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The Unbending Trees

About Me

With press enquiries please turn to Lovely Lizzy .
For UK booking, please turn to Harry Farmer at harry at harryfarmeragency dot com
Magyarországi koncertfoglaláshoz kérünk, hogy keresd Varga Gézát: vgeza kukac mentha pont hu
Press:
Feature in The Times
Reviews:
The Guardian , The Independent , musicOMH , Rave Magazine (AU) , Rockfeedback
Live reviews:
Penny Black Music , musicOMH , Quart (HUN)
Discography:
"Everybody's Lover" e-single - out 8th December 2008 - order here
"Chemically Happy (Is The New Sad)" album
formats: CD, digital download
order here
megrendelheto itt.
"Overture (with Tracey Thorn)" e-single
Click here to order "The First Day EP", in limited doublepack 7" format. and here to buy the EP in mp3 format
The First Day EP
Format: Double 7” & Download
Label: Strange Feeling Records
Cat: 003FEEL7D
Release: Sep 24 2007
In Hungary:
Format: CD
Licensing label: mTon/magneoton
Cat: 5144-25111-2
Release: Nov 2007
tracklist:
Side A: You Are A Lover
Side B: Messages (Table-Turn)
Side C: Alfred's Lovesong
Side D: The First Day

THE UNBENDING TREES are a three-piece musical project from Budapest, Hungary. They write and perform very simple acoustic downtempo songs about emotional dependence, panic and other feelings from the deepest and not necessarily nicest layers of a man's soul.
They are signed to Ben Watt 's (ex-Everything But The Girl) Strange Feeling Records , released their "The First Day" EP in the UK on vinyl and download formats, which has then been licensed back to their home-country by mTon/magneoton , and was released on CD with a different artwork late November.The full lenth album "Chemically Happy (With The New Sad)" is out 6th October 2008, preceeded by "Overture" (a duet w Tracey Thorn) as a single 29th September. Welcome.
About the members: Kristof Hajos started off as a friar in a monastery then as the singer, composer and lyricist of the band Café Electrique – a bilingual band playing indie-pop with lots of grooves and guitars, influenced as much by synth-pop as by early beat. Teaming up with Peter Hary, composer, stick player and Balazs Havasi a renown pianist, they create a very simple, puritanist musical project.
ViDEOS
The Unbending Trees live at Investment Melodies, Budapest, 2008.
Az MTV Icon - Neoton - Pago Pago video megtekintéséhez katt ide .
Overture with Tracey Thorn by 731
Alfred's Lovesong. video by Merse
You Are A Lover. video by Merse

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/04/2007
Band Website: www.theunbendingtrees.com
Band Members: Kristof Hajos: vocals
Balazs Havasi : piano
Andor Gabor: percussion, drums

Geza Varga: management in Hungary. contact: vgeza kukac mentha pont hu ; telefon: +36 70 452 8000
Toby Holdsworth: worldwide management (minus Hungary). contact: toby.holdsworth at hotmail dot co do uk
Harry Farmer : UK & European booking
Lizzi Ford : press and promotion Vanessa Siegl: webmaster
Merse Szeredi: visuals

Press pictures
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Influences: Kristof likes:

matt pond PA
eurythmics
the cardigans
nina persson
ebtg
pulp
the cure
cake
procol harum
nick drake
Record Label: www.strangefeelingrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Live in London

Hey, just a quick note. We are coming back to play in London. This time it'll be the lovely Bush Hall. We'll play lots of songs from our debut album as well as lots of new songs.The opening act will b...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:34:00 GMT

We are back!

So. We are back. I mean we have not been properly away, but now we are full on. We have concerts and stuff. And we have new songs! Some of them we are already playing live, some of them we are furious...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 07:09:00 GMT

see it's over...

did it hurt you? we started yesterday's set with messages. this time it was not only havasi and me, but the full line-up. for the last time. from today peter is no longer with us, as we parted. in pea...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:07:00 GMT

Spring.

Spring is re-birth. How true. Today we had our first featuring stuff with Havasi again after a rest of three months. These are evenings where he has a solo concert and I go and sing a couple of UBT so...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:44:00 GMT

what do you know?

so folks. this is how we start 2009. Havasi called me the end of last year to tell me that he's got a surprise for me. He sent a DVD by post, which included a video of us doing "What Do You Know' at h...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:41:00 GMT

No longer a trio.

so now you got scared. ha. :-)unless you were there at our london concert you are not aware yet, but we now officially have a fourth member, and it is no other thanAndor Gabor on drums and percussion....
Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:56:00 GMT

post-london

so we are back from london. having flown the same day early morning we were knackered. the plane took off at 6am. we landed before 8 UK time and were met by our lovely lizzi. he took the boys to their...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:45:00 GMT

back in london

so we are coming back to london this thursday. with all the promotion and press coverage we've had, if the concert was attended by few people only we'd deserve to be featured on failblog.comhowever. i...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:53:00 GMT

Pete Paphides’ visit to Budapest

having the music journalist of the times flying over to your town just for your sake, is ... well, both honouring and unnerving. you imagine someone coming over with the look of your most dreaded teac...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:13:00 GMT

November.

have you ever heard November by Azure Ray? It's so beautiful.This autumn is quite eventful for us. First of all, we had a visit from Pete Paphides from The Times, who made a feature on us which will a...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:36:00 GMT