Zsolt Basti is fromTachty, or Tajti, a village on the Slovakian-Hungarian border. That double name, Tachty/ Tajti, reflects a complicated background. Basti grew up in Slovakia, his firstlanguage is Hungarian. “My Irish friends joke how it’s like I’m from the North of Ireland. When I was a child, some Slovakians, not all, had a bit of contempt for Hungarians, so I had some bad experiences”