Peter OGI has been played on NTS in shows including Confusing Mix w/ Josh Da Costa, featured first on 16 November 2018. Songs played include Just A Memory.

„Every single moment of this story is either interesting, or none of it is interesting at all"

Peter Ogi is a true legend: having specialised in music composing at the Budapest Music Academy as a student of Emil Petrovics and György Kurtág, after his studies he immediately founded the first Hungarian punk band, the Spions. They did not have many live performances, neither did they make many recordings, but their songs were incorporated into the works of the group called URH and its descendant bands – and even today there are generations that still consider these works very important. In 1978 Ogi went on a tour that lasted for 13 years: in the first period he commuted between Paris and London, and worked together with Malcolm McLaren, producer of the Sex Pistols. He released an LP and a single, and was involved in the record productions of the groups managed by McLaren at that time: Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow, Boy George, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush used to be among his working partners. In 1983 he moved to New York, where he formed two bands. First he created the Backlash with Mark Ribot, Michael Blair and Greg Cohen, who had also been members of Tom Waits’s and John Lurie’s bands. The second group was called Central Europe, which gained its distinctive sound largely thanks to African percussionists and an Arabic violin player (Djamel Ben Yelles), displaying distinct features of the world music style – way before it became fashionable, very typical of Ogi. In 1990 Central Europe played in Budapest Petofi Csarnok in front of a huge crowd. After this, the New York based formation expanded with Budapest newcomers Kálmán Balogh (hammer dulcimer), Péter Szalai (tabla) and János Másik also playing an important role. In the nineties Ogi worked mainly in Hungary, composing film soundtracks (e.g. Vertigo, Je t’aime), making albums with a unique sound (Songs, Blaze), and used to perform in a trio with Gábor Lecsó Leskovics and Zoltán Lantos. Soon after, there came a break: a disease and the consequent recovering kept Ogi away from his music activity for a long time. It was around 2003 that he started to appear again: first he performed with an acoustic (unplugged-style) band (Central Europe Cafe), then in 2006 the OgiOneMan Company kicked off. Nowadays he plays with young talented musicians on his musical project aiming to blend together all of Peter Ogi’s previous styles, serving as a platform for reassessing his entire life-work, from art-punk through world music to French-sounding chanson. Ogi up to this day keeps being loyal to his original dynamism, independent and self-willed high standards, not conforming to fashion, but does not pretend to act as if time was not passing. Discography of Peter Ogi: O.G.I. (LP, EMI, 1980) Resist Dance (SP, EMI, 1981) Vertigo - (film soundtrack - Objektív Film Studio, 1990) Je t’aime - (film soundtrack - Hunnia Film Studio, 1991) Songs (MC, Bahia, 1993) Blaze (CD, Bahia, 1995) Ok.OK. (CD, Agape Music, 2007) Film soundtracks: Vertigo (1990, director: János Szász – feature film - Objektiv Film Studio) Je t’aime (1991, director: András Salamon - feature film - Hunnia Film Studio) Sawdust Tales (1996, director: B. Parishan) Koko (1998, András Muhi - documentary - Inforg Filmstúdió) Flacon (2001 Kedves Lili – short feature film - Inforg Filmstúdió) The Slap (2002, director: András György Dési and Gábor Móray – short film - Inforg Film Studio) Snailman (2003, director: László Kollár - animation - MyFilm) Jocó (2003, director: András György Dési and Gábor Móray – short film - Inforg Film Studio) We, who wear glasses (2004, director: Vera Takács – children’s television-game - TV2) The 639th doll (2005, director: András György Dési and Gábor Móray – short film - Hunnia Film Studio) The Hungarian Football – The 91th minutes (2006, director: Pires Andras Muhi – documentary - Inforg Film Studio) Siren (2006, director: Andras Novak – Inforg Film Studio) Perspectives (2007, director: Miklós Sólyom – Inforg Film Studio) Nathan The Wise (2008, theatre music, Evangelic Theatre, Budapest)