Ápolók – Szeder demo (1990, cassette)

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Ápolók – Szeder demo 1990 & Artis studio 1989

Ápolók (Nurses) were avantgarde cabaret punk band from Miskolc, Hungary.
They formed in 1982, and from what I can tell, they were the lynchpin of the Miskolc music scene, spawning a bunch of other bands. Ápolók started sounding like a fairly weird punk band in the early 80s. Only demos and live recordings of this material seems to have survived. The fidelity isn’t always great on these recordings but it isn’t completely horrible, either. Honestly, the fact that a digital record of this stuff even exists nearly 40 years on is remarkable, and I feel lucky to hear it...
Ápolók have keyboards and weird instrumentation at times, not unlike contemporaries such as A.E. Bizottság, who they played some shows with back in the day. Whatever Ápolók might have ingested from those guys, however, was excreted as something far stranger and more intense. (Interesting side-note: the song “Da da da” contains the same keyboard rhythm track that prompts Mark E. Smith to yell “turn that bloody, blimey space invader off-uh!” during the Fall’s “The Man Whose Head Expanded.”) I don’t know what was in the water supply in Hungary at this time, but it did its job. At this stage in their life-cycle, Ápolók are vibrating with potential, and were about to transform into a something else.
After a couple of years, Ápolók entered a period of dormancy as its members took care of real life concerns. During this time, Ápolók’s sound transformed, advancing them to a weird new plane. No recordings were issued during this period, so it’s anyone’s guess what happened with these guys, biologically-speaking. They didn’t “mature,” which as we all know is about the shittiest thing that a band can do. Instead, they mutated to a more virulent and efficient life form. Ápolók’s true character extruded from its old form; their new physical manifestation sounded like a spastic Beefheart/Zappa mutant, punchy and hilarious, crossbred with Hungarian film soundtracks and god knows what else, performed by musicians with surprisingly sick chops… (thelittleblackegg)

00:00 01.Temetések
03:11 02.Tangó
07:11 03.Hablemente
10:13 04.Szép szívembe
13:16 05.A Hard Day’s Night
17:29 06.Snájdig úriember
19:37 07.Hálni jár
22:34 08.Szorongó
23:56 09.Fegyver tusa
27:13 10.Ellopták
31:02 11.Tessék csak nézni
33:56 12.Őszikék
36:34 13.Kérem én
39:09 14.Itt van az én doktorkám

tracks 01-08 Szeder demo 1990
tracks 09-14 Artis studio 1989

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