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This music has no truck with distinctions between genres, while it successfully manages to eschew the congenital defects often resulting from the fusing of genres; it continually seeks for the new, but through the use of familiar musical elements it creates a comfortable acoustic homeliness for the listener; it radiates enthusiasm, and even in its most serious moments it has a message for us: there is nothing more marvellous than music. Which in the case of András Dés can fairly easily be taken to mean that there is nothing more marvellous than life. In spite of the difficulties, or even taking them into account. For the listener of the album, all this means is quite simply that this music is good to listen to. This album is indeed about democracy. It is about what role is played in music by a central will; about how checks and balances work; about where the limits of mutual tolerance lie; and about whether we are able to allow others to sound their own voice alongside us. The sensitively composed and airily orchestrated themes are linked by free improvisations; sometimes the percussion falls silent for a while, and in this three-man political system the individual is free up to a point: as long as he does not infringe the freedom of the others. Freedom defines not only the relationship of the three musicians to one another, but that of the whole album, because the two improvisations without title and the seven composed songs actually form one single process, meandering like a river, freely forming, yet progressing in a clear direction: these three wonderful musicians seem to have fused not only with music, but with nature itself.

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The two guitars of Fenyvesi/steel-pedals and Istvan Toth Jr/nylon join with the creative percussion of Andras Des to produce a wide variety of moods. Des' use of African percussion creates a rich ambience to 'Intro' and the mystical 'Sea At Second Sight.' More European folk sounds are created by the patient guitars on 'Holding Your Hand...' and the fingersnapping 'Lullaby Under the Sea' while even some C&W twang drops in on the graceful 'Interplay 1. Outside.' Ethereal strings.

     —George W. Harris, jazzweekly.com

This intriguing ensemble, in which steel string and nylon string guitars weave over percussion leads, is predicated largely on texture and colour. It also offers a splendid master-class in transparency as the Intro of this nine-track, 45-minute album eloquently shows with its textural sensitivity. The Hungarian trio, led by András Dés, may enjoy jokey album titles - the only singing comes in a single track and is what I’d prefer to call vague vocalising – but this set of originals is full of glint and richness. In this way a quite funky groove develops in Interplay 1 – Outside whilst the exciting Gardening falls into defined sections, passages hinting at the Iberian, alongside fast lithe runs over the leader’s crisply assertive drumming.

     —Jonathan Woolf, musicweb-international.com