iamyank

IAMYANK is Budapest’s sonic lone ranger, fusing cinematic ambient rituals and self-reflective tunes into a sacred odyssey through the forest of the mind.

His new album 'STNTLN' will be out on 10th Oct., a cinematic dark western album that tells the story of a guilt-ridden father trapped in the forest and living under the shadow, the boy who escapes into the realm of his own violent visions, while his sister confronts the spirit of the forest to bring him back to reality.

"Vangelis-goes-goth" - Under the Radar UK

"Blast beats, crushing bass and surging electronics with no let up. Perfect noise showing what heavy music can be in an experimental sense." Under the Radar UK

"This heaviness suppresses the breathing" f21.hu

"half an hour of micro-miracle” – Telekom Electronic Beats

“there’s no instrument he cannot play, he’s an extraordinary composer” – KERET

His second full length solo album Láttam a jövőt meghalni (I had seen future dying) had been released in November 2022. It's heavy and heavenly, with notes of dark cinematic noisy ambient. The live performance embraces two full drum sets with amazing drummers, to make sure the sounds will fill in any venues from corner to corner, and interweaves with intense light show and absorbing visuals. You’ll see the future dying, but we’ll all feel deeply alive.
This album had great success at MENT Ljubljana, INOTA Festival, Vision of Sound London, Sziget Festival, and at Budapest Park - which show had been nominated to Music Hungary Award.

His third solo album is coming in 2025.

He started his music career as a ska drummer, then started to study music producing at imPro School, where nowadays he is the lead teacher. After some DJ sets and remixes he released his own EPs in 2013 Cold Summer, in 2014 City of Nobody and in 2015 Lost Sounds, which had been released in an exceptional and unique way: packed with an adventure game titled ‘Adventures of Poco Eco‘ which won several international awards for the game and for the music too.

Hiraeth, his first full length album, was released in 2016, a big milestone in his career. To push it to its boundaries he started to play live with a 3-piece band. They played all major festivals in Hungary and toured in Poland. He composed the anthem of Valley of Arts festival with Veronika Harcsa, a world famous jazz singer, also he was asked to compose for a large ensemble on the main stage. This led to playing at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, he shared the stage with Lubomyr Melnyk and recorded a live piano and strings album at CAFe Budapest festival in 2019. He had a song in HBO’s Aranyélet series, composed the end title for HBO's Besúgó series, and wrote the original score for Cristina Grosan’s Things Worth Weeping For.

2021 had been started with a very unique album ‘Una Notte‘, an improvised piano play form the famous Klavins Piano Manufacture as a farewell from the place. He recorded and released a Live Ensemble album, Sarah in June. But after this, surely, a completely different, dark, post-metal turn came: under the name of All Machines Will Fail with Mátyás Mohácsi (bass) and Máté Kocsis (drums) they recorded And We, followed by their second album Don't Carve Icons, Build Boats, released in September 2024.

He keeps experimenting with multi-genres, and surely will surprises us soon.

Discography:

2025 - STNTLN
2024 - All Machines Will Fail - Don't Carve Icons, Build Boats
2024 - Over and Out
2022 – iamyank: Láttam a jövőt meghalni
2022 – All Machines Will Fail: And We
2021 – iamyank Live Ensemble: Sarah
2021 – iamyank: Una Notte
2019 – iamyank Live Ensemble: Live at CAFe Budapest
2016 – iamyank: Hiraeth
2015 – iamyank: Lost Sounds EP
2014 – iamyank: City of Nobody EP
2013 – iamyank: Cold Summer EP

Film compositions:

Portal: Portrait of Attila Ferenczfy-Kovács (documentary, post-production, 2025)
HBO - Besúgó (end title, 2022)
Last Chance (short, 2022)
Things Worth Weeping For (2021)
HBO - Aranyélet (2015)