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November 11, 2008.
November Tour
In November the band on tour around in Hungary! Dates here>
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November 03, 2008.
New video shooting!
The band is shooting a video for the track called Escape from the Earth. You can get in, details are here >
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Oktober 07, 2008.
Zagar at the Dresden Contemporary Music Festival
The Zagar Band has been invited to the 22nd Dresden Contemporary Music Festival. The Festival running from 30th September to 12th October at Hellerau European Centre of Art, is focussing this year on “Music and Film”, a topic as exciting as is it varied. The programme includes established successful productions from Kubrick - Space Odyssey (De Stijl Remix08) to Stockhausen compositions. The Zagar band will play on 10th of Oktober at Festspielhaus.
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September 08, 2008.
MTV MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATION!
The band is nominated for the Best Local Act in MTV European Music Awards 2008. Your vote will decide who will be the Top Regional Artist. Viewers across Europe vote for their favourite top 5 regional artists, these votes decide which bands will be playing at the Music Awards in Liverpool. Vote for us here >
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September 07, 2008.
Melodie & Rhythmus
Report about the Zagar band and the Hungarian music scene in the september issue of the German Melodie & Rhythmus Magazine.
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August 21, 2008.
Marie Claire Report
In the september Issue of Marie Claire there is an interview with Balázs Zságer.
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August 10, 2008.
MTV Talkshow, gig and DJ set at Sziget!
On the first day of Sziget Festival (13rd of august, wednesday) the band will be the guest of VOLT TALK Show by MTV at 3pm at VOLT Terasz. On the same day evening 1 o clock will be the gig feat George Ligeti and the Underground Divas at the Converse Wan2 stage. and on saturday Bootsie & Zságer DJ set at the MR2 stage!
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August 01, 2008.
MTV EUROPEAN MUSIC AWARDS > VOTE!
Vote for us to be between the Hungarian nominated of MTV European Music Awards. Register here www.mtv.co.hu and send a mail with the name of Zagar to szavazz@mtvne.com until 12am, 4nd of august.
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Julie 29, 2008.
Demons on the stage again!
The Zságer brothers' brand new live act, the Demon Superior on the stage again. On 30th of july at Coke Club in Siófok and on 2nd of August at Dürer Kert in Budapest. New track on myspace here >
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Julie 15, 2008.
Picture of Palace of Art gig
Pictures about the exclusive gig of Palace of the Art here >
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June 17, 2008.
Zagar portrait on CaféBabel
Portrait of Balázs Zságer and the band at the one of the most popular multilanguage European e-magazin, CaféBabel. Check it here >
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June 16, 2008.
Kultkikötő video spot
Funny promotional video for the next Zagar gig on 27th of june at Kultkikötő, Balatonföldvár. Check it here >
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June 13, 2008.
Faces in the elevator
Portrait of Balázs Zságer and the band on Hír TV on 15th of june at 17:30. You can watch it on web here>
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May 28, 2008.
Free Open Air Gigs!
The band play open air places with free entry on may 30 at Downtown Festival in Szabadság tér featuring the Undreground Divas and june 5 at Corvintető Opening Party. The gig az Zöld Pardon is canceled and it will updated.
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May 22, 2008.
BRAVO nomination
Our latest album, the Cannot Walk Fly Instead is nominated by the BRAVO Magazine in the best Hungarian album category. Vote for us! Send an sms with the BMAZ code to the +36.91.331091 number! Win a PSP game and valuable CD packs!
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April 23, 2008.
DEMON SUPERIOR
On 1st of may at Merlin at Hello Cabaret Event debut the Demon Superior wich is a sort of family affair it is based on two members of Zagar Band, Balázs Zságer and his younger brother, Ákos. On their myspace site they claim to be playing renaissance electro which really says it all. Demon Superior create their own postmodern dance music with a refreshingly unique attitude using bits and pieces from the legendary musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Edith Piaf, Falco, Kraftwerk sometimes with soviet child-choir or forgetten Eastern European heroes like Neurotic. Check it their tunes here>
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April 07, 2008.
New T-shirts and CDs for sale!
T-shirts and Cds available cheaper on wednesday at Trafo!
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April 03, 2008.
Divas and Ligeti on the stage again + DVD shooting!
On 9th of April at Trafó the band will play with Underground Divas and George Ligeti from the london based The Puzzle. There will be more songs from the erlier albums and new visual concept by Kemuri for some tracks. On the gig there will be DVD shooting by 10 cameraman. Tickets at the Trafó Ticket Office!
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March 27, 2008.
Focus Portrait
Interview with Balázs Zságer at RTL Klub's Focus Portrait.
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February 29, 2008.
Signing
The band will signing in Székesfehérvár at Mediamarkt on 17 pm. There will be t-shirts and vinyl singles are available too.
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February 21, 2008.
Wings of Love is in the ISC
We proudly announce the Wings of Love is selected to the Finalists of International Songwriting Competition in dance/electronic category. The Judges are Tom Waits, Nelly Furtado, Jerry Lee Lewis, Robert Smith from The Cure among many others. You can vote for the song until the end of February. Vote for Wings of Love here!
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February 18, 2008.
The 25 most promising youth
Balázs Zságer the leader of the band is the list of the 25 most promising youth by Haszon magazine.
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February 13, 2008.
Underground Fókusz
Hungarian underground music at RTL's TV show here >
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February 04, 2008.
No1 on Myspace Top Artist List
Currently we are the No1. on Myspace's Top Artist List in any genre category among the Hungarian acts.
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January 24, 2008.
FONOGRAM PRIZE 2008
We proudly announce the Cannot Walk Fly Instead album won the Hungarian record industry's Fonogram 2008 Music Award in electronic and dance music category!
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January 23, 2008.
Nominated and live gig at Fonogram Music Awards
The band is nominated in best electronic and dance category at Fonogram Music Awards. The event will be broadcasted tonight at 20.10 by MTV1. At the show Zagar is playing live featuring Underground Divas.
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January 11, 2008.
Interview in Népszabadság
Interview with Balázs Zságer about the new album, the CSI licensing and the theatre works in the 11th of january issue of Népszabadság.
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January 08, 2008.
Third Zagar track in CSI TV series!
Already the third Zagar track licensed by the famous american TV series, the CSI. The first one was from our debut album a few years ago. Recently the tracks 'Train' and 'Three Seasons Fall' are used from the new album, Cannot Walk Fly Instead. You can watch it on myspace.
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January 07, 2008.
Zságer works for the Hungarian National Theatre again
The band won't stop working in january either. Balázs Zságer and Andor Kovács are composing music for a new play at the Hungarian National Theatre.H The title of the play is New Year's Eve written by Béla Hamvas and György Spiró and the director is László Keszég. The premier will be on 11th of january.
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December 29, 2007.
The Album of the Year!
The Cannot Walk Fly Instead is the album of the year by the audience voting of Radiocafé. Thanks for your votes! Vote for Wings of Love in the song of the year competition here>
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December 26, 2007.
Gigs at the end of the year
There will bw three Zagar gig at the end of the year 27th of december at Trafo, 28th of december at Debrecen and 30th of december at SZIN ICE festival in Szeged.
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December 20, 2007.
Freee Interview
You can read an interview in the magazin of Hungarian electronic music scene called Freee.
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December 18, 2007.
HVG interview
Interview with Zságer at hvg.hu.
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December 16, 2007.
Wings of Love on the 1st place at MTV Top Selection
The new Wings of Love video is at the 1rd place of the best 50 songs selection of MTV.
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December 08, 2007.
Album of the year
Audience voting about the album of the year on radiocafe.hu. Vote for the new Zagar album here>
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December 07, 2007.
Partypeople interview
Interview with Zságer on the Partypeople online magazine.
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December 06, 2007.
WAN2 Cover + Interview!
Interview and review in the new issue of the Hungarian leader music magazine WAN2.
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December 05, 2007.
Extreme-Art Review
Review about the album release party on the Extreme-Art online magazin.
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December 04, 2007.
ABUS DANGEREUX
Review about the band in the french ABUS DANGEREUX magazine december issue + there is a Zagar track on the attached compilation CD as well.
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November 27, 2007.
Zagar T-shirt!
You can order Zagar T-shirt in black and white and silver script as well!
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November 26, 2007.
Pictures of the Album Release Party
Some pictures about the full house album release party here.
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November 23, 2007.
Interview on Velvet!
Interview with Zságer about solitude, lonlyness, love and rock'n'roll on velvet.hu.
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November 22, 2007.
CD and T-Shirt for sale!
New album for 1990 HUF and new Zagar t-shirts at Album Release Party at Millenaris!
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November 21, 2007.
Brand New Video - Wings of Love!
We proudly presents then the first video from the track Wings of Love featuring Underground Divas is finished. You can check it on myspace.
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November 15, 2007.
EST Interview
You can read interview with Balázs Zságer on est.hu.
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November 13, 2007.
Origo Chat
Interview with Zsager at Origo Chat
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November 09, 2007.
Third Coming - Review by Origo
You can read a review and you can win 10 brand new CD at Origo.
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November 04, 2007.
Making Video - Wings of Love
You can check a photoblog about the shooting of Wings of Love video here.
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November 03, 2007.
Tickets for Album Release Party!
You can buy tickets for the album release party - 23rd of November at Millenaris in Budapest.
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Oktober 26, 2007.
Review on zene.hu
Review of the ne w album on zene.hu!
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Oktober 17, 2007.
The new CD in the stores within Hungary!
This week the new album in the stores within Hungary! The album release party with special guests will be at Millenaris in Budapest on 23rd of november!
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Oktober 05, 2007.
The first review
You can read the first review of the new album on est.hu.
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Oktober 03, 2007.
Video about the photo shooting
Check out the video by Menzkie about the photo shooting of the new album on myspace with a new album track. The art direction and design of the album by Zoltan+ who lives and works in Paris and San Francisco. Cover photo by Márton Perlaki and in the booklet there will be many pictures from talented Hungarian photographers as well.
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September 25, 2007.
New album preorder!
The official release is delayed, but you can preorder the new album 10% cheeper till the release day at CLS webshop. (from Hungary only)
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September 05, 2007.
Zagar gig in Warsaw
The band play in Warsaw at the festival My city Budapest at Fabryka Trzciny on 7th of september.
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August 28, 2007.
New album on 24th of september!
We proudly present that our new album will be released on 24th of september in Hungary. You can check a brand new song titled Wings of Love on myspace!
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August 21, 2007.
Interview on Partycom
You can read an interview with Balázs Zságer on Partycom website.
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August 08, 2007.
Wings of Love premier on the Petőfi Radio!
Exclusive debute track from the forthcoming Zagar album on the Petőfi Rádio at 8am on thursday. The track title is Wings of Love and there is featuring Vocal of Underground Divas on it!
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August 07, 2007.
Divas at Coke Club!
Review of the debute gig of the Zagar feat. Underground Divas on zene.hu. On 11th of august at Sziget Festival they will be on the stage again with George Ligeti from The Puzzle as well!
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August 01, 2007.
MR.JAGGER MEETS ZAGAR!
Wierd bootleg with Rolling Stones - Symphaty fro the Devil and Zagar - Eastern Sugar by the famous mashup guy called Simon Iddol! Check it >
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Julie 12, 2007.
Zságerradió on Petőfi!
On 15th of July at midnight you can listen a mixtape compilated by Zságer Balázs on the new Radio Petőfi.
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Julie 02, 2007.
Zagar on the Volt Festival Compilation!
The exclusive track titled Sounds and Lights on the compilation of Volt Festival. The band play at Volt Festival in Sopron on 6th of juli at midnight!
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June 18, 2007.
ZSÁGER RÁDIÓ! - Exclusive DJ set
On 22th of June at ChaChaCha in Budapest, Zságer Balázs put his favourite records on the turntables and he plays his own reworks of Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Violent Femmes and Edit Piaf as well.
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June 11, 2007.
Zenészmagazin Interview!
About the working of the new album you can read an interview in the hungarian musician magazine with the whole band.
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May 30, 2007.
New Album in September!
The new Zagar album will be released in Hungary in September 2007 by CLS Records. The title of the album is - Cannot Walk Fly Instead -. There will be many featuring singers on it: George Ligeti from the london based The Puzzle and Hungarian UNDERGROUND DIVAS such as Edina Kutzora from the band of Yonderboi, Sena the afro hip-hop MC, Judie Jay from Cas!o Samples, Bori Péterfy from Amorf Ördögök, Enikő Hódosi from the Neo and Juci Németh, the former singer of Anima Sound System. Even the leader of the band, Zságer Balázs will sing a song as well.
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May 21, 2007.
The band has 5 members!
We proudly announce that the band has a new bass player, his name is Zságer-Varga Ákos. He used to do the visual of the band together with Fillcell Studio. He was the co-founder member of The Puzzle. He plays on the new Zagar album as well, and his debut gig will be at the Millenaris in Budapest on the 25th of May. At the summer festivals the band will play with him and featuring singers as well.
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May 17, 2007.
Zagar Ringtones
Downloadable truetone and polyphonic ringtones and pictures for mobilphone on www.startmobil.hu and on T-Zones Wap!
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May 09, 2007.
Backstage Portrait
Backstage Portrait on the webchanel with the band after the succesful gig at Zold Pardon Budapest!
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May 08, 2007.
Zagar track on the WSJT radio in Florida!
The WSJT 94.1 radio is one of the stations of the CBS in Florida. They were selected and broadcasted a Zagar track from the Szezon soundtrack last week!
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May 06, 2007.
Colours of the Hungarian National Ballet
Zagar tracks in the pieces of Hungarian National Ballet choreographed by Miklós Dávid Kerényi - This is our heArt. The performance will be on 7th of may and 22nd of june at MUPA.
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April 24, 2007.
New songs at ZP with G.Ligeti!!!
On 29th of april at ZP the band play a couple of new track from the upcoming album! There will be George Ligeti singer on the stage again, and Andor Kovács, the guitar player of the band! The gig start at 8pm!
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April 12, 2007.
SPECIAL NIGHT!
The show on A38 will be special tonight, becouse we play without the guitar player Andor + will be a special guest too!
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April 10, 2007.
Exclusive Live Videos on Chello!
You can watch exclusive live videos about a gig at A38 on the site of Chello!
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April 04, 2007.
Interview + gig at the A38 boat
You can read an interview with Balázs Zságer on A38 site and the band will play in 12nd of April at the Boat A38 with the Austrian electro band called Roia.
április 12. A38 ZAGAR + ROIA (A)
visual by Kemuri
1300/1500 HUF
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March 14, 2007.
Zságer interview on Antropos
You can read an interview with Balázs Zságer on antropos.hu about the composing music for Hungarian National Theatre and the work of the new Zagar Album.
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March 12, 2007.
The recording of the new album is almost finished!
See the pictures and read some notes about the studio works of the new Zagar album at the official blog of the band > here. Hungarian only!
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January 26, 2007.
Live gig on the Duna TV
The gig which was at A38 Boat in June of 2006 will be shown on the Duna TV on 27th of January. The second part will be on 2nd of March.
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January 14, 2007.
Zságer is composing for the Hungarian National Theatre
Balázs Zságer is composing music for a theatre play. This is not the first time for the frontman of the band to submerge the world of the theatre. Years before he had already worked with Isván Znamenak at the Csiky Gergely Theathre, later with Vilmos Vajdai at the TÁP theatre and also at the Kammerspiele in Munich as the keyboard player of Yonderboi.This time he is composing music for Ödön von Horvath: Tales from the Vienna Woods - directed by László Keszég. In the leading roles are: Piroska Molnár, Juli Básti, Attila Kaszás and Dorina Martinovics. The premier will be on the 8th of February at the Hungarian National Theatre.
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December 23, 2006.
Chellotronica exclusive mp3 compilation
The brand new Zagar track called Sounds and Lights (full version) on the Chellotronica 2 compilation featuring DelaDap, Montefiori Cocktail, Irie Maffia, Quimby..etc. The mp3 compilation is downloadable for the Chello and the UPC subscribers only!
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December 22, 2006.
New Years Eve Party with Zagar!
New Years Eve Party with Zagar!
The last Zagar gig of the year will be on 31st of December at Almássy tér at Exit 2007 New Years Eve Party. György Ligeti (The Puzzle) will featuring with the band
again. The show is starting on 9pm. After the Zagar there will be PASO, Kiscsillag and Masfél gig as well.
Open: 20:00
Tickets: 2500/2900 HUF
Line up: Zagar, PASO, Kiscsillag, Másfél
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November 25, 2006.
One hour show on MTV1 about the band!
On 30th of november 11.45pm will be a show called Pengető on MTV1 about the Zagar band wtih an interview with Balázs Zságer and parts of the gig at A38 Budapest.
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November 16, 2006.
Zagar plays before Bugge Wesseltoft!
On 29th of november at Trafo Zagar plays instead Cinematic Orchestra before Bugge Wesseltoft Jazzland Community. The Norvegian Bugge Wesseltoft has established the Nu Jazz and Future Jazz in the electronic music scene. The Zagar band on this evening plays their downtempo stuffs.
line up >
20h Zagar
22h Bugge Wesseltoft Jazzland Community
Ticket price: 3000 HUF
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November 11, 2006.
The LIVE shortfilm is downloadable!
The Live shortfilm about Sziget Festival directed by Fabricius music by Zagar is downloadable here>
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Oktober 29, 2006.
LIVE filmpremier and new ZAGAR video - You are in it!
The Live a design-film directed by Fabricius, shot at Sziget Festival. The short film at the cinemas in november. The soundtrack written by Zagar. The VIP filmpremier and Zagar gig at the Cinema Toldi in 3rd of november. There is a video version, wich is a new Zagar video as well. This video can be seen on myspace.
The official premier of the video on 31th of october on VIVA Interaktiv!
start at 8pm!
Visuals on the gig by Kemuri & Fillcell.
Tickets at Cinema Toldi!
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Oktober 04, 2006.
Interview on Sziget Trafik
Online video interview with Balázs Zságer on Sziget Trafik. here>
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September 29, 2006.
Dream Collectors - Interview with the VJs of Zagar
Exclusive interview with Kemuri and Fillcell, the visual staff of the band on the Origo Party site.
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September 27, 2006.
Polish Invasion
Polish nu jazz, abstract hip-hop and Zagar gig on the 30th of September at A38 boat.. In the unique series of events organised by the A38 called "My City" has for its main goal the introduction of the major cities of Europe from a special aspect. This event is about Warsaw.
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September 11, 2006.
Extreme Art interview
Interview with Balázs Zságer on the september issue of the Extreme Art webmagazine.
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September 07, 2006.
The Puzzle feat. Zagar : Suffragette City
The Puzzle feat. Zagar Suffragette City on the Instant! vol3. Rádió Café compilations. The David Bowie cover version is produced by Balázs Zságer, who play a synth-solo on the record as well. This track will be released in the Great Britain supported by Alan McGee (Primal Scream, Oasis, The Hives). check it here>
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August 08, 2006.
Live - filmpremier at Sziget!
The shortfilm called "Live" directed by Fabricius music by Zagar will be screened on the mainstage on everyday at 21.20 at Sziget Festival before the headliners. The maintheme of the film the Zagar band will play live on 14th of august at 9pm at Sziget Wan2 stage!
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Julie 31, 2006.
Magnificent ZAGAR gig at the Polish Opera
The band had been invited to one of the most important Polish contemporary film festivals called the ERA NEW HORIZONS. They were to improvise music for a silent movie made in 1926 and theye have fullfilled there duty with overwhelming success at the Opera House of Wroclaw.The day after they played at the festival club heating the air in the presence of the Director of the Hungarian Culture Institute in Warsaw. The next ZAGAR gig will be on 14th of August at Sziget Festival where the Zagar band will play before the legendary THE ORB.
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Julie 15, 2006.
Review from the Volt Fest 2006
You can read a review about the Volt Fest gig by Zságer at the official zagar blog.
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Julie 03, 2006.
Ligeti on the stage again
György Ligeti (The Puzzle) will featuring with the Zagar band on 8th of July at Volt Festival, 10th of July at Zöld Pardon and the 14th of August at Sziget Festival.
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Julie 02, 2006.
Zagar at Volt Festival 2006
Zagar gig featuring György Ligeti(The Puzzle) at the Volt Festival in Sopron On 8th of July at 10pm at Café Tent . The Volt is one of the most popular festival in Hungary close to the Austrian border. Visual > Kemuri vs Fillcell
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Julie 01, 2006.
How we make a new album?
You can read some notes from the studio works of the new Zagar album at the official blog of the band (zagar.freeblog.hu). Unfortunately Hungarian only.
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