Király's discography only starts in 1979, with just three Eastern European LPs appearing up until the mid 90s when ReR put out this CD that gave his music much-needed exposure. The liner notes provide great biographical detail on Király's work and influences, which makes the omission of recording dates for these seven pieces all the more glaring - but given the aforementioned LPs, it's probably safe to say that everything here dates from the late 70s to the 90s.
The title track starts the album off with six minutes of reverberating swishing and hammering on a cymbalom (Hungarian zither), followed by Perpetuum Mobile for Király's modified version of the instrument, the zitherphone that he devised in 1974. That track's particularly interesting with what sounds like backwards tape at points - shame it's only three minutes long. After a couple of string pieces with geometric scores, and a great voice/tape piece called Spiral, Acezantez show up (Király and Dutoni were good friends) for four Movements, the atmospheric highlights of the collection. Another brief tape piece, The Sky, provides a memorable album closer. Fascinating and unique stuff, and highly recommended.
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