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Árpád Szarvas

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Birth name
  
Árpád Szarvas

Associated acts
  
EZ Basic

Music group
  
EZ Basic

Years active
  
2001–present

Albums
  
Hello Heavy

Instruments
  
Singing, Guitar

Genres
  
Indie rock, Psychedelic pop

Similar
  
EZ Basic, Imre Poniklo, Amber Smith, Heaven Street Seven

Árpád Szarvas is a Hungarian indie musician, best known as the lead singer, songwriter, lyricist, guitarist of the Hungarian indie band EZ Basic.

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Early life and personal life

Szarvas is from Szabadka and lived in Szeged, Hungary, however, he moved to the capital city, Budapest after graduating at Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Szeged to pursue a music career.

EZ Basic

Szarvas played the guitar in Pale Blue Eyes, a Szeged-based noise rock band while attending the secondary school. The band played music influenced by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sonic Youth, and Joy Division. However, he left the band and formed EZ Basic with his friend Dénes Pesztalics. Szarvas was influenced by bands such as The Jesus and Mary Chain, House of Love, Primal Scream, and Broadcast. He is the founding member of EZ Basic. Apart from EZ Basic, he also released music under the name Evil Men Have No Songs and Models Can't Fuck.

Discography

With EZ Basic:

Albums and EPs
  • EZ To Say EP (2007)
  • Hocus Focus (2007)
  • Hello Heavy (2010)
  • Memories of Spring EP (2012)
  • Dead End Darling (2015)
  • With Evil Men Have No Songs:

    Albums and EPs
  • Evil Men Have No Songs EP (2010)
  • Always Somewhere Else EP (2012)
  • Where We Come From EP (2013)
  • With Models Can't Fuck:

    Albums and EPs
  • Move To Iceland EP (2011)
  • Singles
  • Ghost Kid (2010, with Models Can't Fuck)
  • Home Tonight (2010, with Evil Men Have No Songs)
  • Move To Iceland (Möbel remix) (2012, with Models Can't Fuck)
  • New Lines (2013, with EZ Basic)
  • Unnatural (2014, with EZ Basic)
  • Whatcha Gonna Do With Your Life? (2015, with EZ Basic)
  • Guitars

    Epiphone 5102T / EA-250

    Amplifiers

  • Orange
  • Songs

    UnnaturalDead End Darling · 2015
    Motorik ErikHello Heavy · 2014
    Bruise Boy2016

    References

    Árpád Szarvas Wikipedia