Gonda - Kruza - Pleszkán - Keyboard Music (1986) plus Gonda Sextet (1976)

 

Beautiful cover painting!  And surprising for the late year, 1986.  Looking on the back I see the 'cover' has been credited to Gyémánt László and the graphic design to Henk István.  I'm entranced by the way he has depicted the chest of the woman who looks to be in either jeans or casual pants, like a modern day statue of the revolution.

I'm guessing the database isn't complete for Gonda Janos, since it seems awfully sparse to me.  You might be familiar with the great album he made in 1976 with Gonda Sextet with its very dark and Hungarianly pessimistic ethnic-progressive fusion sound.  I was curious about this record because of the involvement of Richard Kruza, who I posted before, here.  The third guy is jazz pianist, Pleszkán Frigyes, who contributed two tracks.  Gonda does most of the heavy lifting here, we have mostly jazz piano but occasionally some brilliance and synthesizer work shine through.

A3 Zene Három Tételben - Music In Three Movements by Gonda is very clearly progressive and stands out to me as the best written composition: