Képmás Magazine
Interview
blogCritics
"I was seriously charmed by this genre- and continent-spanning album. With a singular sensibility Pátkai mingles international elements in a spirit of cultural connection, arriving at something both original and just plain fun."
https://blogcritics.org/music-review-rozina-ptkai-taladim/
MusicZoom (IT)
"La voce molto personale ed i musicisti a disposizione, specie il sassofonista che fa il Wayne Shorter ed il chitarrista, le permettono di creare atmosfere molto personali, che niente hanno a che fare con le numerose colleghe in Europa ed in USA. L’album scorre creando interesse anche per i versi dei poeti, loro malgrado diventati dei parolieri per un gruppo fuori dall’ordinario! Tra le cose migliori Sea Song con il violoncello di Ditta Rohmann ed il notevole assolo al sax soprano e Llagas de Amor con i versi di Garcia Lorca ed il violocello e la chitarra ad inventare un’atmosfera sospesa e misteriosa."
http://www.musiczoom.it/?p=31224
JWVIBE
"With a graceful, heart-enrapturing voice like hers and all of her many cultural leanings, Patkai could easily create interpretations of established songs from various places. She and her band earn major kudos for finding fresh expression for written and spoken word pieces that fit artfully into their fresh and imaginative musical formats."
https://www.jwvibe.com/single-post/2019/12/04/ROZINA-PATKAI-Taladim
JazzQuad (RU)
"Конечно же, при столь высокой поэтической планке, в альбоме есть лиричные баллады, но не менее уверенно высокий чистый голос Розины звучит и в композициях с остро ритмическим рисунком, например, в той же Taladim. Тут надо отдать должное мастерству аранжировок, выполненных супругом Розины, Мартоном Феньвеши, участвовавшим в записи альбома в качестве басиста-синтезаторщика. Очень хорош и саксофонист / пианист Янош Авед, а в «латинских» треках незаменима гитара Иштвана Тота. Своим же персональным фаворитом альбома я бы назвал песню Sea Song на стихи американской поэтессы Джейн Тайсон Клемент, где голосу Паткаи достойно сопутствуют партии Аведа на сопрано-саксофоне и Дитты Романн на виолончели. Работа Паткаи выглядит ярким и необычным цветком, достаточно редким в общем массиве джазовой продукции, стьоит насладиться его изысканным ароматом."
https://jazzquad.ru/index.pl?act=PRODUCT
Keys and Chords (N)
"Uit Boedapest, de hoofdstad van Hongarije, komt het geluid van jazzzangeres Rozina Pátkai. Ze werd daar geboren, en groeide daar op. Sinds 2011 leidt ze jazzgroepjes. Haar eerste twee bossa novagerichte albums wonnen Awards tijdens de Independent Music Awards. In 2016 startte ze haar elektronisch muziekproject Minka. Nu heeft ze wereldbekende gedichten van o.a. Nathaniel Barratt, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Jane Tyson Clement, Fernando Pessoa, Federico Garcia Lorca, Paul Verlaine enz. op jazzmuziek gezet. Rozina wordt begeleid door een saxofonist en pianist, een akoestisch gitarist, een cellist, een percussionist en een bassist. Zijzelf bezit een zachte stem, en de titeltrack is een ritmische compositie. Hierna klinkt ‘Lorelei’ ietwat romantisch, evenals ‘Sea Song’. Na de akoestische intro komt ‘Szerelem?’ eraan, en ‘Llagas de Amor’, eveneens na een intro, vertelt ook een verhaal. ‘A Ra’ doet een bossa nova denken. Een album dat misschien eerst niet aantrekt, maar toch effectief blijkt te zijn."
http://www.keysandchords.com/album-review-blog/rozina-patkai-taladim
Anne Carlini - Exclusive Magazine
"This quite vibrant, innovative and expertly created album then rounds out with the cheery jaunt of 'A Rã,' the crystalline 'Chanson d’Automne,' and then ends with the mandolin-led ditty, 'O Leãozinho."
http://annecarlini.com/ex_cd.php?id=2854
Midwest Record
"A Hungarian that's got such a passion for Brazilian music, you can't help but think this is some kind of off beat bossa project. Here, she really upends things as she sets classic poems to music and makes it all Brazilian via someplace else. Certainly not a set for eggheads, left leaners on the prowl for something new and different without being precious have some gold to mine here. A solid set of four on the floor creativity that works throughout. "
http://midwestrecord.com/MWR1599.html
Jazz History Online
"There can be little better evidence of the international appeal of Brazilian music than “Você E Eu”, a new album of bossa nova classics sung by the Italian-born and Budapest-based vocalist Rozina Pátkai. It
is not just the novelty of Eastern Europeans performing these songs from half a world away, but the total conviction in which the songs are played. Pátkai’s Portuguese sounds nearly perfect and she has a flexible sense of rhythm that enhances her distinctive interpretations..."
http://www.jazzhistoryonline.com/International_Flair.html
New York City Jazz Records
Our first LP, Voce e Eu is suggested by The New York City Jazz Record. Album review in the February issue 2015, at Globe Unity: Hungary!
Midwest Records USA
"Loaded with everything you could want and more, this date is a winner throughout, crisp and clear and loaded with more hot vibes than one release should have. Hot." /Chris Spector/
http://midwestrecord.com/MWR770.html
Resident Magazine - New York
” The words wafted through the Zinc Bar, caroming from ear to ear before gently settling on the nape of each listener’s neck like a fading embrace. It was an ethereal voice that surfed the edgy melody – one that effortlessly rode complex progressions as if they were no more than naturally altering moods."
http://resident.com/rozina-patkai-zinc-club-nyc/
Acoustic Music
"But it's Pátkai's singing, her depth of nuance, that striking familiarity with sonic cultural cues contained in lilting melodious refrains that blindside the listener and lay him out for the count, smiling and groovin'. Had you told me this was a rescued recording masterminded by Jobim way back when, I wouldn't have doubted you for a second."
http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p09471.htm
Port Magazine
Cover and interview in Port Magazine 08/2015
Radio Gazdaság
Having an interview with Zita Pataki 13/04/2015
Instyle Hungary
Style and Travel: Costa del Sol
December issue 2014
ELLE Magazine
Interview in ELLE Magazine 08/2014
Radio Fuga
Tervasztal with Júlia Ránki
Talk show and live concert with Mátyás Tóth guitarist
http://fugaradio.net/
