About Kontrabant

The Kontrabant group has been around since 1994. It nourishes and unites high-quality acoustic ethno,
folk and country music, as well as many other types of music in the Slovenian, Hungarian, Croat, Roma, Yiddish and English languages, adding a touch of all these widely diverse cultures to
their music.

Kontrabant has left a mark on the Slovenian music scene with numerous albums and hits, some of
which, like Regrat v salat and Prekmurje, moje Prekmurje have passed into folk tradition.
The group has released two very popular CDs for children under the Nepridiprav name, and has
produced 2 CDs of Slovenian folk music as producer and supporting cast of musicians.
The band’s founder and main author, Béla Szomi, has also released an acclaimed solo album in
2009, which was re-released in 2014, together with most of the band’s other albums.
Recently, Kontrabant have released their studio album entitled Muravidék, featuring songs in the
Hungarian and Roma languages. In all their albums to date, they have set the poems of the many poets
of Prekmurje to music, most often Lajos Bence and Karel Turner.