An album of contrasts: where introspection meets movement, silence meets sound, and architecture breathes through music.
Hungarian Post Rock —Reimagined Through Architecture and Dance
Karabekian —the solo project of Máté Győrffy, former guitarist and bassist of the acclaimed Hungarian post-rock band Képzelt Város— releases “Vagus”, a debut EP born from improvisation, emotion, and deep listening. The opening track premiered as the sound design for an architectural installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale, while the remaining pieces draw from the ambient textures of everyday life —transforming noise into narrative, silence into structure.
Karabekian • A Sonic Architect
Based in Budapest, Máté Győrffy approaches music as a spatial practice. His compositions aren’t written —they’re discovered, shaped by the acoustics of rooms, the rhythm of cities, the stillness between breaths. With “Vagus”, he doesn’t just compose songs —he builds environments.
The EP finds its full expression alongside a short film featuring improvised dance by Zoya Saganenko. Shot in and around Paris, the visuals weave natural and urban landscapes into a dialogue with the music —often contrasting, sometimes harmonizing, always deepening the emotional resonance.
Vagus • A Vision Beyond Sound
“Bármerre indulsz” premiered as the sound design for an architectural installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale —a space where art, design, and theory converge. From this seed, the full EP grew into a multidisciplinary statement, bridging the sonic and the spatial, the intimate and the monumental, the composed and the improvised. In a world of isolated listening, Karabekian offers something rare: a work meant to be experienced in full —with eyes open, body present, mind attuned.
1.Bármerre indulsz 07:53
2.Hiába mész előre 04:19
3.Mindig körbeérsz 09:09
Review by Indie Valley Music
“The recording, production, mixing, and mastering of ‘Vagus’ are executed with masterful precision —resulting in a sound that is immersive, expansive, and emotionally resonant. Every layer breathes; every texture matters. This is post-rock not as genre, but as language.”
“The accompanying short film doesn’t illustrate the music —it completes it. Through Zoya Saganenko’s improvised movement and the stark beauty of Parisian landscapes, the album becomes a living dialogue between sound and image, stillness and motion.”
«Vagus’ is a work of rare depth and vision —essential listening for lovers of post-rock, and a profound artistic statement for anyone who believes music can be more than sound.”
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