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Holy Places of the BULGARIA - Magic Lives Here -The MAGIC Of Bulgarian Voices & music

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Bulgarian - "Who are we?", "Where do we come from?", "What cultural and historical traditions do we have?".
Isihia is the sound tangle of pure folklore motifs of the Bulgarian song and melody, the Hesychast sound of the Christian singing, the mystery of the Balkan spirit and the romance of national drama in Bulgarian history.
Isihia is the musical tale of the times of the most genuine belief in the history of the Bulgarian spiritual life -- Hesychasm.
Isihia is the musical glance back to the history of the Bulgarians.
The very end of the 20-th century was a time of severe trial for the Bulgarian people and the Balkan peoples as a whole, whose belonging to the European Christian civilization both in geographical and cultural, as well as in historical aspect is certainly doubtless. Most threatening to the Bulgarian nation today are not the political failures, the economic instability, not even the demographic collapse, but the weakness and impersonality of spirit. In such times, each nation turns to the stronghold of its traditions and history where its hidden strength lies. It is to reach the roots of that strength and to draw invigorating spirit from the shell of the Bulgarian identity that Isihia was born for, Isihia -- the bridge from the past to the present. The ancient spirit of the Bulgarian land, whose roots have been marked by the cultures of Thraceans, Romans, Slavs, Proto-Bulgarians, Byzantines and Ottoman Turks -- a spirit combining the pagan and Christian traditions is the strength giving inspiration and creating the musical aesthetics of Isihia.

The name "Isihia" epitomizes the search for the conceptual link making a reference to the Hesychast religious movement that occurred in the last years of the Byzantine existence and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom. The Hesychasts of those times believed that everything mortal was doomed to death but what had to be saved and what had to survive were the spirit and the Orthodox faith. On the eve of the Ottoman occupation of the Balkan Peninsula, the Hesychast movement of the 14th century returned to the pure faith of the first Christians as a reaction to safeguard the Balkan Orthodox identity. In the very beginning of the 21st century, Isihia is going back to the Middle-Age Hesychast concept bearing the initial Christian ideas, which are so necessary today with their true faith, intact morale and genuine dedication of spirit. To the Middle-Age Christian person the word "Isihia" referred to the essence of Hesychast ideas and its literal meaning was silence, contemplation, peace -- the spiritual practice to accomplish the mystic union with God
The ancient Thracian city of Perperikon is located in the Eastern Rhodopes, 15 km northeast of the present-day town of Kardzhali, Bulgaria, on a 470 m high rocky hill, which is thought to have been a sacred place. The village of Gorna Krepost ("Upper Castle") is located at the foot of the hill and the gold-bearing Perpereshka River flows near it. Perperikon is the largest megalith ensemble in the Balkans.
This 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 1990.
Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Rome, Turkey,Serbia, Thracians, Byzantium

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  • Моля ви бе хора, от къде да го намеря този микс или песните? БЛАГОДАРЯ :))) България е!!!

  • @Djdjesika Pesnite sa ot albumite Le Mystere des voix Bulgares CD 1,2,3,4...---> zamunda to4ka net

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  • Oh my goodness! Gorgeous!

  • Bulgaria es maravillosa!!!

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  • Only a beautiful person can make such awesome videos...

  • @sitlord75 dude if i was on your place i would take a gun put it in my mouth and shoot as many times as i can. you are so dumb and brainwashed you have no idea.

  • @bulgad Много ти Благодаря :))))

  • Very enjoyable. Liked the music (although the drum and bass was overdone), the voices are lovely.

  • поздравления за събраните забележителности!

  • @crazybuttful - yes, i agree - that would be best - so you won't have time writing stupid comments on internet.

  • I didn't realise how ancient Bulagarias history goes back...that was amazing.

    Thanks you

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