Tibor Szemző
Szerb Húsz, Öt Cseh, Öt Török, Öt Görög, Hány Ember? (Az Utolsó Magyar PVC / The Last Hungarian Vinyl)

Listening notes

Tibor Szemző's 1994 vinyl release carries one of the more arresting titles in the medium's history: Szerb Húsz, Öt Cseh, Öt Török, Öt Görög, Hány Ember? (Az Utolsó Magyar PVC / The Last Hungarian Vinyl). The parenthetical subtitle, translating roughly to "The Last Hungarian Vinyl," gives the object an immediate self-awareness about its own format and moment of production, situating it within a specific cultural and material context.

The release was self-issued by Szemző with no catalog number assigned, appearing on what Discogs and similar references list simply as "Not On Label." This circumstances of distribution places it outside conventional commercial channels, a decision consistent with the independence that characterizes much self-released work of the period.

The genre tags associated with the record span a notably broad range: Ambient, Classical, Contemporary, Electronic, Ethereal, Experimental, Folk, World, and Country, and Modern. Whether all of these descriptors apply uniformly across the release or reflect the range of Szemző's documented output more generally is a question a reviewer working from the record itself would need to resolve. What the tags collectively suggest is a practice resistant to single-genre categorization.

The tracklist documented for this release contains one entry: "The Lullaby of Á," running four minutes and eighteen seconds, positioned at A1. Whether the release contains additional sides or tracks not yet fully documented in the available record is something a fact checker should verify against a physical copy.

Szemző is a Hungarian composer and artist with an established presence across contemporary and experimental music. That this release was a vinyl record issued in 1994, when the format occupied a different cultural position than it does today, and was subtitled as a potential last of its kind, makes it an artifact worth accurate documentation. The specifics of pressing, personnel, and any accompanying materials remain unverified here.