Eurovision 2012: Intervjuer med Compact Disco från Ungern

Under måndagen fick vi träffa Benham Lotfi och Attila Sándor i Ungerska Compact Disco. Bandet består dessutom av sångaren Csaba Walkó och keyboardisten Gábor Pál. Deras låt "The Sound Of Our Hearts" har ett viktigt budskap och det förmedlar bandet i sin press release nedan.

Behnam Lotfi  och jag passade på att jämföra våra skor och var inne på att byta men då hade Benham nog fått skavsår. Dessutom kom vi fram till att det var bra om jag hade mina egen. Då kan de spana efter mina neonrosa och se mig när jag kommer på party till deras hotell. Det sägs finnas Unicum där - min favoritdryck!

Lyrics of Sound Of Our Hearts
The whole big world is just one place.
You can say (that) is all the same.
You may feel: hatred is sown
We can show you it’s no way to go.

This is the sound of our hearts,
If you listen.
This is a zeal from above
and it can say it all
This a fever they can’t take away
This is the sound of, the sound of,
the sound of our hearts.

Harmony can be achieved,
(Just) find some way to get connected.
Differences may not be wrong
They enrich (the) things that we know.

Different faiths, different views
All we can do is to turn them in key.

This is the sound of our hearts,
If you listen.
This is a zeal from above
and it can say it all
This a fever they can’t take away
This is the sound of, the sound of,
the sound of our hearts.

Background and explanation to the lyrics:
The above lines have never been so relevant as nowadays, in 2012. The world population has reached 7 billion lately. Technological innovation is continuously increasing parallel to diversification, hatred and estrangement. Mankind is at the crossroads. We can choose to continue with the irresponsible production and consumption, the crazy rush for possessing more and more, or we can choose to recognize our responsibility for our actions and behaviour. We will realize that through our decisions we can change ourselves and so we can change our direct and indirect environment. Luckily enough, we are more and more who chose to change and wake up from the daydream we called life. We decided to go for the real human values with our words and acts. Values such as honesty, sympathy, caring, consciousness and obviously LOVE.

This is what the song Sound of our Hearts is about.

It may seem special that this song is performed by a Hungarian band, however, those who know a bit the close past of our country are not surprised, as diversification and lack of love is now pretty common in Hungary. Despite the fact, that Hungary is over-represented in the news nowadays, we don't feel bothered. People in Hungary, in the heart of Europe, where the Heart Chakra is,  just do want the same as any other human being: peace, love, freedom and happiness.

This is what the song Sound of our Hearts is about.

Compact Disco has four members, coming from three religions: two Christians, one Muslim and one Jew, proving that different religions can live together, let alone they can unite for the same goal. They can unite, if they are open enough to each other and talk to each other. Compact Disco is all about music, their common passion. Music is art, and art is Life.

This is what the song Sound of our Hearts is about.

Compact Disco applied for the Hungarian Song Contest with the intention to go for the contest in Baku. It is a great pleasure that the band can prove itself in Azerbaijan, in a country where people consider Hungarians their brother nation. Compact Disco go to Baku in order to show their compatriots and the whole of Europe the strength of unity and love through their song.

This is what the song Sound of our Hearts is about.

Foto, video: Lilian, Roger, Radio International, EBU