Might 24, 2024 – everybody bear in mind this date! An extended-awaited day, a red-letter vacation, a milestone in Hungarian music historical past:
As the primary Hungarian artist, Azahriah gave a solo live performance within the Puskás Enviornment.
And if that alone wasn’t sufficient, he did all of it on the age of twenty-two, with just some years of gigging behind him.
The primary act of the “triple Puskás”, the live performance on Friday, might be adopted by one other celebration on Saturday and Sunday night: after Might 24, on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth, the folks will stay the title of Azahriah. The place else would the “Ria! Ria! Azahriah!”, as in Puskás, the place Hungarian soccer followers have been used to cheering – till now.
We’ve been to an Azahriah live performance earlier than, not one, not two, not even three, however what we skilled at Puskas was an unprecedented and unrepeatable few hours.
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Gallery: Azahriah live performance – 24/05/2024 Photograph: Kata Németh / Index
He packed the Puskás
As an alternative of rain, the live performance began within the solar in a cape tied across the waist, though the latter was not crucial both. Not solely was it raining, but it surely wasn’t even chilly: the right climate for a live performance held in an open stadium. The beginning was promised at 8 o’clock within the night, then again, white buttocks flashed on the stage and on the projector at three quarter previous 8 – DESH got here amongst us. Nicely, the backing band was Azahriah’s fellow musician,
- the crew dealt with the manufacturing in-house from the primary minute to the final.
After all, the naked bottoms didn’t belong to DESH, however to the feminine dancers who carried out brutal choreography, whereas the rapper debuted his new hit on Might 1
Strawberry
opened the celebration with the composition entitled
I hope I can fire up your little blood!
– stated DESH to the viewers and made the folks glad for about three quarters of an hour. The rapper was joined by one other fellow musician, Younger Fly, for a number of tracks, after which the duo introduced that the brand new EP might be launched in the summertime.
Throughout DESH’s manufacturing, it nonetheless appeared that the talked about (and promised) full home didn’t exist and wouldn’t exist. Prior to now few days, many individuals began promoting their tickets on-line, everybody questioned what may very well be behind the mass ticket gross sales. In mild of this, it may even have been true that 1000’s could be lacking from the auditorium. We’ve already seen the unfavorable headlines earlier than us: Azahriah didn’t fill the Puskás; Half the stadium was empty at Azahriah’s live performance; The place did the viewers go from Azahriah’s live performance? And so forth.
In some methods, the scenario was improved by the truth that there was greater than half an hour break between the performances of DESH and Azahriah, so that every one spectators may take their seats – the stands and the sector crammed up properly, slowly, however full. Regardless, the transition break felt fairly lengthy, these with seats may very well be glad that they have been spared the again ache from a whole lot of loitering – in distinction to the brigade within the enviornment.
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Gallery: Azahriah live performance – 24/05/2024 Photograph: Kata Németh / Index
The kiss digital camera scanned
Since we visited a sports activities facility, the organizers took care of the leisure evoking the ambiance of the matches. The viewers kiss caminto, that’s, the cameramen pressured them right into a kiss digital camera: the {couples} showing on the projector needed to kiss one another. Those that didn’t give smack to the individual subsequent to them have been booed by the viewers – or pressured to kiss.
As for the imaginative and prescient of malicious titles: they will hardly seem after the Friday present, as a result of the celebration actually was a full home live performance. Azahriah started her half at 9 p.m. By this time, the one one who had not taken his place was the one who had simply gone to the toilet after consuming the (late) contents of the repo cups with the performer’s title and emblem.
About 50,000 folks have been curious in regards to the historic second,
for the primary Hungarian performer who gave an unbiased live performance within the stadium. Not solely from the viewpoint of ticket gross sales, but additionally from the variety of guests and the total stadium, persons are certainly within the Puskás live performance introduced seven months in the past.
Azahriah is first as standard An introverted tunehe honored the viewers with, however his set was additionally predictable: in black garments, along with the Matula hat and sun shades combo, he warmed up with the acquainted “bee hat” from SopronFest, i.e. a veil with holes on his head. Might this headdress be the third factor of the triumvirate? The subsequent accent to cover behind whereas a stadium of individuals tear her aside with their gazes?
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Gallery: Azahriah live performance – 24/05/2024 Photograph: Kata Németh / Index
Azahriah chewed his manner by his whole tune listing, inviting the viewers to journey again in time: along with his previous songs in English (emulator, 4K love) to 2022-es syllablesintroduced from delusionsand, has concentratet is a 4 moods hit, the place even the megaphone appeared for a number of seconds. Final yr’s Memento album tracks (szosziazi, gát, paper home, 3korty) was additionally mentioned, whereas the brand new album, a Skatulya Iadditionally carried out songs from (Yukata, lesson, cipoe
– true, solely half of the latter). THE
mariana. moat
could not be disregarded of the efficiency both: the spacesuited diver acquainted from the video clip floated over the viewers within the type of an enormous puppet.
DESH is again, bringing the celebration
After seventy-five minutes of Azahriah’s solo, DESH returned to the stage, however this time the to the ceremonyburst in with somewhat than the I drink clearmal, which is without doubt one of the duo’s best-known songs. THE ceremony after (as a part of the manufacturing) riot police ran onto the stage, who stood in good distinction to DESH wearing snow white.
Azi and DESHI nonetheless transfer nice collectively on stage, each the older and newer joint songs have been performed as it’s written within the massive e-book: Papa, Pullup, Habibi, the bringer of fame COLDby meg a Rampapapam – the place, along with Azahriah, DESH and Younger Fly, even supermanager Kristóf Tóth, aka KRSA, went out to celebration with the viewers.
It’s fascinating to watch how a lot Azahriah wrote songs in a unique type with DESH: whereas her newer, solo songs have a way more world music really feel, laced with South American and reggae components, her earlier songs with DESH have a way more trappy, hip-hop sound, and partying to those numbers is feasible and actually value it.
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Gallery: Azahriah live performance – 24/05/2024 Photograph: Kata Németh / Index
Loud and spectacular
The live performance was maybe the strongest when it comes to visible components, though the sound system was not weak both: within the first few songs, the vocals have been so highly effective that they drowned out the guitar and plenty of musical components. Even the drums couldn’t be heard nicely, however with time this drawback disappeared. Because of the delay towers, even these sitting within the again rows of the auditorium may hear the songs along with these near the stage. Along with Azahriah and his band, a big orchestra additionally performed: strings, brass, percussionists, and drummers created an uplifting ambiance within the enviornment.
The visible idea was appropriately – appropriately – bizarre for Azahriah:
colourful and darkish on the identical time, uplifting and miserable, tasteful and wild.
The CGI background projections have been typically linked to the lyrics of the songs, different instances we may see scenes from the music movies on the large partitions.
There have been a whole lot of dancers on stage, a few of them twirling in sequins, giving the impact of a tribal séance once more, a few of them in informal units, however ballerinas and pole dancers additionally entertained the in any other case restrained partying viewers with uncommon dance productions.
The decor components – the diving doll, the three-breasted, massive fats monster projected on the projector, the dancing skeletons, and the big (severed) heads of fingers hanging in direction of the stage – fell into the weird class, and from an outsider’s perspective, they didn’t have a lot of a task within the story.
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Gallery: Azahriah live performance – 24/05/2024 Photograph: Kata Németh / Index
Not solely the projections, the figures and the dancing ladies, the pyrotechnics additionally heated up the air. Pillars of smoke and fireplace, in addition to colourful fireworks, have been included into the live performance, generally capturing so loudly into the sky that it nearly made one’s coronary heart skip a beat.
Azahriah just isn’t the type of performer who talks so much, dances so much, parades round in gigantic costumes, or makes a whole lot of pointless strikes at a live performance. Quite the opposite. He depends solely on his voice and music. You’ve got the surrounds in entrance, subsequent to and behind, the visuals, the dancers, the fireworks and whatnot. Nonetheless, he solely focuses on the sound. He stands out with a guitar, will get behind a keyboard or drums and dominates the stage with none exaggerated present components.
As a result of he dominates not solely the stage, but additionally all the home music trade.
In line with the paper type of the live performance, a Mind1 It ended with the joint Azahriah-DESH. All the present feelings got here out on the faces of the boys, even behind the sun shades it was seen that they have been moved, but proud and glad, attempting to grasp what had simply occurred to them. Historical past was written.
And it’s fairly unimaginable to assume {that a} live performance of this caliber was realized by a Hungarian artist and his crew…
(Cowl picture: Kata Németh / Index)
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