Andrea Gerak: Press/Reviews

Sobre Las Aireadas Olas, a Spanish New Age and World Music blog recommends Andrea Gerak with these words:

"The Hungarian voice that will keep one excited. Without fear, she experiments with traditional subjects, mainly with those coming from her country, approaching them from different angles. Nothing resists her; neither new age, nor world fusion, nor a cappella interpretations...

Without a doubt, if you like folk music as well as experimental tunes, Andrea Gerak will capture you with her hipnotic vision of music..."

ANDREA GERAK/Madarka, Madarka: Truly a solo record as Gerak takes front and center for a collection of Hungarian folk songs that feature just her voice. That’s it. Where does that leave the rest of the non-Hungarian speaking world in relation to this record? If you want to hear a pure voice in it’s highest state and just enjoy the ride, the lyricism in Gerak’s presentation will be enough to carry the day. A unique experience that many try to capture and fall short, this is the blue print for how to make such a difficult project look easy.

Relaunch of Andrea's CD "Madarka, madarka" has been mentioned at several music and news sites: PR9.net, Special Radio, Red Tram, NOVOteka, World Music Central,

The album release has been mentioned at several magazines and music sites: Three out of the four other news on Musiqqueen's main page were about Dixie Chicks, Madonna and Mariah Carrey.
Appeared at World Music Central, Top40 Charts, Special Radio, Star Pages, Hangsor, Beats

Andrea Gerak Newsletter, March 2006 is featured on the cover page of Music Industry News Network

(from Hungarian) "Enya, Sally Oldfield, Lisa Gerrard, Marta Sebestyen, Katalin Szvorak, Iren Lovasz, Bea Palya, to mention only a few names amongst which Andrea Gerak has a well deserved place."

Dialogos 3 the Spanish blog with the lates news on New Age/World music, recommends Andrea Gerak as the artist who can follow the World Star of World Music, Marta Sebestyen "ANDREA GERAK the Enigmatic Hungarian Female Voice, Possible Successor Of Marta Sebestyen"
The article appeared in 3 languages, all around the world:

Spanish: Diálogos3, Musicas del Mundo, Americas-Fr.com, Guebon

English: World Music Central, Tradivarium, Long Island Journal, NetNDX, Hungarian News, Musiq Queen, Jazz News, UK Music Review, Artists Without Frontiers, World Beat Planet, My MusicCode, Asylum Law, Found Horizons, So Musical, Sinhala Jukebox, Music Industry News and several other sites.

Hungarian/MAGYAR: Beats, Hangzorro Nagyszinpada, Folder, Zene.hu, Diak TV, Hirstart, Hirmag, Hirfal, Kazincbarcika Net, MyMusic.hu, Zenesz Info

"A great singer from Hungary"

"This composition and performance (Madarka, madarka) is quite unique. The music is traditional, yet progressive, complex yet beautifully simple. An awesome, nearly unbelievable voice, harmonizing with drifting, choir-like echoes"

"Traditional Hungarian music can be outstanding and this modern version (Arva az a madar - Lonely Is The Bird) from Andrea Gerak is no exception. Incredible vocal skill is matched by equally incredible musical arrangements! Beauty to be cherished!"

" 'Very filmic' . This (Madarka, madarka) reminds me of Lisa Gerrard's vocal work with Hans Zimmer for the film "Gladiator". If I didn't know it was Hungarian, I would assume it was probably Arabic -- it has the same sort of melodic fluidity and almost arrhythmic structure of the Arabic music I'm familiar with.

Now I'm going to go off and wonder if there's any cultural cross-pollination between Eastern European and Middle Eastern music....oh, yes, by the way, this is a wonderful piece of music and you should buy it. Now."

I don't speak a word of Hungarian, but this (Ne aludj el) is extremely lovely. I can imagine sunrise coming up over the forest with this song playing."