Kaldera is an acoustic duet, formed in 2012, which was transmuted from a child-hood friendship, from a country somewhere between the northern wilderness and the southern motorways. It’s roadside folk music, a dialogue of introverted moods with guitar and vocals. If you say blues, then we say grunge. If you say grunge, then we say folk.

The core of the 11 songs of the album was recorded in the Nagybörzsöny (which is located in the caldera of the mountain Börzsöny) in a mud-hut, while there was -16°C degrees outside and it was snowing heavily. The recording took 7 days. We gave the raw tracks to the sound engineer Barna Hidasi who liked it so we worked further together.  We thought that some of the tracks would have sounded better in a special instrumentation, so we asked some of our musician friends to finalize the record.

The speciality of the album resides in its instrumentation: beside the traditional acoustic instruments, we used others like the ukulele, the mandolin or the didgeri-doo. The mood and style of the songs is changing between the bluegrass, the folk and the acoustic grunge songs.

Among the influences one can find Eddie Vedder’s Into the Wild as well as the OST of Pál Zolnay’s movie entitled Fotográfia (1973), Tamás Cseh or the Fleet Foxes
from Seattle.

Members:
Balázs Tanka (Turbo) – vocals, guitar, ukulele
Bence Kovács – guitar, vocals, mandolin