Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares - Vol 2 LP 1988 UK Import Absolutely Beautiful
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Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares - Vol 2 LP 1988 UK Import Absolutely Beautiful. Archival Sleeve
There are a number of different groups and many lead vocalist on this fantastic recording the singing goes right through you and quiets the mind.
The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Vocal Choir, 24 voices strong, takes traditional harvest songs, odes, and laments and wraps them in modern arrangements that preserve and polish the age-old qualities of this exotic and compelling music. Their beautiful and dissonant harmonies float and shift in waves of piercingly clear sound, often built on complex meters and off-center, chant-like rhythms. A strong Asian flavor is heard, full of emotional intensity, ranging from full choral treatments to solos, trios, and quartets.
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (translated as "The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices") is a compilation album of modern arrangements of Bulgarian folk songs featuring, among others, the Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir, with soloists Yanka Rupkina, Kalinka Valcheva and Stefka Sabotinova; and the Filip Kutev Ensemble.
The album was the result of fifteen years of work by Swiss ethnomusicologist and producer Marcel Cellier and was released in 1975 on his small Disques Cellier label. Some of the recordings he made himself; others were taken from the archives of Radio Sofia. The album won a Grand Prix du Disqueaward. The album drew on an earlier release, Music of Bulgaria: Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic, conducted by Kutev (credited as Philippe Koutev), which was released in 1966 by Elektra Records (EKL282), and which itself was a reissue of Ensemble de la République Bulgare, recorded in Paris in 1955 by Le Chant du Monde
The music has been acclaimed by various artists such as Paul Simon, Kate Bush, George Harrison, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, Bobby McFerrin, Medwyn Goodall, Enrique Morente, Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket, the Grateful Dead, Robert Plant and has prompted worldwide interest.
The American artist Linda Ronstadt stated that the music was "some of the most beautiful [she's] ever heard". The British-American musician Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young declared after listening to the album: "Every musician who considers himself accomplished should listen to (this group's album) and rethink everything he knows (about singing)." Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead: "They're like angels... exceptionally pure, really polished. Our song 'Uncle John's Band' was inspired by the village music of Bulgaria." Dead Can Dance's singer Lisa Gerrard was so inspired by this album, she declared: "If anybody is changed by this, it's me...
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