HAVASI - Spring Wind | Cultural Bridge Symphony (Official Music Video)

HAVASI has composed a musical movement reminiscent of Hollywood soundtracks with "Spring Wind", one of the most famous Hungarian folk songs, as its main theme. In addition to Balázs Havasi, the world music movement represents the roots of Hungarian music through such authoritative connoisseurs of Hungarian folk music as Edina "Squirrel" Szirtes, Balázs "Bumble-bee" Szokolay and students of folk music from the Hungarian Academy of Music.

The idea was that the performers should come before the camera in a real "candle Arena", built by the crew from exactly 2,013 candles. It took nearly four hours to light them all and it was a special challenge to shoot the entire scene before the candles burned out. "I will never forget when I first sat among the candles. I felt their heat on my skin. It was like sitting in an ancient sanctuary. They say the flame of a candle is the light of soul and in that moment I was deeply touched by something", HAVASI explained about his shooting experience.

But this is just one scene and making the whole clip posed a number of other challenges. The creators (director László Kriskó and director of photography Zoltán Csincsi) wanted to achieve a spectacular reproduction of nature's awakening, the moments of spring and to present Hungary's natural wonders and magnificent landscapes.

The composition that features the Budafoki Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra, Endi the drummer of Hooligans and Judit Andrejszki is a bridge between Hungarian and international culture as it symbolises the diversity of nations and the university of music at the same time. The symphony was arranged and conducted by Peter Pejtsik.