International gyp-hop collective Hét Hat Club is back with an eclectic folk album

GYP-HOP, MANELETON AND TURBO FOLK FROM BUDAPEST

an international collective of musicians dedicated to acoustic and electric traditional and contemporary cultures based in Hungary

Hét Hat Club was born in the Budapest underground, where ruin bar art punks, international vagabonds, and folk dance maniacs met. As common  street musicians, various formations of Hét Hat traveled through Europe, North, Central and South America. Their sound has gathered favorite elements of rhythm and style to bring back to the modern Hungarian Karpat-Balkan folk songs. The front man Kjartan sings original and traditional songs in english, hungarian, romanian, spanish, turkish, romani. Their musical style is being called Gyp-Hop, Maneleton, Turbo folk jazz lautareasca.

Party is a form of art and can happen anywhere with the VII VI Club on an Island Festival on the Danube, In a Russian house party, on the terrace of a café in Aix-en-Provence France, on the streets of Zurich, In the Painter’s Palace of Budapest, In an LGBT retirement house in San Francisco, in a world music festival in Romania, in a Balkan wedding in Poitier, in a horse ranch in Chile.

We are an International travelling band based out of Budapest. Digging into the sounds of the 80’s and 90’s Balkan Roma Gypsy Turkish Transylvanian Folk but also from Jazz, Hip Hop and Latin culture.

Active for the past 5 years the band was formed by individual traveling street musicians who serendipitously met in Budapest and decided to pursue this project due to their common passion for music, and travels.