Vedres Csaba
Ephata I. – Tortured & Formatted
X-Produkció 2001

1. Tortured & Formatted 6:19 mp3
2. What A Still 2:30
3. Metamorphoses 4:50
4. Hitch-Hike To Las Vegas 4:10
5. Lay Down 2:24
6. Computer Heathen 3:11
7. Desert Blue Dawn 3:46
8. Soon 3:15
9. Black Flowers, White Flowers 4:07 mp3
10. Net Samba 3:40
11. What's The Way 1:36
12. The Subway Of Death 16:15 mp3
13. Epilogue 1:43

Total time 58:35

Music: Vedres Csaba (except 13: Vedres – Mussorgsky), lyrics: Egervári Gábor (except 5: Egervári – József Attila)

Vedres Csaba – Korg Trinity Plus, Akai S-5000 sampler, vocals, samplings
Gyermán Júlia – violin, sampling
Scheer József – samplings
Winkler Balázs – trumpet, samplings
Horváth Krisztina – I. violin (Epilogue)
Lezsák Attila – viola (Epilogue)
Krommer Lúcia – cello (Epilogue)

From the liner notes:

Motto 1: "...plastic must be more plastic and at the very moment it begins to cry and at the very moment it will scream like the martyrs under the pressure of the torture. This very thin and and still scream cried out by these objects, creatures and situations is that must be heard. And here is there my very excruciated promise what I call the ultimate dependence." (Pilinszky János)

Motto 2: "...some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk..." (Mark 7:32)

After two objective fated state-reports the listener can recognize the eight different getaway strategy of today's human. Getaway into my inner spiritual world, into the entertainment, into the nostalgia, into the computerized rituals, into the depression, into the expectation in ourself, into the scepticism and the Internet. All they sceneries are concentrated with some gall but they aren't caricatures. Perhaps some people will be astonished because of the sound is much more "simple" as usual.

All the experiments falling through there is a question: Where away? "The subway of Death" is an unexpected encounter, a confrontation with reality instead of the illusion. To leave illusions is always shocking and maybe painful at the first sight but includes the possibility for everyone to coming out as much true people. The final scenery is the "Fool's Song" from Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunoff". But the story isn't over yet. the deaf-and-dumb having no ears to hear and no words to bless but curse only, will be mended and starts to hear and speak. I can understand him hardly yet. What I tried to recognize I'll tell on the following part of this record Ephata II. — Vedres Csaba
 

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