Mārton Nāray
(managing)
e-mail: marton.naray@soundfreedom.org

I was born on a morning of March 1978, in Budapest.

I grew up in Dunakeszi which is a small city close to Budapest. Later my parents moved to the smoky capital when I was 10. The serious infection of music came into my life at that time. Once I got an audio cassette of The Clash, Mano Negra from the neighbor punks when I was selling T-shirts on the streets, so afterwards I began to search after music which combines every styles I like. Many years later I needed to recognize this would only happen if I try to play that by myself.

My jobs:
- 2005 - program coordinator of Music Export Hungary (www.mxh.hu)
- 2005 - co-director of SoundFreedom, a sound technical and booking company (www.soundfreedom.org) representing bands like: Muzsikās, Mitsoura, GUO, Anselmo Crew, Nomada, Egy Kiss Erzsi Zene, Korai Öröm, ColorStar
- 2004-2005 music columnist of the main Hungarian program magazine PestiEst (www.est.hu)
- 2004 - A program organizer of the Talent Stage, and a music adviser for the Sziget Festival office.
- 1999-2004 program organizer at the Sziget Fesztival - the biggest European festival with approx. 400.000 visitors each years - (www.sziget.hu )
- 1997-1999 IndieGo Records / Trader distribution
- 1994-1998 Merlin International Theater, Merlin Klub, organizer, stage manager

Manual:
I started to play percussions (djembē, conga, bongo, derbuka) and a few other instruments (synth, jewsharp) and to sing by myself, later formed a band called "Tanu Tuva" where Monsigneur Tomato Littmann played the guitar. This year (2006) the band split up, nowadays we are working on our new project, called "Bagwa?".

Nagual (the conjuror inside..):
When I was a child two things impressed me the most, the first was nature, the totality of nature with all the sacred elements. The other was music, somehow I always wanted to be close to this higher communication form, be a part of it and help this wave to lift up our common consciousness.