Bálint Hamvas

Dawnstar
Background information
Origin	Budapest, Hungary
Genres	Grunge, Psychedelic rock, Gothic rock, Indie rock
Years active	2001-2003, 2005-present
Website	Official website
Members	Attila Wind Bálint Hamvas Zsolt Szemenyei Viktor Albert
Past members	Zsombor Havass Anna Mitropulos

Dawnstar discography
Studio albums	1
Music videos	2
EPs	1
Singles	1

Dawnstar are a Hungarian rock band from Budapest. The band's line-up is the songwriter Attila Wind (vocals/guitars), Bálint Hamvas (bass), Zsolt Szemenyei (keyboard), and Viktor Albert (drums). The sound of the band is generally a mix of flanging and light distorted guitars, throbbing bass, and enchanting keyboard melodies. Dawnstar represent a mixture of mid-1960's psychedelic, late 1970's goth, mid-1980's grunge and 1990's indie rock of the Budapest indie music scene.

Wind met Hamvas in the mid-1990s at the Teleki Blanka Gymnasium in Budapest, Hungary. In 1999 they formed Ansellia, named after the eponymous orchid, as a duo project and recorded their first demo, Eunomia. In 2000 Wind composed eight new tracks which were recorded in Piliscsaba. This demo entitled Vanity helped the band recruit Albert who was Hamvas's classmate at the Budapest Business School. After several concerts at local clubs, in spring 2001 the band started using the name Dawnstar, which is a portmanteau of ″dawn″ and ″star″ as an alternative for Morning Star or Venus, instead of Ansellia. They gave their first concert with this new name on 13 December 2002 at the Woodoo club in Csepel. The early sound of the band was influenced by the grunge revolution from Seattle. However, later the band started to mix their sound with many different music genres such as psychedelia, post-punk and garage rock. In 2002 Dawnstar recorded their third demo, Under Your Wings, at the Pick-up Studios in Budapest. The result was a mixture of flanging verses and distorted choruses establishing the distinctive sound of the band.

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