We have been here a while. It’s been a great ride so far. We jumped, and we danced, and we laughed, and we cried. We have lived. And now… to usher in a new era in PMG Jazz’s history, Deni Omeragić and Ninoslav Spirovski bring together an international cast of Budapest-based musicians. Not to laugh or cry. Or even jump. But to reflect. The result: “Addāt Fōyya” – a mantra in three acts.

Omeragić and Spirovski separately or together feature on a quarter of this humble label’s output. They are happy to induct Viktor Kapusi and David Karla into the club. We also welcome back Péter Ajtai, Christopher Robin Cox and Attila Gyárfás, after their masterful trio record “Urgent”.

This album is our second collaboration with our Budapest/Ankara/Belgrade-based comrades Inverted Spectrum Records.

“Following the 2024 release of ‘Everything Was as It Had Been a Minute Ago’, a masterpiece of dark avantgarde jazz by the Macedonian trio Svetlost, the partnership between PMGJazz and Inverted Spectrum Records continues with Addāt Fōyya by Deni Omeragić + Ninoslav Spirovski SZOLIDARITÁS ORCHESTRA, the fruit of a recent attempt at underpinning new collaborations within the regional free jazz and improvisational music scenes. Is Hungary and Macedonia even considered to belong to the same region? We all know that regions are not merely geographical, but political and cultural entities, defined by alliances and shared backgrounds, and SZOLIDARITÁS ORCHESTRA is a performative act, an act of declaration of such a region by laying the groundwork for future pacts and common musical references. By this declaration, the project invites us to see geographical proximity rather than pre-established cultural or industrial connections as a potential source of new artistic partnerships; and that physical proximity matters more and more each day on a planet where reckless globalization has failed sustainability.

Recorded in Budapest on The Ides of March, 2025, in the basement of a cafe at the foot of Erzsébet Bridge, the album features modal compositions by Omeragić and Spirovski, two central figures from the alternative jazz cadres of Macedonia. The solemn, sombre and majestic tones of these musical paintings are familiar to us from Svetlost and Odron Ritual Orchestra, ensembles spearheaded by these two long-time collaborators. But instead of the usual participants of their orchestras, this time the compositions are embellished by five of the most prominent characters from the Budapest scene: Péter Ajtai, Christopher Robin Cox, Attila Gyárfás, Viktor Kapusi, and David Karla, all of whom are known from countless local formations and international collaborations. The performance is masterfully recorded by Dávid Tamás Pap, whose signature can be found in many layers of the Hungarian alternative music realm. Addāt Fōyya marks a new phase for the Skopje-based PMGJazz in emerging as an international institution, and establishes Inverted Spectrum Records further as a regional interventionist label, or, as recently described by Christopher Cox, ‘the conductor of the underground jazz railway between Budapest and the Balkans’.” – Inverted Spectrum Records 

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Ninoslav Spirovski [clarinet / tenor saxophone]

David Karla [bass clarinet / alto saxophone]

Viktor Kapusi [tenor saxophone]

Christopher Cox [trombone]

Attila Gyárfás [drums]

Péter Ajtai [contrabass]

Deni Omeragić [contrabass / electronics]


Composed by Deni Omeragić and Ninoslav Spirovski.
Recorded by Dávid Tamás Pap @ Három Holló, Budapest, 15 March 2025.
Live sound engineer: András Gáspár.
Edited, mixed and mastered by Vladan Drobicki, Skopje, May – October 2025.
Artwork by Deni Omeragić, Porto, November 2025.

We thank Rebeka Módosi for her help in making this happen, our friends, family, and everyone else who made this possible.


Published by:

PMGJazz (Skopje, Macedonia).
Executive producers: Vladan Drobicki & Deni Omeragić
(pmgjazzrec@gmail.com)

Inverted Spectrum Records (Budapest, Hungary / Ankara, Turkey / Belgrade, Serbia)
Executive producer: Işık Sarıhan 
(invertedspectrumrecords@gmail.com)
invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com