Thursday, December 31, 2015

Finding You



Not to wait for anything.
Falls close to the feeling of hopelessness.
These are just notions (inside me,
just like love was).
When there is no more saying it,
no more thinking it without forming words,
....when that ends...
a few words still remain, ones I want to forget.
And that is when I might find you.


[the hungarian original text]
Nem várni semmire.
Közel esik a reménytelenség érzéséhez.
Ezek mind csak fogalmak (bennem,
ahogyan a szerelem is az volt.)
Amikor megszűnik az, hogy kimondom,
az is hogy szavak nélkül gondolok rá,
....szóval amikor megszűnik...
Akkor még mindig marad talán pár szó,
amit szeretnék elfelejteni.
És akkor talán megtalálhatlak.

model: Marci
photo&text@Lajhi
english translation@The Corp

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Monday, November 16, 2015

Birdy

i found her in the backyard today afternoon










Music: Ludovico Einaudi and Alessia Tondo - Nuvole Bianche

photo@Lajhi

Monday, October 19, 2015

Stylish Nonsense - Interview



I asked my favorite band, Stylish Nonsense (members: June & Pok, their soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stylishnonsense) after their concert they gave in Berlin. Pok antworted me.

photo@Stylish Nonsense
Lajhi: Your music is at once elemental and futuristic. How are your tracks born?

Stylish Nonsense: they were borned at the moment while we were doing live performance in concert, big or small show...

Lajhi: How do you record them and reproduce them at concerts?

Stylish Nonsense: we recorded direct to our ears and reproduce in next few second, and re reproduce on next show. we practise like this

Lajhi: I felt it was partially a jam, like you took the original theme and set it free.

Stylish Nonsense: we have old tracks like our original them and composition when we were sit in front of computer or spend time with instruments, arranged-composed them together that was we did in our first era (1994-2007) we play some of those tracks in our present live sometime and set them free

Lajhi: Does this music come from your hearts? (please confirm!)

Stylish Nonsense: yes, direct from heart of loving music

Lajhi: You live in Thailand. How are your lives there? Can I hear you play somewhere when I'm there? in Bangkok?

Stylish Nonsense: we were borned Thailand and study and grow up like other kid in Bangkok. We have some music talent until we met each other in university (1994) and started writing song together then we know music is what we’re love and always excite. at first start not so many chance to play at all. but these day we play few times per month for friends event, in different venue in bangkok, need to check by month or week because bangkok events always last minute planing. our favourite place to play in bangkok is 'The Overstay’ because it so freedom.

Lajhi: Do you have favorite musicians? Who inspires you? (not only musicians)

Stylish Nonsense: if musician, June like Herby Hancock, Pok like George Harrison, if not only musical John Lennon also inspired to pok

Lajhi: To me your band seems like the true meaning of "band". I witnessed strong mutual trust, respect and attention when you played. How did you find each other? What motivates you?

Stylish Nonsense: we were study at engineering faculty, there’s no other friends who interested in and addicted in music, there’s some of music talent friends but not same style, then we have no choice to formed band together. we don’t want to be 2 members band from first start but it had to be...
we’re in the band together from student time, to office work routine time, to married and have children time, to hard time, poor or little poor or health situation, then we have to stop spend time for making music together and stop talking each other that was wasting more time to create music and deal with life. but we still keep only performing live without talking each other seriously, from 2008 to now, we met only at show without talking, all the booking was only email or text message that pok sent to june with no reply at all that very risk to miss appointment that only happen few times for the whole happen. i think we’re so trust in music, we need no any word for each other it’s 8 years already i can’t believe too but it happen for real. This made me never disappoint in music we play. our relationship is stylish nonsense music that enough. and stylish nonsense way help us deal with life :)
we love and enjoy to play with other great musician too if they like, because we play together so long then we can go further easier than any combination we tried.

Lajhi: The West German band "CAN" played psychedelic rock music in the 70's. Your singing reminded me of the same elemental powers I feel when I hear CAN. Here is one song from them. What do you think? CAN: Vitamin C

Stylish Nonsense: I love CAN i knew their songs for few years, my singing just influenced by The Charlatans and Nirvana that i was listen to their songs when i was student, it can’t help that i still think about try to write song and melody that i was like when teenage time.

Lajhi: I mentioned this to you when I came up to you after the concert. This did not bother you, on the contrary, you were interested. This association can be amusing sometimes... but some people hate it. Not you, so I will give another comparison

Stylish Nonsense: comparison is the way to communicate thing to thing, i understand, we all maybe have same experience but different environment different time, i have no negative or positive when comparison :)

Lajhi: One of my flatmates records music in his room. It is very interesting and original and experimental. Your music also reminded me of this kind of freedom. There is no sense of competition. How do you do this? In Europe the pressure is really strong: career, social expectations, you have to show others and yourself that you are cool and successful. Otherwise people will crush you. Does this exist where you live? If yes, how can you turn off the pressure? How do you manage to slow down to the speed of sound?

Stylish Nonsense: i don’t think music is problem or competition but people. i don’t expect in music, music make me don’t expect to. that why we stop too much discuss, when we hear the sound when pok play and june play. it tell us everything we want to know. i think your friend found this too.

Lajhi: I went home after your concert filled with life. Your music filled me with loads of positive energy. Is there something you'd like to express to people in another form-- in words?

Stylish Nonsense: we've ever say the word that 'music can cure every sickness' :)

Lajhi: Your music was released by panda records, this is an own release if I am not mistaken. Do you work with other musicians' recordings, releases, distribution? Do you support other musicians and if yes, who are they?

Stylish Nonsense: panda records is bangkok based music label that pok run for support other thai indie bands, stylish nonsense was produced or remixed some tracks for many thai major and indie acts in past. the recently produced by pok is ‘Hariguem Zaboy’ ‘Monomania' 'Abstraction XL’ ‘Summer Dress’

Lajhi: Thank You for your antworts!

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Finding Jack [2 giant posters!]


selfportrait
...some months ago a friend of mine asked me for doing an anti-performance for his birthday. i really can not dance, but why not? i did it....some weeks ago i was set up because of some news and wrote a short text and wanted to share it with more people, yeah why could i not have introduced it via a rap song on the stage or via a trash punk video? ....some days ago when i was sick, there came somebody into our kitchen and said me > i can heal you this afternoon< she is acupuncture therapist and yeah why could i not have done an interview with her during the treatment, as like in a talk show? ..and some hours ago my flatemate asked me >can you come with me? we should play in an antifa short film...< i played the role of a racist..there will be the premiere next monday in the nauny ballhaus... That's the way Jack Malanders was born from me...from my not-really-known performer side..... i took these 2 photos yesterday for Jack's fans... it could be just a joke and someone can ask why? instead of why not....but meanwhile...i realised that music and performing how can help someone during harder times. if i learn/hear music or dance, i feel myself as like a child...can stop with thinking too much and with forgetting...life is a neverending forgetting. yeah can stop with forgetting by drawing too...you will be falling in love with the small stone or the old shoes what you are drawing...talking with people can be the same, if you really listen to them! yeah and walking on the streets or in the wood...can be the same peace...yeah creating and love.. and noone can hurt the deepest part of your soul. never let it happen!

selfportrait
photo&text@Lajhi

Monday, September 21, 2015

Let's talk about ACUPUNCTURE and do it! @ The Jack Malanders show

i was drinking my tee and morning coffe in the kitchen...i had common cold..was weak for more weeks..and then there came someone into the kitchen and said me >> I can heal you this afternoon, if you would like. << this one was Nora who is acupuncture therapist. i recorded the whole treatment and our conversation during that time. Are you ready? :) You can check the needle in me and the whole conversation via this link:


video on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/262787589

Special thanks go to Nora who healed me and to Flying Flo who cut this video!


Saturday, September 12, 2015

Lajhi - Freedom [trap-hop with spoken words]

yeah...this was one of my first performances...

special thanks go to Prodmaker for the background beat and to The Corp for the videorecording!

video: https://vimeo.com/262789581


photo and video@The Corp, event: Poetry meets HipHop, Berlin, Villa Neukölln
lyrics and performance@LAjhi
background beat and music@Prodmaker

Lyrics:
[LAjhi: Freedom]

one person's freedom ends where another's begins
people like quote this text but just a few one knows the origin
yeah
there is something similar in the declaration of human rights
this is lovely but i reallyreally can't agree. why?
because i do interfere with the "freedom" of racists, homophobes, sexists, and all those faces who want to dominate
i don't give a shit about their freedoms protected by fortresses 4 meters high

who can say where the lies you can hear as news
interfere with your freedom to know the truth?
where's this unknown freedom when a small child doesn't know
it's not okay for mommy or daddy or both to beat or molest him or her at night?

how do the oppressed know that what's being done to them
is not the way things should be?

where's the boundary not defined by the money-man or personal interests?

is it within a person or outside of us?

could there be a way for the power to be in the hands
of people like the wonderful Julian Bond, Rosa Parks, Dalai Lama or Olaf Palme?

this freedom is in you and
everyone's freedom is in you.

so listen up my friend

this freedom is in you
your freedom is in you
her freedom is in you
his freedom is in you
their freedom is in you
this freedom is the only one
this freedom is all
what we can find.





Sunday, August 30, 2015

Jack Malanders and The Black Sheeps - Szabadság [Freedom]


video: https://vimeo.com/262787830

jack malanders's song about freedom for the refugees and all oppressed people
[the original text is in hungarian, for english check below under the video]

Thursday, July 30, 2015

entrevista con Cris [video-interview with Cris]

donno but really like this interview with Cris. actually i can not speak spanish not at all but would have liked to listen to Cris in spanish. she works in a comicshop…she is a comicdrawer, graphicdesigner, illustrator, really talented, you can believe me. but the most important..maybe..that Cris is human yeah and shy:)
English and Spanish text check below.

video on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/262658542
[ES]
Cris: ¡Hola!
Lajhi: ¡Buenos días!
C: ¡Buenos días!
Lajhi: ¿Cómo te llamas?
C: Yo soy Cris
L: ¿Qué has hecho hasta ahora?
C: Ehm, soy ambientóloga, hice conservación, después hice construcción natural, hornos de barro, y.., aquí en Berlín soy dibujante..., de pronto. Por eso que estamos aquí en “Renate”, el mejor lugar de cómics de toda la ciudad.
L: ¿Qué haces tú aquí?
Cris: Pues en esta tienda, trabajo un día a la semana, ¡es un sitio fantástico! Y en Berlín dibujo, hago ilustración, hago videos. Y en la vida intento simplemente vivirla, ¡pordiós! Sí, ¿no? Pasarlo bien.
Mira todos los cómics de aventuras. Incluso aquí puedes encontrar cómics españoles en alemán: “Mortadelo y Filemón” (mis cómics favoritos de pequeña)
¡Y muy bien! Eh, Berlín es una ciudad fantástica! Aquí estoy descubriendo todo el poder de los grupos feministas, el circo...
L: Como un paraiso..
C: ¡Un paraiso! Un paraiso artístico también. Se puede hacer cualquier cosa que quieras, ¡todo!
L: ¿Tú adónde quieres ir?
C: Eh, pues ahora, aquí, por ejemplo, a enseñarte todos los libros que tenemos que no son cómics, pero hablan de cómics; y estaría bueno llegar a poder dibujar más, a vivir de eso. A tener plantas, un perro..., quizá. Ahí quiero ir. Quiero ir al lago, me quiero ir a bañar.
Ja.., los “Akiras”.
L: Los Akiras..
C: Los Akiras y los cuarenta y cinco millones de mangas que hay, no se sabe dónde meterlos, vamos a construir un muro solamente de mangas...!
Y esto es básicamente. Un hermoso lugar, mejor que éste no hay, ¡me encanta!
L: Gracias por la entrevista
C: Muchas gracias a ti. Muchas gracias. Un beso.

[EN]
Cris: Hi!
Lajhi: Good morning!
C: Good morning!
L: What's your name?
C: I'm Cris.
L: What have you done until now?
C: Ehm, I'm an Environmentalist, I did nature conservation, afterwards natural building, then clay ovens, and.., here in Berlin I'm a draftswoman (Illustrator)..., suddenly. That's why we're here in “Renate”, the best comic-place in the whole city!
L: What are you doing here?
C: Well, in this shop, I work once a week, it's a fantastic place! And in Berlin I draw, I do illustrations, videos. And in Life I try just to live it, forgodsshake! Yeah, right? Having a nice time.
Look at all the adventure comics. Even here you may find Spanish Comics in German: “Mort & Phil” (my beloved comics as a kid)
And pretty good! Eh,  Berlin is a fantastic city! Here I'm discovering all the power of the feminists groups, the circus...
L: Like a paradise...
C: A paradise! An artistic paradise as well. You can do whatever you want! Anything!
L: Where do you want to go?
C: Eh.., well, right now here, for example, to show you all the comics we have, which aren't comics, but talk about them; and it'd be cool getting to draw more, live out of it. To having plants, a dog.., maybe. There I want to go. I want to go to the lake, I wanna go swimming.
Ha, los “Akiras”..
L: The “Akiras”...
C: The “Akiras” and the fourty-five millions of Mangas which there are, there's no way to know where to put them, we're going to build a wall just out of them..!
And that's it, basically. A beautiful place, there's no better place. I love it!
L: Thanks for the interview!
C: Thanks a lot to you. Thanks. Kiss.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Tess Parks ft. Anton Newcombe

my favorite musiker - Anton Newcombe (the Brian Jonestown Massacre) found one of my favorite voices...and yeah...faces....the perfect constellation! i recorded a live video today in Magnet club in Berlin, i could upload it to youtube just in .avi...but you can understand me, i think.
















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2wgXtaFdc
[link to the youtube video]


photo@Lajhi

indie in berlin






photo@Lajhi

Saturday, June 20, 2015

void


self-portrait

"The essence of instant gratification may be found in the void it leaves behind, urging to be filled again. Those who are able to or who are forced to live with the void for a longer period may come to realizations that lead them to lose interest in instant gratifications and solutions entirely."
[one of my best friends, H.Zs. "Q" said]

(hu) "A gyors hatású dolgok lényege a maguk után hagyott űrben keresendő, ami arra sarkall, hogy ismét kitöltsük. Ha valaki képes vagy kénytelen egy ideig ezt az űrt elviselni, olyasmikre jöhet rá, amik után többé nem érdeklik a  gyors hatások és megoldások." [H.Zs. "Q"]

photo@Lajhi

Jen

 




photo@Lajhi

Jani





photo@Lajhi

Janna



photo@Lajhi

Friday, June 12, 2015

impro // jack malanders





first performance // jack malanders

my dj friend Nora felt at 10sec before the end that maybe i fucked sth up...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzgpW2X1qVM&feature=youtu.be
 [link to vimeo]

..but the public wanted me again with the whole performance..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vp1RM3NwbQ
 [link to vimeo]


special thanks go to Sophia, Agis, Alice, David, Csabi, Jonna, Nora, Josh, all my friends, my Brother and my Mum!!

Monday, June 1, 2015

RANA / one-question-interview with Rana Fahran, the first blues singer of Iran

Lajhi: A friend of mine (Emő) told me about You. She mentioned a film "No one knows persian cats" and that, you should not have played yourself in this film. My question is that, if i can ask that: why? maybe because of political causes, if i suspect well...because you are female singer?

Rana: The film "No One Knows About Persian Cats" was filmed entirely in Iran and although the director Bahman Ghobadi asked me to appear in the movie, I felt it was too risky to return to Iran for pretty much the same reasons you stated. Women are not allowed to perform as a lead singer and I could have been possibly arrested or detained. The director felt my music was an integral part of the film so he decided to show a blurred silhouette to represent me.

Rana's bio: http://www.ranafarhan.com/bio/

You can find Rana's voice from the 29minute of the movie under this link:



i really like the animation-video of the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znvTHS1gB2M




Saturday, May 23, 2015

Makkara

Csabi [tchabi], the guitarist of our band, gave a solo guitar looping concert yesterday in hard rock 2:





this was his first song...as like somebody runs on the bridge...on a really long bridge:



before the concert, in the time of the last cigarette before the last beer after the last cigarette:



photo@Lajhi