense sirens in the Netherlands. This sound of alarm has become part of our life, something that you hardly notice anymore.  The past years have not been easy. Both this virus ridden 18 months and the time before, I...

When we were children, and that was on the Eastern side of the iron curtain in the 1980s, every now and then we would get a bag of pistachios, which was a very rare delicacy. You know how children are, especially with things they feel to be more precious than stuff that is easy to come by, they...

Last week I wrote about album artwork I find very enticing, this week I am looking at two of my own album’s covers. Both of these were released with The Unbending Trees, a two man band formed by HAVASI, the renowned pianist and myself. Although by the same band, both of the albums were recorded...

I have done around twenty music releases so far. Singles, EP-s, albums. And more often than not, creating a good album cover was more difficult than writing and recording the songs themselves. What makes a good artwork? I have taken two of my favourite ones to investigate. Eurythmics –...

I was not tall enough to reach the pedals on my grandparents’ grand piano. It definitely did not stop me from trying, however. The piano belonged to us for generations, many of my family, mostly the women, played on it. Some of the keys had numbers written on them in red ink with the beautifully...

I was probably 6-7 when words started coming into my mind, unasked for, unprovoked. They formed into sentences and coupled in rhymes. A lot of my lyrics were written on airplanes. The Unbending Trees – Angels’ Secret – 2008 To me, being a lyricist is probably even...