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The MAGIC Of Bulgarian Voices & Music - Radka Kushleva - Koji lio sherian - Gold collection

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ACAPELA. Second volume of Le Mystere des voix Bulgares features performances by the Bulgarian State Radio and Televison Female Choir and the Female Vocal Choir, Sofia won a GRAMMY award in 1989.
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The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir is an internationally renowned World Music ensemble that blends traditional six-part a capella repertoire with modern arrangements. It is most recognized under the recording name Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. First created in Bulgaria in 1952 by Philip Koutev, "the father of Bulgarian concert folk music," the choir is now under the direction of Dora Hristova. Koutev also created and conducted the Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic in 1951.

Singers are chosen from country villages for the beauty and openness of their voices, and they undergo extensive training in the unique centuries' old singing style. Influenced by Bulgaria's Thracian, Ottoman and Byzantine history, their music is striking in its use of diaphonic singing and distinctive timbre, as well as its modal scales and dissonant harmonies (abundant second, seventh, and ninth intervals).

Though the choir became widely known when the trend-setting English alternative record label 4AD released a pair of anthology albums in 1986 and 1988 with the now famous title Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, their recordings date as far back as 1957. The first pressing of the Voix Bulgares album was the result of fifteen years of work by Swiss ethnomusicologist and producer Marcel Cellier and was originally released in 1975 on his small Discs Cellier label. Ivo Watts-Russell (founder of 4AD) was introduced to the choir from a third or fourth generation audio cassette lent to him by Peter Murphy, singer from the band Bauhaus. He became thoroughly entranced by the music, and tracked down and licensed the recordings from Cellier. The group has since performed extensively around the world to wide acclaim and were honored with a Grammy Award in 1989 for their second album.

Three prominent soloists of the group have also performed together as the Trio Bulgarka, notably on the Kate Bush albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes.

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  • is this available on a CD?

  • yes

  • Edna ot nai-hubavite i po svoemu unikalna kato stil Rodopska pesen koiato sam 4uval

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  • Respect from Croaita!

  • amazing!!! thanks!!!

  • I az se razplakvam kato chuja Radka Kushleva, tozi nezabravim glas! Blagodarja!

  • @magellan1962 it is bulgarian song

  • s-resh lol 

  • I like very much Bulgarian Voices

  • Кольо е български хайдутин, действал в района на Източните Родопи в периода на османското иго.

  • @bgkempo

    най-накрая един горд българин, а не като всички да казва, че мрази България. Ако само и пишеше на българки а не на скапан англииски :D

  • Не разбирам изцяло текста, но как е възможно една хурка писана и шарена да предизвика емоцията за създаването на тази пресичаща дъха песен?!

  • Stunning, love it. Magical

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