It seems like I heard somewhere that this style of singing is what influenced Crosby, Stills and Nash. I can understand that, comparing the harmonies of the two groups.
@marco12501 Marco, it reminds you about that soundtrack, cause the choir singing in the "Alone in the dark" OST is this one ^^ "Mistery of bulgarian voices" but with the new recruitments :} You have a good ear ^^
Woww, I heard this group on a "Friday The 13th series" episode in 1988 as background for a dance recital and was floored by the tight harmony & power then... Fast forward to yesterday going randomly in a second hand store & coming across a cassette "Le mystere de voix bulgares"!! 20+yrs later!! LOVE THE LADIES & WOULD LOVE TO PLAY WITH THIS GROUP!! :)))
Woww, I heard this group on a "Friday The 13th series" episode in 1988 as background for a dance recital and was floored by the tight harmony & power then... Fast forward to yesterday going randomly in a second hand store & coming across a cassette "Le mystere de voix bulgares"!! 20+yrs later!!
What many of you may not know is that this was first heard by the world after it was released on the very cool 4AD label in England by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell who had already released among the best in rock, like the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance (the latter use world music a lot in their songs). Of course these are Bulgarian choir singers - and after ending up on 4AD and thus entering into "cool" (unfortunately a means to popularity) - inadvertently launching "world music" too.
@dannyvocal As I posted earlier, this was the second time Bulgarian choral music was "discovered". An earlier collection was a huge hit among the musician residents of Laural Canyon - Cass Elliot, Frank Zappa, and especially David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young. It informed their harmonies long before any of the 4AD artists were born.
@k8fan That totally makes sense - I tried to share a link to the Mamas and Papas singing "Dedicated to the One I Love," but Youtube doesn't let you. But you can totally hear the influence.
@k8fan Bulgarian female quior must be the best thing ever. i mean, they sing like, i went to herd the goats one day, but it sounds like the end of the world or the mos epic battle ever. i love it, and when they add that weird positive parts. its crazy. i would love to see this live. It must be the greatest experience ever.
@dannyvocal The 4AD reissue was not available until 1990, by which time "world music" popularity was in full swing, sparked by the popularity of Paul Simon's "Graceland" in 1986.
They sound like The Roches played backwards. And I don't mean that as an insult. The strange and incredible rhythms and strange sounding words are just fantastic. But this morning, I was playing Quitting Time by the Roches and it made me think of Voix Bulgares.
Amazing. Bulgarian, and all Balkan, music definitely absorbed some MIddle Eastern and Turkish influences due to being ruled as part of the Ottoman Empire. But this choral music is some of the purest Slavic folk, and stands as an almost pure expression of Bulgarian/South Slavic character. Some of the religious chants trace their roots back to Byzantium and early Greek music.
@tcoreyb Im sorry to dissapoint you,but Bulgarian folk music is unique,there is nothing quite similar to it.The roots of it are still unknown.All thats know is:its not slavic,and its not turkish(middle eastern)
Personally I think its either Thracian or Proto-Bulgarian(asian)
@sleeper7271 I think the roots are a result of present-day Bulgaria being a region which was historically conquered/occupied by so many different cultures. Each occupier brought elements of its own culture - including its music - to Bulgaria, and the resulting cultural hybrid is what we can now delight in hearing from this choir. There is nothing like it in the entire world. After listening to the same two CDs for 20+ years, I finally was able to see them live in 2008. Breathtaking and moving!
wrong! the dominant culture of bulgaria is Bulgarian. It is not a hybrid culture. This is even obvious because of the simple observation that the neighboring countries which are centuries younger than Bulgaria and a product of wild mixing do not have such complex folklore. Serbs, Greeks, Romanians -all they r mixture of many tribes and cultures. Present day Bulgaria is a 1400 year old nation which emerged from the fusion of three great large tribes -Bulgars, Thracians and Slavs.
from what u have written one can conclude that u don't have any idea of history and especially bulgarian history! Bulgaria hybrid of different cultures-?? - this is maybe Canada, but not Bulgaria, which preserved completely its original 1400 year old culture. It was conquered twice in the course of its existence- from the eastern roman empire for 1 century and the ottoman caliphate for nearly 5 centuries, but bulgarians didn't absorbed foreign culture, especially the low islamic turkish one.
@gringoroko Oh, blow it out your ass. Every culture absorbs other cultures. A society as old as Bulgaria is bound to incorporate other influences into its fibre, and evolve as all cultures do.
Bulgaria has not absorbed anything or almost anything from the turkish low culture. Bulgarian culture was much more advanced than the turkish savage arabic culture as they were conquered. Interesting how many people assume that bulgarians must have taken something from the turkish culture because they were for 500 years under ottoman rule. How wrong is that.
Greek music?? There r greeks for no more than 300 years. This songs are 1000 years old, r u crazy?
These songs are among my favorite music in the world. It's just gorgeous. Thanks for posting this! Todora has lain down, maiden Todora, Todora Under a tree, under an olive tree A wind blew, the north wind It broke off an olive branch So Todora woke up Now she angrily yelled at it: "Unwelcome wind, So you’ve now decided to blow? I was dreaming a sweet dream. That my first love has come And he brought a colourful bouquet And he brought a colourful bouquet And on the bouquet a gold ring."
I've seen this choir at Grace Cathedral in San francisco twice. the acoustics in that church are perfect for this group. I was literally surrounded by beautiful music... such gorgeous harmonies they make! I will always love this music.
@madsketcher According to the Barry Miles in his Frank Zappa biography, an earlier collection of Bulgarian choral music was one of Frank's favorite albums - which he played for his Laural Canyon neighbors and influenced the harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash.
With all due respect to music and musicians such as Beatles, Elvis, Abba, MJ, Rolling Stones etc. All great, and legends at their prime. But this? This is what true soul is all about. This is not ordinary music or melodies, this bulgarian choir mirror the poetic sence and beauty within humanity. This type of music gives you a divine sence of being human.
@elgaed69 Than what? Obviously not this. Why bother posting to this video. Post to a Beach Boys one, as its obvious that you are, well, aurally challenged.
Im a British Guy and and Im completely in love with Bulgaria- I try to pop across as often as I can and this is an awesome post! Reminds me of being there x
extrañas voces y extrañas cancioness..pero suenan ESPECTACULARRR lo que es la magia y la belleza de las diferencias vocales y tímbricas :D que bellO! :D
Our culture has become so homogenated. Can you image any late night tv talk show having this on today, let alone for this long and for 3 numbers? You MIGHT see a few seconds of it before they laugh at it and go to commercial.
thank you for posting this - I bought it way back when it was first released on cassette tape! never thought I would be able to put faces to those heavenly voices
@eyesofamoonroof The choir tours. I saw them in Chicago a few years back at the St. John of Rigla church. I got there very early and managed to sit in the front pew. The choir was arranged in a big semi-circle, so none of the singers was more than 20 feet from my wife and me.
It was astounding.
I could feel my own chest resonating in sympathy with the power of their massed voices. I was moved to tears.
@k8fan I saw the choir about 20 years ago. I also got the cathedral early. And secured a front row seat, right in the middle. I too was moved to tears. as was most of the audience.
I could barely speak in the interval.
Probably the best concert I ever saw, though James Brown came very close!
The second track Todora's Wedding is the most Western sounding of these...still beautiful though. It was all kind of dressed up by the label guy Marcel Cellier for the world music market. The more 'authentic' stuff they recorded has some crazy harmonies...2nds and ninths running in parallel I seem to remember. The Bulgarian communist propaganda department did a great job with these ladies.
whoever said that the audience was clapping on 1 and 3 was an idiot, they start clapping on EVERY beat, its in 4 and they clapped way too fast on every beat, Kudos to Bulgarians for keeping their tempi and having a firm slow down into the b section despite the stupid audience feeling the need to include themselves in a portrayal of their own culture as they clearly must have felt estranged being sung a historically American song by a Bulgarian choir
I don't think they were trying to relieve themselves of a feeling of estrangement. I think they were just trying to show they were supportive of their performance of an American song.
yes you are right but you said "Bulgarian culture has nothing to do with Tibet"... so I didn't deny the dominant slavic and thracian influence:) just said "it could be somehow related to central Asian culture"... as you can read below :)
vasil 21 you should think about the Mongol influence in Bulgaria and maybe it could be somehow related to central Asian culture:) or at least influenced
Regardless, parts of the music does sound remarkably similar. I don't really care what came from where. I love the music of both, for similar reasons: The very particular bright quality of the voice.
oops, the title of the song is "Noumi, Noumi Yaldatti - Berceuse Hebraïque (Israël)" and the vocalist for most of it is Montserrat Figueras (Ferran Savall's mother), Ferran Savall has an amazing solo at the end, though.
I believe it's available on itunes. I tried to find it online somewhere but couldn't. I should start uploading videos of this sort of thing since it's so hard to find...
yes, Ferran Savall sings that song along with others with his classically trained family in the album Du Temps & de L'Instant. (he also sings it on his own album, but the version on Du Temps is my favorite) I think it's originally a sephardic melody, Savall's family specializes in very early european music, particularly Catalan stuff.
absolutely amazing. Is this purely bulgarian? Sounds like they are using indian Tal. Is this neat bulgarian folk music or a sort of combination of various folk musics?
Definitively Bulgarian. The thing is, Bulgaria absorbed influences from other cultures - some willingly, some by force.
The rest of the world has incorporated Bulgarian music into theirs as well. For instance, one of Maurice Celler's collections of Bulgarian music was very popular among the musicians in Laural Canyon in the 1960s and influenced the harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash.
wow, thank you very much! The Bulgarian folk style is a truly impressive and enjoyable one! I'm not surprised by complexity in folk music, often it has a lot of freedom, but this folk music has a lot of rhythmical and harmonic freedom that is very inspiring!
Bulgarians are very resistent towards foreign cultures, especialy music. So if you seek turkish or arabic musical influence you will fail. the bulgarian folkore is absolutely pure. Bulgarian culture is a product of the fusion of bulgar, trracian and slavic tribes in the 6. 7. century AD. This is where you have to search.
U all forgot that Borat soundrack contains some of very good music- gor instance gypsy music like "chayorie" from Esma Redžepová. But they tried to corrupt it. They failed.
And english-american dummies will never understand good music, and I think for this choir it was wasting of time to sing "oh susanna" although it was the best ver
I had to listen to this in music class and... Loved it!
forsmers1 1 month ago
fuck the marching band if i had heard these guys in a game when i was feeling out of it, my team would be infinity-0
WiseAlbatross 3 months ago
It seems like I heard somewhere that this style of singing is what influenced Crosby, Stills and Nash. I can understand that, comparing the harmonies of the two groups.
taffy2003 3 months ago
ALONE IN THE DARK V =D
Patlegame 3 months ago
beautiful
pisceaRisen 4 months ago
aaahhh!! lovely!!!!!
MrDenull 4 months ago
just . . . . SUPERB!!! Harmonic vocal artistry at its best
vladav123 4 months ago
INCREDDIBLE!!!
makedonBULGAR 4 months ago
Absolutely mind-blowing.
TwilightFalls 4 months ago
Magnifique ! ! !
Christian, de France
DIATOMUZIK 4 months ago in playlist muziek
Can I join even though I'm not Bulgarian and not a woman?
zfan2591 5 months ago
The angels had better sound like this.
PadfootAndMoony1 5 months ago
TH0SE V0ICES T0UCHES THE INNER S0UL / 1RST S0NG !! ©
fuelyournews 6 months ago
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fuelyournews 6 months ago
Makes me almost ashamed . . . I thought our choir was good, but these women . . . their sound is positively holy.
arlecchinasaurus 6 months ago
Remind me a little to Olivier Deriviere - Edward Carnby (From The Most Recent Alone in the Dark Videogame)
marco12501 6 months ago
@marco12501 Marco, it reminds you about that soundtrack, cause the choir singing in the "Alone in the dark" OST is this one ^^ "Mistery of bulgarian voices" but with the new recruitments :} You have a good ear ^^
DimensionalWitch 4 months ago
So very beautiful ! Thank you for uploading it.
uwed100 7 months ago
I heard a part of this in "Emil Lassaria & F.Charm : 9mm". /watch?v=4-rQ7YsG8Vw .
gabyvrabiuta 7 months ago
Woww, I heard this group on a "Friday The 13th series" episode in 1988 as background for a dance recital and was floored by the tight harmony & power then... Fast forward to yesterday going randomly in a second hand store & coming across a cassette "Le mystere de voix bulgares"!! 20+yrs later!! LOVE THE LADIES & WOULD LOVE TO PLAY WITH THIS GROUP!! :)))
JCsaxophile 8 months ago
Woww, I heard this group on a "Friday The 13th series" episode in 1988 as background for a dance recital and was floored by the tight harmony & power then... Fast forward to yesterday going randomly in a second hand store & coming across a cassette "Le mystere de voix bulgares"!! 20+yrs later!!
JCsaxophile 8 months ago
10 men can open the window and jump fast.
Slu4ainika 8 months ago 2
eindelijk terug gevonden na zeeeer lange tijd dank U U-tube
ciceley100 9 months ago
What many of you may not know is that this was first heard by the world after it was released on the very cool 4AD label in England by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell who had already released among the best in rock, like the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance (the latter use world music a lot in their songs). Of course these are Bulgarian choir singers - and after ending up on 4AD and thus entering into "cool" (unfortunately a means to popularity) - inadvertently launching "world music" too.
dannyvocal 9 months ago 6
@dannyvocal As I posted earlier, this was the second time Bulgarian choral music was "discovered". An earlier collection was a huge hit among the musician residents of Laural Canyon - Cass Elliot, Frank Zappa, and especially David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young. It informed their harmonies long before any of the 4AD artists were born.
k8fan 9 months ago 3
@k8fan That totally makes sense:
pupppt 9 months ago
@k8fan That totally makes sense - I tried to share a link to the Mamas and Papas singing "Dedicated to the One I Love," but Youtube doesn't let you. But you can totally hear the influence.
pupppt 9 months ago
@k8fan Bulgarian female quior must be the best thing ever. i mean, they sing like, i went to herd the goats one day, but it sounds like the end of the world or the mos epic battle ever. i love it, and when they add that weird positive parts. its crazy. i would love to see this live. It must be the greatest experience ever.
DroneGrinder 8 months ago
@dannyvocal The 4AD reissue was not available until 1990, by which time "world music" popularity was in full swing, sparked by the popularity of Paul Simon's "Graceland" in 1986.
ElBrazoOnofre 9 months ago
@dannyvocal World music has been appreciated by Western audiences way before this album was released.
oldboot 1 month ago
Unbelievably rich and haunting and gorgeous!
WeenGene 9 months ago
Unbelievably rich and haunting and gorgeous!
WeenGene 9 months ago
Second from the left is cute, green one in the middle looks like me after a bee sting.
Forserean 9 months ago
Ето за това се гордея че съм Българин
har4o0 10 months ago
I'm a young guy from Greece but despite my lack of understanding of the language I can say the flow, melody, rhythm are pefect.
GOSUPitZ 11 months ago
on l'étudi en musique
missvivi42 11 months ago
where can i buy this??? help..lol
artovation 11 months ago
magical
dnlxl 1 year ago
nine people are nuts!
JaguarsGirl 1 year ago
A sound like no other - still raises the goosebumps
skipmendler 1 year ago
i love the bulgarian folclor ! :X
THC408 1 year ago
They sound like The Roches played backwards. And I don't mean that as an insult. The strange and incredible rhythms and strange sounding words are just fantastic. But this morning, I was playing Quitting Time by the Roches and it made me think of Voix Bulgares.
steveshack 1 year ago
Damn, I got chills running up and down my spine. Beautiful melodies.
KSCIAA 1 year ago 2
WOW
SaltySeaSela 1 year ago
wow.
djredxone 1 year ago
Брилянтно изпълнение....
theodor28uzunov 1 year ago 2
bulgaria the best voices:)
gidjaka 1 year ago
Superb!
shamildin 1 year ago
The producer Focus use samples from the bulgarian choir in the song
Bishop Lamont - Feel on it :)
tekrevo 1 year ago
Amazing. Bulgarian, and all Balkan, music definitely absorbed some MIddle Eastern and Turkish influences due to being ruled as part of the Ottoman Empire. But this choral music is some of the purest Slavic folk, and stands as an almost pure expression of Bulgarian/South Slavic character. Some of the religious chants trace their roots back to Byzantium and early Greek music.
tcoreyb 1 year ago
@tcoreyb Im sorry to dissapoint you,but Bulgarian folk music is unique,there is nothing quite similar to it.The roots of it are still unknown.All thats know is:its not slavic,and its not turkish(middle eastern)
Personally I think its either Thracian or Proto-Bulgarian(asian)
sleeper7271 1 year ago
@sleeper7271 I think the roots are a result of present-day Bulgaria being a region which was historically conquered/occupied by so many different cultures. Each occupier brought elements of its own culture - including its music - to Bulgaria, and the resulting cultural hybrid is what we can now delight in hearing from this choir. There is nothing like it in the entire world. After listening to the same two CDs for 20+ years, I finally was able to see them live in 2008. Breathtaking and moving!
orchidtender 1 year ago
wrong! the dominant culture of bulgaria is Bulgarian. It is not a hybrid culture. This is even obvious because of the simple observation that the neighboring countries which are centuries younger than Bulgaria and a product of wild mixing do not have such complex folklore. Serbs, Greeks, Romanians -all they r mixture of many tribes and cultures. Present day Bulgaria is a 1400 year old nation which emerged from the fusion of three great large tribes -Bulgars, Thracians and Slavs.
gringoroko 1 year ago
@gringoroko
More than 1500 years for that reason we have a Bulgarian nation!
gkzafirov 11 months ago
from what u have written one can conclude that u don't have any idea of history and especially bulgarian history! Bulgaria hybrid of different cultures-?? - this is maybe Canada, but not Bulgaria, which preserved completely its original 1400 year old culture. It was conquered twice in the course of its existence- from the eastern roman empire for 1 century and the ottoman caliphate for nearly 5 centuries, but bulgarians didn't absorbed foreign culture, especially the low islamic turkish one.
gringoroko 11 months ago
@gringoroko Oh, blow it out your ass. Every culture absorbs other cultures. A society as old as Bulgaria is bound to incorporate other influences into its fibre, and evolve as all cultures do.
orchidtender 11 months ago
@tcoreyb
Bulgaria has not absorbed anything or almost anything from the turkish low culture. Bulgarian culture was much more advanced than the turkish savage arabic culture as they were conquered. Interesting how many people assume that bulgarians must have taken something from the turkish culture because they were for 500 years under ottoman rule. How wrong is that.
Greek music?? There r greeks for no more than 300 years. This songs are 1000 years old, r u crazy?
gringoroko 11 months ago
urbansocrates 1 year ago 2
These songs are among my favorite music in the world. It's just gorgeous. Thanks for posting this!
urbansocrates 1 year ago
I've seen this choir at Grace Cathedral in San francisco twice. the acoustics in that church are perfect for this group. I was literally surrounded by beautiful music... such gorgeous harmonies they make! I will always love this music.
hilarybee3 1 year ago 2
these kinds of harmonies should be in American pop music. they are gorgeous
madsketcher 1 year ago 7
@madsketcher According to the Barry Miles in his Frank Zappa biography, an earlier collection of Bulgarian choral music was one of Frank's favorite albums - which he played for his Laural Canyon neighbors and influenced the harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash.
k8fan 1 year ago 17
@k8fan nqmash li go s interviuto ili samo peeneto?
fichiani 1 year ago
@k8fan interesting! I can hear what you mean!
narcoman2 1 year ago
@k8fan there is plenty music where you ind these harmonies in, Beach Boys pet sound, take any ABBA record old Metallica just to name a few.
Scum71succer 10 months ago
@Scum71succer
With all due respect to music and musicians such as Beatles, Elvis, Abba, MJ, Rolling Stones etc. All great, and legends at their prime. But this? This is what true soul is all about. This is not ordinary music or melodies, this bulgarian choir mirror the poetic sence and beauty within humanity. This type of music gives you a divine sence of being human.
SteauaBucuresti 10 months ago 18
@SteauaBucuresti didn't give me a divine sense
baut33 1 month ago
@baut33
lack soul and heart.
SteauaBucuresti 1 month ago
@madsketcher Beach Boys are better.
elgaed69 6 months ago
@elgaed69 Than what? Obviously not this. Why bother posting to this video. Post to a Beach Boys one, as its obvious that you are, well, aurally challenged.
brezairola 6 months ago
@madsketcher -> Jason Derulo - Breathing
Ultrajuiced 4 weeks ago
Im a British Guy and and Im completely in love with Bulgaria- I try to pop across as often as I can and this is an awesome post! Reminds me of being there x
bishyboy1 1 year ago
mindblowing
ognyanmitev 1 year ago
i wanna know the names of the arrangiator of this musics!!!!!!!Who has armonized these songs!??kisses!!!!!!!
masscio 1 year ago
The first one was mindblowing...
CharlieHuang 1 year ago
This is so good is devastating :')
angeletenz 1 year ago
@mssdm Another shitlike serbian on heavy drugs !!!
Danmara 1 year ago
I Love this style of singing. It was fun to hear them sing O' Susanna in Bulgarian. "Dixie" sure jumped out among the Bulgarian words.
gwjchris 1 year ago
The lament of St. Lazarus is perhaps the best folk song of all time
NationalPopularism 1 year ago
Great!!!!!
Thanks for posting this x
Spitsvedermuis 1 year ago
Maravilha!!!
noslendalme 1 year ago
Дуже хорошо
ZVEROBASS 1 year ago
the arrangement of "oh, suzanna" is just insane! and "ergen dada" is one of my favorite songs of all time; it will be played at my funeral. awesome!
pngilman 1 year ago
i didn't knew that my neighbours have such beautiful traditional music! just beautiful!!!
dezastruos 1 year ago
this is amazing
bobjimjones 1 year ago
divine, godlike
heffalump111 1 year ago
Кажете ми, как да не се чувстваш ГОРД БЪЛГАРИН ?!!
БЪЛГАРИЯ НАД ВСИЧКО!
ProudToBeABulgarian 1 year ago
I love it... TT~TT Thanks a lot for posting this vid!
Shadowyne777 1 year ago
strepitose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RENOGOTH 1 year ago
magical!
medicinesocks 1 year ago
@PirinBG thank you!
popol321 1 year ago
do you happen to know the name of the second song ?
popol321 1 year ago
@popol321
"Polegnala e Todora" - which translates "Todora lay down for a while"
PirinBG 1 year ago
Obrigado 4AD, por ter mostrado estas vozes ao Mundo: Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares [The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices]
norbertocastro 1 year ago
I KNEW that Janis Joplin was still alive...THAT'S HER (back row @ 1:07 - 1:17)!!!
Rhino16161 1 year ago
Every time I hear those voices I get goose bumps
I love that music, I love Bulgaria, and I'm proud to be bulgarian!
imprevisible13 1 year ago 2
I can't love them enough - they are magic
I am moved to tears every time I hear them sing.
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arareusername 1 year ago 2
I can't love them enough - they are magic
arareusername 1 year ago
I used to have copies of Voix Bulgares Vols. 1-3 on cassette, and enjoyed Vol. 3 the best. Great to hear these fine ladies again. Thanks for posting!
spuffchops70 1 year ago
It is hypnotic...so pure!
spock130961 1 year ago 2
I heard them perform live in Scottsdale, AZ, back in the 90s. It was the most profound musical experience of my life.
MinervaFan 1 year ago 2
extrañas voces y extrañas cancioness..pero suenan ESPECTACULARRR lo que es la magia y la belleza de las diferencias vocales y tímbricas :D que bellO! :D
wuoden 1 year ago
ej taka pa taka, pokage te im kak se pravi:) Bom takatatakatatak ;) Bravo!
kkrustev 1 year ago
They look so happy. ^_^
petitequinte 1 year ago
The melody makes my pants tight.
baldbeat 1 year ago
This is pretty much my favorite type of choir ever. Their harmonies are just so perfect.
madsketcher 1 year ago 2
Who am I - Alone in the dark live - Olivier Deriviere
Orjinal name song
aliaktar22 1 year ago
Who am I - Alone in the dark live - Olivier Deriviere
This song Orginal
aliaktar22 1 year ago
Our culture has become so homogenated. Can you image any late night tv talk show having this on today, let alone for this long and for 3 numbers? You MIGHT see a few seconds of it before they laugh at it and go to commercial.
fiandrhi 1 year ago 4
thank you for posting this - I bought it way back when it was first released on cassette tape! never thought I would be able to put faces to those heavenly voices
eyesofamoonroof 2 years ago 16
@eyesofamoonroof The choir tours. I saw them in Chicago a few years back at the St. John of Rigla church. I got there very early and managed to sit in the front pew. The choir was arranged in a big semi-circle, so none of the singers was more than 20 feet from my wife and me.
It was astounding.
I could feel my own chest resonating in sympathy with the power of their massed voices. I was moved to tears.
k8fan 2 years ago 23
@k8fan I saw the choir about 20 years ago. I also got the cathedral early. And secured a front row seat, right in the middle. I too was moved to tears. as was most of the audience.
I could barely speak in the interval.
Probably the best concert I ever saw, though James Brown came very close!
shashi2005 1 year ago
I'm buying this album right now.
BarbarianDragon 2 years ago 3
BRILLIANT**** reaLLy greaT ThanKs PLanet
suCCes amsterdaMcuLture
gresiu7 2 years ago 7
Females who coulour the world and their music is Timeless and Breathtaking.
PlanetMother 2 years ago 9
Ей така, пак така. Тия жени са нещо уникално. Да живее България, и да живее народното.
ggp3500 2 years ago 9
Holy shit!!!Nice NICE
gracefullcorn 2 years ago 9
България завинаги в моето сърце!!!
Bulgaria forever in my heart!!Българи гордейте се!!!!!!
crazyladys100 2 years ago 10
Proud to hear it..Proud to be a Bulgarian!
bilqna910 2 years ago 50
Very very beautiful. The best.
niamtxiv 2 years ago 32
Saw them perform live in 1989 in... Bulgaria...No better place to absorb this everlasting memory...it was great !
marcwilms 2 years ago 4
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That second one always gives me goosebumps.
drumrnva 2 years ago 2
И аз ви благодаря,скъпи дами!Благодаря ви,че разпостранявате българската култура в този най-чист вид!
theodor28uzunov 2 years ago 13
magnifique!!!
kataagbo 2 years ago 9
awesome!
Slaphappy1975 2 years ago 12
Greetings from Bulgaria!
Viketsr 2 years ago 7
The second track Todora's Wedding is the most Western sounding of these...still beautiful though. It was all kind of dressed up by the label guy Marcel Cellier for the world music market. The more 'authentic' stuff they recorded has some crazy harmonies...2nds and ninths running in parallel I seem to remember. The Bulgarian communist propaganda department did a great job with these ladies.
blackmetaldad 2 years ago 6
This is really neat!!!
RectorEmeritus 2 years ago 3
whoever said that the audience was clapping on 1 and 3 was an idiot, they start clapping on EVERY beat, its in 4 and they clapped way too fast on every beat, Kudos to Bulgarians for keeping their tempi and having a firm slow down into the b section despite the stupid audience feeling the need to include themselves in a portrayal of their own culture as they clearly must have felt estranged being sung a historically American song by a Bulgarian choir
lizdamyz 2 years ago 7
I don't think they were trying to relieve themselves of a feeling of estrangement. I think they were just trying to show they were supportive of their performance of an American song.
SkunkyBeaumont 2 years ago
Mindblowing harmonies & tight as anything.
Props to these amazing singers.
SabuPtolemy 2 years ago 4
breathtaking. wonderful post. thanx.
lepaul2002 2 years ago 3
Realy amazing performance!!!
I have the two first songs with an other also famus bulgarian women's choir (ARNAUTOV) who also sing "I got rhythm G Gershwin"
Thanks to uploader !!!
(in my playlist !!!)
Tetrafonia 2 years ago 2
I had the second song on a compilation album, and it's lovely to see it sung live. Thankyou.
scottishcalv 2 years ago 2
Wonderful!!!!!!!!
nelet55 2 years ago 4
embarrassing when americans clap on 1 n 3 during an american song...
idmarc 2 years ago
yes, the singers even start laughing
SveetSister 2 years ago 3
yes you are right but you said "Bulgarian culture has nothing to do with Tibet"... so I didn't deny the dominant slavic and thracian influence:) just said "it could be somehow related to central Asian culture"... as you can read below :)
shmuckfane 2 years ago
OMG...Thank you for this post. The song "Wedding of Theodora" is one of my favorites. TYTYTY.
DataCenterGuy 2 years ago 3
vasil 21 you should think about the Mongol influence in Bulgaria and maybe it could be somehow related to central Asian culture:) or at least influenced
shmuckfane 2 years ago
Or perhaps you should think for the more dominant slavic influence and the thracian influence as well.
vasil21 2 years ago
It's pure Bulgarian :)
Simtu 2 years ago 9
Bulgarian culture has nothing to do with Tibet and the two have never been in contact with eachother.
vasil21 2 years ago 4
Regardless, parts of the music does sound remarkably similar. I don't really care what came from where. I love the music of both, for similar reasons: The very particular bright quality of the voice.
divaexpatriate 2 years ago
oh really?? so sure...
PrincessJuJuBear 2 years ago
Really,really?
vasil21 2 years ago
This choral chant has its roots in Tibet. They take parts of their vocal technique from tibetan monks. Musicology is so much fun.
helloantonio 2 years ago
oops, the title of the song is "Noumi, Noumi Yaldatti - Berceuse Hebraïque (Israël)" and the vocalist for most of it is Montserrat Figueras (Ferran Savall's mother), Ferran Savall has an amazing solo at the end, though.
I believe it's available on itunes. I tried to find it online somewhere but couldn't. I should start uploading videos of this sort of thing since it's so hard to find...
irgy709 2 years ago
Thank you irgy709
Thanks for finding the correct song's title. I wish i could hear the "Bulgarian Radio choir" performance of that song
GeorgeEliotBoo 2 years ago
yes, Ferran Savall sings that song along with others with his classically trained family in the album Du Temps & de L'Instant. (he also sings it on his own album, but the version on Du Temps is my favorite) I think it's originally a sephardic melody, Savall's family specializes in very early european music, particularly Catalan stuff.
irgy709 2 years ago
absolutely amazing. Is this purely bulgarian? Sounds like they are using indian Tal. Is this neat bulgarian folk music or a sort of combination of various folk musics?
HamerD 2 years ago
Definitively Bulgarian. The thing is, Bulgaria absorbed influences from other cultures - some willingly, some by force.
The rest of the world has incorporated Bulgarian music into theirs as well. For instance, one of Maurice Celler's collections of Bulgarian music was very popular among the musicians in Laural Canyon in the 1960s and influenced the harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash.
k8fan 2 years ago 8
wow, thank you very much! The Bulgarian folk style is a truly impressive and enjoyable one! I'm not surprised by complexity in folk music, often it has a lot of freedom, but this folk music has a lot of rhythmical and harmonic freedom that is very inspiring!
HamerD 2 years ago
@k8fan
Bulgarians are very resistent towards foreign cultures, especialy music. So if you seek turkish or arabic musical influence you will fail. the bulgarian folkore is absolutely pure. Bulgarian culture is a product of the fusion of bulgar, trracian and slavic tribes in the 6. 7. century AD. This is where you have to search.
gringoroko 1 year ago
@HamerD It is completely bulgarian! There's no other folklore or motives.
AlmightyDemon 1 year ago 2
@HamerD Those are traditional Bulgarian songs ;)
Bonzo0o1 1 year ago
@HamerD Those are traditional Bulgarian songs ;) except maybe the 3rd
Bonzo0o1 1 year ago
不協和音がこんなにも心地よいのが不思議です。
oooxxtenxxooo 2 years ago
The voices weave together like a beautiful tapestry.
MrUnidyne 2 years ago
Ergen Deda is my favourite! We have to sing it for choir and I must say it's going to be darn near impossible to match such an exotic sound!
thefairpeacekeeper 2 years ago
この歌を聴いていると、懐かしさ、切なさなど、
いろいろな不思議な感情がこみ上げてくる気がします。
魔法にかけられているような、不思議な感覚です。
この歌の持つ力なのでしょうね(￣∀￣)
funifunikameyuki 2 years ago
Не познавам човек, независимо дали българин или чужденец, който да не настръхва при тази музика... Аз лично направо изтръпвам...
Pulsar28 2 years ago
Harmonically miles away from the traditional western choirs. Like comparing Jaco to other bass players.
adv20 2 years ago
and i love that they sing Oh Susanna :D
loull287 2 years ago
ah i love this :) this, this, is why i do music.
loull287 2 years ago 2
For bensims1986
algenchev 2 years ago
Beautiful! Thank you for posting this video.
Kahini327 3 years ago 3
Thanks!
GaryLehmann 3 years ago 2
This has been flagged as spam show
im moving too bulgaria in the next year are people there all like borat?
messege me and tell me about your country please ,do you people like the english?
bensims1986 3 years ago
well, when there were culture in bulgaria, england wasn't even founded...;-).
But if you like borat, you won't find it here, so don't come.
sergiomarchelli 3 years ago 9
This has been flagged as spam show
U all forgot that Borat soundrack contains some of very good music- gor instance gypsy music like "chayorie" from Esma Redžepová. But they tried to corrupt it. They failed.
And english-american dummies will never understand good music, and I think for this choir it was wasting of time to sing "oh susanna" although it was the best ver