Cryptic Scattered Images of Time Forgotten, is a musical memorial of pianist and band leader Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer. Like Sinbad, he roams through time, browsing through the chapters of his life with the expansive calm of bygone times, from his years in Novi Sad, through he time at the Budapest free music school, to his studies in the Netherlands, and this way free and contemporary music, dance music, and the jazz idiom all find a place next to one another.

This CD contains new compositions. Even this time, the basic creative principal has not radically changed: the development of basic musical ideas is shown by clearly structured compositions, mixed with organic, free improvisations. We offer our listeners not a hodgepodge from this musically unparalleled region, enriched with jazz harmonies; rather, we try to approach music as Bartók did. In line with this, these works were inspired by the ancient roots of musical tradition in the Carpathian Basin, but our music does not quote or reproduce; respecting the ancient methodology, it attempts to capture what can be expressed of archaicism using the means we have today. It is neither a desert island, nor an anachronism, because today even the wildest avant-gardism is just one of the things on the syllabus in the conservatoires.