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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First album of the band renewed in 2001, Update won the eMeRTon Award right after its premiere in May \u2013 the professional jurors awarded the World Music Band of the Year to Djabe. This great success did not peak in only the award, as this is the album that brought the first foreign invitations for the band. Since then, Djabe performed in nearly 50 countries, for the joy of the audience.<\/p>\n
After the 2001 reformation the band got a new soloist: Ferenc Kov\u00e1cs (trumpet, violin). Next to Andr\u00e1s Sipos (percussion) arrived the young and talented Szil\u00e1rd Banai (drums) and made an excellent percussive duo. A position never existed before was filled by Zolt\u00e1n Kov\u00e1cs (keyboard). Besides Andr\u00e1s Sipos two more remained from the old line-up: Tam\u00e1s Barab\u00e1s (bass guitar) and Attila \u00c9gerh\u00e1zi (guitar). Ferenc Muck (saxophone) left Djabe at the end of 2000. Between 1997-2000 Djabe\u2019s sounding was vastly determined by saxophone, and so it had to be filled \u2013 and none other did but the Englishman Ben Castle, who expanded the band\u2019s portfolio of instruments by his flute and bass clarinet. At Update\u2019s recordings the Moroccan vocalist-percussionist Sa\u00efd Tichiti also appears, with his characteristically Moroccan folk music of gembri and vocal added an exotic flavor to the composition First Step.<\/p>\n
The music gained complexity compared to the world music-dominated Djabe of 1996-2000 and made a turn towards jazz, largely because of Tam\u00e1s Barab\u00e1s\u2019 compositions, most of them co-composed with Attila \u00c9gerh\u00e1zi.<\/p>\n
Besides the eMeRTon Award, the CD was also nominated for the Hungarian Music Award, showing the band was still largely popular in its home country. Originally, the album released on casette and CD. In 2011 a new surround mix was made and released in single and double DVD-Audio versions (the second DVD contained the 2001 gig in Szolnok, Hungary in 5.1 mixing, and numerous documentaries and TV appearances). The 2011 Deluxe Edition was the same stereo mix of 2001, because the band was so satisfied with Tam\u00e1s Barab\u00e1s\u2019 audio engineer job and did not want to touch it.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Musicians<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an excellent studio album of the renewed band in 2001. The Djabe music kept its original values, but the band made a further step on the road of improvement. The compositions and arrangement became more complex and are of a higher standard. The band earned prestigious eMeRTon award in Hungary in 2001 with Update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6130,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[92],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6129","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cd","7":"yith_product_brand-djabe","8":"col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n
\nBarab\u00e1s Tam\u00e1s \u2013 bass guitaar, synthesizer programs
\n\u00c9gerh\u00e1zi Attila \u2013 guitars
\nSipos Andr\u00e1s \u2013 vocal, percussions
\nKov\u00e1cs Ferenc \u2013 trumpet, flugelhorn, violin, vocal
\nKov\u00e1cs Zolt\u00e1n \u2013 keyboards
\nBanai Szil\u00e1rd \u2013 drums
\nBen Castle \u2013 saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
\nSa\u00efd Tichiti \u2013 vocal, gembri, karbakat[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Djabe – Flying<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/6DI0NsFdTnU” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n