Bulgarian

Like the other Topic re-releases, this has the double strength of outstanding music (even by the high standards of the late A.L. Lloyd, who recorded it) and a chronological perspective given by the fact that it is more or less four decades old. It's a magnificent overview, from vocal solos and duets through fiddles, flutes, bagpipes and the rest, fine though these are. ~ John Storm Roberts, Original Music, Rovi

Bulgarian-born Valeri Dimchev has been playing the tamboura since he was a teen. He brings to his music a constant search of new ideas, styles & experiments, linking the intonation & rhythmic traditions of Bulgarian folklore, played in the typical unequal rhythms 7/8, 9/8, 11/8, etc. Features acoustic guitarist Anton Apostolov, vocalist Desislava Dimchev & percussionist Drago Dimov.

On The Forest Is Crying, the female Bulgarian vocal trio known as The Trio Bulgarka is joined by a group of Bulgarian musicians performing 18 traditional folk songs. The vocal arrangements are emotional and powerful and the material displays great diversity and uncompromising integrity. The Trio Bulgarka count Kate Bush as a great admirer (she’s recently cited The Forest Is Crying as a favorite and featured the trio on her albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes.) Produced by Joe Boyd (R.E.M., Fairport Convention), The Forest Is Crying has been out of print for years and is now available again on Hannibal Records.

Release Date: 1999-02-23, Audio CD, Zebra Acoustic Records

Martin Jenkins & Ted Kay interact with Bulgaria's Kalinka Vulcheva, ex-lead soprano with le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, in a red hot East/West melting pot.

Release Date: 1991-02-19, Audio CD, Polygram Records

Release Date: 2009-06-09, Audio CD, Gega

Release Date: 2003-05-27, Audio CD, Gega

Musiques traditionnelles de mariage/Y. Yunakov, saxophone - N. Neshev, accordéon - C. Foster, clarinette - L. Brody, synthétiseur....

Release Date: 2005-07-26, Audio CD, Gega

Thracian Rhapsody Vol. 2 is a poetic interpretation through improvisation of traditional Bulgarian wedding music that fuses elements from Macedonian, Greek, Turkish, Romanian, Arabic and even Indian sources and is also influenced by contemporary classical, pop and jazz musics.

For fans of Ivo Papasov & His Bulgarian Wedding Band,Yuri Yunakov. Yasko Argirov, the Bulgarian clarinet virtuoso who first came to the public's attention with his 1999 debut cd, is in splendid form with a album recorded in the studio during his Italian tour in 2001. Hot Blood is a collection of traditional tunes given an imaginative overhaul by Argirov himself. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

The Magical Voices Of Bulgaria by Bulgarian National Folk EnsembleThis product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

This 34-voice group was featured in that great marketing coup, the Mysterious Voices album (and on the old Nonesuch Music of Bulgaria). It’s a highly structured group and at times its arrangements are to Bulgarian village music as Vaughan Williams is to English…this is a stunning vocal tradition. - ALL MUSIC GUIDE Polyphonic choral music forms an important part of the cultural heritage of Bulgaria. The primary features of this music are its method of vocalization without a trace of vibrato, and the use of discordant harmonies based especially on clashes of minor seconds and major sevenths. This music had remained hidden to the general public until 4AD picked up a recording of various female Bulgarian choirs and released it under the title Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares…Nonesuch grabbed... Less