Release Type: LP

New, unexpected things are happening in the alternative music scenes around the world as many dislocated musicians collide with fellow artists in the novel contexts where they find themselves. The debut album ‘Mincminc’ by the avantgarde jazz trio Tachube is a product of such a collision, where Ilia Belorukov, an electroacoustic artist and saxophonist from Saint Petersburg and the founder of Intonema label, meets bass player Marko Čurčić and drummer Nemanja Tasić, two established jazz musicians based in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Belorukov is known primarily as an experimental free improviser and noise artist, while Čurčić (The Howlite, Dragon’s Fuel, Power Nap Trio, Echo Pointers) and Tasić (Čičini Čvorci, Petak u Kozmosu, Vukašin Ðelič Group) are from a free jazz and ambient jazz background, as well as psychedelic dub reggae (Dabiška, Dab Kajsije). This combination leads to an improvisational, atmospheric, yet burstling sax-bass-drums trio, where this classic trio setup is augmented with extended techniques on the saxophone, heavy pedal effects on the bass, and experiments on a minimized drumkit. The result is a highly avant-garde, fresh, and vibrant form of free ambient jazz, akin to the musical counterpart of an abstract expressionist painting saturated with bold, hallucinogenic colors.

This release is the third collaboration between Inverted Spectrum Records and PMGJazz.

Ilia Belorukov – alto saxophone, fluteophone
Marko Čurčić – electric bass, effect pedals
Nemanja Tasić – drums, percussion

All music composed, arrangede and performed by Belorukov, Čurčić and Tasić

Recorded on January 21-23, 2025 in Novi Sad.
Mixed by Marko Čurčić (1-5) and Ilia Belorukov (6).
Mastered by Ilia Belorukov.
Recorded on January 21-23, 2025 in Novi Sad.
Mixed by Marko Čurčić (1-5) and Ilia Belorukov (6).
Mastered by Ilia Belorukov
Thanks to Zsolt Polgar.

Published by:
PMGJazz (Skopje, Macedonia).
Executive producers: Vladan Drobicki & Deni Omeragić (info.pmgjazz@gmail.com)
pmgjazz.bandcamp.com
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Published by:
Inverted Spectrum Records (Budapest, Hungary / Ankara, Turkey / Belgrade, Serbia)
Executive producer: Işık Sarıhan (invertedspectrumrecords@gmail.com)
invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com

PMGJazz presents, with great pride and joy, this spectacular meeting of four fantastic international musicians. Through a collaboration with our friend Christopher Cox – who has become one of our flagship artists this year, we bring (for your enjoyment) this 66 minute masterpiece. The complete story is in the full liner notes reprinted here. Enjoy!


“Change is urgently needed in this world. Sürgős is Hungarian for urgent. What we have been doing isn’t working. The Earth is pissed. There is a seething and justified anger at the global inequality that has infected the human condition. Improvisation, in one form or another, marks the only way forward. In short, we find ourselves living within a moment of urgency.
The Sürgős Quartet paints upon this canvas.

Sürgős features three generations of player. Saxophonist Elliott Levin (Philadelphia, US) and bassist Akira Ando (Berlin, but originally from Japan) have been improvising for more than 50 years. Trombonist Christopher Robin Cox (US/HU) came up through the 1990s free jazz renaissance of the San Francisco Bay Area, but went on to play an array of music, eventually returning to his roots in free improvisation after ditching the US for Budapest in 2019. Czech drummer Jakub Švejnar is the youngest member of the band, whose unique mix of influences has become an anchor for the sound that Sürgős produces.
Cox, Levin, Ando and Švejnar bring an intense East Coast of the US vibe to their live playing. With Levin’s often sudden switch to Beat style poetry, Cox’s use of double reeds and foil paper to create other worldly sounds on the trombone, Ando’s masterful bowing and throat-singing, and Švejnar’s ability to switch between intricate math rock beats to atmospheric swooshes on the cymbals, there are no limitations to where this band can go on a given night. There is clear evidence of the influence of the NYC free jazz scene of the late 1960s, but with distinctly European flourishes added to the mix.
Just like the anti-fascist and leftist ethos of many free jazz artists in the United States and abroad, the Sürgős Quartet follows in the tradition of making music that is intense enough to make you want to kill the machine, but beautiful enough to make you forget about how rotten it is. If you want music you can sip tea to, this is probably not right for your cup. If you want music you can plan the revolution too, you have found the right group.
The quartet did its first tour in April of 2025, playing packed houses in Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Budapest, and ultimately the small village of Kápolnásnyék, where this raw, unfiltered live recording was documented by guitarist and sound engineer Roland Heidrich at the hidden gem of a venue known as Ben Utca. This show was the highlight of their tour, which began in Berlin and ended in Budapest.

About the Venue
At the end of the COVID period, in 2022, three friends (Benjamin Glass, Roland Heidrich, and Melinda Cziráki) began organizing living room concerts once a month in Kápolnásnyék, a small Hungarian village. In this setting, music comes into close, intimate proximity; the spaces—decorated with unique installations, structures, and photographs—also offer the opportunity for informal conversation and encounters. It is an organic, grassroots cultural space that hosts a wide variety of chamber formations, with a primary focus on improvisational genres. Since its beginnings, it has become a thriving entity within the Hungarian underground improvised music culture.

Ben Utca is a unique and intimate living room venue, headed up by inventive artist Ben Glass. It is much more than a simple house concert series, as it has become a kind of institution for creative music outside of the big city. Situated right next to the small, but beautiful Lake Velence, you can actually travel by train from the city to the venue, which makes it even more amazing. The atmosphere is one of inclusion and hospitality, unlike most traditional venues. Add to all of that the wonderful acoustics of the room, and you have a venue that has become a desirable destination. This recording, the outcome of nothing but two well-placed stereo mics, is a testament to the wonder of the Budapest underground music scene.“ 

Elliott Levin [saxophone/flute/poetry]
Christopher Robin Cox [trombone]
Akira Ando [bass]
Jakub Švejnar [drums]

Side A composed by Akira Ando

Side B composed by Elliot Levin / Christopher Robin Cox
Poetry by Elliot Levin & Akira Ando


Recorded live on April 26, 2025 at Ben Utca in Kápolnásnyék,
Hungary, by Roland Heidrich

Cover art by Tracy Lisk
Band photo by Sándor Bergh
Graphic preparation by Deni Omeragić

Executive producers – Vladan Drobicki & Deni Omeragić [for PMGJazz]

Composed and arranged by Skrit
Gligor Kondovski-violin
Filip Metodiev-guitar
Andrea Mirceska-double bass
Dario Cievski-drums

Recorded on 30.11.2025 at BARBA Audio Facility by Vladan Drobicki
Cover art by Gligor Kondovski and Filip Metodiev
Produced for PMGJazz by Vladan Drobicki

𝑨𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏 is a realm where the poetry of music meets the music of poetry.

A published poet and national slam poetry champion, Grubor fuses the analytical and the emotional, tracing how words reveal and conceal the self and distilling experience into pattern.
Bukrshliev is a jazz guitarist, composer and improviser active in a constellation of bands and ensembles. Known for his textural approach and precise restraint, he shapes the sound as if sculpting air, minimal yet resonant.

𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒚 is 𝑨𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏 first recorded project, taking its name from the condition of all things: slow drift, quiet fractures, and the pull from order into flux. As the poems move through longing, rupture, and reconstruction, the guitar frames and fractures them in intimate and volatile ways.

Welcome to a contemplative experiment in the tension between the spoken and the unsaid. Approach it in quiet and let it unfold. Somewhere between breath and decay, the universe keeps expanding its unfinished poem. This is one imperfect verse of it.

Lyrics and voice – Marija Grubor
Music composed, arranged and performed on guitar- Filip Bukrshliev

Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced – Vladan Drobicki
Cover art – Marko Trpeski

Just over four years after their debut “Nightscape”, Vladan Drobicki and Gligor Kondovski have revealed “Inward” – a cinematic soundscape and a wonderfully emotional record. Kondovski paints with wide strokes, Drobicki digs mazes in the sound, light occasionally peering through. A great piece, made by two masters. One of the most beautiful records in our catalog.
Look inward, and enjoy!

“Six stories that unknowingly lead us gradually into a cinematic perception of sound, woven together with trombone, violin, electronics, and glockenspiel.
There is no absurdity left — we ran over it with our cars across every lane of the street. The dream of the terrible creature “Viy” has been taken away.
That mythological beauty with her large eyes melted into the irony and hypocrisy of her own life.
Unwilling to navigate the unknown, we crashed our own comfort zone into lostness and ignorance. The beauty of the “inward” can become a creation of each person’s reality, shaped from the reality we know in this stereotypical world.
What would remain if only the last fragment of fantasy and human imagination were left in the world?
-Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

composed by Gligor Kondovski

Gligor Kondovski-violin, glockenspiel & electronics
Vladan Drobicki-trombone

mixed and produced by Vladan Drobicki
cover art by Gligor Kondovski

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

The train has left the station! The Skopje-Budapest trans-Balkan free-jazz railroad is in operation. First stop – ‘URGENT’.

Budapest based-American trombonist Christopher Cox, fronts this outstanding trio, featuring two of the mainstays of Hungarian creative jazz – Péter Ajtai and
Attila Gyárfás – both accomplished “first call” improvisers. Meeting for an inaugural session on a dreadfully
hot day in July 2023, at the popular venue Lumen Kávéző (where they could jam relatively undisturbed in the small theatre)
the result was stunning! It sounded like they had played together for years. It felt that way too.
Recorded with nothing but a Zoom H5 handheld recorder, Cox independently released this spontaneous session, calling it Black Box.

This exiting trio’s first PMGJazz release (and established label debut) is different. Whereas the first recording of this trio was a kind of happy accident, this one is not. They consciously decided to make another DIY recording. Approaching the session without much deliberation, they pierce the wall of silence
with spontaneous angular attacks, filling the room with a natural sonic picture beautifully captured with just a pair of stereo microphones.

“The Cox / Ajtai / Gyárfás trio creates an authentic nexus of presence, true hand-wrought sound impression, during an era when many forms of attention are outsourced and cobbled from stray traces of the ether- in a way that might anticipate our field of diminished expectations. The truth is here; we move in concert together, and there’s no mistaking it with this kind of evidence- that it’s possible, even necessary and a reality that three musical forces can join in constructing something so elemental from the ground up- or that they can echolocate and find a map together that makes that kind of construction seem completely inevitable. I feel convinced that if you hear Péter’s timely, speaking resonance on bass, Attila’s completely dynamic and essential drum composition and Cox’ ability to both accompany beautifully and to speak the necessary truth on trombone- and hear them all in concert, as part of an integrated complete group statement, you’ll be brought into an Urgent truth about collective action and possibility. It’s a profound message at the core of much of this kind of expansive, brave and committed music, and to hear it delivered here with such fluidity, conviction and grace, as a deconstructed incantation to the moment / invoking the moment- is more than a pleasure; it’s a set of solutions, offered one after the other after the next. Cox has a rare, targeted way of hearing the presence of the instrument within an ensemble, one would have to witness this recording from multiple audible vantage points, over and over to fully appreciate this. And Ajtai is seemingly able to devise abstract anthems at will- tones that seem as if they’re more discovered than generated. And Gyárfás’ sensibility is similarly timeless, seems to have been pre-ordained and simultaneously completely of the moment. Together, they have created something- a shockingly beautiful, affirmative and lasting statement when we need it. ” – Josh Roseman 

Christopher Robin Cox (trombone and prepared trombone)
Péter Ajtai (contrabass)
Attila Gyárfás (drums and percussion)

Recorded on 25 June, 2024 at Lumen Kávéző in Budapest, Hungary
Recorded and Mastered by Attila Gyárfás
Liner notes by Josh Roseman, January 2025
Cover photo by Christopher Robin Cox
Executive producers – Deni Omeragić for PMGJazz

It is a tremendous privilege to present something truly audacious and unconventional: a trilogy. This is a feast for the discerning listener, for those with a keen ear for the avant-garde and the unexplored—those who 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, as Zaratustra might have put it. But do not expect lofty or pretentious treatises on the Überjazzer—this is not about that. The concept is, in its essence, remarkably simple: three familiar figures (Blagojche, Dragan, and Filip) unite with a “newcomer”—the legendary Dorian Jovanovikj, a titan of the Macedonian world music and experimental scene. This marks his debut on the PMG Jazz label. For this special occasion, Dorian indulges his passion for unconventional instruments, bringing the Chapman Stick—a remarkable and unconventional member of the guitar family—into the fold. However, he does not stop there. This instrument is pushed beyond its traditional boundaries, transformed through an array of effects and electronic devices, steering it into uncharted sonic territories. The recording took place at the Krste Misirkov Cultural Center in Sveti Nikole, a space that not only serves as the physical backdrop but also lends its name to this trilogy, connecting the very heart of the music to the soul of the surrounding villages. In each volume, the compositions are named after these neighboring villages, creating an intimate connection between the music and the local geography. The musicians crafted three distinct formations and composed three unique pieces, each serving as an exploration of group dynamics within the specific context of that space. Sonically, the trilogy drifts between the haunting, ethereal qualities of Scandinavian minimalism and the jagged, raw energy of Miles Davis’ late-70s electric period, where the lines between genius, heroin abuse, and chaos blur. The result is a listening experience that is both challenging and profoundly rewarding. 

Blagojche Tomevski – bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, flutes, voice

Filip Bukrshliev – guitar 

Dragan Teodosiev – drums 


Recorded by Dorian Jovanovikj, at Dom na kultura ‘Krste Misirkov’ Sveti Nikole, on 06.10.2024

Mixed and mastered by Dorian Jovanovikj

Cover by Filip Bukrshliev

It is a tremendous privilege to present something truly audacious and unconventional: a trilogy. This is a feast for the discerning listener, for those with a keen ear for the avant-garde and the unexplored—those who 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, as Zaratustra might have put it. But do not expect lofty or pretentious treatises on the Überjazzer—this is not about that. The concept is, in its essence, remarkably simple: three familiar figures (Blagojche, Dragan, and Filip) unite with a “newcomer”—the legendary Dorian Jovanovikj, a titan of the Macedonian world music and experimental scene. This marks his debut on the PMG Jazz label. For this special occasion, Dorian indulges his passion for unconventional instruments, bringing the Chapman Stick—a remarkable and unconventional member of the guitar family—into the fold. However, he does not stop there. This instrument is pushed beyond its traditional boundaries, transformed through an array of effects and electronic devices, steering it into uncharted sonic territories. The recording took place at the Krste Misirkov Cultural Center in Sveti Nikole, a space that not only serves as the physical backdrop but also lends its name to this trilogy, connecting the very heart of the music to the soul of the surrounding villages. In each volume, the compositions are named after these neighboring villages, creating an intimate connection between the music and the local geography. The musicians crafted three distinct formations and composed three unique pieces, each serving as an exploration of group dynamics within the specific context of that space. Sonically, the trilogy drifts between the haunting, ethereal qualities of Scandinavian minimalism and the jagged, raw energy of Miles Davis’ late-70s electric period, where the lines between genius, heroin abuse, and chaos blur. The result is a listening experience that is both challenging and profoundly rewarding. 

Blagojche Tomevski – bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, flutes, voice

Dorian Jovanovikj – Chapman Stick, electronics 

Filip Bukrshliev – guitar 

Dragan Teodosiev – drums 


Recorded by Dorian Jovanovikj, at Dom na kultura ‘Krste Misirkov’ Sveti Nikole, on 06.10.2024

Mixed and mastered by Dorian Jovanovikj

Cover by Filip Bukrshliev