HAVASI has composed a musical movement reminiscent of Hollywood soundtracks with “Spring Wind” (Tavaszi szél + VIDEO)

KV – HAVASI has composed a musical movement reminiscent of Hollywood soundtracks with “Spring Wind”, one of the most famous Hungarian folk songs, as its main theme. In addition to Balázs Havasi, the world music movement represents the roots of Hungarian music through such authoritative connoisseurs of Hungarian folk music as Edina “Squirrel” Szirtes, Balázs “Bumble-bee” Szokolay and students of folk music from the Hungarian Academy of Music. KV

One of the things that make the symphony really unique is that it features both Hungarian and Asian artists who perform a fragment of an Asian folk song on their authentic instruments. As usual, the composition receives a contribution from the Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra and Endi and may build a kind of bridge between the cultures of Hungary and Asia as it symbolises the diversity of peoples and the universality of music at a time.

“To me, Spring Wind is a musical symbol. I never kept back that I owe all my successes to Hungarian musical education and the Hungarian audience. I am convinced that Spring Wind is one of our tunes which could make a hit anywhere in the world. As I have always professed, while we were born in different continents, we speak the same language deep in our hearts. And that common language is the language of music”, the composer says.

It took nearly three years to make a video clip of this special production of world music.

The idea was that the performers should come before the camera in a real “candle Arena”, built by the crew from exactly 2,013 candles. It took nearly four hours to light them all and it was a special challenge to shoot the entire scene before the candles burned out. “I will never forget when I first sat among the candles. I felt their heat on my skin. It was like sitting in an ancient sanctuary. They say the flame of a candle is the light of soul and in that moment I was deeply touched by something”, HAVASI explained about his shooting experience.

But this is just one scene and making the whole clip posed a number of other challenges. The creators (director László Kriskó and director of photography Zoltán Csincsi) wanted to achieve a spectacular reproduction of nature’s awakening, the moments of spring and to present Hungary’s natural wonders and magnificent landscapes. The crew invited an assistant professor from the Institute for Cultivation of Saint Stephen’s University at Gödöllő to suggest for the video clip a cherry orchard in a huge area, within a romantic environment in Hungary, which blossoms in April. The cold weather and then the sudden rise of temperature only left guessing when the trees would burst into bloom within 2 or 3 weeks. This kept the crew standing by for shooting, waiting for the first flowers until the right moment came.