Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares-Ritual

"Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares" is an ensemble of a rare artistic gift and enormous popular appeal. Its story is a story of a success. Created fifty years ago, its goal was to enrich the heritage of the Bulgarian solo folk song with harmonies and arrangement that highlighted its beautiful timbres and irregular rhythms.
They transform sounds into strange vocal colors as if something other than the human voice, perhaps some strange instrument is playing. They jubilate, shout, ornament, form fast and perfect glissandos, let one crazy rhythm follow another and make their voices build the most darling chords. And suddenly the folk cliché does not apply any more. A listener believes he has heard” an archaic world of sounds from times long ago”, another –“the marriage of avant-grade and the middle ages”. With their bell-like voices that seem to float lightly trough space, these women have become international stars, whose hypnotic chant circles the globe."








1 Houbava Milka (Beautiful Milka)
2 Pesen Na Put (Singing on Our Way)
3 Koledarska Pensen (A Christama Lad's Song)
4 Trakiisko Nastoenie (Thracian Easy Mood)
5 Lazarski Bouenents (The Lazarus Girls Dance the Boueneck)
6 Nazdrave ti, Chorbadjiio (Cheers to You, Master of the House)
7 Shopski Tantsek (Shope Dance)
8 La Rosa en Floresa (The Rose Is Blooming)
9 A Se-ora Novia (To the New Bride)
10 Lamenta (Lament)
11 Bulgarski Einicheski Melodll (Bulgarian Ethnic Melodies)
12 Moma Houbava (Beautiful Girl)
13 Vurba (Willow Tree)
14 ZA Mlado Momiche (Song for a Young Girl)
15 Mur Stho Sme Se Razigrali (Hey Let's Dance (the Bouenecki)
16 Tebe Peem-Za Ovchariya (Song for the Shepherd)
17 Ai Nazdrave (Sheers!)
18 Zhalba Za Lazar (Lament for St. Lazarus)

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