Entertainment Weekly (2/9/96, p.54) - "...the gifted Hungarian singer zigzags from Ireland to India, bring[ing] us closer to a 21st-century inevitability
--one big worldwide music culture, into which regional sounds are absorbed..." - Rating: B
Q (3/96, p.103) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...one more global experiment that works quite beautifully..."
JazzTimes (4/96, p.63) - "...KISMET spans the globe, lovingly and with a loving spirit....There is a cohesion within exploration here..."
Dirty Linen (4-5/96, pp.57-59) - "...an effort to be highly praised..."
Sing Out! (5-6-7/96, p.152) - "...Nobody else has a voice like this: low but sharp as a knife, with a wide, easy vibrato, perfect diction and lazy, looping, Byzantine ornaments..."
The Beat (V.15 #3 1996, p.70) - "Time stands still, the compass needle spins at random, and Sebestyen stops the world in its tracks with some of the most heart-felt and moving `people' music to be heard anywhere on the planet."
Personnel: Marta Sebestyen, Andras Berecz (vocals); Nikola Parov (guitar, bouzouki, gadulka, kaval, koboz, flute, whistle, keyboards, bass, drums, tambura, programming); Peter Eri (mandola); Zoltan Lantos (violin); Kornel Horvath (percussion).
Recorded at Dorozsmai Studio, Budapest, Hungary.